8 record-breaking chances for Mark Cavendish at 2024 Tour
Manxman, who is looking for historic 35th stage win, was in Paris today as route of next year’s race from Florence to Nice was revealedTurin – the city in northwest Italy with a distinctly French flavour – will provide Mark Cavendish with his first opportunity to move ahead of Eddy Merckx as the rider with the most stage wins at the Tour de France when it hosts the finish of Stage 3 of next year’s race, one of eight likely opportunities for a sprint finish in the 111th edition of the race, the...
The Manxman came painfully close to triumphing on cycling’s most famous finish line at last year’s race, a win that would have given him the outright record, but was edged out by Wout van Aert. “The start in Italy is super nice, it is right by my home for many years,” he continued. 2It is only a few kilometres away, so I know the first kilometres really well, but it makes no difference because it starts hard, finishes hard and is all hard. It will be beautiful in Italy, the Giro is always an incredible race and I know the Tuscan people just love cycling. It is really quite special.
The Grand Depart in Italy begins with a what looks like a brutal hilly stage from Florence to Rimini with no less than 3,600 metres of climbing, and the following day’s stage from Cesenatico to Bologna promises to be equally taxing ahead of that first sprint opportunity in Turin, that day taking the peloton from Piacenza and across the Po valley to the city that next May also hosts the start of the Giro d’Italia.
The race is back in the mountains the next day with a quartet of tough climbs late on ahead of a finish at Le Lioran, while the two days after that once again favour the fastest men in the peloton, a finish in Villeneuve-Sur-Lot on Stage 12 followed by one in Pau, a near-perennial host city of the race.
In any other year, we’d now know the identity of the winner of the race ahead of the usual procession into Paris, but the final day’s individual time trial means that the 111th Tour de France could go right down to the wire, and certainly that is what the organisers will be hoping.
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