BRAILSFORD HAILS CAV

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Dave Brailsford, the performance director of British Cycling and the general manager of Team Sky believes that Mark Cavendish and Bradley Wiggins would have two separate goals-they would focus on two separate wins and go all out to achieve them. He believes that making the cyclists focus on all the targets and then sending them out to achieve them is going to failure. He therefore is making the two cyclists focus on two separate win so that the over all victory lies with Great Britain.

World Champion Mark Cavendish is believed to be focusing on the London Olympics. Under Brailsford, Great Britain had won eight gold medals at the last Olympics held in Beijing. Cavendish is in a very good position to win gold this time and since Bradley Wiggins has already won three times at the Olympics, the chance lies with Mark Cavendish this year.

Mark Cavendish has performed impressively in the past one year. He won five stages at Tour de France, which makes his tally 20, and places him on the sixth position on the list of all time achievements. He also became the second Briton to win the World Championship in the road race. With these successes he quickly improved his standing and was even declared the BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2011 December.

However his great winning streak came to a sudden end when he could not finish the Milan-San Remo classic. It was a huge surprise for those who knew him but such things keep in happening. It is not always possible to win. There are loads of factors that could have resulted in that loss, illness or fatigue, and it can easily be worked upon. Given that Mark Cavendish has achieved a lot, he has a right to have a bad day at work.

CAV RACING IN QATAR

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Tour de France champion Mark Cavendish will make his debut for his new team, Tam Sky at the upcoming Tour of Qatar after the team confirmed its lineup for the race slated to be held between the 5th and 10th of February, 2012. Cavendish will be returning to Qatar after a season’s gap and during his last race here in 2009, he had won two stages. Bernhard Eisel, who was a team mate of Cavendish during his days with HTC – Highroad will also join the eight man Team Sky lineup for the race in the Desert Nation.

Cavendish, who joined Team Sky last year in October, immediately after being crowned the world champion is looking forward to his first competitive race with his new team, having spent much of December and January in the team’s training camp at Mallorca. Mark Cavendish, who won the Green Jersey at the Tour de France last year will, however, not have fellow British rider Bradley Wiggins in the team with him due to his commitments at other events for Team Sky and with the lineups for most of the other races announced, it seems that Cavendish will not have the time to gel with the man who helped him secure the world championship crown at Copenhagen last year.

According to Cavendish, he is looking forward to the race in Qatar, which, he believes will be an ideal preparation at the very beginning of the season and a win here will give him and his team a much needed confidence boost, considering that almost the entire lineup of Team Sky this year will be riding for the team for the first time.

However, that does not seem to be a deterrent for the world champion Mark Cavendish, who is extremely confident ahead of the race in Qatar.