“Not over yet”: Mark Cavendishwho announced his retirement at the end of the season, would finally go on for another season in an attempt to break the record for stage wins in the Tour de France, as announced this Wednesday by his Astana team.
“It’s not over yet,” said a short video posted by Astana on social media. When asked by AFP, the Kazakh team said it would issue a statement later today to confirm that The British cyclist will start an 18th professional season next year.
At 38 years old, considered by his peers as the best sprinter of all time, He announced in May, surrounded by his family, that he would retire at the end of 2023.
But that was before giving up, suffering a broken collarbone in a fall on the eighth stage of the Tour de Francewhere he sought to make history.
He has 162 victories and is looking to break one of the most coveted records in cycling, the number of stage victories in the Tour de France, which he currently shares with Eddy Merckx (34 victories).
Cavendish refused to let injuries end his careerso he will rejoin the Astana team, led by his former teammate Alexandre Vinokourov, who extended his hand to him last winter after the loss of the B&B Hotels team he was signing for.
Source: La Verdad
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