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I'm down at the Scottish Provident
site in Crickley.
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I'm going to talk to a few
of the seven to eight-year-olds.
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The first person I'm gonna talk to
is Mark Turton.
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What's the season been like for you?
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Quite good.
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But I've had a few crashes here and there.
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Down here
we have Joseph Dooley.
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He's in the under sixes.
Joseph, what are you going...
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No, I'm seven.
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Oh, you're seven?
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Right, now we come to the really fast man.
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And he's Mark Cavendish.
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Mark is going
to the Scottish Provident Challenge '96.
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How do you think your form's going, Mark?
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- Okay.
- Okay.
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How are you going tonight?
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Okay. I did better than I thought I would.
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- Did you win, or were you second?
- No, I was about that far.
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Christian won,
as he keeps saying.
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Okay, well, Mark's going to Challenge '96.
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Thank you.
We'll let them get on with the race,
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they're just about to start
and the first line is off.
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A world champion at 21.
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Mark Cavendish,
youngest British rider
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to get a stage win at the Tour de France.
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He is the fastest man
in the world right now.
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There's nobody even comparing.
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There's the Missile.
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70 km/h, what a sprint.
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He has got the big dream.
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No British cyclist
has ever been remotely close.
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Win number 25.
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Already,
he's taken the third most victories
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in Tour de France history.
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From perfection,
where do you go?
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What a way to stick it to everyone else.
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Fuck off.
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Is this live?
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- Yeah.
- Oh, sorry.
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Cavendish has been
disqualified from today's sprint.
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You know that little thing in your mind
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that says, "I shouldn't really do that."
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Oh, Mark Cavendish is down.
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Mark, how are you feeling?
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We get a lot of questions
about Mark Cavendish.
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He hasn't got it anymore.
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The harder things got,
the less he talked to anyone.
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Stop cycling
and start a different life.
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You don't go from
being the best in the world...
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to nothing.
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I'd been many years...
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just a winning machine.
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The Missile
of the Isle of Man, Mark Cavendish.
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Without the Tour de France,
cycling doesn't exist.
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Even before I rode the Tour de France,
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I was obsessed with it.
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These bike riders suffering
all these incredible distances
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for three weeks in July.
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It's addictive. It's...
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it's savage, but so beautiful.
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So beautiful.
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We race 21 individual stages
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over 3,500 kilometers.
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A rider wins one stage
of the Tour de France,
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it makes their whole career.
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Not just their year, their whole career.
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One stage.
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At this point in my career,
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I'd been racing ten years.
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I'd won 26 stages.
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Here is one of
the superstar international sprinters,
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Mark Cavendish!
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It's just like a complete circus.
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It's carnage.
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That's so cool. All done.
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I try to make it as much as
an adventure as I can for the kids.
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When I met Mark, I was a model,
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and the photographer we were with said,
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"Do you know that
he's a really good cyclist?"
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And I was like, "Well, brilliant."
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I'd never watched a bike race in my life.
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Cycling's really quite a confusing sport.
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But I realized what a huge part
of Mark's life this was.
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So if I wanted to understand Mark,
I had to understand cycling.
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You have to have tunnel vision.
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You have to be able
to block out all the noise,
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all the distraction,
and focus 100% on what you need.
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I had my trusted teammate Bernie Eisel
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who'd been with me most of my career.
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You put your life in people's hands.
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You have to trust they're
gonna give you everything they have.
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You see his emotions
and he says he's nervous,
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so the last thing I should be,
is to be nervous.
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We were like a married couple.
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We have spent probably 180 days
per year in a hotel room together.
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Bernie Eisel.
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The best looking man
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in the history
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of cycling.
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We definitely saw each other
more than we saw our wives.
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Bernie?
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Do you think we should get up?
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The race is underway.
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3,535 kilometers between
the peloton and Paris in the final.
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Cav is a sprinter.
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Paired with athletics,
you have a marathon runner.
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You have a 100-meter sprinter.
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Cav has to do both
over three and a half weeks.
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You've got 180 best bike riders
in the world.
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Everything's at just another level.
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There's been a fall.
Contador is down.
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Contador, battered and bruised.
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The pressure's high.
Everyone's nervous. There's often crashes.
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Everyone's going to go all guns blazing.
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Everyone wants that chance
at the yellow jersey.
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The yellow jersey is worn by
the leader of the race overall.
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It was really quite rare
for a sprinter to be able to get it.
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I hadn't worn the yellow jersey
at the Tour de France.
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It's about the only thing I hadn't done.
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This year's my chance, you know.
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Mark Cavendish
might have a problem here.
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Fucking prick!
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Shake of the head
as that motorbike went past.
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Looking for the team car
for a bike change.
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Problems for Dimension Data.
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Hoping to get Cavendish back
to the top of the podium
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as a stage winner.
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My job was always to keep Cav
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in a safe spot in the peloton
through the whole race.
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You have to protect him.
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Shelter him from the wind.
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Make sure there's nothing
that makes him crash.
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Get him to the front,
drop him off at 180 meters to go.
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The only thing he has to do is head down
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and sprint
as fast as he can to the finish line.
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Going so fast.
They're over a kilometer to go now.
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And then there was this big,
long straight finish slightly uphill.
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But the speed we were doing
was phenomenal.
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Cav going towards
the sprint finish now, riding at 65 km/h.
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There's a big crash just behind!
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Spearing up through the center,
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it's Peter Sagan.
He wants a piece of today as well.
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Mark wasn't really anywhere.
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And all you could hear in the commentary
was, "Kittel, Kittel, Peter Sagan."
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Peter Sagan comes through the line!
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Peter Sagan, the world champion!
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I was coming,
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and the line's coming,
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felt Kittel on my left...
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Cavendish comes
from absolutely nowhere.
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The Manx Missile!
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Yes! He takes it!
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He gets the yellow jersey! He nails it!
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Wow, Mark Cavendish! You beauty!
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I just remember us all screaming
and cheering and Frey bursting into tears
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'cause we'd all screamed so loud
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that it scared
the absolute life out of him.
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- What a sprint.
- Well done, Cavendish!
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Well done!
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Good on you, mate. Well done.
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Well, he's the center of the
world's attention again, Mark Cavendish.
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Justifiably so.
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It's Mark Cavendish
putting the yellow jersey on.
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It's very rare
for the sprinters to wear it.
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It isn't normally something that
Mark would get the opportunity to go for.
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Look how happy he is.
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He's never worn this jersey,
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and he's wearing it today.
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It was incredible.
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This is the most iconic item
of clothing in sport.
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I'd done everything else I could do,
I'd never worn one.
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This victory moves Cavendish
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one step closer to beating Eddy Merckx's
all-time record of stage wins.
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All of a sudden,
everybody starts with this narrative of,
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"Is Mark going to break
Eddy Merckx's record?"
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Mark Cavendish
makes it win number 28.
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I can't believe it!
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The great Eddy Merckx,
I mean, he's just a legend.
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Breaking the historic record
of Eddy Merckx
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was somewhere in the clouds in our heads.
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Cavendish gets there!
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Win number 29. He's closing in on Merckx.
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The thing with Eddy Merckx's record,
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I never started that. That wasn't me.
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All of a sudden, it's all I'm going for.
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Four stage wins this year.
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Will Cavendish return in 2017
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and claim that record?
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Fuck.
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Like, people had always
only talked about Merckx.
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Now I've got to beat Merckx.
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For fuck's sake.
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It doesn't matter who I beat.
I'll beat everyone.
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Good luck, man.
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You going to time it,
or do you want me to?
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Yeah.
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I always need
to be doing something
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that keeps your hands busy, really.
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I think my record is at 1 minute 20.
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If I don't get it under two minutes
then I'm usually upset.
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Yeah, he's definitely obsessive
with many things.
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Starting to get stressed now.
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He needs control.
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Like a nervous tick.
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Uh... There we go, stop.
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To freak him out,
I would just leave a cupboard open.
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Just leave it open.
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Just wait 'til he explodes.
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Everything was to perfection.
And that's how he worked.
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That's how he became
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the best sprinter in the world.
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It can be definitely one of those aspects
that really brings you to the top.
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But it also can break you.
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'Cause it's a lot of pressure
that you build up to yourself.
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The whole of the team was built around me.
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You feel that pressure.
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Even one stage victory
will take him so close
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to Eddy Merckx's all-time record
in the Tour de France.
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Mark's on 30. And Merckx is on 34.
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It's fucking noisy.
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There's helicopters.
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Motorbikes.
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Crowds.
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There's riders shouting at each other.
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A wall of noise
and you have to try and focus.
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This is where
the drive has to come,
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but where is Mark Cavendish?
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He's about two or three riders
back at the moment.
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Get him forward then sprint to the line.
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400 meters to go.
There's Sagan, now pushing.
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Cavendish trying to force
a gap on the right.
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Oh, he hits a barrier!
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That was a violent crash
for Mark Cavendish.
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And that looks deliberate.
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In the bus, I see that injured athlete,
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and I see the replay and I see how he...
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he comes from behind
and I see that Mark would have won.
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What would you put
someone into the barriers for?
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Doing 70 km/h.
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There was no other scenario
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than him winning that stage
if he doesn't crash there.
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100% I'd win that stage.
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100%.
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You immediately
get into this angry mode.
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I posted the only tweet
I ever tweeted in my life, kind of like,
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"Pure violence. Let's see what UCI
is going to do about it."
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We decided to disqualify
Peter Sagan from Tour de France 2017
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as he endangered
some of his colleagues seriously.
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For sure I don't agree with them
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because I think I didn't
do something wrong.
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Mark, how are you feeling?
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Peter Sagan's been disqualified
from the Tour, what's your reaction?
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It's the first I've heard of it. Um...
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I don't know.
The jury will do what they do, um...
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I was a little bit confused
with the elbow, in a way.
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That's something I'd like
to speak to him about anyway.
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Thanks, Mark.
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The Tour is now without
it's greatest ever sprinter,
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and the world champion.
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Fucking raging.
261
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I nearly lost my finger.
262
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Got a hole in my shoulder blade.
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Mark wasn't good.
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He was really struggling
with the crash in particular.
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I felt like
I had jet lag, you know.
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Tired. Just all the time tired.
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He would sit down
and be asleep in a second.
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He would walk to the top of the stairs
and would fall asleep.
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I said to...
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doctor, "Sorry, something's not right."
271
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"I need to get a blood test this week."
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And we got a text message
from the team doctor,
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"Cav, you've got Epstein-Barr."
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I was like, "What's Epstein-Barr?"
275
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Turns out it's quite common
in endurance athletes.
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It can tip very easily
into chronic fatigue.
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Irreversible chronic fatigue.
