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Mark Cavendish

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Name Cavendish
Name Mark
Nickname The Man of Man The Manx Express
Date of Birth 21 May 1985 (1985-05-21) (age 25)
Country Flag of the Isle of Man.svg Isle of Man
Current Team Team Columbia
Specialty sprinter
Team (s) pro
end 2005 - August 2006
aot 2006 - 2007
2008
2009 - 		Team Sparkasse
T-Mobile
Team High Road
Team Columbia
Major wins
5 championships

Arch ciel.png World champion American 2005 and 2008
Gold Medal, Europe European champion in the points race in 2005
Flag: United Kingdom Champion of Great Britain Team Pursuit 2005
Flag: United Kingdom Champion of Great Britain from the 2008 U.S.
23 wins on the Grand Tours
Tour de France (15 steps)
Giro d'Italia (5 steps)
Tour of Spain (3 steps)
A classic
Milan-San Remo 2009
Annex 1 ranking grand tour
Jersey green.svg Points Classification Tour of Spain 2010

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Mark Cavendish, born on 21 May 1985 in Douglas on the Isle of Man .

Summary

/ / Biography

Early life

Mark Cavendish started cycling in the BMX and the mountain bike. He says: "With my bike, I was always distanced racing. My mother laughed at me, but for me it was because they had all ATVs. So I asked my 13 for an ATV anniversary. The next day I went out and beat everybody. "

It was at this time that Cavendish meets David Millar on the Isle of Man. This meeting will mark:

"He came running a race. I have a picture of him with me. He was very sympathetic and gave me a cap and photos of him. Let's just say it has increased my motivation. I always wanted to be a cyclist. When I was young, the Tour de France was all! It was the only competition that was on television. These images of suffering and joy, sport. I particularly remember Guerini's victory at the Alpe d'Huez after hitting a photographer. A few years later I attended my first race as an intern at T-Mobile. It was unreal. Career bicycle

Amateur Career

After leaving school, Cavendish worked for two years in a bank

Cavendish also won the points race for the European Championships the same year. In 2005, he ran his first road races in the Tour of Berlin and the Tour of Britain as an intern in the team Team Sparkasse.

In 2006, Cavendish short in the Continental team Team Sparkasse , which trains future riders of the team T-Mobile. In June, he won two stages and the points classification of the Tour of Berlin. He runs the scratch race for the Isle of Man at the Commonwealth Games 2006 in Melbourne. With three other riders, the English Rob Hayles , the autralien Ashley Hutchinson and Scottish James McCallum , he takes a lap ahead of the pack. He beat three riders to win sprint gold for the Isle of Man in 23'5 ", at an average speed of 51.9 km / h. His victories on the Tour of Berlin won him a contract with a trainee T-Mobile from August. He obtained his best result in 2006 at T-Mobile in the Tour of Britain , when he finished second three times and won the points classification. This performance it is a professional contract two years.

Career

2007
Cavendish has the yellow jersey in the Tour of Britain 2007

Cavendish begins 2007 "laboriously" in the words of the daily L'quipe , which quotes one of his teammates, Roger Hammond : "Honestly, his season has been so bad that the staff wondered where to race Mark so he could finish the race . "Cavendish finally pierces the Grand Prix de l'Escaut in Belgium, which he won when he has completed almost none of his previous races. He then won two stages in the Four Days of Dunkirk and two at the Tour of Catalonia , which allowed him to be at the start of the Tour de France in London. It falls during the 1 st and 2 nd stages , and abandoned, as provided by his team , the 8 th , when the race reaches the Alps. He has completed two stages in the top ten, but regrets never having managed to place in the top five .

