The highs and lows of Mark Cavendish's Etixx-QuickStep career

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The highs and lows of Mark Cavendish’s Etixx-QuickStep career

Rollercoaster three years with Belgian super team comes to an end

HIGH - national champion 2013

  • Mark Cavendish, Omega Pharma-Quickstep, blue jersey, podium, pic: Sirotti

    Mark Cavendish's time with the QuickStep team has been a rollercoaster ride (Pic: Sirotti)

  • Mark Cavendish, Giro d'Italia, stage 21, salute, pic: Stefano Sirotti

    Mark Cavendish picked up the red jersey at the 2013 Giro d'Italia thanks to five stage wins (pic: Sirotti)

  • Cavendish claimed the British champion's jersey in 2013 after victory in Glasgow (Pic: Vaughn Ridley/SWPix.com)

  • Mark Cavendish and Peter Sagan, Tour de France 2013, stage ten, finish, pic: ©Stefano Sirotti

    Cavendish finished third on stage ten of the Tour de France and was sprayed with urine the following day after some 'fans' believed the Manx Missile to have caused Tom Veelers' crash (Pic: Sirotti)

  • Mark Cavendish, Tour de France, 2013, stage 13

    Cavendish's stage 13 victory in 2013 showed him at his very best, as he beat the crosswinds to claim victory (Pic: Sirotti)

  • Marcel Kittel, Mark Cavendish, pic: Bruno Bade/ASO

    Marcel Kittel and Mark Cavendish are just two riders set for new teams in 2016 (Pic: Bruno Bade/ASO)

  • Mark Cavendish, crash, Tour de France, stage one, Harrogate, pic: Simon Wilkinson/SWpix.com

    Cavendish nurses his shoulder after crashing in Harrogate - the Manxman wants to finally pull on the yellow jersey at this year's Tour (Pic: Simon Wilkinson/SWpix.com)

  • Mark Cavendish, Dubai Tour, blue jersey, podium, Circle of Stars, Etixx-QuickStep, 2015, pic: Claudio Peri/ANSA

    Mark Cavendish celebrates with the blue jersey and Circle of Stars trophy at the Dubai Tour (Pic: Claudio Peri/ANSA)

  • Mark Cavendish, Elia Viviani, Andre Greipel, sprint, Wrexham, Tour of Britain, 2015, stage one, pic - The Tour

    Elia Viviani beat Mark Cavendish by the narrowest of margins on the Wrexham finale of stage one of the 2015 Tour of Britain. Cavendish later crashed out of the race (Pic: The Tour)

HIGH - national champion 2013

Less than a month after his Giro d’Italia success, Cavendish won another prized jersey for the first time – this time adding the British national title to his palmares.

On the punchy Glasgow circuit, Cavendish had just one Omega Pharma-QuickStep team-mate in the race, but home favourite Andy Fenn proved a willing, and capable, ally.

The Scot set the early pace, which was sufficient to see a six-man group of Cavendish, Fenn, Ian Stannard, Peter Kennaugh, Ben Swift and David Millar go clear – never to be seen again by the peloton.

Cavendish was in superb form and took the circuit’s short, steep climbs in his stride. As the race reached its denouement, Swift and Fenn has fallen back and Kennaugh was dropped on an attack-filled final lap, leaving the race Cavendish’s to lose.

And sure enough, the Manxman made no mistake, outsprinting Stannard in the finale to ensure he would roll out for the Tour de France in the red, white and blue stripes of British champion.

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