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There's no medicine
that can make it better.
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Only rest.
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It could wipe out half a season.
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I had about six weeks off the bike.
282
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But I wanted to race.
283
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Was he ready for Sanremo?
284
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Even if he wasn't in great shape,
285
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he could still pull something off
just out of his talent.
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I'm at home
with the kids, watching.
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50K to go, still there.
288
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20K to go, still there.
289
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And I'm thinking,
"He could maybe do this."
290
00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:22,360
Mark Cavendish giving
himself a very good opportunity here.
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- We've got a crash!- Whoa!
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Dimension Data rider
down there on the right-hand side.
293
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It's Mark Cavendish down at the back.
294
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He hit the yellow bollard.
295
00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:45,320
The kids are like,
"Is he all right?"
296
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So I took them into the other room,
297
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and when I came back
he was still on the floor.
298
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Here it is on
the right-hand side, Mark Cavendish.
299
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- Oh, my God.
- Oh, no! Oh, no!
300
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That's horrible.
301
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And that is something
we do not need to see.
302
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- God. Yeah.
- We hope he's okay.
303
00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:08,560
I'd seen enough crashes with Mark
to know that that was a long time
304
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that he hadn't got up.
305
00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:23,080
He sounded scared,
306
00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:26,920
and he said, "Girl, I can't feel my legs."
307
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Yeah, it's terrifying.
308
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Man, it's terrifying.
309
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My heel was fucked.
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My knee was fucked.
311
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My hip was fucked.
312
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Like, I couldn't walk.
313
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The crash was odd because,
314
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I mean, Mark did do Sanremo
so many times before.
315
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He knows he has to take that roundabout.
316
00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:53,680
It didn't make any sense to me.
317
00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:58,560
I just couldn't make sense
of how he'd hit a traffic island.
318
00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:03,560
Mark Cavendish
had another major crash.
319
00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:07,040
It's kinda indescribable
the way he hit that barrier
320
00:21:07,120 --> 00:21:08,760
and literally launched.
321
00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:11,880
Like he was in the fucking Olympics.
322
00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:14,360
I gave it a ten.
323
00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:16,040
I gave it a ten.
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The media picks up.
325
00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,160
Suddenly he was too old
326
00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:25,120
and his reaction time wouldn't be
good enough anymore,
327
00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:27,560
and he should probably stop.
328
00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:31,360
Do you start
to get a reputation
329
00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:33,440
as a guy that goes down,
to stay away from?
330
00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:35,880
Yeah, absolutely.
331
00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:39,440
"Don't ride behind that guy."
332
00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:44,080
It was like, "Shut the fuck up."
333
00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:46,480
"You don't know what you're on about."
334
00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:49,880
Ten years before,
people were saying I was finished.
335
00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:51,000
Ten years.
336
00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:00,560
The media and him both treated each other
337
00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:02,480
with an equal level of contempt.
338
00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:05,520
He felt like they were trying
to trip him up all the time.
339
00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:07,840
Was it your fault, Mark?
340
00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:09,800
- Was what my fault?
- The crash.
341
00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:11,880
Why are you taking my tape recorder?
342
00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:13,640
What was my fault, that I lost the sprint?
343
00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:14,840
Yeah, it was my fault.
344
00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:19,240
He never had any media training.
345
00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:24,240
Can you be certain you're
in good enough shape for the Tour?
346
00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:28,120
Can you tell me 100% that one of these
journalists isn't fucking your wife?
347
00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:32,680
Could be forgiven for thinking that
maybe he was a bit of a dick.
348
00:22:33,360 --> 00:22:36,280
Oh! Ally! Can you get him away please?
349
00:22:36,360 --> 00:22:37,240
Fuck off.
350
00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:38,760
We are here.
351
00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:42,000
I feel I've got a right
to have a chip on my shoulder.
352
00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:43,800
It's fucking horrible.
353
00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:47,800
I use that to win whatever I can win.
354
00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:55,480
I'd had this thing since I was young
that I wanted to be world champion.
355
00:22:57,520 --> 00:22:59,640
Who will win
the Championship of 2011?
356
00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:01,800
Cavendish has to deliver.
357
00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:11,200
Put all your chips in the center.
358
00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:12,440
That's how I do it.
359
00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:16,040
Either win or fucking don't win.
360
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:22,160
Cavendish on one side
of the road, Greipel on the other.
361
00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:26,840
And Cavendish,
is he going to get there on the throne?
362
00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:27,920
What a finish!
363
00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:32,320
Mark Cavendish is the World
Road Race Champion!
364
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:34,280
What a perfect result!
365
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:40,640
I did it.
366
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World Champion.
367
00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:49,240
I always feel that I have to fight.
368
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:52,720
Of course, I'm still having
to prove myself,
369
00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:55,560
having to fight.
370
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:10,360
Casper was born that May.
371
00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:13,520
And, uh, that was super nice.
372
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:26,640
He's always had to leave quite soon
after we've had the babies.
373
00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:33,440
And I remember sitting in the kitchen
with Casper, and him leaving.
374
00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:36,720
And Casper was,
I don't know, a few days old.
375
00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,760
A week old, maybe.
And I remember crying when he left.
376
00:24:45,120 --> 00:24:47,440
Three days after Casper was born,
I left to go.
377
00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:49,560
I was on my own then
until the Tour de France.
378
00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:55,840
I train more.
379
00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:58,280
I get more tired.
380
00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:03,400
I'm not improving at all.
My numbers aren't getting better.
381
00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:09,560
So the way to compensate that
is to get lighter.
382
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:15,680
I've seen him skinny
a couple of times, you know.
383
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:18,680
But this was a little bit different.
384
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:22,840
I started eating less and less,
like, I wasn't...
385
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:24,160
I didn't eat anything.
386
00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:27,880
I stopped eating.
387
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:33,160
The addictive part was, it was the...
388
00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:38,720
the losing weight, I could see, rapidly,
how quickly I was losing weight.
389
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:43,400
And it was the first improvement I'd seen
390
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:46,640
in anything, for a long time.
391
00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:53,080
One day, I went for dinner with a friend.
392
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:57,440
I didn't eat that much, but I, like...
393
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:00,280
You know when you...
394
00:26:01,360 --> 00:26:02,440
You're like... Oh!
395
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:05,040
And then you get a bit of saliva
and that in your mouth,
396
00:26:05,120 --> 00:26:08,040
like a bit wet feeling,
and then you know the only way
397
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:10,440
is to just make yourself sick.
398
00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:11,680
It was... It...
399
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,680
We get a lot of questions
from listeners
400
00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:38,760
and viewers about Mark Cavendish.
401
00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:43,000
His form's totally questionable.
402
00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:46,520
Cavendish is just coming
off this bout with...
403
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:48,800
with Epstein-Barr, chronic fatigue,
404
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:53,280
and we're talking about him
trying to break Eddy's record,
405
00:26:53,360 --> 00:26:54,480
which isn't going to happen.
406
00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:00,560
Team management, media,
407
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:03,240
riders, teammates,
408
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,240
everyone was like,
"Okay, is he doing enough?"
409
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:09,800
"Is he still hungry enough?"
410
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:15,880
The pressure
on this race is immense,
411
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,680
and having all the sponsors
and the partners around
412
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:20,680
comes with big responsibilities.
413
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:22,400
Everybody wants you to be successful.
414
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,880
The sponsors want a return
on their investment.
415
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:34,960
And there's 70 people whose jobs
rely on that, you know?
416
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,760
We're trying to go
to 34 stages with Mark Cavendish,
417
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:43,280
and beat Eddy Merckx's record.
418
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,520
We had a one-leader strategy
and you base everything on Mark.
419
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,320
They fully believe
the Manx Missile
420
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:03,200
can get stage win number 31.
421
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,680
Things weren't great,
but I put the work in.
422
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,440
Things had to come good
from putting the work in, you know.
423
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:12,680
Fucking move!
424
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,120
No. Go, go, go!
425
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:17,640
Close the gap!
426
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:21,096
What the fuck is he doing?
427
00:28:21,120 --> 00:28:22,040
Kick!
428
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:28,320
He's out. He's gone.
429
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:44,120
Mark Cavendish just doesn't
have the legs at the moment.
430
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,600
His legs aren't doing
what they used to do.
431
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,360
- Cav flinched.
- Mmm-hmm.
432
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:54,080
Mark Cavendish seven years ago
never would have.
433
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,160
He would have been like,
"I'm running through the brick wall."
434
00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:59,760
He didn't care, but he does now.
435
00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:02,160
I don't know what's wrong with it. Fuck!
436
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:04,400
No, don't move it.
437
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:08,880
It was like he was spooked.
438
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:15,080
I think his time has come and gone.
439
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,400
And I love Mark Cavendish,
he's a good bud.
440
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:24,120
He doesn't have the head
or the mentality for it.
441
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:38,920
This is our worst season
we've ever had.
442
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:41,560
And we've only won five races this year.
443
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:43,640
This time last year we'd won 20 by now.
444
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:47,120
At the moment, we're a sinking ship.
445
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:54,480
Even myself, I said, "Cav, we still know
you're one of the quickest guys there,
446
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:57,720
but with the form,
with the shape you're in at the moment,
447
00:29:57,800 --> 00:29:59,680
we can't get you to the finish line."
448
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,400
We were called
to a meeting that night.
449
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:11,400
Doug starts off with,
450
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,480
"I'm getting it
in the neck from the sponsors."
451
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:18,680
"We're not anywhere near it,
and this isn't good enough."
452
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,680
And I'm like,
"Doug, all the stuff you're saying,
453
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:25,680
you're the one that signed the contract."
454
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:27,800
"Don't put that on us."
455
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:29,680
"We're doing our best."
456
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:33,720
And he didn't like me saying that.
457
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:36,560
And he stormed off the bus.
458
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:39,000
You called the fucking meeting.
459
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,320
Uh, arguments...
460
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:46,800
It definitely became toxic there.
461
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,320
It might be short,
but it's brutal.
462
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:04,760
And it is littered with huge climbs.
463
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:07,800
Fear for the sprinters
just trying to survive.
464
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:17,240
Cav is a sprinter.
465
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:18,920
He hates climbing.
466
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:34,360
We got to the mountains.
I suffered every day.
467
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:35,440
Had no power.
468
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:47,360
There he is, Mark Cavendish,
at the back of the race.
469
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,840
And under real threat
of elimination today.
470
00:31:57,920 --> 00:31:59,880
Every stage has a time cut.
471
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:02,240
And missing the time cut,
472
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,880
I think that was for Cav
always the biggest fear.
473
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:07,600
This would put him out of the Tour.
474
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:17,640
And I'd never been eliminated
from the Tour de France in my career.
