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Sir Mark Simon Cavendish KBE (born 21 May 1985) is a retired Manx professional road racing cyclist. [9] As a track cyclist he specialised in the madison , points race , and scratch race disciplines; as a road racer he was a sprinter .
Mark Cavendish, seen in the peloton during the race, was considered a favourite, but was later involved in a crash. Given the nature of the course, a large number of sprint specialists came to the race, including local favourites Marcel Kittel (Team Giant–Alpecin) and André Greipel (Lotto–Soudal).
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Mark Cavendish's crash, which left him with a broken rib, [19] caused him to miss the 2018 Commonwealth Games. [20] André Greipel, who suffered two crashes in the last 4 km (2.5 mi) of the race, was forced to miss the rest of the spring classics season due to a broken collarbone. [21]
Mark Cavendish has announced that he will retire from cycling at the end of the 2023. The British rider will conclude his time as a professional at the end of the season, bringing the curtain down ...
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Ferrari was born in Gavardo.After stage 3 of the 2012 Giro d'Italia in Horsens, Denmark, Ferrari was relegated from 10th to 192nd position after the race jury ruled that he was responsible for a crash that brought down world champion Mark Cavendish and race leader Taylor Phinney since he swerved from the left to the right side of the road in the final meters. [4]
The two gained a maximum advantage of a minute over the peloton, and were caught with 8 km (5.0 mi) to go. As the peloton turned around a right hand bend, with under 3 km (1.9 mi) remaining, there was a small crash that took out two top sprinters, Mark Cavendish and Óscar Freire.