For the past few months, every aspect of Mark Cavendish’s life had been transfixed on the Tour de France. Specifically, stage five of the Tour de France. Specifically, the final 500m of stage five of the Tour de France. Every pedal stroke in training, every bite of food, every minuscule part of his equipment was calibrated to win one more stage.
“I think not just as a sports person, in anything you do you need a goal, a target, a reason to commit to work hard,” Cavendish says. He is speaking on Monday morning from his hotel on the French Riviera, his voice a little scratchy from the night before.