475
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:19,200
Never had I been out of time.
476
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:27,600
I'd given everything to be there.
477
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:30,680
I'd just left my three-day-old boy.
478
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:35,480
I knew what he'd sacrificed.
479
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:39,520
I knew that both of us cried
when he left that day.
480
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:47,680
Any rider coming across the finish line
now is outside the official time cut-off.
481
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,400
And Mark Cavendish is still on the road.
482
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:57,200
I never just stopped, you know,
483
00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:58,480
and I wasn't about to.
484
00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:01,480
I just wanted to finish.
485
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,240
Mark Cavendish
is showing his courage,
486
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:08,360
and his class, by pushing on.
487
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,360
Cav just came across
the line an hour back.
488
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:22,720
- Come on. Oof.
- Yeah, that's rough.
489
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:26,120
- Sad to see. Wish him the best.- He is a sweetheart, but...
490
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,040
When the fucking chips are down...
491
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:00,320
Would you call this rock bottom?
492
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:03,480
Yeah.
493
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:06,840
Think so.
494
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:09,080
Oh, fuck.
495
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:14,360
If you think rationally,
496
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:18,880
you think that the human body
starts to decrease in performance
497
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:21,360
at the age of what, 30, 35?
498
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:25,040
Maybe it's a moment, maybe it's time.
499
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:32,440
What it hurt him
the most to fail, myself too, is like...
500
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:36,400
every stage win, tough ones,
501
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:39,800
great stages he'd won, were forgotten.
502
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:51,880
It was a special day.
503
00:34:52,639 --> 00:34:54,800
I've got goosebumps now, you know.
504
00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,400
I had fire in my eyes that day. Fire.
505
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:04,800
Bradley Wiggins, winner
of the Tour de France is going to lead
506
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:07,960
onto the final turn of the Champs-Élysées.
507
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:09,680
It doesn't get better than this.
508
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:15,760
I mean, Bradley Wiggins,
509
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:18,320
we were like brothers.
510
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:23,480
Probably the strongest rider
in the world there.
511
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:26,120
Strongest sprinter in the world there.
Both British.
512
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:28,880
Pretty fucking cool.
513
00:35:31,240 --> 00:35:33,000
Just go and conquer the world, like.
514
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:35,760
One kilometer to go.
515
00:35:37,240 --> 00:35:39,960
We were going to finish off
in Paris in style.
516
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:42,520
What a team effort!
517
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:45,560
Perfect delivery from Cavendish
and this is where he'll light it up!
518
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:47,160
He practically owns the place.
519
00:35:47,240 --> 00:35:48,280
Look at the gap!
520
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:50,040
Nobody's going to catch this man.
521
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:57,800
Four wins in the last four years!
Right here!
522
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:04,760
It was an incredible day.
523
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:08,760
I'm getting led out by Bradley
524
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:11,040
in the British team.
525
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:13,360
And I'd won the Tour de France.
526
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:18,560
That was the best day of my career.
527
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:20,280
Without a doubt.
528
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,000
How can I do everything?
529
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:52,600
Train harder. Not eat.
530
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,400
Be on my own in bootcamp mode.
531
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:00,600
It'd just be so bad.
532
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:05,600
He was quite desperate,
I think, by that point.
533
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:10,840
He was quite short with me
because I didn't understand.
534
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:15,200
You don't go
from being the best in the world
535
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:19,160
to really not even capable of...
536
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:22,440
How? How? How has it happened?
537
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:30,600
We argued about nothing.
538
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:33,680
We were so...
539
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,640
lost in the middle of everything
that was going on.
540
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,560
Like, I was a nightmare
to live with, but...
541
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:46,560
Peta could have eased that stuff,
do you know what I mean?
542
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:47,720
Like, she could have.
543
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:50,160
He was...
544
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:54,240
not really him at that particular moment.
545
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:57,960
Was I going fucking crazy?
546
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:03,960
What the fuck was wrong with me?
547
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,160
So I called my old team doctor.
548
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:16,840
In the past when something went wrong,
549
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:19,560
he was very angry
and he wanted to get it right.
550
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:22,080
But in this moment, he was hurt.
551
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:24,120
He was suffering.
552
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:28,680
And to see Mark suffering
is something very unique.
553
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:35,360
I had gastro exams.
554
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:38,640
I had psychological assessments.
555
00:38:38,720 --> 00:38:41,160
I had neurological tests. Reaction tests.
556
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:43,160
Blood tests.
557
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:48,040
The blood results showed that
there was an active infection in his body.
558
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:50,880
We call it Epstein-Barr virus.
559
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:53,560
So, for Mark, it's a disaster.
560
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:56,400
It was still there.
561
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:01,640
He said, "You shouldn't have been racing."
562
00:39:01,720 --> 00:39:04,280
"You should have
stopped there immediately."
563
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,760
If you continue to race with Epstein-Barr
or any other infection,
564
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,880
you always go deeper and deeper,
so you can't recover anymore
565
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:14,200
and even to ride a race
like the Tour de France, it's impossible.
566
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:22,200
The psychological testing results
were very low.
567
00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:26,400
Yeah, I was told
I had clinical depression.
568
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:33,720
Close to the situation
where I would say,
569
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:36,160
"This patient has to stay in a hospital."
570
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:42,520
I hadn't thought I had...
571
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:47,960
any sort of mental health disorder.
572
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:53,480
It was difficult because...
573
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:55,840
Mark had not really been anybody
574
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:59,640
that had bought into
the idea of depression.
575
00:39:59,720 --> 00:40:00,960
Mark was very much like,
576
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:05,000
"Well, you would just decide that
you'd be stronger than that."
577
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:07,120
Or, you know, like, sort yourself out.
578
00:40:12,240 --> 00:40:17,080
I wasn't sure if he would
get out of the depression
579
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:18,920
without quitting cycling.
580
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:24,400
To recommend to stop cycling
and leave all the pressure away
581
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:26,120
and start a different life.
582
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:32,760
When things aren't good with Mark,
he completely shuts down.
583
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:39,480
Helge was someone that
I could definitely confide in.
584
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,240
Helge said, "Please just try and hold on."
585
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:47,720
"Like, try and hold on
because he is there still,
586
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:50,480
underneath, kind of, this."
587
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:52,520
"You just have to try and hold on."
588
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:55,400
"He doesn't mean
a lot of the things that he's saying."
589
00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:57,680
"I know that doesn't make it
any easier for you."
590
00:40:57,760 --> 00:40:58,760
"But...
591
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:03,400
we just have to hope that when
we come through the other side of this,
592
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:07,200
the person that you do recognize
is still there."
593
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:23,440
Welcome to South Africa
for those who've not been here before,
594
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:27,400
and welcome to the team building
and planning camp for 2019.
595
00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:33,800
We've got an Aussie here at the moment,
so David, do you want to come on up?
596
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:36,440
So this is a bit of a coup for us
597
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:41,240
because often sports psychology
and athlete welfare is kind of overlooked.
598
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:46,960
So it's a real luxury to have David
here for this week to work with you guys.
599
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:49,840
Usually the only time people call me
600
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:53,600
is when the excrement hits
the oscillation device, as they say.
601
00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:59,960
We'd met at a team training camp
in Cape Town.
602
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:04,920
They'd had a really terrible year in 2018.
603
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:10,880
And they were looking for some type
of performance enhancement.
604
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:14,320
So we had a strategy this year
that was "Better together."
605
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:17,200
I was thinking about "Onwards and upwards"
606
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:18,760
and some people advised me to say,
607
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:20,840
"Fuck that,
we're fighting for our future."
608
00:42:23,720 --> 00:42:28,360
The head coach at the time
was very, very critical of Cav.
609
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:33,920
Cav wasn't displaying
the behaviors of a marquee rider.
610
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:39,280
You could see that he wasn't in shape.
611
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:45,400
We have a program that all cyclists use
612
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:49,240
that showed he was underperforming.
613
00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:52,960
Do we really keep him? Do we not keep him?
614
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:55,560
I mean, what is the way out of this?
615
00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:00,400
He hadn't been doing the training.
616
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:03,880
There's mistruths
when it comes to his training.
617
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:06,160
Also with his eating. Um...
618
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:08,520
So all that stuff just didn't add up.
619
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:14,600
Team management thought, "Okay,
it's an older rider who had a great career
620
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:18,080
that we used pretty well in
the first years to attract sponsors,
621
00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:21,320
but now he's old, he's not fast."
622
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:25,200
How much are we paying this person?
623
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:28,560
And what is he actually doing?
Is he on a holiday?
624
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:30,960
He's just, you know...
625
00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:33,880
Is he taking the piss?
626
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,560
At the start of the season,
he's underperforming
627
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:44,440
more than what we thought he would.
628
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:51,240
Many have been asking
about the whereabouts of Mark Cavendish.
629
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:55,240
Not in any of the two
or three front groups we've seen today.
630
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:58,920
Mark Cavendish has been dropped.
631
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:08,560
Rolf called me and said,
"Cav's done, he's finished."
632
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:10,600
"He's telling everyone that, you know..."
633
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:13,360
"He's handshaking people
and saying he's finished."
634
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:15,400
"Last time you'll see him."
635
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:22,880
If you always try to live
in this world of glory and fame
636
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:25,520
and being untouchable, and, uh...
637
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:28,080
on top of the game,
638
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:31,480
I think that really makes things
super difficult on the human level.
639
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:36,760
I had a lot of talks with Peta there
640
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:38,640
over the period of time.
641
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:44,120
Because that is what, ultimately,
also saves Mark all the time.
642
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:46,800
You know, falling back
to the place where the family is.
643
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:52,640
It was completely irrational
how cross he would be about something
644
00:44:52,720 --> 00:44:54,640
or how upset something would make him.
645
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:58,480
I didn't know this version of him at all.
646
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:01,800
But I was sleeping in the same bed as him.
647
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:04,720
I was cooking for him, cleaning for him,
648
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:08,280
trying to make sure he was okay.
Trying to fix him.
649
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:12,560
It would be like, "Well, if you hadn't
have let me be on my own all that time,
650
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:14,600
maybe we wouldn't be here."
651
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:23,480
And then the house was just too loud,
so he couldn't be in the house.
652
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:25,360
We'd have to not stay in the house.
653
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:33,480
I didn't have anything,
didn't want anything, didn't...
654
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:37,040
do anything, didn't feel anything.
655
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:38,120
Just...
656
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:41,440
You're just fucking empty, like, you know.
657
00:45:44,240 --> 00:45:46,560
The sense of worthlessness.
658
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:54,400
And I was scared
that I was going to go past my limit
659
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:57,280
and not be able to come back again.
