Cavendish moved clear of Belgian Eddy Merckx to stand alone in Tour history.
Sir Mark Cavendish took a record-breaking 35th career Tour de France stage win with victory on stage five in Saint-Vulbas.
His victory comes just four days after Cavendish struggled mightily in the heat of a punishing opening stage out of Florence, vomiting on the bike in concerning scenes, and two days after he missed the opportunity to contest stage three after being caught behind a late crash in Turin. “You have to go all-in and we’ve done it and worked it exactly how we wanted to do, how we built the team, the equipment, every little detail has been put towards today.”Cavendish’s four stage wins in 2021 counted as one of sport’s great comeback stories, his first victories at the Tour in five years after a period of time marked by illness and injury which contributed to a diagnosis of depression.
Over the winter they brought in Michael Morkov and Davide Ballerini – riders who had helped him to those victories in 2021 – and poured their resources into tailoring his equipment – even down to the detail of using time trial water bottles on his bike to aid aerodynamics.
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