Mark Cavendish looking forward to 'festival style' Tour de Yorkshire

Dimension Data rider looking to put disappointing start to season behind him on home soil

Mark Cavendish at the 2017 Tour of Britain

(Image credit: Andy Jones)

Mark Cavendish says his form isn't far off where he hoped to be, despite a stop-start 2018 season to date.

The Manxman's 2018 has be plagued with crashes so far, most recently with a spectacular crash at Milan-San Remo.

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Paul Knott is a fitness and features writer, who has also presented Cycling Weekly videos as well as contributing to the print magazine as well as online articles.  In 2020 he published his first book, The Official Tour de France Road Cycling Training Guide (Welbeck), a guide designed to help readers improve their cycling performance via cherrypicking from the strategies adopted by the pros.