 in straight sets in cycling news we saw a bit of history the Tour de France as British rider Mark Cavendish won his 35th stage at the Tour de France to surpass Eddie Merckx with the most wins in cycling's greatest race it's a really amazing achievement last year Cavendish was supposed to retire he was trying to break the record but he had a really bad crash at the Tour de France he didn't want to go out on the back of a bad crash and he