660
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:03,520
I would then ring Helge and be like,
661
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:06,360
"I don't know where he's gone,
I don't know what to do."
662
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:10,720
And everyone realized that
something was really, really bad with him.
663
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:14,960
I'd lost any get up that I'd ever had.
664
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:16,840
Just to be a person, to be a dad.
665
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:19,720
To be a friend, a husband, like...
666
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:28,080
I think there's a high risk
that you harm yourself,
667
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:31,200
or even that you commit suicide.
668
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:45,560
Mark and I made a deal.
669
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:47,840
I said, "Before you do something
to yourself...
670
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:51,200
call me."
671
00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:21,000
Walking through
the small Isle of Man airport,
672
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:25,280
and looking around for Mark Cavendish,
673
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:29,480
and there was this lovely, lovely lady
who said, "Are you David?"
674
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:32,560
"Mmm. Yes." And it was Mark's mom.
675
00:47:34,240 --> 00:47:36,640
And I actually said, "Where's Mark?"
676
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:41,680
I'd never really been
a fan of sports psychologists.
677
00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:48,160
I always feel judged by a psychologist.
678
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:52,640
Should I not cross my arms
in front of you?
679
00:47:52,720 --> 00:47:54,480
What do you do with your hands?
680
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:56,280
You know, they're reading me.
681
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,400
I get to the front door,
682
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:02,640
and I hear,
"Sorry, Mom, I'm in the toilet!"
683
00:48:02,720 --> 00:48:07,040
And, yeah,
Cav was evacuating his stomach contents
684
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:09,800
because he'd...
slightly hungover.
685
00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:11,480
More than slightly.
686
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:13,520
I thought it was a waste of time doing it.
687
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:20,440
It's like, "Okay, what have I actually
walked into here?"
688
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:22,360
I just thought,
689
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:25,520
"Doesn't work for me," you know?
690
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:33,840
I was making sure
that the situation wasn't acute enough
691
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:36,720
to have to call someone
to put him in the hospital.
692
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:39,960
Because you were worried
he was going to harm himself?
693
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:41,160
Yeah, yeah.
694
00:48:41,240 --> 00:48:42,400
So, yeah.
695
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:49,600
Peta, she was extremely concerned
for her husband.
696
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:53,440
"Is my life worth it anymore?"
"This is not worth it."
697
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:02,160
Did you have any
comprehension of how worried Peta, Rolf,
698
00:49:02,240 --> 00:49:03,640
everybody was about you?
699
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:08,280
No, not at all.
700
00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:10,640
No.
701
00:49:10,720 --> 00:49:15,400
I was too consumed in self-pity
to care about what anyone...
702
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:18,000
cared about me.
703
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:23,560
Needed some time with friends.
704
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:26,520
They just knew Cav as Cav.
705
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:29,960
Didn't care where the performance was.
It was just him.
706
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:32,120
And, uh, yeah, love him for him.
707
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:37,880
I've known Cav
pretty much my whole life.
708
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:44,360
He used to come round my house in Onchan
and babysit me for the day.
709
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:45,920
And he'd take me to the park.
710
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:47,600
And we'd all go off on our bikes.
711
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:51,360
Pete's loose as fuck, like...
712
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:52,960
And...
713
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:57,040
a good guy, like, I love him.
714
00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:00,480
I've loved him since he was a kid.
715
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:07,160
He's a really hard
personality and character
716
00:50:07,240 --> 00:50:09,240
to understand and get your head around.
717
00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:13,000
He always holds his cards
close to his chest
718
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:15,200
in terms of how he's feeling
and who he is.
719
00:50:18,560 --> 00:50:22,200
So, he seemed fine,
but then I probably seemed fine,
720
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:25,520
you know, for large parts of my life
when I haven't been, so...
721
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:32,280
Cav's identity is winning bike races.
722
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:36,800
It's who he is. It's what gets him
out of bed in the morning.
723
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:40,240
What does life look like without it,
do you know what I mean?
724
00:50:46,240 --> 00:50:50,200
His happy place
has always been on his bike, by himself.
725
00:50:51,240 --> 00:50:56,320
I rode a scooter beside him
every day for ten days. Um...
726
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:02,000
And I refused to speak
until he spoke to me first.
727
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:06,600
We'd talk about
some eating issues in the past
728
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:09,080
and some pressures to perform.
729
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:15,040
What is it
that's out of control in his life
730
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:17,840
that he's trying to control with eating?
731
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:22,040
He is a perfectionist,
732
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:24,280
and he likes
a certain way of doing things.
733
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:28,520
A lot of people would be happy
with who they are as a person
734
00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:33,240
and don't feel the need to prove
people wrong, do you know what I mean?
735
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:36,120
Where does that come from?
736
00:51:39,240 --> 00:51:41,680
And we stopped at this little field.
737
00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:47,320
He's like, "Do you know what this is?"
I'm like, "No."
738
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:51,560
He's like, "This is where
I first started racing a bike."
739
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:58,680
He said, "My dad used to take me here,
and I'd race my bike."
740
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:02,800
He said, "This is where it started."
741
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:05,000
And I knew. It was like, "I've got you."
742
00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:13,720
My mom is really emotional.
743
00:52:15,960 --> 00:52:18,480
Everything is clouded
by emotion. Everything.
744
00:52:19,240 --> 00:52:21,000
My dad's very logical.
745
00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:24,000
Both of them are more extreme than I am.
746
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:27,520
Then they got divorced and that.
747
00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:30,720
I was about ten.
748
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:36,800
Yeah, it wasn't easy at all.
749
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:42,840
About that time that they split up,
750
00:52:43,720 --> 00:52:45,120
I started cycling.
751
00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:51,800
He came back to young Cav,
the eight-year-old kid
752
00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:54,600
that rode his bike
because it got him away from things.
753
00:52:56,680 --> 00:52:59,760
Right now, we come to the really fast man.
754
00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:01,720
And he's Mark Cavendish.
755
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:04,680
Mark, how do you think your form's going?
756
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:06,000
- Okay.
- Okay.
757
00:53:06,080 --> 00:53:07,800
How are you going tonight?
758
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:10,840
Okay. I did better than I thought I would.
759
00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:13,640
- Did you win, or were you second?
- No, I was about that far.
760
00:53:14,520 --> 00:53:16,640
I could ride a bike
pretty quick, you know.
761
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:21,360
Mark is going
to the Scottish Provident Challenge '96.
762
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:25,040
Even when I was a kid,
I had to be the best at stuff.
763
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:30,000
That is, if you're good at something,
you want to be even better.
764
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:32,240
And then, when you're better at something,
765
00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:33,840
you get even better at it.
766
00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:38,080
It snowballs, doesn't it?
767
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:53,400
I was just loving being out.
768
00:53:56,240 --> 00:53:59,720
There was no structure to the training,
but there was a purpose to it.
769
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:00,800
You know?
770
00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:04,400
He found that
771
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:09,200
his joy wasn't in racing his bike.
772
00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:11,640
His joy was in being, just cycling.
773
00:54:11,720 --> 00:54:15,400
And that bike is...
774
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:17,600
Was a sense of freedom.
775
00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:29,760
He was really angry with management,
776
00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:34,920
and he goes,
"Hey, Siri, who is Doug Ryder?"
777
00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:39,400
And Siri would return,
"I don't know who that is."
778
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:41,720
And he'd laugh. He'd think that's amazing.
779
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:45,000
And then after that he'd go,
"Hey, Siri, who's Mark Cavendish?"
780
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:57,920
We wanted to have these sessions
so you guys can understand each other.
781
00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:00,480
And learn from each other
782
00:55:00,560 --> 00:55:04,360
because there's younger riders that
haven't been in the classics a long time.
783
00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:08,480
It is all about the best connected team
784
00:55:08,560 --> 00:55:10,280
in every which way possible.
785
00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:13,880
Mark came back to the team,
786
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:18,880
and it was clear that
this is now a new fresh start.
787
00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:33,560
You know what,
why don't we go full steam ahead,
788
00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:36,680
I'll come back
to Tour de France, and, uh...
789
00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:38,680
and win.
790
00:55:40,680 --> 00:55:42,400
So let's get him
back into sprinting.
791
00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:45,440
Let's, you know, get him back
to focus on what he's good at.
792
00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:52,560
So, Dimension Data, they had a policy
793
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:57,600
of not selecting their Tour de France team
until very late.
794
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:02,960
We went down the list
of who should and shouldn't go.
795
00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:08,200
That was clearly dividing the team
796
00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:12,200
into Mark supporters
and Mark non-supporters.
797
00:56:14,680 --> 00:56:18,160
That phone call went on for,
I think, three hours or so.
798
00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:21,160
It's still, to this day,
799
00:56:21,240 --> 00:56:24,640
one of the weirdest performance calls
I've ever been associated with.
800
00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:35,640
It was between Mark Cavendish
to go to the Tour de France
801
00:56:35,720 --> 00:56:37,120
and another bike rider.
802
00:56:38,480 --> 00:56:40,880
Our best chance is Mark Cavendish,
803
00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:43,640
and people like it or don't,
but it's our best chance.
804
00:56:43,720 --> 00:56:45,960
And you can argue
whatever you want to argue,
805
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:47,480
it remains our best chance.
806
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:54,600
Don't tell me he's too old
because he's not.
807
00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:57,680
Don't tell me his talent is gone
because talent does not go.
808
00:57:03,120 --> 00:57:08,360
Doug Ryder was quite vocal
in what he thought they should do.
809
00:57:10,960 --> 00:57:13,480
So I'm up
on this mountain, and, uh...
810
00:57:14,120 --> 00:57:16,480
and my phone starts going.
811
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:23,200
"What do you mean I've not
been selected for the Tour de France?"
812
00:57:24,600 --> 00:57:25,800
Fucking distraught, man.
813
00:57:26,520 --> 00:57:27,720
I was angry.
814
00:57:28,960 --> 00:57:30,960
I'd never missed a Tour de France.
815
00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:33,160
I called eight names,
816
00:57:33,240 --> 00:57:35,240
and Mark was included,
817
00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:39,000
and then, of course, the team owner
has the right to overrule me,
818
00:57:39,080 --> 00:57:39,960
which he did.
819
00:57:40,040 --> 00:57:43,200
There's been some suggestions
of tension in the team,
820
00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:44,960
and there has been a resignation.
821
00:57:45,040 --> 00:57:46,880
Look, this was a team decision in the end.
822
00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:50,240
I'm not the only person that
makes a decision on the selection.
823
00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:56,240
So I think that was the end point
824
00:57:56,320 --> 00:57:59,520
for Mark at Dimension Data,
and for myself as well.
825
00:58:13,160 --> 00:58:14,720
Then lockdown happened.
