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\nWill Cavendish create a team?<\/p>\n
Cavendish said he believes cycling could benefit from approaches used in Formula One, a sport he admires not only for its competition but for its business model. He also suggested that current riders may be missing opportunities to enhance their own earning potential, saying that some professionals \u201caren\u2019t doing enough to make money in their own right.\u201d<\/p>\n
A cycling team structured in a different way than usual could become a breath of fresh air for the sport, and Cavendish thinks he is the man for that task. \u201cI\u2019m just objectively stating there is a gap in the market to fill and I\u2019d love to have a team in the future that is a lot more along the lines of other sports. Obviously with cycling there are differences \u2013 you don\u2019t own a stadium. But there are revenue streams that aren\u2019t being properly utilised.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Mark Cavendish had a fairy tale ending, winning a Tour de France stage in 2024<\/p>\n
Cavendish declined to provide specifics about whether he actually plans to take over an existing team, or rather start a new one, but he was clear about his long-term drive. When asked about the next 40 years of his life, he answered: \u201cI\u2019ll never stop. Peta is a mother who has looked after the kids a lot on her own. She can decide to go to sleep.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t sleep until both ends of the candle are burnt. Then I crash. Bang. The best thing about cycling is it made me tired. I\u2019ll never stop.\u201d<\/p>\n
A model stuck in the past<\/p>\n
Reflecting on his own career, Cavendish was blunt about how contracts are awarded. \u201cSomething I never really understood with cycling is that you were more likely to get a contract based on quite subjective decisions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He added that the sport\u2019s economics create a paradox that do not always reward sporting success. \u201cSport is run 100 per cent on media spend. So even though I was winning as I got older, I couldn\u2019t get contracts because I don\u2019t think any team wanted the risk of me not winning.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cavendish argued that his marketability should have remained clear even as he aged. After all, only one man has ever got more professional victories than him (Merckx 279 vs. Cavendish 165). \u201cI don\u2019t mean this arrogantly but that didn\u2019t make sense because I was always valuable to a sponsor. There were a lot more people making a benefit from sweat in my last years than I was.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Will Cavendish create a team? Cavendish said he believes cycling could benefit from approaches used in Formula…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,149936,85,2845],"class_list":["post-319701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-mark-cavendish","tag-sports","tag-tour-de-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}