Cavendish given top-three target at world championships (Reuters)

Mark Cavendish must finish in the top three of the omnium at the next month’s track world championships to be selected for the Rio Olympics, British cycling’s technical director said on Friday. Cavendish is one of the world’s best ever road sprinters with 26 Tour de France stage victories, but has never won an Olympic medal. In 2008 he finished ninth in the madison on the track at the Beijing Games and four years later he came 29th in the road race in London.