826
00:58:15,360 --> 00:58:17,880
Three or four...
827
00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:20,080
Really good. Thank you so much.
828
00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:22,800
We were at home all together
829
00:58:22,880 --> 00:58:27,080
and we had the longest period of time
we'd ever spent in one block together,
830
00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:29,640
which was ten weeks,
which doesn't really sound that much.
831
00:58:29,720 --> 00:58:33,440
It's the most time I've ever spent
with Peta, let alone with the kids.
832
00:58:39,120 --> 00:58:41,360
I built a little indoor trainer
833
00:58:41,440 --> 00:58:44,280
and put a kids' bike on it
for Casper to ride it with me.
834
00:58:48,360 --> 00:58:50,560
It felt like we could
breathe again a little bit.
835
00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:52,520
♪ Down and up ♪
836
00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:56,120
- ♪ The man pulled the ladder up, up, up ♪
- ♪ Up, up, up ♪
837
00:58:56,200 --> 00:58:58,840
We'd been holding our breaths
and just hoping for the best.
838
00:59:01,440 --> 00:59:03,040
Don't allow him.
839
00:59:05,520 --> 00:59:08,280
Maybe I could have held on
for another two years.
840
00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:10,280
Maybe I'd have held on for ten years.
841
00:59:10,360 --> 00:59:13,280
Maybe I'd have held on for a month.
842
00:59:13,360 --> 00:59:14,280
I don't know.
843
00:59:14,360 --> 00:59:16,600
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
844
00:59:19,040 --> 00:59:21,000
This is what we were waiting for.
845
00:59:21,080 --> 00:59:22,560
Like, this, now.
846
00:59:26,600 --> 00:59:29,440
Just to be home was, like,
so different than what I'd ever had.
847
00:59:30,520 --> 00:59:31,600
And I loved it.
848
00:59:32,640 --> 00:59:33,640
I really did.
849
00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:46,280
Mark Cavendish signs
for new team, Bahrain McLaren.
850
00:59:46,360 --> 00:59:49,080
Hopes are high
for a change in his fortunes.
851
00:59:50,040 --> 00:59:52,360
McLaren were coming into cycling.
852
00:59:53,360 --> 00:59:56,680
The most exciting project in cycling
for years and years and years.
853
01:00:07,040 --> 01:00:09,760
First race back since lockdown.
854
01:00:12,040 --> 01:00:13,400
I couldn't sprint.
855
01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:16,920
Even the biggest dreamers
856
01:00:17,880 --> 01:00:22,960
lost the hope that he's going to be
the Mark Cavendish from before ever again.
857
01:00:23,560 --> 01:00:28,640
It's been 16 years I've done this.
I know how to sprint.
858
01:00:30,160 --> 01:00:32,280
I just can't sprint. I can't do it.
859
01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:37,680
Everybody was questioning,
"Why is he still doing it?"
860
01:00:37,760 --> 01:00:39,800
"Why is he still racing?"
"Why is he continuing?"
861
01:00:41,960 --> 01:00:44,920
He's not there anymore.
He's never going to win a bike race.
862
01:00:47,560 --> 01:00:51,040
Well, there's Mark Cavendish
taking off his race number,
863
01:00:51,120 --> 01:00:54,600
number 21, from his bike
and placed it in his back pocket.
864
01:00:54,680 --> 01:00:57,360
What significance is there in that?
865
01:01:12,880 --> 01:01:15,120
I see you're getting emotional.
866
01:01:16,360 --> 01:01:18,640
It's perhaps the last race
in my career now.
867
01:01:19,440 --> 01:01:20,560
So I'm a little bit...
868
01:01:21,400 --> 01:01:23,880
Do you really think
this is your last race?
869
01:01:23,960 --> 01:01:25,040
Maybe, yeah.
870
01:01:30,200 --> 01:01:33,280
Suddenly my phone
was "Ding, ding, ding, ding."
871
01:01:35,080 --> 01:01:36,680
And I thought, "Oh, my God."
872
01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:39,560
Just, like, a million people had sent
873
01:01:39,640 --> 01:01:43,720
obviously this bloody clip
of Mark crying.
874
01:01:48,080 --> 01:01:51,920
I loved always Mark,
and my heart was breaking.
875
01:01:52,680 --> 01:01:54,080
So I could not see it,
876
01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:55,800
and I called him.
877
01:01:57,920 --> 01:02:00,440
Patrick Lefevere,
my old boss at Quick-Step,
878
01:02:01,440 --> 01:02:02,920
asked me to send my CV.
879
01:02:05,160 --> 01:02:08,160
My list of 160 race wins.
880
01:02:08,240 --> 01:02:09,560
If somebody's in the shit,
881
01:02:10,360 --> 01:02:14,440
and you raise the hands to help,
882
01:02:14,520 --> 01:02:17,080
it's nothing to do
with a smart businessman.
883
01:02:17,160 --> 01:02:18,360
It's more sentimental.
884
01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:20,240
He said to me, "Yeah,
885
01:02:20,920 --> 01:02:23,200
I've got one spot left,
but I don't have any budget."
886
01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:28,200
So I asked him,
"Okay, what if I found a sponsor?"
887
01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:34,040
I took him with my heart,
and he came with empty hands.
888
01:02:34,680 --> 01:02:37,560
And everybody declared me crazy
to take him.
889
01:02:39,480 --> 01:02:41,400
You cannot explain everything in life.
890
01:02:42,160 --> 01:02:45,040
Why you fall in love with one lady
and not with the other?
891
01:02:46,320 --> 01:02:48,360
I was assigned to a new coach.
892
01:02:49,760 --> 01:02:50,760
Vasi.
893
01:02:52,520 --> 01:02:55,880
So, can I say that he had
the reputation of being an asshole?
894
01:02:55,960 --> 01:02:57,400
Or gonna cut?
895
01:02:57,480 --> 01:02:58,920
No, that's great.
896
01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:00,360
- Is it allowed, yeah?
- Yeah.
897
01:03:01,480 --> 01:03:05,400
He was a guy who was shouting,
he didn't show respect to the other guys.
898
01:03:05,480 --> 01:03:10,480
Not even to his opponents,
but also to his own teammates.
899
01:03:10,560 --> 01:03:13,040
He was shouting
if something was not going right.
900
01:03:15,400 --> 01:03:18,600
Yeah, I was like...
Everybody was like,
901
01:03:18,680 --> 01:03:20,440
"Mark Cavendish is coming."
902
01:03:20,520 --> 01:03:22,480
"That's going to be a pain in the ass."
903
01:03:24,480 --> 01:03:26,800
Yeah. That was the first thought.
904
01:03:27,640 --> 01:03:28,720
A pain in the ass.
905
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:33,400
Fuck, he was so direct
with what he said straight away.
906
01:03:36,760 --> 01:03:39,720
I would tell him directly,
"Mark, today was a shit day."
907
01:03:39,800 --> 01:03:41,840
"You were shit. You're not good enough."
908
01:03:42,680 --> 01:03:44,440
"So you have to try harder."
909
01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:49,040
I fucking liked this guy, you know.
910
01:03:51,560 --> 01:03:55,400
Top coaches were saying
that he's never going to win again.
911
01:03:57,360 --> 01:03:58,400
Let's do it.
912
01:04:00,600 --> 01:04:01,840
Let's prove them wrong.
913
01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:08,360
Mark Cavendish
was third choice as sprinter.
914
01:04:09,400 --> 01:04:11,640
I'd be the bottom of the ladder.
915
01:04:13,280 --> 01:04:14,960
But also that meant
916
01:04:15,040 --> 01:04:18,400
I didn't have the weight of the team
resting on my shoulders, you know.
917
01:04:21,760 --> 01:04:23,920
Vasi said, "Come to Greece...
918
01:04:26,080 --> 01:04:28,040
and do a bootcamp."
919
01:04:29,640 --> 01:04:32,960
We did some long rides
and the climbs around Athens.
920
01:04:33,040 --> 01:04:35,520
It's the climbs
that used to be my training rides.
921
01:04:37,320 --> 01:04:38,560
He's passionate.
922
01:04:39,480 --> 01:04:41,280
He lives every pedal rev with you.
923
01:04:42,600 --> 01:04:44,840
Mark had Epstein-Barr.
924
01:04:44,920 --> 01:04:47,160
Training was really hard,
but he was responding.
925
01:04:49,720 --> 01:04:52,800
My wife cooked for him
some special Greek food.
926
01:04:54,440 --> 01:04:56,080
He was playing with my kids.
927
01:04:57,440 --> 01:04:59,920
That was really, really special.
928
01:05:00,520 --> 01:05:02,640
He's just hyper-emotional,
929
01:05:02,720 --> 01:05:04,680
like, super-melodramatic, you know?
930
01:05:04,760 --> 01:05:06,480
He's brilliant. He just wears...
931
01:05:06,560 --> 01:05:09,040
He doesn't even wear his heart
on his sleeve, he'd, like...
932
01:05:09,120 --> 01:05:10,600
He just holds it out in front of him.
933
01:05:14,520 --> 01:05:16,320
Everything was better.
934
01:05:16,400 --> 01:05:17,560
His numbers were there,
935
01:05:17,640 --> 01:05:20,000
he was sprinting faster than before,
he was, uh,
936
01:05:20,760 --> 01:05:22,280
climbing faster than before.
937
01:05:25,480 --> 01:05:30,280
He was like a 20-year guy who's hungry
for his first win of his life.
938
01:05:32,360 --> 01:05:34,440
I'd push harder and harder and harder.
939
01:05:34,520 --> 01:05:36,600
But, fuck me, I was going good, you know.
940
01:05:38,160 --> 01:05:40,120
He was like Rocky Balboa.
941
01:05:40,200 --> 01:05:42,920
Rocky Balboa training to beat Drago.
942
01:05:44,560 --> 01:05:46,920
He was lying completely dead,
943
01:05:47,000 --> 01:05:49,640
down on the floor, he was vomiting.
944
01:05:52,160 --> 01:05:53,720
He told me, "Vasi, I hate you."
945
01:05:54,280 --> 01:05:55,840
I said, "Thanks, thanks a lot."
946
01:05:56,600 --> 01:05:57,920
"That's special."
947
01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:00,680
"If you hate me after a session,
that's a good sign."
948
01:06:00,760 --> 01:06:02,160
"Thank you."
949
01:06:13,480 --> 01:06:17,480
♪ Come on, Daddy!
Come on, Daddy! ♪
950
01:06:17,560 --> 01:06:19,800
♪ Come on, Daddy! ♪
951
01:06:21,840 --> 01:06:23,800
He just wanted to get the win
952
01:06:23,880 --> 01:06:26,720
so his kids could see him win again.
