Dimension Data directeur sportif Roger Hammond says that the team still holds out hope that Mark Cavendish can return to racing this season. However, with a broken shoulder blade, it is still unclear how long the Manxman could be out of action.
When Cavendish crashed out of the Tour de France in 2014, rupturing his AC joint in the process, he was able to return to action for the Tour of Britain in September. He has injured the same shoulder in his crash with Peter Sagan, fracturing his shoulder blade this time around. Cavendish will have to undergo further tests before the team and doctors can make a full assessment of his recovery time.
"I think it's speculation at the moment. Do we hope? Of course, we do. Do we know? No. So, it's somewhere between those two," Hammond told Cyclingnews.
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"He's going back for all the various scans and x-rays. At the moment, it's in the hands of the medical team at home and the same people who picked him off the floor with glandular fever will now support him again and will now try to get him back into fitness. It takes a bit of time; I think we'll let Mark get home and settle into normal life first."
Losing a rider during a Grand Tour is always a challenge, particularly when it's your team leader and someone with the personality of Cavendish.
The Manxman won four stages of last year's Tour de France, with the team also getting Stephen Cummings' victory to Lac de Payolle. This season has been altogether more challenging after an ankle injury kept him out of the early Classics and then his diagnosis of glandular fever in the spring.
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