Mཧark Cavendish (HTC-Columbia) puts 🧜his arms up in victory(Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
Mark Cavendish (HTC-Columbia) celebrates with a spray of ꦉcham𒊎pagne(Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Mark Cavendish (HTC-Columbia) salutes the crowd(Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
Mark Cavendish (HTC-Columbia) has accused his Vuelta a España sprint rivals of collaborating against him. The Manxman took his second consecutive stage win of the race at Burgos on Friday and afterwards revealed that he believes that Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Transitions) and Wouter 🍷Weylandt (Quick Step) are working together in the 📖race.
“Wouter’s helping Farrar and that’s going to make it more difficult for us to control the points competition,” Cavendish told Reuters. &ldquo✃;If you’ve got two guys from different teams worki💧ng together that’s always going to be harder.”
Cavendish was particular ag🌠grieved about an incident during an intermediate sprint early on stage 13. “One went left, the other went right and they deliberately closed the door on me,” he said. “I’ve never made a protest about this sort of sprint before but I feel I was put at a disadvantage.”
However, Garmin-Transitions spor⛎ts director Bingen Fernandez denied any collusion between his rider and Weylandt. “I don’t believe the two are working together,” he🌳 said. “I haven’t actually seen the sprint in question, but I don’t think it would happen. From what I heard, each rider did his own sprint and that was that.”
Cavendish currently leads the points classification with an advantage of 21 points over Farrar.
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Barry Ryan was Head of Features at Cyclingnews. He has covered profeꦿssional cycling since 2010, reporting from the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and events from Argentina to Japan. His writing has appeared in The Independent, Procyc💎ling and Cycling Plus. He is the author of , published by Gill Books.