953
01:06:28,760 --> 01:06:31,160
I see 300 to go, I'm still five back.
954
01:06:31,240 --> 01:06:33,600
That was like,
"That's not so good."
955
01:06:33,680 --> 01:06:35,560
"He's going to lose some speed now."
956
01:06:35,640 --> 01:06:38,440
Mark Cavendish
locked out of it, I'm afraid.
957
01:06:38,520 --> 01:06:40,760
I turn left in the final, a few back.
958
01:06:41,440 --> 01:06:42,760
I get nervous.
959
01:06:43,480 --> 01:06:46,760
He's in the fifth, sixth wheel.
He's trying to find a way.
960
01:06:51,640 --> 01:06:53,400
The wind's coming from the right,
961
01:06:53,480 --> 01:06:55,560
and I can pass Philipsen,
but the line's coming.
962
01:06:58,560 --> 01:06:59,960
I come at him, come at him.
963
01:07:02,840 --> 01:07:04,560
I reckon if I dive left,
964
01:07:04,640 --> 01:07:06,960
I'll get a bigger run
because I'll get in the slipstream.
965
01:07:08,080 --> 01:07:09,480
Go, go, Mark.
966
01:07:11,240 --> 01:07:12,960
He sees a space, he's done it!
967
01:07:13,040 --> 01:07:17,320
Mark Cavendish has done it!
First win since 2018!
968
01:07:17,400 --> 01:07:20,600
What about that? He is so pleased.
969
01:07:20,680 --> 01:07:22,320
I am so pleased.
970
01:07:22,400 --> 01:07:24,280
Whoo-hoo! Great race, man.
971
01:07:24,360 --> 01:07:25,440
Congratulations, man.
972
01:07:26,240 --> 01:07:27,960
You've done so much.
973
01:07:28,040 --> 01:07:29,560
You've really done so much.
974
01:07:29,640 --> 01:07:32,080
Good things come
to those who wait.
975
01:07:32,160 --> 01:07:34,880
And that was a mighty long wait.
976
01:07:38,040 --> 01:07:39,680
Wow. He did it.
977
01:07:40,280 --> 01:07:41,520
The winner is back.
978
01:07:41,600 --> 01:07:43,960
I hadn't felt that for a while,
like, you know.
979
01:07:46,760 --> 01:07:49,800
He proved everybody wrong.
We did our job.
980
01:07:49,880 --> 01:07:51,640
And we did brilliantly.
981
01:07:52,680 --> 01:07:54,320
It was just the Tour of Turkey.
982
01:07:54,400 --> 01:07:56,640
Every race is important, but, you know,
983
01:07:56,720 --> 01:07:58,520
I knew it wasn't the Tour de France.
984
01:07:59,280 --> 01:08:00,840
There was no chance.
985
01:08:00,920 --> 01:08:03,640
There was no chance
of him going to the Tour.
986
01:08:03,720 --> 01:08:07,040
They were giving him what he deserved
as the greatest sprinter of all time,
987
01:08:07,120 --> 01:08:08,560
which was the chance to go out
988
01:08:08,640 --> 01:08:11,760
with a team that loved him, respected him,
on his own terms.
989
01:08:11,840 --> 01:08:14,320
It was never to have a shot
at the Tour de France.
990
01:08:15,400 --> 01:08:18,360
Patrick Lefevere has stated
he's not taking him to the Tour,
991
01:08:18,440 --> 01:08:21,479
and frankly, I don't know what
that means for Mark Cavendish.
992
01:08:25,880 --> 01:08:28,359
I was deflated then, you know.
993
01:08:30,120 --> 01:08:32,840
In cycling, you never know
what can happen.
994
01:08:33,640 --> 01:08:37,520
There are a lot of crashes,
there are a lot unexpected situations.
995
01:08:40,040 --> 01:08:43,240
So I said, "Let's focus
on the Tour de France,
996
01:08:43,319 --> 01:08:44,920
we know that you're not going to do it,
997
01:08:45,000 --> 01:08:48,200
but let's prepare as if
you're going to do the Tour de France."
998
01:08:49,479 --> 01:08:51,080
He said, "Just go out to Italy."
999
01:08:52,279 --> 01:08:53,800
"You never know what happens."
1000
01:08:54,479 --> 01:08:56,120
There was no chance.
1001
01:08:56,200 --> 01:08:58,640
There was no chance
of him going to the Tour.
1002
01:08:58,720 --> 01:09:02,000
I got a call from Peta,
telling me, "Vasi, are you crazy?"
1003
01:09:02,760 --> 01:09:06,880
"Asking him to go away from his family
again for no reason?"
1004
01:09:06,960 --> 01:09:09,760
"He's not going to do the Tour de France,
Sam Bennett will."
1005
01:09:09,840 --> 01:09:12,600
We were like, "We're gonna have
loads of time off now,
1006
01:09:12,680 --> 01:09:14,319
like, this is going to be fine."
1007
01:09:14,399 --> 01:09:15,680
Yeah, we were going to go away
1008
01:09:15,760 --> 01:09:18,720
and get to kind of come together
and spend time with each other.
1009
01:09:19,439 --> 01:09:22,160
And then I said, "Peta, let him go."
1010
01:09:31,439 --> 01:09:34,200
I was out doing,
like, a super-long ride.
1011
01:09:37,279 --> 01:09:41,040
And when I got in, I had a missed call
from Head Sports Director.
1012
01:09:42,399 --> 01:09:43,399
Hello?
1013
01:09:44,200 --> 01:09:46,080
Sam Bennett had had a knee injury.
1014
01:09:47,800 --> 01:09:51,520
There was a big discussion,
how we go to the Tour de France.
1015
01:09:52,840 --> 01:09:57,920
It was, like, 50-50,
very much doubting Mark Cavendish.
1016
01:10:00,040 --> 01:10:02,640
Then I said, "I want Mark."
"Yeah, but you're crazy."
1017
01:10:02,720 --> 01:10:04,360
I said, "No, I want Mark."
1018
01:10:05,640 --> 01:10:08,680
And, of course,
at the end of the story, I'm the boss.
1019
01:10:10,520 --> 01:10:13,600
A bit speechless, like.
1020
01:10:15,320 --> 01:10:16,560
I was shocked.
1021
01:10:21,480 --> 01:10:23,720
I had a very good gut feeling.
1022
01:10:24,560 --> 01:10:25,760
Some things you can't explain.
1023
01:10:25,840 --> 01:10:29,160
You feel the ambition,
you feel he wanted to race.
1024
01:10:30,480 --> 01:10:34,720
Champions, they are ready
to do a lot of effort
1025
01:10:34,800 --> 01:10:37,280
to show the world, "I'm not done."
1026
01:11:04,400 --> 01:11:06,880
I built my whole career
around this race.
1027
01:11:06,960 --> 01:11:10,160
Nothing changes
to just be buzzing to be here.
1028
01:11:11,680 --> 01:11:15,600
It was such a pure joy that I had for him.
1029
01:11:17,040 --> 01:11:20,160
He got to go back to that race,
back where he loved.
1030
01:11:21,280 --> 01:11:23,840
At the start of the season,
nobody ever thought
1031
01:11:23,920 --> 01:11:26,120
that Mark Cavendish was going
to the Tour de France.
1032
01:11:26,200 --> 01:11:28,080
It was out of the question.
1033
01:11:28,160 --> 01:11:31,840
He was a guy who couldn't finish a race
for the last three years.
1034
01:11:33,360 --> 01:11:36,480
It's already, uh,
more than a dream to be here.
1035
01:11:36,560 --> 01:11:37,960
Last minute call-up.
1036
01:11:38,040 --> 01:11:41,400
I have some self-belief,
but even that, I wouldn't have believed.
1037
01:11:42,960 --> 01:11:46,600
Cav, he's been on top
of the game forever.
1038
01:11:46,680 --> 01:11:49,040
I was teammates with him.
That shows you how long it was.
1039
01:11:49,120 --> 01:11:51,040
That shows you how old he is.
1040
01:11:51,120 --> 01:11:52,520
Cavendish is 36 now.
1041
01:11:53,320 --> 01:11:56,640
I don't think it's going to happen.
It would be an amazing story.
1042
01:11:58,000 --> 01:11:59,760
People like this.
1043
01:11:59,840 --> 01:12:00,960
The story of the...
1044
01:12:02,400 --> 01:12:03,520
the lost son
1045
01:12:04,640 --> 01:12:07,680
who has the chance to get back
1046
01:12:07,760 --> 01:12:12,640
on the biggest theater of the world
in our sport.
1047
01:12:12,720 --> 01:12:15,440
If I wasn't able to win
the Tour de France stage,
1048
01:12:15,520 --> 01:12:17,200
I don't think I'd be in the Tour.
1049
01:12:17,280 --> 01:12:18,760
That's right, boss, no?
1050
01:12:18,840 --> 01:12:20,800
Like, I mean...
1051
01:12:20,880 --> 01:12:24,360
Everything was good enough for me
because I paid him peanuts.
1052
01:12:24,440 --> 01:12:29,680
So, who I am to ask somebody results
if I pay him peanuts?
1053
01:12:33,160 --> 01:12:36,440
And I said, "I know this is
really unfair what's happening."
1054
01:12:37,040 --> 01:12:39,920
"You are here in the Tour de France
with this shit salary,
1055
01:12:40,640 --> 01:12:43,880
but I give you a bonus
for every week you survive."
1056
01:12:44,800 --> 01:12:47,480
"And I give you a bonus
for every stage you win."
1057
01:12:52,320 --> 01:12:53,480
I was nervous.
1058
01:12:55,080 --> 01:12:57,360
It's a different level
to the rest of cycling.
1059
01:12:57,440 --> 01:12:59,000
It's really a different level.
1060
01:13:01,720 --> 01:13:05,360
I hadn't been there for a few years,
so I didn't know what to expect.
1061
01:13:09,080 --> 01:13:12,080
I knew that he was strong enough
to survive.
1062
01:13:12,160 --> 01:13:14,600
I knew that he would suffer
like a dog every day.
1063
01:13:15,280 --> 01:13:18,760
But Mark's a big, big champ
and a big warrior.
1064
01:13:20,680 --> 01:13:23,360
He's just going
to win for his kids.
1065
01:13:23,440 --> 01:13:25,240
You know, Casper had never
saw him winning.
1066
01:13:28,520 --> 01:13:30,240
I had all of the kids at home.
1067
01:13:32,760 --> 01:13:34,360
We were on the TV.
1068
01:13:34,440 --> 01:13:36,320
You got this.
1069
01:13:36,400 --> 01:13:38,760
The children are just over the moon
and excited.
