Mark Cavendish wins 35th Tour de France stage
“The Tour de France is bigger than cycling”: The 39-year-old former world champion rolled back the years with a stunning sprint in Saint Vulbas to move ahead of Eddy Merckx as the most successful stage winner in the Tour’s history16 years on from his first victory at cycling’s biggest race, Mark Cavendish made Tour de France history with a stunning, perfectly timed sprint on stage five in Saint Vulbas, earning him his 35th stage win, breaking the record he shared with Eddy Merckx, and cementing...
Latching onto the wheel of Jasper Philipsen, the closest thing the current peloton has to the Manx rider’s successor, Cavendish then moved to the left of the road, as it veered to the right.A crash behind amid the frantic jostling brought down Mads Pedersen, but for the 39-year-old from the Isle of Man, the path was clear.
“My boss Alexander Vinokourov is an ex-rider, he knows what the Tour means, that you have to go all in. And we’ve done it. It worked out exactly like we wanted to do. The way we built the team, the equipment, every detail has been put towards specifically today.Reflecting on his difficult start to the Tour, which saw him dropped early in the Apennines on the opening stages in the searing heat, the 39-year-old said: “It normally takes me days to get into the Tour, but I know how it works.
In 2009, Cavendish won six stages and made it to Paris for the first time, begining his love affair with the Champs-Élysées, the famous boulevard where he was victorious in four consecutive years between that edition and 2012, the final of those wins led out by Team Sky and the first British winner of the Tour, Sir Bradley Wiggins.
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