Funny day for British runner Mark Cavendish.
In the morning, his Quick Step - Alpha Vinyl team, that of double world champion Julian Alaphilippe announced his contract extension for another year.
It is therefore very likely that the winner of the green jersey during the last Tour de France will return in 2022 on the roads of the Grande Boucle with one major objective: to win a stage to become the absolute record holder for stage victories on the Tour.
For now, the Isle of Man rider shares this privilege with legend Eddy Merckx.
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- Mark Cavendish (@MarkCavendish) December 8, 2021
However, Mark Cavendish could not appreciate this announcement. He's still recovering from a trauma. On November 27, the best sprinter in the world and for many of all time was the victim of a serious assault at his home. He himself told it this Wednesday afternoon on his social networks. “In the early morning of November 27, while I was recovering in our family home in Essex, shortly after leaving intensive care, 4 masked and armed men burst into our house where we were sleeping threatening my wife and children. Under the threat of a knife, they proceeded to ransack our property, ”explains the runner on his networks. The gang came out of the house with “two watches of great sentimental value,” still confides Mark Cavendish. "But the worst, he continues,is that they have robbed us of our sense of security, our privacy and our dignity, the one that everyone should feel in their own home. "
In his post, Mark Cavendish confides that this nightmare has broken the hearts of his family and children.
He asks, he even "begs" the people who can bring to the police force, all the information concerning the gang to let it know.
Last July, Mark Cavendish was one of the heroes of the Tour de France by equaling the stage wins records (34) of Eddy Merckx a few months after coming out of a deep depression.