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Article: Tour de France - Cav makes it four!
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- Isle of Man Newspapers (Douglas, England)
- Article date:
- July 18, 2008
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MARK Cavendish made it four wins in the Tour de France today taking stage 13, a 182km run from Narbonne to Nimes.
The 23-year-old form Laxey became the first British rider to win four stages yesterday after breaking Barry Hoban's record.
Hoban twice won two stages in the Tour de France and on one occasion won on consecutive days, the only British rider ever to achieve that feat before today.
Cavendish looked tired after the stage and said yesterday that the fatigue of nearly two weeks of hard racing was now starting to take its toll.
But the fatigue, and injuries from his crash on Monday, aren't slowing him down as he becomes one of ...