Mark Cavendish, the best UK cyclist?

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/nov/26/mark-cavendish-never-taken-tour-de-france-for-granted-interview

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/33222937

great interview, and I should be working

thumbs up to Cav for finishing Paris Roubaix! Not very far behind, unlucky he was on the wrong side of the crashes.

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/racing/mark-cavendish-wishes-done-more-edvald-boasson-hagen-220497

Bump.

I started this thread by quoting The Guardian, though I thought Sir Chris Hoy was superior at that time. Now, 8 years later, it seems like The Guardian were more right than they'd ever imagined.

This.

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Timely thread dredge....?

and another...

bumping this thread was a spoiler!

Haha, yep for me too

Waves Manx flag, from a safe distance.

Cavendish has to go and ride the six days with Morkov now , hasn’t he .. ?
Those two at Ghent … that would go down well.

Cav and Keisse would still be the big draw

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/59585168

After the serious accident he had... now this. When it rains it pours.

Crazy.

It seems targeting sports stars is becoming a thing. A premier league footballer had an attempted car jacking a couple of weeks ago.

A quick google shows pics of what appear to a collection of maybe £1m of Richard Mille watches he’s got from being sponsored, five at least.

Someone's been charged:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/man-charged-robbery-olympian-mark-cavendish-home-b972932.html

Nice to see some good news, hopefully he's healing up quickly too.

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/mark-cavendish-i-know-if-i-went-to-the-tour-de-france-id-win/

Just won the british national Road championship, in wonderful style, let's hope he goes to the tour

He won't.

At 37, that's probably it, unfortunately he won't get the stages record off merckx

This, from Holy David, is excellent:

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/david-millar-why-mark-cavendish-deserves-to-be-at-the-tour-de-france

Any chance Tim Declerq was rooming with Fabio Jakobson?