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Few have given to talk about what Cavendish in 17 years of cycling

As expected and evidenced by nature itself, Mark Cavendish has taken advantage of the second rest day of the Giro d’Italia to say that he is retiring.

I look back and I remember that young man in Columbia blue who began to amass stages in the Tourafter debuting in the Volta, with the same voracity that was giving away headlines.

Mark Cavendish has been a cycling hero and villainsometimes badly, other times well, but he has been a totally referential character in all the time he has been in professionalism.

It landed, I remember, in very murky times for this sport, with positives emerging from between the stones, sponsors canceling their contracts and important cyclists separated from their profession.

I was shocked by that beardless boy, giving lessons on cleanliness in this sport, sticking out his hand and accusing those cyclists that he considered cheaters and the cause of all the evil that surrounded cycling.

He threw a couple of balls at him, I have to admit, and seen now, except for error or omission, I don’t remember him being linked to any doping-related issue beyond belonging to Team Sky that takes Wiggins to the Tour.

That team, despite giving a thousand lessons, also had its stories, chronicles and I don’t know if even some trial for what Wiggins received and failed to receive on those days that were so important to him and to his country, which was risking prestige in the London Games.

Beyond this affair, Mark Cavendish has seemed to me a guy who has competed with what he has had, which has not been little in terms of material and media, and has made a sports story that we can label “legendary.”

to his credit unquestionable data such as the 161 victories in 17 seasonseye the average that comes out.

Of that bag of wins, there are 53 stages left in the grand tours, just one away from breaking tie with Eddy Merckx at the top of the Tour de France.

We are talking about records in history, currently signed, knowing that today cycling is more equal than the one that starred in the best of all time.

Cavendish will finish the Giro and He will go to the Tour for the mark of the cannibal and I hope he succeedsWell, I am one of those who thinks that records are there to be broken.

I will not enter into a debate that has cost me some fight in networks such as assessing which triumphs have been more important, the sprints of the Englishman or the stages of all kinds of the Belgian.

Mark Cavendish has never been an easy guy

I have always thought that if he had not dedicated himself to cycling, he would have become a hooligan in any stadium of the Championship

Exits of everything and very hard falls caused by himself are a must, just like the thousand legends of his trailers in the team car in the mountain stages of the Tour.

Be that as it may, the value and usefulness of Mark Cavendish for cycling is undeniable.

Has been one of those that has opened the English market, and therefore Anglo-Saxon, for this sport.

Many of the changes that this has brought about have led to a very different kind of cycling than twenty or thirty years ago, more global, if possible, but above all more English.

And we must be grateful for that, because although this more Anglo-Saxon cycling has many things that we like, this process has given an extra life to a sport that not so long ago licked its wounds from so much scandal.

All of this is also on Cavendish’s service sheet and that is why cycling needs another one like him.