Workforce Astana and Mark Cavendish went to this 12 months’s Tour with a transparent purpose. They referred to as him mission 35. He entered this 12 months with 34 stage victories, sharing first place on this rating with Eddy Merckx.
Mission 35 – a troublesome job for Cavendish
Mark Cavendish and his staff referred to as this 12 months’s Tour mission 35, as his greatest sprinter years are lengthy behind him and the years when he managed to win 5 phases on one Tour are gone. As well as, he loved his final stage victory three years in the past. And in opposition to younger wolves like Gaviria, Pedersen and Philipsen, the critics did not have a lot religion in him.
He had his first likelihood to set a file within the third stage, however he did not attain the end line as a consequence of a automotive accident. However Mark hoped that he nonetheless had it in him and that every part would come collectively and train his younger followers yet another lesson.
Furthermore, he knew very properly that he had to achieve the primary week earlier than the Tour reached the Pyrenees. He at all times suffered there, and within the ultimate week he wouldn’t have a lot power. This 12 months’s Tour is undoubtedly his final, and after critical accidents from the previous few seasons, he had the final likelihood to get forward of Eddy Merckx.
Within the fifth stage, every part got here collectively and Cavendish has a file triumph
After yesterday’s very demanding stage, which ended with a hellish climb to the Galibier and ended with an extended descent, at this time’s stage was once more tailor-made for the mass end. Not a lot occurred in at this time’s stage, throughout your complete stage the riders principally rested and it was not a hellish tempo.
The Astana staff managed the entrance of the peloton about 30 kilometers earlier than the end and every part was shaping as much as be a mass end for his or her chief Mark Cavendish. He stumbled barely simply earlier than the purpose. Nonetheless, he expertly managed Philipsen.
And the spurt began to begin with the favorites. He thus created a slight lead that even Philipsen didn’t catch. As well as, Mads Pedersen couldn’t take part within the dash, as he fell laborious on the asphalt. The thirty fifth victory modified the historic annals of the Tour de France.
Cavendish was very near the file enrollment within the earlier 12 months. When within the seventh stage he completed an in depth second. Nonetheless, within the subsequent stage he broke his collarbone and it was determined that he was ending his profession.
Nonetheless, he was persuaded by the previous nice mountaineer Aklexander Vinokurov, who’s the boss of Astana, to increase his profession with the truth that the staff’s technique might be topic to a file entry.
Tour de France – fifth stage (St. Jean de Maurienne – St. Vulbas (177.4 km)
- 1. Mark Cacendish (Brit./Astana) 4:08:46, 2. Jasper Philipsen (Bel./Alpecin), 3. Aklexander Kristoff (Nor./Uno), 4. Arnaud de Lie (Bel./Lotto), 5. Fabio Jakobsen (Netherlands/Dsm) all similar time……160. Jan Hirt (ČR/Fast-Step) -1:09
- Operating Order
- 1. Tadej Pogačar 23:15:24
- 2. Remco Eveneopel -45
- 3. Jonas Vingegaard -50
- 4. Juan Ayuso -1:10
- 5. Primož Roglič -1:14
- 93. Jan Hirt -58:03
Supply: Biking Information, Tour de France
