Everybody, welcome back to another edition of The Move Plus.

We are doing a special episode dissecting Mark Cavendish's announcement that he's coming

back for the 2024 season to try to finally break Eddie Merx's all time to a French stage

win record to get from 34 to 35 stage wins.

We'll pick Johan's brain on if that's a good idea or not.

And we'll also get, we'll check in on the merger news between Yombo Bisma and Siddalk

quick stuff, try to figure out what exactly is going on there, parse through some comments

that have been made and see if Johan has any inside information on that.

But first, Johan, what do you think about this announcement from Mark Cavendish, he's

coming back?

Because it's a good idea, bad idea for both him and the Estonet team.

Yeah, well, I think, I mean, for me, it was not a surprise.

I could see it coming.

I mean, I kind of heard through the grapevine that he was definitely, you know, going

to ride another year from what Cavendish said today in his announcement or, I mean, I

don't know if you said in his announcement or in an interview, but apparently, so the

moment he crashed in the Tour de France, he was offered by the Nukarov, who's the manager

of Astana, said, okay, let's come back next year.

You know, I think he, he's left on it, Mark said that he discussed it with his family

and it's basically his kids, who said, hey, that keep going, you know, you don't have

to ask us the question, it's for us, it's, it's yes.

So that's nice.

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