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Cavendish may sacrifice Tour for Olympics

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Zam_Olyas

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http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/16032012/58/tour-de-france-cavendish-sacrifice-tour-olympics.html
Tour de France - Cavendish may sacrifice Tour for Olympics

Mark Cavendish could quit the Tour de France early to focus on the Olympic cycling road race, the world champion's coach said.


Cavendish, who won the green jersey for the points classification last year and at 26 already has 20 Tour stage wins to his name, would not enter the race with the goal of defending the shirt.
"Mark has said he wants to finish the Tour, but if he knows he can win the Olympics he will take the final week day by day," coach Rod Ellingworth, who is also Britain's Olympic road-race team manager, told The Guardian online.
"If the green jersey comes, it comes. He wants to win stages at the Tour, not have the green jersey as his main objective. There is a chance he could get off in the Tour if he is tired and is digging himself into a hole."
The Tour ends in Paris on July 22, with the London Olympic road race scheduled for July 28.
Should Cavendish actually give up his green jersey ambitions, his Team Sky could favour compatriot Bradley Wiggins, who emerged as a potential Tour winner after his Paris-Nice victory this month.
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Magnus

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Makes sense.
Winning the Olympics on home soil as reigning world champion would be pretty cool. Everybody knows he can win 4-6 stages at the tour 'easily'. If he doesn't take the Olympics this year he probably won't ever.

Besides this years TdF is probably Wiggins best chance ever to win (fair amount of TT km, no Contador, still undisputed leader over Froome, and at 32 he's not likely to improve a lot).
 
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Should Cavendish actually give up his green jersey ambitions, his Team Sky could favour compatriot Bradley Wiggins, who emerged as a potential Tour winner after his Paris-Nice victory this month.


Who says the English don't understand cycling:eek: No support for Bradley then until the main man goes home:rolleyes:
 
hrotha

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ferryman said:
Should Cavendish actually give up his green jersey ambitions, his Team Sky could favour compatriot Bradley Wiggins, who emerged as a potential Tour winner after his Paris-Nice victory this month.


Who says the English don't understand cycling:eek: No support for Bradley then until the main man goes home:rolleyes:
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That's not what the quote says at all.
 
AussieGoddess

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I have always thought that he would not really be that interested in finishing the Tour. He will ride the first 1.5 - 2 weeks (its pretty flat for a fair while) and see what he can get ...

but the Olympics is his main goal, and the Tour is Brad's main goal.
 
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ferryman said:
Should Cavendish actually give up his green jersey ambitions, his Team Sky could favour compatriot Bradley Wiggins, who emerged as a potential Tour winner after his Paris-Nice victory this month.


Who says the English don't understand cycling:eek: No support for Bradley then until the main man goes home:rolleyes:
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It was written by the Reuters cycling correspondent Julien Pretot, who is French. But don't let facts get in the way of your stereotypical Scottish anti-English ramblings.
 
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ferryman said:
As English is my second language can you please explain where I have got it wrong?
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Rod Ellingworth's quotes:

"Mark has said he wants to finish the Tour, but if he knows he can win the Olympics he will take the final week day by day,"
"If the green jersey comes, it comes. He wants to win stages at the Tour, not have the green jersey as his main objective. There is a chance he could get off in the Tour if he is tired and is digging himself into a hole."

Perhaps you could explain where Rod Ellingworth prioritises the Green Jersey over the Maillot Jeune?
 
happychappy

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I'm being selfish but why can't he just go home after the first week? :mad: I want to see what Wiggins or Froome can do without the entire team having to baby Cavendish up every hill.
Or if he stays in, let him climb on his own. If he can make it over the mountains he'll really deserve the green.. I thought it's the points jersey not just "the best sprinter".
 
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happychappy said:
I'm being selfish but why can't he just go home after the first week? :mad: I want to see what Wiggins or Froome can do without the entire team having to baby Cavendish up every hill.
Or if he stays in, let him climb on his own. If he can make it over the mountains he'll really deserve the green.. I thought it's the points jersey not just "the best sprinter".
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We've covered this before elsewhere. If you think Ellingworth, Yates and Brailsford are going to derail their Yellow Jersey campaign by nannying Cav, you're living in cloud cuckoo land. Cav's big chance will come the week after the Tour finishes.
 
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LugHugger said:
We've covered this before elsewhere. If you think Ellingworth, Yates and Brailsford are going to derail their Yellow Jersey campaign by nannying Cav, you're living in cloud cuckoo land. Cav's big chance will come the week after the Tour finishes.
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"We've covered this before elsewhere" and we'll cover it again I'm sure. If you think you know precisely what's going to happen in July without being part of Team Sky then you're living in cloud cuckoo land.
 
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happychappy said:
"We've covered this before elsewhere" and we'll cover it again I'm sure. If you think you know precisely what's going to happen in July without being part of Team Sky then you're living in cloud cuckoo land.
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So, if I understand correctly from your posts, sky will drop wiggins at the front of the bunch in the mountains and drop back to support Cav? Unlike you apparently, I do have a grasp of gt tactics!
 
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If he's not going to go for the points at the TdF, I'd quite like to see him try and win the points jersey at the Giro, try and complete the set.
 
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Caruut said:
If he's not going to go for the points at the TdF, I'd quite like to see him try and win the points jersey at the Giro, try and complete the set.
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He has zero chance at winning the points jersey in the Giro. It's just too much of a different game. Winners of this are GC riders who can climb exceptionally well to get consistent finishes on the mountain stages.
 
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