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Flat 163.5km route from Macon to Dijon
Can Mark Cavendish extend his new record for Tour stage wins?
The British rider won stage five to go clear of Eddy Merckx with 35 stage wins
Tadej Pogacar leads overall General Classification after winning stage four
Remco Evenepoel 45 seconds behind; defending champion Jonas Vingegaard five seconds further adrift in third
Image source, Getty ImagesTadej Pogacar regained the race lead as he soloed to a thrilling victory on stage four to claim his 12th overall stage win on the Tour de France.
The two-time champion congratulated Mark Cavendish after his record-breaking win yesterday and later revealed that "he came to me and said 'don’t you break my record' - but I don’t think I can."
Image source, ReutersMark Cavendish had planned for last year's Tour to be his last, but after breaking his collarbone on stage eight, he decided to come back for one last shot at claiming the record.
A crash just over 2km from the line on stage three - the first flat stage of this year's Tour - denied Cavendish the chance to challenge for the win.
But yesterday, on the second stage set up for a sprinter's finish, it all came together for Cavendish as his Astana Qazaqstan team got him in position to claim that record-breaking stage win.
Yet Mark Renshaw, Astana's sporting director, said after yesterday's win that coming into this year's Tour, it was today's stage that the team felt best suited Cavendish.
What a day!! Has it sunk in yet?
Yesterday Mark Cavendish broke the record for all-time stage wins on the Tour de France.
Some 49 years after Eddy Merckx claimed his 34th stage win, and three years after Cavendish went level with the Belgian legend, the Manx Missile claimed the record outright as he won stage five of this year's Tour. The question now is: can he extend it?
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