The 38-year-old has postponed his plans to retire after agreeing a new deal with Astana Qazaqstan, saying that “crashing out of the Tour de France was not the finish of my career I hoped for”
The 38-year-old yesterday underwent successful surgery to his fractured right clavicle, suffered in Saturday's stage eight crash Read everything the Manx Missile had to say post-surgery. The joint all-time Tour de France stage wins record holder suffered a brutal end to this year's edition, crashing out at the event at the weekend.