Cycling-African team bags Cavendish as marquee signing (Reuters)
(Adds quotes, background) PARIS, Sept 29 (Reuters) – British former world champion cyclist Mark Cavendish is joining the MTN-Qhubeka team, it said on Tuesday, moving to raise its international profile further after this year becoming the first outfit from Africa to win a Tour de France stage. Cavendish, a charismatic and at times nervy rider who took the green jersey as the Tour’s leading sprinter in 2011, has 26 stage wins to his name. The South Africa-based team, to be known as Team Dimension Data next season, said it was also hiring Australian Mark Renshaw and Austrian Bernhard Eisel, two former teammates of Cavendish who will be tasked with setting him up in the sprints in next season’s races.