The highs and lows of Mark Cavendish's Etixx-QuickStep career

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The highs and lows of Mark Cavendish’s Etixx-QuickStep career

Rollercoaster three years with Belgian super team comes to an end

LOW – sprayed with urine at 2013 Tour de France

  • Mark Cavendish, Omega Pharma-Quickstep, blue jersey, podium, pic: Sirotti

    Mark Cavendish's time with the QuickStep team has been a rollercoaster ride (Pic: Sirotti)

  • Mark Cavendish, Giro d'Italia, stage 21, salute, pic: Stefano Sirotti

    Mark Cavendish picked up the red jersey at the 2013 Giro d'Italia thanks to five stage wins (pic: Sirotti)

  • Cavendish claimed the British champion's jersey in 2013 after victory in Glasgow (Pic: Vaughn Ridley/SWPix.com)

  • Mark Cavendish and Peter Sagan, Tour de France 2013, stage ten, finish, pic: ©Stefano Sirotti

    Cavendish finished third on stage ten of the Tour de France and was sprayed with urine the following day after some 'fans' believed the Manx Missile to have caused Tom Veelers' crash (Pic: Sirotti)

  • Mark Cavendish, Tour de France, 2013, stage 13

    Cavendish's stage 13 victory in 2013 showed him at his very best, as he beat the crosswinds to claim victory (Pic: Sirotti)

  • Marcel Kittel, Mark Cavendish, pic: Bruno Bade/ASO

    Marcel Kittel and Mark Cavendish are just two riders set for new teams in 2016 (Pic: Bruno Bade/ASO)

  • Mark Cavendish, crash, Tour de France, stage one, Harrogate, pic: Simon Wilkinson/SWpix.com

    Cavendish nurses his shoulder after crashing in Harrogate - the Manxman wants to finally pull on the yellow jersey at this year's Tour (Pic: Simon Wilkinson/SWpix.com)

  • Mark Cavendish, Dubai Tour, blue jersey, podium, Circle of Stars, Etixx-QuickStep, 2015, pic: Claudio Peri/ANSA

    Mark Cavendish celebrates with the blue jersey and Circle of Stars trophy at the Dubai Tour (Pic: Claudio Peri/ANSA)

  • Mark Cavendish, Elia Viviani, Andre Greipel, sprint, Wrexham, Tour of Britain, 2015, stage one, pic - The Tour

    Elia Viviani beat Mark Cavendish by the narrowest of margins on the Wrexham finale of stage one of the 2015 Tour of Britain. Cavendish later crashed out of the race (Pic: The Tour)

LOW – sprayed with urine at 2013 Tour de France

In seemingly untouchable form, new British national champion Cavendish started stage one of the 100th Tour de France as big favourite to earn the yellow jersey for the first time on the sprint-friendly opening stage in Corsica.

But things didn’t work out as planned. The Orica-GreenEDGE bus got temporarily stuck under the finishing line and caused chaos in the peloton as the finish line was moved back and then restored at the last minute, with Cavendish caught up in the collateral damage behind a huge crash which followed.

Marcel Kittel won the stage and took the yellow jersey but wasn’t done there, either, beating Cavendish, who has won stage five, on stage ten in Saint-Malo – a stage which saw Kittel’s lead-out man Tom Veelers suffer a huge crash as the Manxman barged past.

Though absolved of any blame by race commissaires – Veelers had sat up and Cavendish had been in full sprint mode at the time – some ‘fans’ took a different view of the incident. During the next day’s individual time trial Cavendish was sprayed with urine.

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