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"To have taken that win will mean so much, not just to him but his team as well" - Experts think Mark Cavendish's Tour de Hongrie is sign of better times to come
CyclingSaturday, 11 May 2024 at 10:00
It's not Mark Cavendish's first win of this season, but it's taken exactly three months since his Tour Colombia victory and many (inculding myself) were starting to lose hope that the Manx Missile can make the ends meet again. But with an impressive leadout from his Astana Qazaqstan train, he couldn't miss in stage 2 of Tour de Hongrie. Experts from Eurosport's The Breakaway analyze what will this win mean for the 38-year-old's confidence heading towards Tour de France in late June.
"That's a big statement, it's a few weeks away to the Tour de France now, and I was saying the other day - he kind of needed to make that statement, even if it was a third place or a second," Daniel Lloyd thinks.
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It wouldn't happen without perfect work of Cavendish's teammates, notably Gleb Syritsa on the penultimate kilometer who significantly stretched the peloton. "To have taken that win will mean so much, not just to him but his team's confidence ahead of the big goals to come," Lloyd points out.
"The really important thing that I saw was the Astana lead-out, that was textbook, that will give all of them a lot of confidence," the Australian ex-sprinter star Robbie McEwen added. "They seemed to finally have it right, because it's taken this long in the season to really do a well-drilled lead-out, so that's a huge boost."
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