Mark Cavendish He put down his bike at the end of the last season of 2024 At 39 years old, and with 18 campaign as a professional in his legswill always be treated as one of the best sprinters in the cycling peloton. His track record proves this as Douglas’ record is total 165 wins, highlighting that he is the runner with the most stage wins in the Tour de France (35).
Despite all the achievements achieved, the British race also save the bitterest momentsas in every athlete. On a personal level, Cavendish also lived through difficult and difficult times to this day he still remembers.
One of the most horrific events that keeps coming to mind is the pain he suffered in his home in the early morning of November 27, 2021. The former cyclist was inside the house located in Ongar, north-east London, with his wife and children, when a group of masked men violently assaulted him.
The motivation of thieves in committing theft is find a sapphire watch from the Richard Mille brand worth 2.2 million euros. Something Cavendish himself, in remarks Cbainfois assured “It doesn’t belong to me.” And Richard Mille, as one of his partners, he lent said watch who attended an awards gala and then he kept it up he returned it.
“Memories, flashbacks, come to me all the time” Story of ‘Cav’, he remembered what happened during the robbery. According to his account, They threatened him with “a zombie knife to his throat”a situation that “scary” have to live with his children and wife in front of him, seeing how They beat him and threatened to kill him.
“You wonder what you can do. “Everyone thought: ‘I will fight.’ And of course, at first I resisted,” he declared, despite adding that “Anyone with a knife to their neck can’t do anything”. Despite everything, Cavendish comments that he’s lucky “because I was there,” because if this happened to his family when he wasn’t home, he maintains that “I will never forgive myself”.
Now, when 4 years have passed since the events, three of the thieves were identified, arrested and sentencedwhile just one of them, now, he is still a fugitive.
Source: La Verdad
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