Pezcyclingnews: Pez Talk: Mark Renshaw



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In-between eating mussels and drinking beer at the Etixx- Quick-Step party on the Tour de France rest day, Ed Hood managed to also get some work done. Mark Cavendish’s right-hand-man in the sprints is Mark Renshaw, he’s been a lead-out man and a sprinter in his own right. Ed caught up with Renshaw two days before he announced he would not start stage 19 due to a severe migraine.Have you ever wondered how Mark Renshaw is so damn quick?Perhaps its to do with the fact that like many of the Aussie road stars of this generation he started life as a track rider. He was twice a member of the Australian squad which won the world junior team sprint title in 1999/2000 and also bagged the world junior kilometre championship in 2000. As a senior he was part of the Aussie Machine which won the Commonwealth Games team pursuit with a new world record in 2002.Renshaw: Track manBut his eyes were on a road career and in 2003 he rode stagier with the French F des J team which lead to a ride for 2004 and in 2005 he rode his first Grand Tour in their colours the Giro. The following season he rode his first Vuelta in the jersey of Credit Agricole and scored a notable win in the tough Tro Bro Leon race up on the ribinou farm tracks of Brittany.Second to another Australian fast-manIn 2007 there was a win in a stage of the Tour de LOise...

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