All-time Tour de France record topples as 39yo winds back clock in stunning feat
Astana Qazaqstan Team's British rider Mark Cavendish cycles past the finish line to win ahead of second-placed Alpecin-Deceuninck team's Belgian rider Jasper Philipsen and third-placed Uno-X Mobility team's Norwegian rider Alexander Kristoff during the 5th stage of the 111th edition of the Tour de France cycling race , 177,5 km between Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne and Saint-Vulbas, on July 3, 2024.
“I’m surrounded by incredible people and I owe a lot to them,” added Cavendish, who made his Tour debut in 2008 before becoming world road race champion three years later.“A good guy who has beaten my record on the Tour.”As the peloton swept through the lush Rhone valley on stage five with vineyards and pretty villages skirting the river, his Astana team hogged the front right of the peloton as light rain fell.
Given that Cavendish was vomiting in the saddle and struggling to keep up on the opening day of this year’s Tour, the feat is all the more remarkable. Race leader and two-time former winner Tadej Pogacar almost hit a traffic island, causing a wave of movement and a pile up of bikes and bodies behind him.“I used to watch him on television and we loved him,” Pogacar said.Pogacar is 25 years old and already has 12 stage wins.
Two seasons previously when Cavendish equalled Merckx’s stage haul in Carcassonne, it was his fourth win on that edition racing for Quick Step after years in the wilderness suffering from Epstein Barr virus.
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