Sir Mark Cavendish will be remembered as one of the greats after his final Tour de France 🐐🇫🇷 

It's been a great privilege to witness the Manx Missile as a pro for the last time and break the record of the great Eddy Merckx, now it's time to hang the cleats and watch the new breed of sprinters clash head to head attempting to beat your record. Chapeau Sir Mark "The Manx Missile" Cavendish!

Don't care what anyone says, Cavendish is one of absolute greatest cyclist of all time! Simply amazing!

Sir Mark Cavendish bravo 👏 😢🇬🇧🇰🇿

❤SIR MARK CAVENDISH IS OUR LEGEND 🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷

The Legend takes on pains and defeat it and he cried happily at the end🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations cavandish You will be forever remembered

The greatest ever no matter what anybody else claims. A brash, angry, young cyclist has matured into a respected and loved cyclist the world over. He still wears his heart on his sleeve is emotional and still absolutely loves racing especially the TdF. Sure will miss him.

Er hat sich nochmal durchgebissen durch die ganze Tour. Chapeau ❤

This is a fantastic end of a fantastic carrier. 15 times passed the TDF and 35 wins in sprints. Increadible.

Legend

Mark, you are the greatest, to me even better than a World Champion or two and you have been World Champion as well🦵

The fact that has stayed in to the end enduring the mountain stages is admirable. Most would have quit after the last sprint stage.

Awesome! Well done Mark 🍻

Thanks Mark for so many great memories. Good luck & best wishes to you & the family, you've done your bit for the sport we love!!

So glad he beat the mark, watched his whole career and so many times he was counted out but found a way to win. We will look back in years to come to realize how special he truly was and understand how big his career is. I’ll miss him, cycling will miss him.

A really, really impressive palmarès. Chapeau Cav. It’s been a joy to watch!

Mark Cavandish,the greatest sprinter of all time

Incredible, well done mate 👏 🇮🇪

On a personal level, Mark Cavendish has provided some of the most nail biting, sitting on edge of chair and exciting Tour de France moments for me. Thank you Sir Mark. Wishing lots of happiness in your future endeavours

One of the ways we can show our support for Mark is to buy his book. Not to mention it is a fantastic insight into his career and to the world of professional cycling!

One of my inspiration to ride a bicycle. Thank you Cav!👍

Always a gentleman. Always forthright. LEGEND.

Προσωπικά είμαι περήφανος και τον κορυφαίο Mark Cavendish αλλά και για τον πολύ μεγάλο Έλληνα προπονητή που ακούει στο όνομα Αναστόπουλος και δούλεψε εντατικά μαζί του γι'αυτη την μεγάλη επιστροφή!!!

Small in stature, but a BIG man.

Greatest sprinter of all time the manx missile 😊🎉

Cavandish is the best sprinter❤❤🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥

A clean champion 🚴 🇮🇲

Cav one of greatest

The greatest ever Cavendish ❤🇪🇷

Im from guyana south america and mark is my faveroute rider

True Champion.

Big respect 🙏Legend and Awesom🤴💎💪❤🦁 your Fans from🇪🇷

Certified one of the top 5 all time cyclists in the history of the sport! Take a bow Sir Mark Cavendish! 💐👏

What a gift to have Mark

Sir Mark Cavendish Great Sprinter of Cycling The Lagend

How wonderful one great heaping praise on another, Sean Kelly and Mark Cavendish simply peerless ❤

Legend of the Game Cav 🖖🇬🇧👍

When he went past Thor Hushovd on the Champs Elysee was that rare moment in Sport when pure dominance is displayed.

Glad he one one stage this year. Great !!!

The long, lonely climb to the line and a DNF on stage 11 of the 2018 TdF says far more about the man than all 35 stage wins combined.

No words❤

35 wins could be unbreakable record.

Bravo Sir Mark!!

The happiest riders on the tour are Astana. They'll never have to drag an 80 year old man around ever again.

Sir Cav .......the total legend 💪💗

What a guy.

legend.... true legend

Well done mark the record and the way you have come back from so many injuries…. Thanks for the memories

Im hapy you said sir as thats his official title as he was knighted

This is how we wanted his career to end, not after a crash. What a champ

Sir Mark Cavendish is an undisputed legend

He should ride the TT naked on a Raleigh Chopper doing wheeelies and skids

such a friendly guy, good to know he can finally relax after all those years obsessed with Merckx' 34

I really live CAV. But, I’m also pretty sure his stage win this year was a retirement gift from the peloton.

Finishing tours matters to Mark. Gone are the days when sprinter went home before the mountains

Respect Sir Cavendish. You have been an absolute inspiration to many around the globe. Respect again!

King Cav 👑 👑

Olé....🚴🇪🇦🤘🏻

A Great cyclist

This man was the primary reason I was excited about and watched the TDF this year. I can’t think of a sports person I admire more, all heart, no filters.

Sir Alexandre Vinokourov 🇰🇿🇰🇿🇰🇿🇰🇿🇰🇿🇰🇿🇰🇿

Let's remember Cavendish as one of the greatests, because he won the most stages ever. Let's blame Pogačar for winning too much stages. WTF?

Now THAT's how he wanted to go out.

I’m not a Disco TV hater - I have a sub - not an Orla hater but jeez there’s a reason I listen/watch ITV4 and NSF podcast. Cav’s a legend. People watching this aren’t going to be idiots. FFS.

