Mark Cavendish to lead Team Sky at the Giro d’ Italia 2012
Mark Cavendish has been given the responsibilities to lead the British side, Team Sky at the first Grand Tour race of the season, the Giro d’ Italia 2012.
Team Sky is amongst the strongest sides of the season and has already filled its cupboard with numerous victories in the first quarter of the season.
It currently holds the 6th overall spot at the 2012 UCI World Tour team’s rankings with 366 UCI points.
Bradley Wiggins contributed the maximum number of 112 points while Edvald Boasson Hagen, Rigoberto Uran, Michael Rogers and Juan Antonio Flecha added 70, 63, 61 and 60 UCI points in the respective order.
Mark is happy with his current form and has cited that Giro is amongst his favourite stage races of the season.
He is optimistic that the British team has the potential to secure stages at the race and is also equipped with the general classification contenders in its arsenal.
Cavendish cited in a press release, “We’ve got a good squad to go and win stages”.
“Geraint, Pete and Swifty have just come off the track so they should have that explosive power which will be important in the first week and the rest of the team have all done well in the Classics”.
“We want to win the team time-trial as well and hopefully that will get us the pink jersey. If we could achieve that it would be a massive honour for the team”.
“It should be a really good three weeks because we’re all friends and have a good understanding on the road”, he concluded.
The reigning UCI Road World Champion is having a tremendous season and has claimed stages at the Tour of Qatar and the Tirreno-Adriatico.
He achieved the first overall spot at the Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne and held the red jersey for two stages of the Tirreno-Adriatico 2012.
The team’s main role will definitely be to support Mark for the final general classifications but there are riders like Ben Swift who is an ideal candidate to bag few stage victories.
On the other hand, riders like Sergio Henao and Rigoberto Uran are ideally suited for the mountains stages.
The Team’s Sports Director Steven de Jongh is content that the selected team will not let him down and that Cavendish will prove his dominance at the 2012 version of the Giro d’ Italia 2012.
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