News: Cavendish returns to National Tour

Ten time stage winner, the Isle of Man’s Mark Cavendish will lead Team Dimension Data in the Tour of Britain starting this Sunday

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News: Cavendish returns to National Tour

Mark Cavendish to return at the OVO Energy Tour of Britain

Banter between Cavendish and Phinney in the Tour of Britain

Mark Cavendish will lead Team Dimension Data in the OVO Energy Tour of Britain as the ten-time stage winner in the race makes his comeback from injury after fracturing his scapula on Stage Four of the Tour de France.

Dimension Data will be heading to the race as two-time defending champions and hoping to make it a hat trick of wins in 2017, having won the 2015 and 2016 editions of Britain’s biggest professional cycle race with Edvald Boasson Hagen and Steve Cummings respectively.

Boasson Hagen is the current Norwegian Time Trial Champion, and with the Stage Five test at Clacton in Essex over a short 16-kilometre distance that is likely to play to his strengths, the 30-year-old is among the favourites to add to his overall wins in the Tour of Britain in 2009 and 2015.

The line-up includes a strong mix of strength and experience with Mark Renshaw (a double Tour of Britain stage winner), Bernhard Eisel and Jay Thomson, while Scott Thwaites will make his third appearance in his national Tour, having last ridden in 2014.

Commenting on the line-up, Sport Director Roger Hammond – himself a double-stage winner in the event – said; “It is great to be heading back to the OVO Energy Tour of Britain this week. As this event has grown in stature year on year, so has our team and the last two years in particular were fantastic for us. We always receive a huge amount of support in the UK for the team and for Qhubeka. With our partners, Dimension Data, Deloitte and Nederburg having such a large in presence over here too, the Tour of Britain is a very special and key event for our team. We will no doubt be looking to put on a good show once again, we always start a race with the goal to win, this year’s Tour of Britain will be no different.”

Team

Mark Cavendish
Edvald Boasson Hagen
Mark Renshaw
Bernhard Eisel
Scott Thwaites
Jay Thompson

 

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