Mark Cavendish said he will take time before considering going for another medal on the track at the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2020, pointing out the sacrifices he and his family have made this year to combine his professional road racing career with the time need to train with Great Britain on the track.
Cavendish will be 35 in 2020, a year younger than Bradley Wiggins, who won his fifth gold medal in Rio at the age of 36. Despite their brotherly rivalry, Cavendish told BBC television and BBC radio that it will be difficult for him to combine his road racing career and track ambitions in the years to come. Cavendish will soon return to road racing with his Dimension Data team and has been confirmed for the Tour of Britain, where he will clash with Andre Greipel in the sprints.
"The only thing I haven't done is win gold. I've got my medal but I haven't won gold. It doesn't eat at me but I love representing Great Britain and every four years at the Olympics is the best stage to do it on," Cavendish said in an interview with the BBC after returning to Britain from Rio.
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"At the end of the day I've got to go back to my day job on the road, and qualification of the Olympic doesn't start for two years, so I've got two years to contemplate it anyway."
"If it was doing like Brad did and stopping on the road, that's one thing but there's no way I can combine my road and track careers again. It took a lot of energy."
Cavendish missed out on a medal in the Madison event in Beijing 2008 and in the road race in 2012 in London. He targeted the omnium this year, winning a silver medal behind Italy's Elia Viviani just three weeks after leaving the Tour de France with four stage victories.
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