A moment in time Cav becomes King of Sprinters
‘This was June 2010,’ writes Mark Cavendish in his second autobiography At Speed. ‘The Tour was three weeks away and I was a mess. Lonely, miserable, out of form, unpopular with journalists, fellow riders and even fans, after the highs of the previous two years I’d somehow fallen into a pit of despair. I had three weeks to crawl out.’
To say the first six months of the 2010 season were difficult for Cavendish is an understatement. Twelve months earlier he had wracked up 13 individual wins including Milan-San Remo before the Tour’s
