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PARIS : There was an exhilarating retro feeling as Jonas Vingegaard claimed his maiden Tour de France title after an epic battle with Tadej Pogacar, who defended his crown until the bitter end, the pair laying the platform for a potentially historic rivalry.
A bullish Mark Cavendish believes he will break the Tour de France stage record despite being overlooked by Quick Step-Alpha Vinyl this year. The team favoured sprinter Fabio Jakobsen for the 2022 edition, delaying Cavendish’s hopes of passing the record of 34 stage wins that he shares with Eddy Merckx. Ad/> Now 37, there have been doubts over whether Cavendish will get another chance to race at the Tour, but the “Manx Missile” has no retirement plans and is confident he will get another shot amid Bradley Wiggins' belief that teams will be looking to sign him.
UAE Team Emirates' Tadej Pogacar rode to victory at Stage 6 of the Tour de France to take the yellow jersey in one of the quickest Tour stages ever, and Eurosport cycling expert Sir Bradley Wiggins believes the tour is “over”. Defending champion and Tour favourite Pogacar has taken charge ahead of the race reaching the mountains, in the 109th edition of the Tour.
We will never know whether Mark Cavendish would have won Saturday's bunch gallop into Nyborg on the windswept Danish coast and so made history by becoming the most successful Tour de France stage winner of all time.
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl’s treatment of Mark Cavendish in the build-up to the Tour de France was “disgraceful”, claims Matt Stephens on the latest episode of The Bradley Wiggins Show. Cavendish was overlooked for the Tour despite winning four stages to draw level with Eddy Merckx’s all-time record (34) and the green jersey last year, with Quick-Step instead naming Fabio Jakobsen as their sprinter. Jakobsen is also plotting one of the sport’s great comebacks after fighting back from devastating injuries suffered at the 2020 Tour of Poland.
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Tadej Pogacar can join some elite clubs at the Tour de France over the next few weeks but a man still eligible for the young rider’s classification has no time to think about his place in history.
UAE Team Emirates and their champion rider Tadej Pogacar will be looking to reinforce their position at the pinnacle of cycling when they begin defence of the Tour de France title on July 1.