1070
01:13:42,720 --> 01:13:45,320
But regardless of anything
that happened now,
1071
01:13:45,400 --> 01:13:47,880
whether he left after a week,
1072
01:13:47,960 --> 01:13:51,920
whether he won no stages,
whether he whatever, it didn't matter
1073
01:13:53,320 --> 01:13:56,320
because he'd got to go back to that race.
1074
01:13:57,840 --> 01:13:59,600
The Tour de France is underway
1075
01:13:59,680 --> 01:14:01,120
and the first attacks are beginning.
1076
01:14:01,200 --> 01:14:02,040
The fight is on.
1077
01:14:02,120 --> 01:14:05,320
A fairytale return for Mark Cavendish.
1078
01:14:08,080 --> 01:14:09,280
Go on!
1079
01:14:10,320 --> 01:14:13,080
It started so fast.
1080
01:14:14,120 --> 01:14:17,080
Here, everybody's
going for everything.
1081
01:14:17,160 --> 01:14:18,480
It was the Tour de France,
1082
01:14:19,240 --> 01:14:22,280
but a level up from
where I'd left a few years ago.
1083
01:14:27,040 --> 01:14:29,200
I... I remember thinking to myself, like,
1084
01:14:30,000 --> 01:14:31,680
"What the fuck have I done here?"
1085
01:14:33,720 --> 01:14:35,120
"Oh, shit."
1086
01:14:36,160 --> 01:14:37,720
Oh, crash behind.
1087
01:14:37,800 --> 01:14:39,960
And I think that is a mass crash.
1088
01:14:40,040 --> 01:14:41,760
Really hectic right now
1089
01:14:41,840 --> 01:14:44,480
because there was a crash
in the back of the peloton.
1090
01:14:45,440 --> 01:14:47,000
Another rider down.
1091
01:14:47,080 --> 01:14:49,440
Huge crash behind! Oh, that's carnage!
1092
01:14:50,520 --> 01:14:53,240
It's an absolute shocker.
1093
01:14:55,520 --> 01:14:57,920
This is exactly
what we didn't want to happen
1094
01:14:58,000 --> 01:14:59,840
on the opening day of the Tour de France.
1095
01:14:59,920 --> 01:15:02,960
Wow! It is absolutely crazy here.
1096
01:15:05,040 --> 01:15:07,360
Yet another one!
Sagan is down!
1097
01:15:10,680 --> 01:15:13,920
Awful crashes that have
taken their toll on the race already.
1098
01:15:14,000 --> 01:15:17,120
We've got several riders
very patched up here.
1099
01:15:18,840 --> 01:15:23,240
I just count myself lucky I didn't
come down like some of the other guys.
1100
01:15:25,520 --> 01:15:26,520
This race.
1101
01:15:29,160 --> 01:15:32,400
We always talk about how dangerous
the first week of the Tour is.
1102
01:15:32,480 --> 01:15:34,280
These guys go to bed every night
1103
01:15:34,360 --> 01:15:37,360
praying they're not gonna
hit the deck in the first week.
1104
01:15:37,440 --> 01:15:39,320
They are going a lot faster.
1105
01:15:39,400 --> 01:15:41,600
Faster speeds
than we've ever seen.
1106
01:15:54,200 --> 01:15:56,400
It's not often you see that.
1107
01:15:56,480 --> 01:15:59,240
Not often you see that
little display of vulnerability.
1108
01:16:07,200 --> 01:16:10,680
He was racing against
the fastest sprinters in the world.
1109
01:16:11,520 --> 01:16:13,800
Most of them are really young, and,
1110
01:16:13,880 --> 01:16:15,560
in the normal, he cannot beat them.
1111
01:16:15,640 --> 01:16:18,080
Last time I'd won at the Tour,
I'd won in Fougères.
1112
01:16:20,280 --> 01:16:22,320
I spoke to my teammates about it,
1113
01:16:23,320 --> 01:16:27,800
and said, "The most important thing
is to get into that final right-hander
1114
01:16:27,880 --> 01:16:29,080
near the front."
1115
01:16:30,960 --> 01:16:33,080
"Get me there and I'll do it."
1116
01:16:34,360 --> 01:16:35,840
My pick is Cavendish.
1117
01:16:35,920 --> 01:16:38,680
Are you kidding me?
You have these man-crushes.
1118
01:16:38,760 --> 01:16:40,400
And they take over your life.
1119
01:16:40,480 --> 01:16:42,640
No, Quick-Step, no.
1120
01:16:42,720 --> 01:16:43,720
Absolutely not.
1121
01:16:44,520 --> 01:16:45,920
Well, we'll see.
1122
01:16:58,600 --> 01:17:01,440
That's an awful lot
of not just damaged equipment,
1123
01:17:01,520 --> 01:17:03,840
but damaged bodies in this peloton.
1124
01:17:04,640 --> 01:17:07,800
I've never seen
so many riders in bandages.
1125
01:17:09,360 --> 01:17:12,400
Another thing I've seen
is Mark Cavendish, who's stopped.
1126
01:17:12,480 --> 01:17:14,920
He did something
on his handlebar or his cleats.
1127
01:17:16,080 --> 01:17:18,080
Bit of trouble there for Mark Cavendish.
1128
01:17:19,560 --> 01:17:21,600
♪ Come on, Daddy! ♪
1129
01:17:21,680 --> 01:17:25,800
There had been a problem.
He'd had a mechanical and dropped back.
1130
01:17:28,120 --> 01:17:29,560
And it was like, "Oh, shit."
1131
01:17:32,400 --> 01:17:34,240
So, we've got a breakaway.
1132
01:17:34,320 --> 01:17:37,040
Don't be surprised
about this rider disappearing
1133
01:17:37,120 --> 01:17:40,400
up the road and causing the peloton
a huge problem.
1134
01:17:42,200 --> 01:17:47,080
A breakaway is when a rider
breaks away from the main peloton
1135
01:17:47,160 --> 01:17:50,160
and goes off on their own
out at the front of the race.
1136
01:17:50,240 --> 01:17:52,280
This is the time trial of his life.
1137
01:17:52,360 --> 01:17:55,240
It's going to be tight.
The stage win is still possible.
1138
01:17:56,640 --> 01:18:00,200
And you've got a group behind
of 100-plus riders
1139
01:18:00,280 --> 01:18:01,720
that are chasing you down.
1140
01:18:04,840 --> 01:18:07,080
I was looking at the times
and working it out
1141
01:18:07,160 --> 01:18:09,400
and thinking,
"They're leaving it very late."
1142
01:18:09,480 --> 01:18:12,160
"That is going to need a big pull
to be on the front."
1143
01:18:13,880 --> 01:18:15,680
Mom, I don't know...
1144
01:18:19,800 --> 01:18:23,280
Julian was in green, and I remember
him just going on the front
1145
01:18:23,360 --> 01:18:24,480
and just pulling.
1146
01:18:25,960 --> 01:18:29,560
Just pulling with no thought
other than catching the break.
1147
01:18:30,960 --> 01:18:34,240
Mark Cavendish in
the burn seat, just for the time being.
1148
01:18:34,320 --> 01:18:36,760
Where is he? Yes.
1149
01:18:41,680 --> 01:18:45,480
What a night this is
for Brent van Moer. Can he hold on?
1150
01:18:49,280 --> 01:18:52,640
They're hunting him down. They're coming!
1151
01:18:55,240 --> 01:18:58,360
Mark's in the middle
of all of that. Daddy's blocked in.
1152
01:19:03,320 --> 01:19:05,880
Look at this.
350 meters to go!
1153
01:19:05,960 --> 01:19:08,280
Can he be caught? It's going to be tight!
1154
01:19:12,200 --> 01:19:14,480
Oh, no, he's boxed in, he's boxed in.
1155
01:19:14,560 --> 01:19:16,200
He's in the middle of it.
1156
01:19:18,800 --> 01:19:20,280
Come on!
1157
01:19:20,360 --> 01:19:22,040
- Go!
- Come on!
1158
01:19:29,120 --> 01:19:31,280
There goes Mark Cavendish!
1159
01:19:33,440 --> 01:19:34,960
And here comes Mark Cavendish!
1160
01:19:35,040 --> 01:19:36,800
Let's do it!
1161
01:19:38,800 --> 01:19:40,520
He can possibly get there.
1162
01:19:40,600 --> 01:19:42,320
Oh, my God, oh, my God.
1163
01:19:42,400 --> 01:19:45,440
Mark Cavendish
is going to do it. He's done it!
1164
01:19:48,560 --> 01:19:49,720
Daddy did it!
1165
01:19:49,800 --> 01:19:51,960
- Yes!
- Daddy did it!
1166
01:19:52,040 --> 01:19:53,800
That is unbelievable
1167
01:19:53,880 --> 01:19:55,560
in so many ways!
1168
01:20:06,360 --> 01:20:07,800
He did it!
1169
01:20:42,880 --> 01:20:46,040
Everything that we'd been through
those last few years,
1170
01:20:46,880 --> 01:20:49,200
that holding on, that believing,
1171
01:20:50,560 --> 01:20:52,680
just all came out in one go.
1172
01:21:00,000 --> 01:21:02,960
All I want to do
is just see my boys, you know.
1173
01:21:03,040 --> 01:21:04,440
That's all I want to do.
1174
01:21:06,800 --> 01:21:09,320
Just nice to share this with them.
1175
01:21:13,800 --> 01:21:16,520
Fucking hell, Mark.
You are so fucking fast.
1176
01:21:17,320 --> 01:21:20,640
To me, that was
the biggest comeback. It's a dream.
1177
01:21:20,720 --> 01:21:23,520
Even now I'm getting emotional because...
1178
01:21:24,760 --> 01:21:26,920
it was just something unbelievable,
1179
01:21:27,720 --> 01:21:29,960
what happened right then.
1180
01:21:30,040 --> 01:21:32,400
And I was so proud.
1181
01:21:33,880 --> 01:21:35,720
You know, being part of it.
1182
01:21:40,600 --> 01:21:43,120
It takes a lot for me
to sit there and go, "Did I..."
1183
01:21:43,200 --> 01:21:45,240
"I don't think
I witnessed what I witnessed."
1184
01:21:45,320 --> 01:21:46,400
I'm shocked.
1185
01:21:46,480 --> 01:21:48,720
And at the same time, I'm so proud of him
1186
01:21:48,800 --> 01:21:50,000
and happy for him.
1187
01:21:52,200 --> 01:21:53,960
Just to see
what he's been through.
1188
01:21:54,040 --> 01:21:56,680
A lot of self-doubt, a lot of depression.
1189
01:21:57,600 --> 01:22:00,320
Um... I don't like being wrong,
1190
01:22:00,400 --> 01:22:02,920
but for this time,
I'm really glad I was wrong.
