Cavendish dedicates win to Renshaw

Mark Cavendish (HTC-Columbia) on the podium

Mark Cavendish (HTC-Columbia) on the podium (Image credit: Bettini Photo)

It says a huge amount about Mark Cavendish’s tenacity and sprinting ability that he not only won the bunch sprint into Bordeaux, but did so only hours after considering abandoning the Tour de France. “I didn’t know whether I’d be starting today when I got up this morning,” the HTC-Columbia sprinter revealed in Bordeaux. “I’ve been sick for the four days in the Pyrenees. I had bronchitis that wouldn’t go away. During last night I got a fever and I thought it was over for the Tour.”

Peter Cossins has written about professional cycling since 1993 and is a contributing editor to Procycling. He is the author of The Monuments: The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races (Bloomsbury, March 2014) and has translated Christophe Bassons' autobiography, A Clean Break (Bloomsbury, July 2014). 

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