Published July 2, 2021, 8:10 AM
Team Deceuninck Quickstep’s Mark Cavendish of Great Britain (L) sprints to win in the 6th stage of the 108th edition of the Tour de France cycling race, 160 km between Tours and Chateauroux, on July 01, 2021. (Photo by Guillaume Horcajuelo / POOL / AFP)
The Mark Cavendish comeback gathered pace Thursday as he won his second stage in three days with a triumph on a day for pure sprinters along a 1.7km home straight at Chateauroux.
After a barren five-year spell on the Tour, the win on stage six took Cavendish’s tally on the world’s greatest bike race to 32, just two short of Belgian great Eddy Merckx’s all-time record of 34.
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