- Mark Cavendish may have won thirty stages
of the Tour de France,
and Milan San Remo
and the World Road Championships,
but has he got what it takes to win
the Mark Cavendish versus GCN challenge
where he'll face a stare-off,
rock paper scissors,
a Mark Cavendish quiz,
and a Lego speed-build?
Let's find out.
So Mark, next up is the Lego building round, okay?
The rules are remarkably simple,
it's the quickest to build
either a star destroyer
or a Resistance X Wing fighter,
so Jedi or Sith.
You choose which we build,
we'll move the other one away
and we'll start on the clock.
- You know what?
I've got a bit of a kind of strategy to it,
you got these big hands,
I got these little small hands,
so I look for the one with the fiddliest bits,
and that's going to be the X Wing Fighter,
cause I might stand a chance.
There's a bit of a strategy behind it,
and that one looks like it would do quicker.
- Yeah, I think that one does look a bit fiddly,
doesn't it, though.
(unwrapping of plastic)
- You know, I proper scream at the kids
when they don't read the instructions properly.
I proper terrorise them.
- You're a little bit of a perfectionist,
aren't you, I completely get that,
but you've got that right with Lego.
It's taking its shape, oh Blimey.
I think you've stolen a bit of a lead here.
A bit of a
- You know what, you're stressing too much, man,
don't stress.
- I'm feeling, I'm not overly confident about it,
I don't wanna spend time looking across
because it might just demoralise me.
- You don't look like you'do well under high-pressure situations.
- Ooh, jeez.
Yeah, well, it wasn't even a bloody photo finish, was it?
Point to you, Mark, congratulations.
- No worries.
Do you want to put the man in?
- Yeah, that's the little
pie de resistance, isn't it?
Next up is the classic enduring
Rock Paper Scissors.
You know the rules, nice and simple.
Three bangs on the table,
we're off, best of five.
- Okay.
- Here we go.
One, two, three.
Early days, right, here we go.
Ooh, okay.
(laughter)
Still won one.
Ooh.
- Okay, we'll make this the decider then.
- Okay, here we go.
- Ready.
- Ahh.
Good strategies.
- Next up is the stare-off.
The rules again are very simple,
we stare, and the first to blink
is the loser.
- We can't do laughs.
- And we're not allowed to laugh, either.
So basically the first one to crack.
After three, three, two, one.
(laughter)
Oh, I totally can't do it.
I can't do it, I can't do it.
- Right, just, three, two, one.
(laughter)
Right, okay.
Do you want a moment, you alright?
- No.
I just can't do it.
- Here we go.
Three, two, one.
(laughter)
Oh, I blinked, shoot.
Made a move.
- I'm still laughing.
- So we come now, Mark, to the final round,
the score is currently 2-1,
all to play four still,
making the rules are very simple.
If you get the question right,
you score a point.
If you get the question wrong, I score a point.
Are you ready?
First up, okay man, here we go.
Where was the finish town of your first ever stage win
in the tour?
- Châteauroux?
- Correct, correct, well done.
Second question, who was second on that stage?
- It's either Thor or Erik,
no it isn't, it was Freire.
- It was Freire.
Oh, I thought I had it.
- That was your top four, though.
- Yeah, so, Freire, correct,
so two out of two, it's looking good, Mark,
very, very good,
well played so far,
who did you beat into second place
when you lost one of the stages of Giro in 2013?
So your last stage won the Giro,
who did you beat into second place?
- Wasn't it Nizolo?
- Sacha Modolo.
- Oh.
- Okay, two to you, one to me.
So this really is the big question, okay.
Now really think about this one.
What was the average speed
when you won Milan San Remo?
I'm going to give you three choices,
you need to pick the right one, okay?
44.004 kmph, 43.976 kmph,
or 44.421?
- I'm gonna say the fastest, 44 and a half.
- So, 44.421.
- Yeah.
- Correctamundo.
- It was faster, we did the first hundred km in two hours.
Thanks, man.
- You've won.
The Cav versus GCN Challenge
have yet to win a GCN Challenge,
I need to put that right but Mark,
thanks for being such a good sport,
it's been absolutely a pleasure,
thanks for taking your time
to come along and have a laugh basically.
So, good sport.
- Thanks, man.
Thank you.
- Well, thanks very much to Mark Cavendish,
he certainly was a worthy and fierce competitor
and ultimately the winner,
I was beaten hands-down,
and looks like I need to get
back to the drawing board,
especially with my Lego skills.
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