‘We are going to sprint in the Tour with Fabio Jakobsen’ – Mark Cavendish set to miss out on Tour de France

Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl team manager Patrick Lefevere said that Mark Cavendish will likely miss out on selection for the Tour de France, with Fabio Jakobsen the preferred sprinter. The Manxman will only be considered should Jakobsen have any issues, and a final call will be made following the conclusion of the Tour de Suisse on June 21, as the eight riders will be confirmed. Ad/> However, with Covid-19 an ever-present threat, teams will be keeping a number of riders on standby, and that includes Cavendish.

CyclingCavendish to race in British National Road Championships07/06/2022 AT 16:13 Lefevere, in quotes published by cyclingnews via Het Nieuwsblad, said: “We always work with a long list: a number of riders already know from the first training camp of the season that we are looking at them for the Tour. After Switzerland we will go from eleven names to the final eight names. “It is no secret that we are going to sprint in the Tour with Fabio Jakobsen.

Although I will continue to speak with two names until ad nauseam. “Last year, Sam Bennett was also a certainty, so to speak, but in the end Cavendish went to the Tour. I talked to him on the last weekend of the Giro.

Mark said: ‘I'm a pro, I'll be ready until the last day.’” Roglic and Vingegaard on top of the world, as Jumbo-Visma ride rampant Froome abandons last two stages of Criterium due to illness One man who Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl hope to have available is world champion Julian Alaphilippe. The Frenchman has endured a torrid time following illness and injuring his lung, ribs and shoulder in a high-speed crash at Liege-Bastogne-Liege. Alaphilippe is now back in training at altitude with the hope of being fit enough to make the Tour, which begins on July 1.