Mark Cavendish crashes out of Tour de France
British cyclist Mark Cavendish's bid to take a record-breaking 35th Tour de France stage win ended after he was forced to abandon the race following a crash on Saturday.
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British cyclist Mark Cavendish's bid to take a record-breaking 35th Tour de France stage win ended after he was forced to abandon the race following a crash on Saturday.
Mark Cavendish is out of his final Tour de France following a crash on stage eight.
After dragging themselves over mountain passes in the Pyrenees, the sprinters had their fun from Mont-De-Marsan to Bordeaux, and provided the teams of the fast men control the breaks it could be a bunch finish in Limoges. There are two Cat. 3 and one Cat.
Sixteen years to the day after his Tour de France debut in London, Britain’s Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan) came so close to an historic 35th stage win on the world’s biggest bike race. On a hectic finale alongside the Garonne river in Bordeaux, the road opened up for Cavendish, who came from deep with one of his trademark turns of pace and was able to get the jump on the in-form Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck).
Mark Cavendish launched a kick which looked set to propel him to Tour de France win No. 35, but a mechanical issue and power of Jasper Philipsen denied him victory in Bordeaux. The Manxman went wheel surfing in the final kilometre and appeared to time his run to perfection, as a gap opened up on the right-hand side of the road.
Jasper Philipsen denied Mark Cavendish a record-breaking Tour de France victory on the line as the Belgian won stage seven on the line in Bordeaux.
BORDEAUX, France :Belgian Jasper Philipsen denied Mark Cavendish a record-breaking victory on the Tour de France to claim his third stage win in this year's race on Friday, taking his fifth bunch sprint in succession since last year.
Tadej Pogacar jokingly said he was hunting down Mark Cavendish’s 34 Tour de France stage wins after bouncing back spectacularly on Thursday to blow the race wide open. The Slovenian cracked on Stage 5 on Wednesday, shelling time to big general classification rival Jonas Vingegaard.