Mark Cavendish admitted that his form was not smart enough to make up his mind for this year’s Tour de France. The 35-year-old pilot ran sporadically in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and, with a very mountainous Tour route, Bahrain McLaren gave more to General leader Mikel Landa.
Cavendish has competed on the Tour for two consecutive years but, unlike 2019 when his omission from the Dimension Data team contributed to a bitter split, the winner of the Tour’s 30 stages turned to Twitter and subsidized Bahrain’s resolution of leaving it at home.
“I probably noticed that the Bahrain McLaren team has excluded their Team from the Tour de France and I’m obviously not on the list,” Cavendish said in a short video message.
“Some other people will be happy with this, others will be disappointed. And there will be hounds who will do things for their own clicks. So I think I’d give my own ideas and emotions about it.
“In undeniable terms, I don’t think this year I’m in a position for the Tour de France. This is the most complicated route I have noticed in my career and I am a driving force that wants many races “Array, I didn’t get this year with the COVID-19”.
Cavendish joined Bahrain McLaren in early 2020 on a one-year contract in a movement that saw him team up with his mentor and lifelong coach, Rod Ellingworth. The duo have a career dating back to The Cavendish era at the British Cycling Academy and led to a rainbow jersey victory at the UCI World Highway Championships in Copenhagen in 2011.
Since 2016, possibly one of Cavendish’s most productive years as a WorldTour cyclist, the British sprinter has struggled with fitness and fitness. In 2017 he went through a long-standing virus for six years and did not say he was healthy until last year.
This season he has noticed that he has sometimes surpassed him as a sprinter and leader for his teammates, but without a win in his credits, and more importantly, without his most productive form, has become increasingly complicated for the team to integrate it into their excursion. Plans. Cavendish was magnanimous in admitting that he was not in one position and helped Landa, who will look to improve in his fourth position from 2017.
With his one-year contract at the end of the existing campaign, Cavfinishish has also hinted that he will continue for at least one more season and, in doing so, has put an end to the retirement hypothesis.
“With Bahrain-McLaren, we have an incredible general contender at Mikel Landa, and we have an incredibly strong team for him. I know I’ll be on the team wherever I am,” Cavendish said.
“But I can’t wait, I’m very excited for the rest of the year. We have smart goals and covert smart careers. I look forward to build a wonderful year. Next year too.”
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