Things surely can’t go worse than last year’s anonymous performance. Whether Cavendish achieves it or not will likely define Astana Qazaqstan’s race.Īlexey Lutsenko will be the team’s GC man, looking to improve on his seventh and eighth place finishes in 20. The 38-year-old is just as determined as day one, even if the super-powered lead-out and devastating acceleration of his heyday are not quite there. Taking a 35th Tour de France stage win to move above Eddy Merckx in the all-time list would be a fairytale achievement for Cavendish, fourteen years since his first triumph. There ought to be more opportunities for sprint success at the Tour than the Giro, but an even higher level of rivals too. If the Giro d’Italia is anything to go by, there will be times the “Manx Missile” is surfing other lead-out trains in the final kilometres too.Ĭavendish took a hard-fought stage win in Rome after fighting over the mountains. Twelve months ago, few would have expected his partner to be the Kazakhstani boys in blue but the team has a new jersey and new ambitions in the sprints.Ĭees Bol will serve as a guiding light in the hectic bunch sprint finales. It’s the last dance for Mark Cavendish, a final Tour de France before retiring, one more chance to add to his prolific tally of stage wins. Mark Cavendish won the final stage of the Giro d'Italia in Rome.
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