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If 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mark Cavendish wishes to race on the track at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Rio 2016 Olympic Games, he must rule out finishing the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France this July, according to British Cy⛄cling technical director Shane Su𒉰tton.

Cavendish closed out the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UCI Track World Championships with a worl𝔉d title in the Madison with Bradley Wiggins, 💖having finished sixth overall in the omnium, the event he is hoping to ride at the Olympic Games this summer.

With the Tour de France coming just before the Games, however, the British Cycling coaching staff have made clear to Cavendish that in order to sustain his hopes of gaining selection he must buy into their trainin☂g progamme. This includes racing the Tour of California in May before another block of training on the track. Crucially, it also involves leaving the Tour de France before the race reaches Paris.

“For sure, he will be at the Tour, 100 per cent. Cav won't do three weeks of the Tour. If he wants to medal, he's well aware that he probably wouldn't be going꧂ to Paris,&rdq๊uo; Sutton said.

Sutton added that discussions with Cavendish’s trade team, Dimension Data, had already been held but that further conversations would take place after Cave🍎ndish completed Tirreno-Adr🎀iatico next week.

"I'm very close to Brian Smith and Doug [Ryder] and they're very supportive of the venture. It's just a matterꦯ of sitting down with Cav and, 'Are we going to do this? Do you want to put yourself forward?', and then the selection panel will come together.

“That’s a discussion between Mark 🅠and his team. Then they would come back to us and talk to our coaching plans. Cav has bought into that pl﷽an and he wouldn’t be here if they weren’t 100 per cent behind him.”

As for Cavendish not finishing the Tour de France, Sutton added: “I guess as he’s getting older the hills are getting bigg𝐆er and at the back end of the Tour, I don’t know. Those questions can only be answered when we sit down. If he wants a medal then he’s probably well aware that he won’t be going to Paris.”

Cavendish’s six🍷th place in the omnium did not match the team’s hopes of a podium finish. Heading into the World Championships, Sutton stated that if Cavendish missed out on a medal in London, then he may take himself out of the selection process for Rio.

Sixth in London for Cavendish was argua🎃bly𓂃 a better performance than his fourth place finish in January’s World Cup event in Japan, considering that the best omnium riders in the world were on show in London.

“We’ll reflect and C𝔉avendish will then decide if he’s worthy of competing for the gold medal because to be honest with you, what’s a bronze medal for him at the Olympics after what he has achieved?” Sutton said. “Gold is what he will be going for and his 💙bar is set quite high.”