1191
01:22:08,320 --> 01:22:10,800
I think
it was like a fairytale, huh?
1192
01:22:10,880 --> 01:22:13,760
Somebody who was lost,
given up by everybody.
1193
01:22:15,400 --> 01:22:18,440
It's like a dream.
1194
01:22:19,600 --> 01:22:21,400
What are you doing to me?
1195
01:22:21,480 --> 01:22:23,320
I was near to a heart attack.
1196
01:22:24,400 --> 01:22:27,240
And then, taking his chance.
1197
01:22:27,320 --> 01:22:28,440
Thank you, man.
1198
01:22:28,520 --> 01:22:30,480
You thank me already with what you did.
1199
01:22:31,400 --> 01:22:32,960
And then winning.
1200
01:22:33,600 --> 01:22:36,360
Thank you for believing,
for making me happy.
1201
01:22:36,440 --> 01:22:39,080
The whole year, I'm just happy again.
1202
01:22:40,640 --> 01:22:44,200
People don't believe in miracles,
me neither.
1203
01:22:45,400 --> 01:22:48,480
But we did it,
and all the rest, fuck them.
1204
01:22:51,920 --> 01:22:54,480
For he's a jolly good fellow
1205
01:22:55,800 --> 01:22:56,920
Cav is back.
1206
01:22:58,120 --> 01:23:00,160
Today, he won his 31st stage,
1207
01:23:00,240 --> 01:23:03,120
only three behind
the greatest of all time, Eddy Merckx.
1208
01:23:04,360 --> 01:23:07,440
Really, really happy for him
because, well, I told you.
1209
01:23:08,000 --> 01:23:09,680
Cavendish perfectly placed.
1210
01:23:09,760 --> 01:23:12,080
Daddy's led out.
1211
01:23:12,160 --> 01:23:13,160
Do it!
1212
01:23:13,200 --> 01:23:14,360
You can do it.
1213
01:23:22,720 --> 01:23:24,280
I miss him.
1214
01:23:25,720 --> 01:23:28,760
Mark Cavendish shakes
two fists at the sky.
1215
01:23:30,240 --> 01:23:31,240
Dude...
1216
01:23:32,880 --> 01:23:33,880
speechless.
1217
01:23:33,920 --> 01:23:36,680
Mark, it's your 32nd victory.
1218
01:23:36,760 --> 01:23:38,920
You know what my question is going to be.
1219
01:23:41,120 --> 01:23:43,560
- Don't say the name.
- I didn't say it.
1220
01:23:43,640 --> 01:23:45,400
I'm not thinking about anything.
1221
01:23:45,480 --> 01:23:47,600
He knew he could beat all of them.
1222
01:23:47,680 --> 01:23:51,400
Yeah, once he starts winning,
he just can't stop.
1223
01:23:52,720 --> 01:23:56,040
Cavendish in a near-perfect
position here for win number 33.
1224
01:23:56,120 --> 01:23:57,720
When's he going to light it up?
1225
01:24:02,760 --> 01:24:04,840
The line belongs to him!
1226
01:24:05,800 --> 01:24:09,080
Thirty-three. Eddy, are you watching?
1227
01:24:11,880 --> 01:24:13,960
I didn't ask you the question.
1228
01:24:14,040 --> 01:24:15,680
Thank you.
1229
01:24:17,120 --> 01:24:19,200
Daddy, Daddy!
1230
01:24:21,200 --> 01:24:23,960
Are we going
to see Eddy Merckx's record
1231
01:24:24,040 --> 01:24:25,360
matched by Mark Cavendish?
1232
01:24:45,080 --> 01:24:48,560
Cavendish, the Manx Missile,
is he going to match Merckx?
1233
01:24:49,680 --> 01:24:51,720
He's done it!
1234
01:24:51,800 --> 01:24:53,960
Thirty-four stage wins!
1235
01:24:56,040 --> 01:24:57,760
We made history!
1236
01:24:57,840 --> 01:24:59,680
We made history!
1237
01:25:01,880 --> 01:25:02,960
Unbelievable.
1238
01:25:03,040 --> 01:25:05,360
Now he has tied the record.
1239
01:25:05,440 --> 01:25:07,160
I never thought this would happen.
1240
01:25:07,240 --> 01:25:08,840
But I'm psyched for him.
1241
01:25:08,920 --> 01:25:09,920
And I'm done.
1242
01:25:10,000 --> 01:25:12,800
I'm done bashing
on Mark Cavendish. I promise.
1243
01:25:16,280 --> 01:25:17,880
Yeah. Just...
1244
01:25:17,960 --> 01:25:19,840
I was in tears. The joy.
1245
01:25:19,920 --> 01:25:20,960
Just the...
1246
01:25:21,040 --> 01:25:23,760
Oh, the emotion and joy
that he got out of that.
1247
01:25:25,400 --> 01:25:28,080
That's huge. Huge, yeah.
1248
01:25:31,200 --> 01:25:35,840
Something that we'd spoken about
in the darkest of his times.
1249
01:25:41,800 --> 01:25:43,640
I know how far he has come.
1250
01:25:44,480 --> 01:25:45,480
Yeah.
1251
01:25:48,320 --> 01:25:50,840
Having to be broken
and rebuild yourself,
1252
01:25:52,000 --> 01:25:54,120
I think it definitely made him
1253
01:25:55,160 --> 01:25:58,560
remember why he sacrifices
what he sacrifices.
1254
01:25:59,800 --> 01:26:02,280
Mark, can I ask you
the question?
1255
01:26:02,360 --> 01:26:05,560
What's it like to be
the equal of Eddy Merckx?
1256
01:26:07,240 --> 01:26:11,920
It really brought a human side
1257
01:26:12,000 --> 01:26:15,840
to what I do for the first point
in my career, really.
1258
01:26:17,240 --> 01:26:19,120
It made me realize
1259
01:26:19,200 --> 01:26:20,400
I didn't win it alone.
1260
01:26:22,640 --> 01:26:24,160
I wish I knew that.
1261
01:26:24,240 --> 01:26:27,640
I could go back and do my career again
knowing that, you know.
1262
01:26:28,800 --> 01:26:31,200
This is how it was always supposed to be.
1263
01:26:31,280 --> 01:26:34,640
We're so proud of you, Daddy.
1264
01:26:47,760 --> 01:26:49,320
How sick would it be,
1265
01:26:50,720 --> 01:26:52,560
he's at 34,
1266
01:26:52,640 --> 01:26:55,240
coming into Paris,
and he's still in the race,
1267
01:26:55,320 --> 01:26:57,560
and that's the day to break the record?
1268
01:26:57,640 --> 01:26:58,760
You can't script that.
1269
01:26:58,840 --> 01:27:00,560
- You cannot script that.
- Yeah.
1270
01:27:08,720 --> 01:27:09,920
You all right?
1271
01:27:10,000 --> 01:27:11,720
- Hi.
- Can I give Daddy these?
1272
01:27:12,280 --> 01:27:13,800
- Look who it is!
- Hello!
1273
01:27:13,880 --> 01:27:15,000
Hello, Dad!
1274
01:27:15,640 --> 01:27:17,360
Hi, Dad!
1275
01:27:18,920 --> 01:27:21,520
Daddy, you got me a present.
1276
01:27:21,600 --> 01:27:22,720
Hello.
1277
01:27:22,800 --> 01:27:25,840
Daddy, have you got me
my new green jersey?
1278
01:27:25,920 --> 01:27:27,840
Daddy, what's that noise?
1279
01:27:28,640 --> 01:27:32,040
Daddy's going to do his race.
We'll see him at the finish.
1280
01:27:33,120 --> 01:27:34,760
- Love you!
- Good luck, Daddy!
1281
01:27:45,560 --> 01:27:49,000
We're here now, just coming through
on to the 1 km flag.
1282
01:27:49,080 --> 01:27:50,440
This is the Champs-Élysées.
1283
01:27:50,520 --> 01:27:53,560
The most beautiful finish
to any bike race in the world.
1284
01:27:53,640 --> 01:27:55,960
I was very fortunate
to do that with that man,
1285
01:27:56,040 --> 01:27:58,760
Mark Cavendish,
who's going for number five today.
1286
01:27:59,320 --> 01:28:00,920
It's magic. Magic.
1287
01:28:01,000 --> 01:28:03,640
This is going to be my last transmission.
1288
01:28:03,720 --> 01:28:05,640
I love it. I love this sport.
1289
01:28:05,720 --> 01:28:08,320
I'll hand you back to the commentary team.
And come on, Mark!
1290
01:28:09,200 --> 01:28:12,560
Three weeks of racing
in France, and it all comes down to this.
1291
01:28:12,640 --> 01:28:14,040
700 meters to go!
1292
01:28:21,680 --> 01:28:23,640
Onto the cobbles on the Champs-Élysées.
1293
01:28:26,360 --> 01:28:29,080
Cavendish battling for space.
It's getting tight!
1294
01:28:40,520 --> 01:28:42,480
Cavendish, he's boxed in.
1295
01:28:46,320 --> 01:28:49,400
Bernal takes it.
Frustration for Cavendish.
1296
01:28:56,400 --> 01:28:58,840
Not to be in the end for Mark Cavendish,
1297
01:28:58,920 --> 01:29:02,320
but, boy, can he be proud
of the last three weeks in France.
1298
01:29:03,000 --> 01:29:06,120
Equaling the Merckx's record
and taking the green jersey,
1299
01:29:06,200 --> 01:29:08,400
fully a decade after he last claimed it.
1300
01:29:09,160 --> 01:29:10,920
No one has ever done that before.
1301
01:29:15,000 --> 01:29:17,120
There's no number that's enough.
1302
01:29:19,800 --> 01:29:21,920
But I've got
the most incredible family...
1303
01:29:22,600 --> 01:29:23,800
You all right, mate?
1304
01:29:25,080 --> 01:29:28,200
With that alone, my life is perfect.
1305
01:29:28,280 --> 01:29:30,320
Daddy, did you win?
1306
01:29:31,200 --> 01:29:32,240
Daddy!
1307
01:29:32,920 --> 01:29:34,560
- Daddy!
- One minute.
1308
01:29:34,640 --> 01:29:35,800
What you doing?
1309
01:29:35,880 --> 01:29:40,400
Daddy! Daddy! Daddy!
1310
01:29:44,360 --> 01:29:47,160
- Daddy?
- Casper, just give him a minute.
1311
01:29:47,240 --> 01:29:50,760
I'll continue trying to win
for as long as I believe I can win.
1312
01:30:18,240 --> 01:30:22,360
Good morning
from Austria with Bernie Eisel.
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