Mark Cavendish: ‘Spoty lifetime award is nice but as a competitor you want to be shortlisted’

Cycling’s finest sprinter says he achieved all he could in the sport, and that he is lucky to retire on his own terms“Oh mate, for the last couple of years I’ve been broken,” Mark Cavendish says with a throaty chuckle as he considers the state of his body after decades on the bike. Cavendish will turn 40 next May and his extraordinary career finally ended last month when he won his final race in Singapore to follow his record-breaking 35th Tour de France stage victory thi