Having already ensured his place in the annals of Tour de France history, Mark Cavendish will embark on his final Grand Boucle in the coming days, with one clear goal in mind... win a record breaking 35th Tour de France stage win.
Currently tied with the legendary Eddy Merckx for the stage win record with 34, the 2024 edition of the Tour de France marks the final chance in the career of the 39-year-old to take sole ownership of the record. With just two wins added to the Manx Missile's palmares in 2024, stages of the Tour Colombia and the Tour de Hongrie, it's fair to say that Cavendish won't start as the overwhelming favourite for the sprints. Nevertheless, you can never rule him out either.
One of those men tasked with delivering Cavendish in the sprints will be 28-year-old Dutchman, Cees Bol and the former Paris-Nice stage winner is fully backing his team leader for success, despite the immensely competitive sprint field taking to the race this year, including the likes of Jasper Philipsen, Mads Pedersen, Arnaud De Lie and more.
"He is capable of it. We believe in him with the whole team," Bol previews confidently and determinedly in conversation with Wielerrevue. "Basically, Michael Morkov is the last man and I am the link before that. We have trained well as a team lately, so we are ready."
After having sprinted to 5th in the Dutch National Championships last week, Bol himself has shown some good form of late. "I don't think so (if he could have done more ed.), because the legs were quite empty," Bol assessed of his sprint performance in Arnhem, where Team Jayco AlUla's Dylan Groenewegen took the win ahead of Team Visma | Lease a Bike's Olav Kooij. "I had enough space to sprint, so I can't complain about that."
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