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| Cavendish leaves Team Sky to fulfil Tour ambitions Posted: 18 Oct 2012 07:38 AM PDT
Briton Cavendish (picture), the 2011 world champion who has 23 Tour de France stage wins to his name, will join Belgian team Omega Pharma-Quick Step for the 2013 season. The move was barely a secret but Team Sky spelled it out clearly today, saying in a statement: "The 2011 world champion had been expected to leave at the end of his first season with the team over a clash of priorities, having seen his winning opportunities in Grand Tour stages limited." Wiggins was Team Sky's only priority on the Tour this year as he became the first Briton to win the world's greatest cycling race. The 27-year-old Cavendish, who had benefited from his team mates' help the previous year to win stages, was no more than a domestique in 2012. He still claimed three stages victories in July. – Reuters |
| Simoncelli memory dominates Sepang build-up Posted: 18 Oct 2012 04:58 AM PDT  Jorge Lorenzo is seeking to close in on his second MotoGP world title at the Malaysian Grand Prix this weekend. – Reuters pic Simoncelli's Honda team principal Fausto Gresini told reporters today: "It left a void that can never be filled. Marco was a special person to all of us and we miss him a lot." The popular Simoncelli died in a horror crash at last season's race in Sepang after being hit by the bikes of Colin Edwards and Valentino Rossi as he slid across the track. The race was stopped immediately and subsequently cancelled. "With heavy hearts we will give our best this weekend to honour his memory," said Gresini, who also lost Japanese rider Daijiro Kato in a gruesome crash at Suzuka in 2003. World champion Casey Stoner said it would be a difficult weekend for the riders. "This weekend marks the anniversary of Marco's death so I'm sure it will be a strange feeling when we all get on the track," the Australian said. A bronze plaque is to be fixed at the scene of Simoncelli's accident at turn 11 in memory of the rider, organisers said. Dani Pedrosa's victory in Japan last weekend kept his slender title chances alive but Spanish compatriot Lorenzo leads the standings by 28 points with three races left. "I'm really enjoying racing at the moment and I want to continue like this, pushing the maximum from our side without thinking about the others," said Pedrosa. A fourth win in the last five races for Pedrosa has given Lorenzo something to think about but the championship is still the Yamaha rider's to lose. Lorenzo, the 2010 champion, can finish third in the last three races and still win the title regardless of where Pedrosa finishes. "We must stay very focused and put on a good show this weekend," said Lorenzo. "The track is more suited to our bike than Motegi so we'll be aiming for the best possible result. "Sepang is a track with difficult memories for all of us from Marco's tragic accident last year," he added. "It is also a track which has very good memories for me from 2010 when I became world champion." – Reuters |
PARIS, Oct 18 – Sprint ace Mark Cavendish is to leave Team Sky in order to fulfil his Tour de France ambitions after spending this year's race serving as a domestique for Bradley Wiggins, the British team said today.| You are subscribed to email updates from The Malaysian Insider :: Sports To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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