Cycling-Cavendish joins Deceuninck-Quick Step for 2021

Deceuninck NV

05/12/2020 10:09

PARIS, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Briton Mark Cavendish is joining
Deceuninck-Quick Step for the 2021 season, the Belgian outfit
where the former world champion spent three years said on
Saturday.
    "Mark Cavendish is returning to Deceuninck–Quick Step after
five years... the Manxman has agreed to sport the new kit of the
team, which will be revealed in a couple of days, throughout the
2021 season," Deceuninck-Quick Step said in a statement.
    Cavendish, who has won 30 stages on the Tour de France and
is considered one of the best sprinters in the event's history,
left the then Etixx-Quick Step team after the 2015 season to
join Dimension Data before spending a season at Bahrain-McLaren.
    The 35-year-old has not won a race since February 2018, when
he prevailed in the third stage of the Dubai Tour.
    As well as 30 Tour stage wins, 2011 world champion Cavendish
has won 15 stages on the Giro d'Italia and three on the Vuelta.

 (Reporting by Julien Pretot; Editing by Ken Ferris)
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