Addicted to cycling and triumph, Cavendish extends one more year
The image is not from this year, it is from one of Mark Cavendish’s happy years in cycling, one of those in which he amassed one of those brutal loots in the Tour, winning and winning stages until he tied with Eddy Merckx at the top of history.
A story that, yes, is very different in both cases, The Belgian was total, the Englishman a sprint scorerwhich is not to be taken as a joke, but which implies a very different difficulty than the great Eddy.
But numerically, it is there, one step away.
And the candy is sweet, it’s entering the pinnacle of cycling and its history, it’s writing your name on the most prestigious cenotaphs, staying alone on the cover, something so big that, clearly visible, you don’t want to let it escape.
More so when in the last Tour, he left just after finishing second to Phlipsen in the mecca of Bordeauxthe mecca of sprinters, where the best in speed, and he, have ever won.
Mark Cavendish announced during the Giro, before winning his stage in Rome, that he was leaving cycling at the end of the campaign, that decision has been reversed, connecting with those cyclists who backed down so many times once their retirement was announced.
I remember his American buddy, Brad Wiggins in that shot.
If there have been years in which he has been seen as far from the best, the truth is that the change in world speed has given him another chance.
Caleb Ewan is not there, Fabio Jakobsen is not fully exploiting, the same as Sam Bennett… only the Alpecin perform satisfactorily, but even Jasper Philipsen’s very open records can give him some hope of winning a stage in the Tour again .
If we think about it carefully, if we see what happened in the last Tour, it is not so complicated and clear, leaving it now, like this, sitting in the middle of a French road due to a fall, is not appropriate.
Well We talk about a “cycling addict”, a “triumph junkie”who surely would not fill the gaps left by the competition with his family.
When he announced his retirement, I thought, I swear, about this possibility, especially if he stayed close to winning a stage in the Tour.
Furthermore, next year is the Olympic year, and who knows if it’s even cheering in the velodromes.
In any case, I repeat what I have said other times, records are there to be broken and I would like Merckx’s to fall into their hands, no matter how badly it falls in certain areas.
He is a historic cyclist, no one can deny him that and he gives Astana one more reason to move forward, because the truth is that the celestials have been truly pitiful for a few years.
2023-09-27 22:04:24
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