British sprinter Mark Cavendish, who has been battling the Epstein-Barr virus and battling depression diagnosed in mid-2018, has now come out the other side of both illnesses and is looking forward to showing his stuff with his new team, Bahrain McLaren He revealed that he is looking forward to showing off his strengths with his new team, Bahrain McLaren.

"It's not just my physical health that has taken a hit in the last couple of years," Cavendish told The Times (opens in new tab) on Sunday. The 34-year-old is now talking about a virus that has left him struggling to race anywhere near the level of his 146 career wins, including 30 stages of the Tour de France, the 2011 road race world championship title, and a victory in Milan-San Remo in 2009."

"I've battled depression quite a bit during this time; I was diagnosed with clinical depression in August 2018.

"I didn't take any medication. It doesn't seem like now is the time or place ...... I'm going to do something about it eventually ...... But I did get help. I was dark. But I got help. Well, as much as I could. I think I got out of it. It was good to get out of there," Cavendish said. Cavendish said.

The 2020 season was supposed to be the start of a new chapter for Cavendish, who finally got the all-clear from Epstein-Barr in April 2019.

Cavendish has gained 10 days of racing experience this season with the Tour of Saudi Arabia and the UAE Tour in February, but he is still not in his element and is spending more time at home with his family as a result of the coronavirus crisis.

"It could have been easy to say I'm going to fulfill my career and meet my kids when they're teenagers," Cavendish told the Times. 'So I can absorb this ...... to do what mothers and fathers do, and I think it makes me happy, keeps me super motivated, keeps me sane.

On the uncertainty of when he and his colleagues would be able to put their numbers on again, Cavendish noted that he had grown accustomed to the feeling of not really knowing.

"The feeling of not knowing when I would be back racing has been there for two years now.

This season, Cavendish's move to Bahrain McLaren reunited him with his new team manager, Rod Ellingworth.

The combination of Ellingworth + McLaren is a dream scenario for a motorsports fan like Cavendish.

"When I was a kid, I never thought about racing for McLaren," he said. But I love everything about McLaren, I love the attention to detail and obviously the fact that people understand that philosophy. So Rod is a perfect fit."

"Rod has a great ability to lead people and understand what makes them tick. If he had said to me once, as my boss, 'You need to jump,' I would have said, 'How high? And it is good to know that he is not just trying to get you to jump for the sake of his ego. He has genuine reasons for wanting to help you. I've been in places where I've been told to 'jump for it.'

Ellingworth appears to be the guiding light that Cavendish needs once again in the latter stages of his long and highly successful professional career.

"I drew the line," Ellingworth told The Times of Cavendish's past battles with Epstein Barr. 'I don't want to hear about it. Where are we going?" Let's look at where we are going.