Mark Cavendish can handle three weeks at the Tour de France and still contend for track gold at the Rio Olympics, according to one of his former coaches at Team Sky. The sprinter, winner of 26 Tour stages and hoping to add to that figure when the race begins on Saturday in Normandy, has never claimed an Olympic medal and will compete in the omnium in the Rio velodrome in August. Three weeks hard riding toward Paris will not affect his medal chances in Brazil though, says Rod Ellingworth, Cavendish's coach in the build-up to London 2012 and the man who steered him to the world road title in 2011. More...