Tied with Eddy Merckx for stage wins, Manxman is ready for one last shot at history on his farewell tour after reversing retirement decision
stage wins at the 2021 Tour. The 39-year-old sprinter is now fully focused on ensuring that the 35th victory comes within the next three weeks.
“Of course, if you wrote it, you wouldn’t want it to end like that,” Cavendish said about his character arc in the second series of the Tour de France documentary,“So I spent a long time thinking, ‘F**k, can I do another year?’ And, er, yeah, let’s just do it. F**k it.” The veteran Dane Michael Morkov and the powerhouse Italian Davide Ballerini – both integral cogs in the Quick-Step machine behind Cavendish’s success in 2021 – have been drafted in to work alongside the towering Dutchman Cees Bol. On top of this, Cavendish’s old lead-out man from his heyday at the HTC Columbia team – the Australian Mark Renshaw – is now one of Astana’s sports directors.
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