Mark Cavendish has had it hard the last few years.
The English cykelstjerne have openly spoken about the physical discomforts, which he has to live with after a bad game of glandular fever.
But now, he reveals in a big interview with The Times, he also has a bit of a depression.
“It is not just my physical health, which has received a blow in the course of the last few years.”
“I have fought pretty hard with a depression at the time. I was diagnosed with clinical depression in august 2018,” says a candid Mark Cavendish.
The former world champion says that he is a ‘good place’ again, but he does not want to go into the details of how he’s gotten over the depression.
“I have not taken any medications. This is not the time nor the place – we’re doing something on it at a time – but I got help. I was in a dark place. And now I’m on the other side. Thank you. So as much as I can be,” he says, and adds:
“I think I have come out of it. And it is nice to get out of it. And look at the positive,” says the 34-year-old rider, who today is running for Bahrain-McLaren.
Cavendish came to the team before this season after a stay with Dimension Data, which in no way lived up to the expectations.
Actually Mark Cavendish not won a race in more than two years.
He has, however, not lost faith in their own abilities, and he continues to be the most winning rider in Tour de France history.
Cavendish is missing right now five Tour stages to overtake the legendary Eddy Merckx, who tops the list with 34 stage victories.
And the boss of the Bahrain-McLaren still believe that Cavendish can achieve the dream – it, you can read more about here.
At the moment, however, it remains to be seen whether Mark Cavendish and the other cykelstjerner gets to ride the Tour de France this summer.
the european football championship and the OLYMPICS have already been cancelled because of the corona virus, but there are not yet announced anything officially out of the Tour.
more and More wonder, however, that the organizers have to cancel the legendary race – even though it can be a ‘total disaster’ for the sport.
