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Tour de France opener a sufferfest for Mark Cavendish: ‘If you’ve got my body type, don’t start cycling’

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Tour de France opener a sufferfest for Mark Cavendish: ‘If you’ve got my body type, don’t start cycling’

Mark Cavendish completed a carefully calculated but painful battle of survival during stage 1 of the Tour de France from Florence to Rimini. Despite vomiting early on and suffering in the extreme heat of the Italian summer, he managed to finish in the last gruppetto to live to fight another day.  

“I was seeing stars, it was so hard,” he admitted.

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