Cavendish chasing down ‘The Cannibal’
July 3, 2013 — Updated 1739 GMT (0139 HKT)
2012 Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins leads this year’s favorite Chris Froome on the way to his eventual triumph in Paris 
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Riders tackle the first Pyrenean climb — the Col de Portet d’Aspet — in 1910. France’s Octave Lapize was first over the top and won the race. But in 1995 the Col was the scene of tragedy as Italian Fabio Casartelli died after a crash on the descent. 
Eventual 1911 winner Gustave Garrigou of France in action on a stage in the Alps on the way to his eventual victory. 
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1927 winner Nicolas Frantz of Luxembourg (right) is congratulated by Andre Leducq. It was the 21st edition and coming of age for the famous race. 
Legendary Italian rider Gino Bartali rides in splendid isolation on the Col d’Izoard on his way to victory on the 14th stage and his first overall triumph in the iconic classic. 
Roger Lapebie of France claimed his first and only Tour victory in 1937 after Bartali crashed on the eighth stage while in the lead and was forced to retire. 
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Legendary Italian cyclist Fausto Coppi claimed the Tour de France twice and won the stage to Alpe d’Huez in superb style in 1952 to clinch his second truimph. 
The race first went outside of France in the 1954 edition as it visited the Netherlands. 
Spanish climber Luis Ocana suffered a sickening crash in the 1971 Tour when leading Merckx. He was forced to retire but won the 1973 race. 
Belgian Eddy Merckx dominated the Tour de France and other major cycling races for nearly a decade — here leading the peloton when riding on the cobbles of the Champs Elysees for the first time in 1975 
Famous French cyclist Bernard Hinault on the Puy de Dome in 1978 as he claimed the first of five wins in the famous race. 
Laurent Fignon continued French domination with back-to-back wins in the 1983 and 1984 editions. 
Stephen Roche needed oxygen after a famous effort on the 21st stage to La Plagne in 1987 — the year he won the Tour, Giro d’Italia and world championship treble. 
Colombian rider Luis Herrera at the Berlin Wall in 1987 as the Tour spent three days in the still divided country of Germany that year. 
Greg LeMond celebrates his remarkable triumph in the 1989 Tour as he edged out Fignon by just eight seconds having won the final time trial stage into Paris using then revolutionary tri bars. 
Uzbekistan’s Djamolidine Abdoujaparov crashes spectacularly as he sprints for the line on the Champs Elysees in 1981. He scraped himself off the asphalt to claim the green points jersey. 
Spain’s Miguel Indurain tracks Italian Claudio Chiappucci on a stage in the Pyrenees on the way to the first of five successive Tour wins in 1981 for ‘Big Mig’. 
A young Lance Armstrong announces his arrival into the annuls of Tour history by claiming the eighth stage of the 1993 race in Verdun. 
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The Tour de France visited British capital London for the first time in 2007, scene of a prologue before the riders departed on the first stage to Canterbury. 
2012 winner Wiggins leads out his Sky teammate and compatriot Mark Cavendish on the Champs Elysees. Sprinting ace Cavendish went on to claim his 23rd stage win on the Tour de France. 
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STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Mark Cavendish won the fifth stage of the 2013 Tour de France
- Cavendish has now won 24 stages — 10 fewer than record holder Eddy Merckx
- Australia’s Thomas Gerrans retained yellow jersey
(CNN) — Eddy Merckx was known as ‘The Cannibal’ — but there’s one man who’s determined to take a large bite out of his stage victories record.
That man is Mark Cavendish — the man who won Wednesday’s fifth stage of the Tour de France and took his tally of wins to 24 to move to within 10 of record holder Merckx.
Merckx, a five-time winner of the Tour, won six stages in 1969 and 1972, and eight in 1970 and 1974 during an illustrious career.
He achieved the treble feat of winning the Giro d’Italia, Tour de France and World Championship Road Race in 1974 — one of only two men to have done so.
But his Tour record is under threat with British rider Cavendish quickly becoming a serious challenger.
Cavendish came home just ahead of Team Sky’s Edvald Boasson Hagen and Cannodale’s Peter Sagan in Wednesday’s crash affected race.
The Omega-Pharm rider, who won five stages at the Giro d’Italia looked in ominous form, despite suffering from a chest infection.
“I’m still not 100% after being ill last week,” he told reporters.
“But it’s good to get the account open here at the Tour de France. The morale is good in the team and the only way to make it better is by winning more stages.”
Australia’s Thomas Gerrans retained the leader’s yellow jersey following the 228.5 kilometer stretch — the second longest stage of the Tour.
The Orica-GreenEdge man was pleased with his day’s work — despite teammate and main sprinter Matt Goss being held up by a crash 12 km from the finish.
“Today we had two objectives,” Gerrans told reporters. “To try and win the stage and keep the yellow jersey within the team.
“Matt Goss got distanced on the final climb but I still have the yellow jersey on my shoulders and I managed to stay up the front and stay out of trouble.”
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