Indeed!
Shit, poor fella.
That sounds horrific. A few more details here - https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/dec/08/mark-cavendish-assaulted-by-armed-burglars-during-raid-on-home
damn that's horrific! 🙁 hope his family and him are OK!
That is horrific.
So sorry to hear this..... just hope Cav and his lovely family can get over this. Not easy though.
A cowardly attack in the extreme - attacking an individual in their home whilst they are recovering from 2 broken ribs & a punctured lung.
That is truly horrible, all that trauma and horror that those kids will have to live with for the rest of their lives, all for a few bloody watches?
Scum
Awful.
Especially terrifying giving that his job requires him to be away from home frequently, for extended periods. How can he ever relax now when away racing?
Poor fella.
all for a few bloody watches
To add a bit of of context to explain what would drive scumbags to go to such horrific lengths for a pair of watches.
I don’t think it’s been confirmed which watches were stolen but He was/is sponsored by Richard Millie. Most of their watches go for between £150000 and £500000 each although some can be more. (Yep You’ve read that right half a million).
Lando Norris the F1 driver was also robbed of one at Wembley earlier this year.
That is horrendous,hope they are tracked down.
It was these two apparently...
Are they Richard Millie?
They're gopping.
Looking at those watches suggests that more than one crime has been committed
Those are both indeed Richard Mille watches (and as has been noted, perhaps an acquired taste).
Half a million - that's not even close to the ceiling of RM watches: https://superwatchman.com/fernando-alonso-richard-mille-rm-50-03-mclaren/
A horrific crime, and awful to think that you could be putting your life at risk just for owning something that your hard work afforded you.
If i was a billionaire i would not buy one of those. Fugly as sin and unreadable. Its a statement of wealth and a trinket, might as well wear a crown down the shops.
Having said that i do think the gits that broke in and stole them are utter scum and vile humans.
Not for £0.5M watches, but this type of thing happens around here quite often (KT7). A neighbour was beaten up on his drive last week when he disturbed guys who had jacked his car up and was sawing his CatConv off a hybrid. This was at 5pm in relative light, they smacked him and stole the family dog.
A few local families have been held at knife point, families tied up and the house ransacked. We now have a alarm that is set after dark. With a panic buttons to the operators that can look inside the house on the camera's and call Rozzers. Dont even start me on bike-jacks around Richmond Park...
PS - the Cat tea-leaf's have been caught
I cant see any way quick out of this in this country, prison doesn't work does it?!!
A neighbour was beaten up on his drive last week when he disturbed guys who had jacked his car up and was sawing his CatConv off a hybrid. This was at 5pm in relative light, they smacked him and stole the family dog.
Came for the cat and took the dog instead.
Shocking as this is, and horrible if you area victim, robberies like this happen all over the country and all the time, and probably have done since one caveman had a better flint axe than the scrote caveman down the road.
I hope they all get the support they need to come to terms with what happened, and the thieving bastards get caught
I'm not going to comment on "rich man has expensive watches" because meh.
But I do know what it's like to be burgled. It's a violation, after it happened a second time to me it messed me up for years. I'd come home and look through the translucent glass in the door just so so that I could see the LEDs I expected to see in the next room before I dared open it. Being away from home for more than a day or so and I'd start to panic. It's horrible.
For that to happen whilst still in the house, man, if they don't need extensive counselling and support after that then they're stronger people than I am. That must've been utterly horrific.
Mark will be on the Dermot O'Leary radio 2 show this morning (8am - 10am)
PS – the Cat tea-leaf’s have been caught
Good, had mine knicked a few miles away in Sw19 and it cost me £1100 on a bog standard Honda and that’s not even with Honda parts.
On air shortly, approx 0910 sat BBCR2.
Could be intersting
first win of the year for Mark @ Tour of Oman, from way back!
Nice win.
Sadly I'm not seeing it on Eurosport.
Let's hope he stays fit and can time his peak for July....
Let’s hope he stays fit and can time his peak for July….
He's not on the Tour squad. At least, not yet but there was some fairly definitive comments that Cav would not be at the Tour.
https://www.cyclist.co.uk/news/10355/mark-cavendish-2022-tour-de-france
That Tour of Oman stage was amazing though, he came from a long way back, timed it perfectly.
He’s not on the Tour squad. At least, not yet but there was some fairly definitive comments from the DS that Cav would not be at the Tour.
Nowt like a bit of drama.... They said this last year too.
Once they work out they haven't a cat's chance in hell of a jersey they will end up taking cav to break mercx record to salvage some limelight and leqiipe front pages from the tour....but ultimately there's only about 4/5 sprinter stages is there not so probably pointless taking cav.
TBH i'd have thought winning just 1 stage with him is worth more than 4-5 wins with anyone else they have in the very talented squad, the reason is that if they can get him 1 win, that photo will be the photo to end all photos, it'll be the ONE.... the one where he broke the record and every time sprinting, TDF etc comes up, they'll bring out that pic or that lead in and obviously all the sponsorship on the jersey.
Nowt like a bit of drama…. They said this last year too.
Very true.
TBH i’d have thought winning just 1 stage with him is worth more than 4-5 wins with anyone else they have in the very talented squad, the reason is that if they can get him 1 win, that photo will be the photo to end all photos, it’ll be the ONE…. the one where he broke the record and every time sprinting, TDF etc comes up, they’ll bring out that pic or that lead in and obviously all the sponsorship on the jersey.
Also true, marketeers dream. The danger is the iconic image is one of him sat against a barrier with another broken collar bone,
Lefevres a marketing man.
He knows that by not naming him initially he gets press column inches and it keeps them in the press right now.
This:
Lefevres a marketing man.
The season hasn’t properly started. There is a long time to go before the tour. Cav is already winning in a quick step squad made up of neo-pros. Lefevre is already generating column inches with his “predictions”. And even if Cav doesn’t get to the tour, even if he crashes out he does so a winner for QS. Count the column inches over the next couple of months and then take a guess at who is going to the tour.
Let's not forget up until June 2021 Cav wasn't going to the tour then either. So plenty of time yet for others to fall by the wayside
UAE Tour starting on sunday should be interesting
Mark vs Elia vs Sam vs Jasper vs Caleb vs Arnaud
Excellent ! Look forward to that.
I hate to write him off.... but that's a bunch of sprint talent there to take on.
Nice win for Mark Today, was badly boxed in yesterday and only Caleb missing !
1 CAVENDISH Mark
2 PHILIPSEN Jasper
3 ACKERMANN Pascal
5 DÉMARE Arnaud
14 GROENEWEGEN Dylan
17 BENNETT Sam
24 VIVIANI Elia
Nice
He did brilliantly and whilst his leadout wasn't perfect, he missed the boxing in this time and got the right split, then unleashed it and won, fabulous win against all the big boys !!!!
That's got to be a MASSIVE shout to the team of "oi, pick me. !!!!"
I reckon that decision's already been made. All the 'we won't take him to the Tour' guff is just media showboating surely?
Dunno about that, they've got a wealth of talent to take no matter what way they go on it... but he's got to be knocking on the door after this win.
Nice win over Sam, makes for some nice validation. Very promising, but a long way to go yet...
Just finished reading Tour de Force and it’s a good read for anyone interested in Cav or just a bit of an insight into pro cycling through his eyes. Fascinating how things all came together last year and just how determined he was. It’s clear to me why he has won so much, he seems to have a brilliant mind for racing.
