Cycling: ‘I want the best for British cycling’

LONDON: Britain’s world road cycling champion Mark Cavendish wants an amicable end to his Team Sky contract less than a year after signing for Dave Brailsford’s outfit. Cavendish, who has won 23 stages of the Tour de France, will meet Brailsford at the Tour of Britain, which started in Ipswich on Sunday, and is hoping the principal will not demand any compensation for allowing the rider to join another team. “I want the best for British cycling, it has grown so much and we had this idea that we could have this British super team,” said Cavendish. With Sky’s efforts focused on helping Bradley Wiggins win the Tour de France there has been speculation Cavendish could join the Belgian team Omega-Pharma-Liquigas and be reunited with his sporting director at HTC-Highroad.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 10^th, 2012.