Ed’s Letter
Has there been a fairy tale to match it in the history of cycling? The former king of sprinting loses his powers and is written off by all as a has-been. But providence grants him one more chance… And, boy, did Mark Cavendish grab it. He wasn’t even meant to be at the Tour, but a series of fortunate events (fortunate for Cavendish, at least) saw him get a last-minute call up to the QuickStep squad, whereupon the tired, old Cav we saw in tears at last year’s Gent-Wevelgem was miraculously replaced by the confident, youthful Cav we remember, and the stage wins flooded in like it was 2008 all over again. Not since Greg LeMond returned from a near-fatal shooting accident to win the Tour de France in 1989, or Johan…