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the emotive missile

a reflection on Mark Cavendish

Callum Devereux
May 23, 2023
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Retirement is rarely completely voluntary, instead frequently summoned by injury or illness, a team’s financial mismanagement, or merely the losing battle with age. But there lies a mental block also, an unwillingness among many professionals to continually sacrifice their lives and bodies in pursuit of an elite athletic standard that is continually hel…

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Callum Devereux
Broadcast Journalism MA student at Cardiff University. Former Editor-in-Chief of The Student newspaper. Fan of Scandinavia, krautrock, and Thomas De Gendt.
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