Christophe Vandegoor considers Milan-Sanremo to be Mark Cavendish's best victory: "Especially because he wanted to be more than just a sprinter"

In a recent article, Sporza's cycling analyst Christophe Vandegoor looks back at the unbelievable career of the Manx Missile - the man who became a modern-day sprinter legend - Mark Cavendish.

Vandegoor thinks about Manxman's best victory: "His victory in Milan Sanremo (2009) was the best. Especially because he wanted to be more than just a sprinter, which I often noticed in interviews. Therefore, the victory of such a monument was very important to him."

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"He was someone with an incredible sprinting talent, who always gave 200%. That has been a credit to him and ultimately also resulted in a nice palmares. Not only did he win 34 stages in the Tour, he also won 16 times in the Giro."

"He wanted the people in front of him to be 300% motivated and prepared. When he felt that wasn't the case, he just wiped his feet on it," Vandegoor notes that Cavendish was that kind of rider who would 'go big or go home' on occasions.

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"But towards the end of his career, we got to know a different Cavendish. When he came to the Six Days of Ghent, he actually started making jokes about cuberdons. And then you also heard from his teammates that he was actually a very grateful and friendly man," he concludes.

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