During Bike Championships came news that Mark Cavendish was heading to Edvald Boasson Hagen MTN-QHUBEKA team. Now confirm the African cycling team that agreement the bank.
– MTN-QHUBEKA, soon to be renamed Team Dimension Data, can announce today that the team has signed Mark Cavendish, Mark Renshaw and Bernhard Eisel.
It writes pro team to Edvald Boasson Hagen on their websites, and with it confirms the African cycling team news who have been waiting a while. VG know that there have been talks about just that since June, and during Bike Championships last week came news that Cavendish by all appearances came to be reunited with Edvald Boasson Hagen.
Cavendish roses Boasson Hagen
The two rode together in Team HTC (formerly known including T-Mobile and Team Coulumbia), Team Sky and will now be teammates in what eventually gets renamed Team Dimension Data. It’s Mark Cavendish himself delighted with.
– I’m part of the team with the goal of helping to gain more victories, along with already experienced and renowned riders like Mark Renshaw, Edvald Boasson Hagen, Tyler Farrar, Daniel Teklehaimanot, Steve Cummings and of course Bernie Eisel, sounds from Cavendish in MTN-QHUBEKA-statement.
– It is a big step in the right direction that Mark Cavendish become part of our team, it sounds from lageier Douglas Ryder in the same statement.
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Dag Otto Lauritzen: – Pity
But not everyone rejoices over the news that Mark Cavendish goes from Team Quick Step and just Edvald Boasson Hagen’s team. The Briton has won most of what is to win in the cycling circus, including road race during Bike Championships in 2011 and over 20 stages in the Tour de France.
former teammate: Here Edvald Boasson Hagen pinched by Mark Cavendish, both in Team Sky, after winning a leg during the 2012 edition of the Tour de France.
Photo: Daniel Sannum Lautenberg , NTB scanpix
It allows Dag Otto Lauritzen fear a Boasson Hagen are the ends up as domestique.
– The is disturbing, sounded the immediate reaction to the former pro cyclist when VG met him during Bike Championships last week.
– I think it is a pity, and I sincerely hope not that Edvald get a domestique role . It is he too good, said Lauritzen when the news about the possible reunification earnest Friday.
Irritated Edvald by bike World Cup : – No good feeling
Boasson Hagen: – Look no disadvantages
Also Edvald Boasson Hagen took the time to chat with the Norwegian press about the possible transition for Mark Cavendish then.
– It may be good for the team, we become more coordinated. We are not as similar as riders: He is better to asked on flat ground than me. Then I can run drawdown for him, and so I can be better that way, said Boasson Hagen told VG Friday.
– But it will all change your role compared to what you thought when you came to the team?
– At the very flattest sprints, so it will of it. But in the classics then drive not the same races. In the harder completions will once I go in front of him.
– Are you not afraid to get the domestique role you wanted to get away from?
– No. ‘Cav’ and I ran very well together in HTC. There are those seasons I won most. I therefore see no disadvantage with it, said 28-year-old.
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