Tour de France: Mark Cavendish vows ‘I’ll win again’ at Grand Tour despite Quick Step-Alpha Vinyl omission in 2022

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.

Tour de FranceWiggins: 'No shortage' of teams for Cavendish to pursue record after Quick-Step exit13/07/2022 AT 13:35 «I know I'll win again,” Cavendish, who is set to leave Quick-Step, told BBC. „It is what it is, obviously I'd love to do it, I've always built my whole career around it. “But I'm a professional at the end of the day, I ride for a team, there's 30 riders on the team… you've ultimately got to take the emotion out of it, and look at it as a kind of a job I guess.

»The only thing I regret is that I know I was in the form to win there. I'm in my best form for easily a decade, you know? And it's kind of like when you think that's gone to waste a bit, that can be hard," he said. Wiggins: 'No shortage' of teams for Cavendish to pursue record after Quick-Step exit 'What the hell?' – Blythe rips into Cavendish decision 'He's not part of our project' — Cavendish set to leave Quick-Step «But I was able to win the British Championships the week before, so there's kind of a silver lining in that one.