"I don't think anybody can sit and say they wouldn't go back and change bits and pieces here and there," he continues. "But it doesn't matter... you can't. All you can do is learn from good things you've done and bad things you've done, and put them into practice for shaping you for where you want to go."
Rumours of Cavendish prolonging his career into 2024 and having one final crack at taking the outright record of
Tour de France stage wins continue to swirl. He himself though doesn't want to make a possible return all about the record. "The media started that, and all of a sudden that's all I'm going for," he concludes.