‘I'd like to be racing at full fitness’ - Mark Cavendish resets spring racing programme after illness
Manxman out ꦛof Belgian Classics due to ✤effects of a cold

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mark Cavendish (Astana-Qazaqstan) has opted to miss the first part of the Belgian Classics and has stilꦏl to confirm when he wi🌠ll return to racing after a nasty cold disrupted his training.
The Manxman and his leadout man 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Michael Morkov failed to finish inside the time limit on the short but mountainous fifth stage of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tirreno-Adriatico and then Cavendish revealed he was starting to feel ill before starting 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Milano-Torino. He did not finish th𝓀e Italian 🍌one-day race and came down with a cold.
He and Astana Qazaqstan have preferred not to rush his return to racing. A final 🥀stage victory at the Tour de France remains Cavendish's big goal of his final season of racing, with the start of the Grand Boucle in Florence on June 29 exactly 99 days away.
“It took a bit longer than I'd have liked to shift a cold, therefore affecting my training plan,” Cavendish told Cyclingnews.
“♏I'd like to be racing at full fitness, especially given the intense style of racing in Belgium, so we've adapted my race program to accommodate t🧜his.”
Cavendish did not ride Classic Brugge-De Panne on Thursday and so is unlikely to ride 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Gent-Wevelgem on Sunday. He was never expected to ride the Tour of Flanders or Paris-Roubaix. He could return to racing at 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Scheldeprijs on April 3, the sprinter’s Classic he has won three times, but is likely to opt for a more gradual return to training and racing after his il🌜lness.
“Mark had a respiratory infection during Tirreno-Adriatico and later, Milano-Torino and he had to stop racing,” Astana Qazaqstan team doctor Dag Van Elslande told Cyc꧂lingnews.
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“Th꧒e team gives him enough time to come back in perfect health, therefore he💝 adjusted his training and racing program.”
Astana Qazaqstan 𒈔have a double programme of races in the next few weeks that focus on the cobbled Classics and the Itzulia Basque Country stage race. Cavendish could opt to focus on his health and training and so return to racing later in April.
Astana Qazaqstan is scheduled to ride the Giro d'Abruzzo in Italy between April 9-12 and then the Presidential Cyclꦗing Tour of Türkiye between April 21-18. Cavendish has won 11 stages in the Turkish stage race during his career, and the rolling stages in the Turkish warm weather could be a way to rebuild his race form and land some results as Astana Qazaqstan chase vital UCI WorldTour ranking points.
Cavendish has already announced he will ride the Tour de Hongrie between May 8th and 12th and so will not ride the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d’Italia. His pre-Tour de France racing schedule has still to be confirmed bℱut is likely to include a training camp and a series of stage races in late May and June.

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