The possibility that the British Mark Cavendish (Astana) will win a stage in the Tour that starts on Saturday in Bilbao and achieve the record of 35 victories in the “Grande boucle” will be one of the great attractions of the event that will have its capital in Euskadi in the first three days.
That will be the number one goal of Astana Qazaqstan team building.see Cavendish break the tie of 34 stage wins he shares with the legendary Eddy Merckx.
His victory in Rome on the final stage of the Giro d’Italia boosted Cavendish’s moralewhich showed that at 38 he still has dynamite in his legs and the Tour record is possible.
Astana will take the stage with the goal of “Express of Man” and with the Kazakh Alexey Lutsenko for general.
The Kazakh formation will complete the squad with Spaniards Luis León Sánchez and David de la Cruz, Dutch Cees Bol, Kazakh Yevgeniy Fedorov, Italian Gianni Moscon and Colombian Harold Tejada.
Source: La Verdad
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