Mark Cavendish wins BBC Lifetime Achievement award
“Legacy is important. Most people would like to be remembered for something,” the British sprinter, who won a record-breaking 35th Tour de France stage victory this year before retiring, said
> “The Tour de France is bigger than cycling. And we’ve done it”: Record-breaker Mark Cavendish’s greatest ever Tour de France stage wins Now synonymous with the Tour de France, it’s apt that Cavendish’s relationship with cycling’s biggest race began in London, where at the 2007 edition the fresh-faced 22-year-old, who had just broken through near the top of cycling’s sprinting hierarchy following a debut win at the Scheldeprijs one-day race , would struggle with the expectation and pressure of the Tour.
However, the planned sequel the following year in London failed to materialise, a symptom of the Manx rider’s career-long love-hate relationship with the Olympic Games.
But after performing a U-turn on his retirement plans, that fairytale ending finally came through, on one of British cycling’s most momentous afternoons in Saint Vulbas in July, when, just like he did back in 2009, and in 2011, and 2016, “Cycling as quite small and niche when I started, to know it’s big enough and successful enough in this country, it gets recognition, it gets rewarded, that’s special enough for me.”We’ve noticed you’re using an ad blocker. If you like road.cc, but you don’t like ads, please consider subscribing to the site to support us directly. As a subscriber you can read road.cc ad-free, from as little as £1.99.
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