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‘I finished at 300m to go and regarded up on the TV’: How Mark Cavendish’s teammates and household witnessed Tour de France historical past


The Second, the seeds of a journey that have been first planted some 16 years in the past, occurred alongside a nondescript industrial street with forest on one aspect and an overgrown grass subject on the opposite, a kilometre away from a village of 1,200 inhabitants that till it hosted the Tour de France for the primary ever time, was identical to the numerous hundreds of different small routine French settlements: largely forgettable. 

However because the solar burned by the clouds that had given rain earlier within the afternoon, Saint-Vulbas was about to develop into synonymous with historical past. The Second got here at 17:38 CET on July 3, 2024, when Mark Cavendish surged by a crowded peloton, darting proper after which left, and charged in direction of historical past, a thirty fifth victory within the Tour de France, surpassing the document he had shared with Eddy Merckx for the previous three years.



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