{"id":439466,"date":"2023-07-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.7sport.net\/en\/news-single\/cavendish-leaves-tour-de-france-after-injury\/"},"modified":"2023-07-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T04:00:00","slug":"cavendish-leaves-tour-de-france-after-injury","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/cavendish-leaves-tour-de-france-after-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavendish leaves Tour de France after injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Cavendish will not be able to be solo at the top for most career stage triumphs at the Tour de France.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The greatest sprinter of all time  <\/p>\n<p>Mark Cavendish bows out of the 2023 Tour de France with an incredible career record at the race   <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4ibP8Jk36p\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/4ibP8Jk36p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Velon CC (@VelonCC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VelonCC\/status\/1677689709051486210?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Racing in his last campaign, the best successful sprinter in Tour history had to leave the competition in the 8<sup>th<\/sup> stage. Mark broke his right collarbone and will need a procedure to fix it.<\/p>\n<p>Cavendish evened Eddy Merckx\u2019s record of 34 stage victories during the 2021 Tour de France, 13 seasons after his 1<sup>st<\/sup> success, but was not part of the Tour in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The 2023 Tour de France was his last attempt to become an outright record-holder after sharing earlier in the year during the Giro d\u2019Italia that he would call it a career at the end of the current campaign.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Absolutely devastated  <\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re a legend, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkCavendish?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MarkCavendish<\/a> \u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TDF2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#TDF2023<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M239IxtaIa\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/M239IxtaIa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eurosport (@eurosport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eurosport\/status\/1677680712630034433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Cavendish will not be able to be solo at the top for most career stage triumphs at the Tour de France. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":439467,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20268],"news_category":[],"gn_keywords":[19555,20344],"acf":{"news_source":null,"link_picture":null,"announce":"That was his last attempt to outright record.","video":null},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439466"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439466"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}