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Mark Cavendish relishing one final tilt at new Tour de France stage win record

  • Manxman currently shares record with Eddy Merckx
  • ‘I’m more ready now, than I was last year’

Mark Cavendish’s final tilt at claiming a record-breaking 35th stage win at the Tour de France begins in earnest on Monday when he targets victory in the longest day of this year’s race, the 230km haul from Piacenza to Turin.

“I think I’m more ready now, than I was last year,” Cavendish, who currently shares the record of 34 stage wins with the great Eddy Merckx, said on Friday afternoon. “I’m so happy I carried on, actually.”

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