After these events, everything returns to normal. It continues on its early season, and reached 10 stage victories, one fewer than the record of Alessandro Petacchi , who won 11 victories in his first season . Cavendish gets his eleventh victory in early October on the Circuit Franco-Belgian. Among his victories, three have the ProTour : its two stages of the Tour of Catalonia and his stage victory in the Eneco Tour. After this latest victory, Cavendish said:

"I am a sprinter for the old. I am unable to climb a mountain, but if I'm leading at 200 meters from the finish, nobody can beat me . "
2008

In 2008, Cavendish returns to the track , and won for the second time the World Championships of the American with Bradley Wiggins , allowing Britain to finish atop the medal table , . He found the track to the Beijing Olympics , and left the Tour de France on the morning of the 15th stage for this phase . The team manager Columbia , Bob Stapleton , and he agreed to run the Alps that could jeopardize his chances. However, Cavendish, together with Bradley Wiggins , fails to medal , finishing eighth tied the U.S.. He is the only British track cyclist to not win a medal . Cavendish and Wiggins, disappointed, fell out after this defeat , and Cavendish did not hide his resentment of the British Federation not to give sufficient attention to the U.S.. Chris Boardman remembered however that professional commitments Cavendish had also affected his preparation. In November 2008, Cavendish said he had no intention of running again on track .

On the road, Cavendish wins his first steps on a Grand Tour by removing two victories on the Tour of Italy. He won four more stages on the Tour de France : the Step 5 to Chateauroux , then 8 th in Toulouse , the 12 th to Narbonne and 13 th in Nimes , becoming the first Englishman to win 4 stages in the same tower . Within days, only 22, he becomes the "fourth best professional cyclist British history," according to The Independent. . After the 14th stage , Cavendish abandoned the Tour to focus on the Beijing Olympics.

The rest of its season is also a success with no less than eleven new victories, including three in the Tour of Ireland , he abandons the last day, and three others on the Tour of Missouri , where he won his last moment first ranking points of the season. He also won the Grand Prix of the Scheldt for the second consecutive time. On the Tour de Romandie , Cavendish wins prologue ahead of his compatriot Bradley Wiggins , highlighting his predisposition against the clock for short. During this season, finished with 17 victories on the road, Daniele Bennati, one of his main opponents, said: "Cavendish is the fastest runner in the world in the last 50 meters of a sprint . "

2009
Cavendish brings the green jersey in the Tour de France 2009
Cavendish on the podium winning the 2nd stage of Tour de Romandie 2010

The 2009 season begins at the Cavendish Tour of Qatar , where he is again opposite Tom Boonen . Boonen won the race and a stage, Cavendish two stages. He also won two stages in the Tour of California , beating Boonen in new arrivals grouped. On the same race, Cavendish wins his first ranking points this year. He started his European season at Tirreno-Adriatico , the Italian stage race, where he won a stage. He then took part in the first Classic of the season, Milan-San Remo. After a week of unusually humble statements, it overcomes the difficulties that his opponents believed they would prevent him to win, took the wheel of Heinrich Haussler in the last 200 meters and won the sprint to the wire and the race. This is the first victory of Cavendish in a great classic. The following week, Cavendish participates in track world championships , to the surprise of his statements after the previous year. There gets a medal.

On the Tour de France 2009, he won six stages including the latest, July 26, on the Champs-Elysees , the most prestigious for the sprinters.

He finished his season at the Tour of Missouri. Winner of two stages, he must give up the competition prematurely due to a lung infection. This leads him to waive participation in the World Championships and Paris-Tours .

2010
Cavendish at the presentation of the Tour de France 2010

He won five stages on the Tour de France 2010, the last, again on the Champs-Elysees. The Chief Minister of the Isle of Man , James Anthony Brown , praised the qualities of the rider after the race: "His achievements have made headlines in the international press and put the Isle of Man on the front of the scene. Mark showed that the level can be achieved with talent, determination and support of a team . "

He won the first stage of the Tour of Spain , one against the clock by teams with the HTC Team-Columbia.

