Tour De France race leader Bradley Wiggins has paid tribute to the amount of work being done by Mark Cavendish in order to help the team to victory.
At HTC, the team was geared to help Cavendish win as many stages as possible. However, now he is riding for Team Sky the priorities are different.
Cavendish has been fetching bidons or taking long turns on the front of the peloton and Bradley Wiggins said:
“Mark has been fantastic these last two and a half weeks. He's been so committed to my cause – to the yellow jersey – and he's a great champion and a great friend.
"Obviously there is still the stage to Paris for him and we're going to lay it down in Paris for him and try and get him the win there.
"He's also got the Olympic road race which he's been quite open about: that's his main objective this year, so it's a shame that he hasn't had the chance to race for more stage wins but in the end we've got a difficult task on our hands to try and win the yellow jersey.
"So far, he's played a big part in that. We've seen him going back for bottles and, yesterday, he tried really hard to get over that first climb with us... he's also been an absolute gentleman this week."
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