No, it doesn’t bug me at all. Nobody is saying that Cavendish is a better cyclist than Merckx. But in the age of specialization, there is nobody who can accelerate off a good lead out better than Mark Cavendish. I thought Eddy was in poor form in how he responded to the record potentially being tied (it now has been tied) and broken. A classier response would have been to congratulate the “newcomer” on sharing the stage win title. Sure, Eddy wasn’t necessarily focused on stage wins. The sport is much different now than when he rode. Eddy could do it all…win stages, win grand tours, sprint and climb. Cavendish only does one of those particularly well but he has done it better than anyone else in the business since the sprints became popular. The green jersey wasn’t even created until 1953, and Merckx certainly wasn’t focused on that. If he had, who knows how many he could have won? But he didn’t, and this is the result. He needs to get over it and be happy for Cav.