Mark Cavendish, who had announced his retirement for this end of the season, will finally continue one more season to try to beat the record for stage victories in the Tour de France, his Astana team indicated on Wednesday October 4. “ It’s not over yet », indicated a first brief video posted by the Kazakh team on social networks. It was then the Briton himself who confirmed in a second video that he was going, at the age of 38, to embark on an eighteenth professional season in 2024. “ I talked to the children and asked them what Dad should do. And they answered me : “keep going, the question doesn’t even arise. But just one more year, eh””, explained the man from Man, considered by his peers as the best sprinter of all time. Surrounded by his family, Cavendish, father of four children, announced during a press conference in May during the Tour of Italy that he was going to bow out at the end of 2023. But that was before he gave up , due to a broken collarbone in a fall, during the 8th stage of the Tour de France where he aimed to make a little more history. The “Cav”, who has 162 victories to his name, aspires to beat one of the most coveted records in cycling, that of the number of stage victories on the Grande Boucle which he currently shares with Eddy Merckx (34 successes).
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