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Mark Cavendish doesn’t have enough and equals Merckx’s 34 wins

Mark Cavendish holding a historic record. | EFE / STEPHANE MAHE

Britain’s Mark Cavendish looks unbeaten in the sprint at the 2021 Tour de France and this Friday got his fourth stage victory tying 34 with Belgian Eddy Merckx as the man with the most individual wins in the French round. The Deceunnink rider beat his teammate and pitcher Michael Morkov and Belgian Jasper Philipsen in the sprint in Carcassonne. The yellow jersey is still in the hands of Slovenian Tadej Pogacar and the general has hardly changed. For his part, the British Simon Yates (BikeExchange) withdrew from the Tour de France after being hit by a spectacular fall with 62 kilometers to go until the end of the thirteenth stage, starting in Nimes. Yates, 28 years old and winner of the Tour of Spain 2018 and this year third place in the Giro d’Italia, was surrounded in a fall that affected about thirty runners, in which some fell down a slope in the area of vegetation.

Despite equaling the record of 34 victories in the Tour of Eddy Merckx, with his victory in Carcassonne, Mark Cavendish threw modestly, assuring that he can not be compared “to the greatest cyclist of all time.” “I can’t compare myself to Merckx, the greatest cyclist of all time. It was just another victory in the Tour de France … it has the same taste as the first one “, he declared. “Most of my victories have been in mass arrivals. It was different at the time of Merckx “, which won on all fronts”, he added.

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