Personality

Cavendish is often described as very confident, sometimes as arrogant. He replied:

"When journalists in the Tour de France ask me if I'm the best sprinter, I answer" Yes ", and is perceived as arrogance, but if I do not ask, I'm not saying I am the best sprinter in the world. "
"In fact, if you watch the video of my victories on the Tour, I am the fastest sprinter. I only see a reality. It's not as if I said "I am the fastest sprinter" without the show. I see a reality, you see.
I do not see how telling the truth can be a sign of arrogance. But people can think what they want from me. I do not care. "

Out of the race, he is seen differently. Brian Holm, his sporting director, "In life, he's really polite. It is not the type to call you to complain, as most runners do. He called to ask how you go or what you do. "

Style

Bike magazine described Cavendish as "a ball of nerves" in the race. . To the editor, Gilles Comte

Cavendish primarily learned to be compact for the effort. In full sprint, it does not move the shoulders or head ... He reminded the riders kilometer when at full speed. And Frederic Grappe confirms: "I am convinced he could run the kilometer 1'05", maybe 1'04 ", certainly."

The British rider adds to its bundle of nerves a very advanced on the bike, with the shoulders just above the handlebars. Frederic Grappe compared to an athlete pushing on the starting blocks: "In this way, it optimizes muscular chain of his lower limbs to convey the greatest possible power to the pedals."

Cavendish has learned that in the "security" of the runway, he reproduced naturally on the road. If the road had been his natural environment, he never learned to run with his head low, defying danger, partly because his subconscious would have banned him. Have played a psychological brake to protect him from dangers that the eye sees is often too late.

Awards and achievements

Past Road

By years

By Race

Races for a day
Cavendish on the cobblestones of Ghent-Wevelgem 2009
Races steps

Past Track

Results on the major tours

Tour de France

  • 2007 : Abandonment (8 Step)
  • 2008 : non-runner (15th stage), winner of 4 stages
  • 2009 : 131 th, winner of 6 steps
  • 2010 : 154th, who won 5 stages

Giro d'Italia

Tour of Spain

  • 2010 : 144 e-winner against the team time trial and 3 steps Jersey green.svg winner of the points classification and Jersey red.svg carrying the red jersey for 2 days

World Rankings

Year 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
UCI Europe Tour 104 th 110 th
UCI world rankings 8 th

References

(In) This article is partially or entirely from the article in English entitled " Mark Cavendish (see the list of authors )

  1. a , b , c and d Team , July 19, 2008
  2. a , b , c and d L'quipe, France, July 13, 2008
  3. a and b Procycling, UK, October 2008, p59
  4. A spectator was removed from the roadside to take a picture. Guerini thought he would decline, but he did not.
  5. BBC 28/03/2005
  6. Cavendish shows he's the Fastest in Berlin , British Cycling, 2006-06-06
  7. Cavendish to Tour of Britain , T-Mobile
  8. Cavendish signs with T-Mobile , T Mobile
  9. The Point, July 15, 2007
  10. Hoping for Happy Camping in Compeigne , T Mobile
  11. sport.be, July 12, 2007.
  12. Mark Cavendish, " My race is over. I Was Trying To Do Things Physically I am incapable of. ", The Guardian, 2007-07-16
  13. Cavendish scores Eighth season win , T-Mobile
  14. www.cyclingnews.com, August 24th, 2007
  15. BBC Cavendish and Wiggins strike Gold in Madison
  16. BBC Watch Cav and Wiggins Victory
  17. "Britain's Mark Cavendish sweat out of Tour de France 15th stage Before", Canadian Broadcast Corporation, 21/07/2008
  18. T-Mobile had ended its sponsorship, and was replaced by Columbia.
  19. sport.be, 12 July 2007.
  20. Cav and Wiggins Miss Out on Medal (2008-08-19). Retrieved on 2008-08-19.
  21. Wiggins eyes new Madison pairing , BBC Sport (2008-10-22). Retrieved on 2008-10-22.
  22. The forgotten man Lweis, Tim, The Observer, 23-11-08; Accessed 12/08/2008
  23. Cavendish Secures Giro stage win 13-05-08; BBC Sport, Accessed 14/05/08
  24. Cavendish wins Stage 5 of Tour De France , BBC Sport, 2008-07-10
  25. Cavendish Wins Tour Makes it 4 (2008-07-18). Retrieved on 2008-07-18.
  26. Alasdair Fotheringham: Cavendish out on His Own With Fourth Win, The Independent (2008-07-19).
  27. Cavendish edged out of Giro stage BBC Sport, 22-05-08; Watched The 23/05/08
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