Sprinter heaps praise on lead-out man Mørkøv after Milano-Torino victory.
Milano-Torino enjoyed a new calendar spot, taking prime position on the lead-in to Milan-San Remo this Wednesday, and QuickStep-AlphaVinyl sprinter Mark Cavendish was the man to triumph on the Corso Francia in Rivoli to take his third win of 2022.
However, rather than warming up for another run at La Classicissima, the race he won in 2009, Cavendish won’t be taking the start inside the historic Vigorelli velodrome on Saturday. Instead, his team has called up Fabio Jakobsen after Julian Alaphilippe’s was ruled out with bronchitis.
Speaking at the press conference following his win, Cavendish said that he would have liked to have made a return to the race where he beat Heinrich Haussler 13 years ago. However, he said that he and his team hadn’t spoken about taking part in Milan-San Remo.
“You’ll have to ask the team,” Cavendish said. “No-one from the team talked to me about it, so I don’t know, I don’t know. Obviously, I have won it. I’d like to do it, but nobody talked to me so…