Dr Hutch
Dec 17, 2020
4 minutes
Pro cycling is an unsentimental sport. It’s about winning, about getting a return for the sponsors’ investment, at whatever cost that might be. And it’s about riders who are toughened to the hardships, who take the good with the bad, and are aware that they exist at the sharp edge of performance-related pay.
Or so I thought. Until Mark Cavendish signed for the Deceuninck-Quick Step team. In a year of things I didn’t expect (all three Grand Tours finishing the three full weeks each, for example) this seems perhaps the most unlikely.
It would be fair to say that being
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