Where Mark Cavendish’s form lies ahead of this year’s Tour de France is somewhat of an unknown. With a year devoted between disciplines as he juggles his ambitions for the Tour de France and the Olympic Games, he comes into July’s main event somewhat in limbo.
This season has had it’s high points, a world Madison title has been sandwiched between a stage and the overall in Qatar and a final-day triumph at the Tour of California. But with his track commitments being as they are the British rider has not been in a position to race on the road at 100 per cent.
“It’s been completely different,” he said of his Tour build-up at the Dimension Data pre-race press conference.
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“I’ve had a track build up and used racing to build my endurance. I really don’t know how it’s going to be. It could be the best thing I’ve ever done, it could be the worst. I’ve definitely made every second of every day count. I’m not coming to the Tour to just dick about. I’m here to represent team Dimension Data.”
Representing Dimension Data, for a sprinter of Cavendish’s high calibre at least, means one thing and one thing only: winning. Cavendish sees a number of stages as potential battlegrounds but given the form of Marcel Kittel this year and the luxurious riches the German has within his lead-out train, Cavendish very much starts as an underdog when it comes to winning the first stage and pulling on the yellow jersey.
“It was never a career target,” he said when asked about the chance of wearing yellow.
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