Thanks for all the memories Cav, after all that has happened in the last couple of years it's simply outstanding what you have achieved. I just hope there isn't another Lance moment around the corner to ruin what you have accomplished.

Warrior

respect that he finishes the tour and did not drop out

Every rider has to cope with injury but let's face it, only for what Sagan incident and following complications he'd probably be on 45! It's been amazing to watch Cav 😎

Well he had to finish the TDF for the netflix documentary atleast 😅

My favorite moment in his career was his last Paris Roubaix win.

Did he make the time cut on stage 20 then?

a life of surviving long rides to race the last 100 meters

You can see his love for the sport every day he is out there. How many sprinters over the years have managed to drag their rear ends over the mountains? It will be interesting to see how cav decides to deal with his retirement from the physical aspect of the sport. I cant see him giving up the shoes completely. I think some sort of involvement in the sports is on the cards. Whether this be a DS or coaching position. We might get to see cav during the Tour of Brtain one last time.

We would not talk about the many wins and this illustrious career had Bob Stapleton fielded his strongest sprinter in the Tours. That was Andre Greipel at the time.

Oh puleeeze. He put more riders in the hospital from his reckless "sprinting" than any other rider....

One of the greatest? Not even close! How many classics has he won? Yes, he has had a long career, won the most number of stages in Le Tour. But he has only ever won sprints, and even then he needed the big lead out trains. To say one of the greatest, lets look at who are really the Greatest. Eddy Merckx, Fausto Coppi, Alfredo Binda, Bernard Hinault, Gino Bartali. Is Cavendish in their league. These riders all won grand tours, won classics, rode entire fields off their wheels. In Eddy's case he won sprints against sprinters every bit as good as Cav, Hinault could win bunch sprints as well. So definitely Cav is not in their league, If you want to talk purely sprinters then lets look, Nakano 10 times world champ, Patrick Sercu 9 times world Pro Sprint champ, won over 90 six day races, won many stages of the TDF, and remember this was when Le Cannibale ate everyone and everything. How about Daniel Morelon, and here my memory fails, but multiple Olympic gold, and multiple world amateur sprint titles. So as far as sprinters go no, Cav is not in their league. Oh, you say road sprinters, OK, how about Rik Van Looy, multiple world road titles, the only rider to win ALL classics, multiple stage wins in both Le Tour and the Giro. Could Cav win Paris Roubaix, Liege Bastogne Liege, Giro di Lombardia? Not a hope in hell! Yes he has won Milan SanRemo, but then apart from Paris Tours that is the next best for pure sprinters. Is Cav the greatest road sprinter in the history of the TDF, of course, he has the record to prove it. But to blanket say one of the Greatest racing cyclists ever, Not a hope in hell!

I will only remember him for shouting at his mechanic like the weapon he is.

Hoping to live long enough to see Pogacar beat Cav's record of stage wins by at least one.

In my opinion, sprinters add excitement to stages, especially when the GC is decided with a week or more to go. However, they don’t add much substance because most are one dimensional as racers. They can’t compete in the mountain stages nor in the time trials. Due to the biology (dominant fast twitch muscles) they have speed but lack endurance and prolonged strength. They are the novelty that gives teams some bragging rights for some stage wins, but don’t place in the GC. Green jersey should not be considered the second most important award in the TDF. Not saying that they aren’t great athletes, they are. Just saying they are over-emphasized in the Tour. But that is part of cycling’s great tour events. You have races within the race itself. Cavendish, love him or hate him, has added a lot of excitement to a lot of stages.

He never was a fair play man...

Who?

Cavencrash is the Arjen Robben of professional cycling. Exhibit A : chopping a competitors wheel at the olympics: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-869ytxoJsF8.htmlsi=DxlCKa114TliuY9F Exhibit B : fake crash at the Tour of Britain because things weren't going his way : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ihqgN6oTzoU.htmlsi=UJegfLkkoHnBh96i Exhibit C : his Robben dramatics at the Tour to get Sagan (a professional sprinter removed) : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mgwZsxukSL8.htmlsi=u0545cTa4mPjz9mK Petulant attitude with mechanics, spectators and reporters : ru-vid.comNmqZwHuT9cU?si=SbTrp1B6QP6g69vV ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PIvz3aWeJik.htmlsi=2Cui2UQl31YkNRP1 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mXv3yA5k3i4.htmlsi=3BbHjb3u_isxAjj1 He should have retired long ago instead of relying on stacked competition and the pity of real cyclists to gift him wins for a hollow victory. Deep down he'll always know they are as good a result as Armstrong's TDF wins.

Wait, Astana has a sponsor called "italian trattoria" ? 😅 Look the jersey

Ahora el que ocupará su lugar se llama germay ❤❤

Pogacar will challenge Cavendish TdF stage number…..

Not for long Tadej is knocking at that record. Barring injuries. Pogacar is set to break Cavendish's record.

fred west lookalike

Pity he was riding for the most doped and appalling team in the peloton in his last TdF .

Thank you Astana 🤟🤟🤟🤟🇰🇿🇰🇿🇰🇿🇰🇿🤟🤟🤟

Way more famous than Pogacar, lucky we had watch this guy still did his last TDF and won it on great fashion. His legacy will remain for how long who knows. 🚵🏼‍♂️