Mark Cavendish

Mark Renshaw briefly stepped out of the shadow of HTC-Highroad teammmate Mark Cavendish to win the fifth stage of the Tour of Britain on Thursday.

Mark Cavendish (HTC-Highroad) made a winning start to the Tour of Britain with a classy sprint victory in the opening stage in Scotland on Sunday.

Mark Cavendish makes a long-awaited return to the Tour of Britain on Sunday, determined to make his mark on the event after a four-year absence.

HTC-Highroad sport director Jens Zemke said Cavendish was spent from the effort of the first four days of racing. "He had nothing left. He was totally empty," Zemke told VeloNews. "He said he was so tired he could have fallen asleep in the car. It was 40C on the road today. He had no more power and could not continue."

Great Britain's Mark Cavendish won the Olympic road race test event in London on Sunday.

Tyler Farrar and Mark Cavendish are among the top riders participating in a test event this weekend held on the course to be featured in the 2012 London Olympic Games.

With the collapse of the HTC-Highroad team at the end of the 2011 season, all eyes are on where cycling's most productive sprinter will land next year.

Bob Stapleton, owner of HTC-Highroad, confirmed Thursday that he was unable to secure a satisfactory sponsorship partner to carry the team forward at the competitive and ethical level that he and his staff wanted.

LONDON (AFP) - British rider Mark Cavendish told the BBC on Tuesday that his best chance yet of winning the world road race title would come in Copenhagen in September. He also said he has chosen a team for next year, but declined to identify the team.

Sprint king Mark Cavendish (HTC-Highroad) became only the second Briton to step onto the Tour de France podium after securing the green jersey with his fifth stage win of this year's race on the final day.

Cadel Evans (BMC Racing Team) became the first Australian to win the 2011 Tour de France on Sunday as Mark Cavendish (HTC-Highroad) took the final stage on the Champs-Élysées.

COL du GALIBIER, France (AFP) - British sprint king Mark Cavendish survived being eliminated from the Tour de France after the epic 18th stage to the Col du Galibier Thursday.

SAINT-PAUL-TROIS-CHATEAUX, France (VN) — Mark Cavendish's fourth stage win Sunday didn't sit well with some of the other top sprinters who couldn't hold back their frustration that perhaps Cavendish made it through Saturday's brutal climbing stage up Plateau de Beille with something more than his own two legs.

SAINTE CÉCILE LES VIGNES, France (VN) - Four days in the mountains and a Belgian classics rider lie in the way of Mark Cavendish and his green jersey dreams. As the Tour de France heads for its final week in the Alps, Cavendish (HTC-Highroad) is closer now than ever to taking the maillot vert home, but he’ll have to outdo two rivals and 12 categorized climbs to stand on the podium in Paris in green.

if other teams don't want to ride for a sprint, what's the point of bringing a sprinter here?” asks Mark Cavendish. "If I was in a team that didn't want to ride for a sprint, it would be a bit of a knock to my ego. A sprinter is a bit of an egotistical person, you know."

Mark Cavendish delivers once more after Philippe Gilbert tries to steal a march on the sprinters in the final kilometers.

LAVAUR, France (AFP) - Britain's Mark Cavendish moved to quash speculation of another sprint clash with Frenchman Romain Feillu after claiming his third stage win of this year's Tour de France Wednesday.

CARMAUX, France (VN) — André Greipel won't tell you how much Tuesday's stage victory meant to him. He didn't have to, his triumphant fist and scream at the finish line said it all.

Mark Cavendish won Friday's marathon 218-kilometer race from Le Mans to Châteauroux, the last sprinter's stage before the race enters the Massif Central this weekend.

LISIEUX, France (AFP) — Italian cycling great Mario Cipollini says Britain's Mark Cavendish is the strongest sprinter in the world, but believes the Tour de France star still has lots to learn.

LISIEUX, France (AFP) — Despite the temptation, Britain's Mark Cavendish is likely put nostalgia to one side when he saddles up for a pop at his second stage win of the Tour de France Friday.

CAP FREHEL, France (VN) —With 800m to go in Wednesday's crash-filled fifth stage, Rolf Aldag thought that HTC-Highroad had blown another chance at victory.

Mark Cavendish won Wednesday’s stage 5 of the 2011 Tour de France, a 164.5-kilometer race from Carhaix to Cap Fréhel.

REDON, France (AFP) - Mark Cavendish warned his Tour de France sprint rivals not to write him off after the Briton was forced to play second fiddle to American Tyler Farrar on the race's third stage Monday.

REDON, France, July 4, 2011 (AFP) - Tour de France organizers punished Mark Cavendish and Thor Hushovd for a mid-stage tussle by stripping the pair of the points they won at the intermediate sprint on the race's third stage Monday.

The HTC sprinter says fans and media don't understand how hard it is to win a stage.

Cav on VeloNews.com's Tour de France video diarist Eisel: “He’s one of the few people who can tell me to shut up”

SERFAUS, Austria (AFP) - HTC-Highroad is looking for Mark Cavendish to step up and contend the final sprint stage of the Tour of Switzerland after two no-shows in the race so far.

TOBEL-TAGERSCHEN, Switzerland (AFP) - American cycling team HTC-Highroad officials say they still hope to keep top British sprinter Mark Cavendish on board as reports of his move to Team Sky resurfaced Thursday.

TERAMO, Italy (VN) – Mark Cavendish wasn’t about to leave the Giro d’Italia without winning at least one stage. But going into Tuesday’s short but fast 10th stage from Termoli to Teramo, time was running out. There were only two real chances left for sprinters and the pressure was on.

TERAMO, Italy (VN) – Controversy follows Mark Cavendish like a “marching band,” but it was more like a Mack truck Tuesday as riders accused him of taking tows on Mount Etna’s stage on Sunday.

HTC-Highroad's Mark Cavendish won his sixth career Giro stage on Tuesday, rising to the occasion despite allegations that he was towed up part of Sunday's final climb. The Manxster outkicked nemesis Alessandro Petacchi in the final meters of one of the last sprinter stages of this Tour of Italy.

ROME (AFP) — British sprint king Mark Cavendish has been accused by two Giro d'Italia rivals of being towed up Mount Etna in Sunday's stage.

In an exclusive feature, Origins, in the June issue of VeloNews magazine, Tom Boonen, Mark Cavendish, Heinrich Haussler, George Hincapie, Michael Rogers, Andy Schleck and Jens Voigt reveal their paths into the sport, from aspiring junior to the podium steps of the sport’s biggest races.

Mark Cavendish blasts race commissaires and officials after losing the stage-two sprint to Alessandro Petacchi, suggesting he is being “singled out” when it comes to jury decisions.

Mark Cavendish and Marco Pinotti headline HTC-Highroad’s Giro d’Italia squad that will be looking to win stages in all terrain. While the team doesn’t have a strong GC candidate to win the Giro outright, the team will bring a mix of riders who can win stages in sprints, breakaways and time trials.

At the ripe age of 25, Mark Cavendish has already amassed a wealth of experience at the world’s biggest races. He’s won Tour stages, Giro stages, Milan-San Remo and a host of one-day events. Yet he’s never done Paris-Roubaix.

SCHOTEN, Belgium (AFP) - Mark Cavendish (HTC-Highroad) won Wednesday's Scheldeprijs in a sprint ahead of Russian Denis Galimzyanov (Katusha) and Yauheni Hutarovich (FdJ).

MILAN (VN) — Mark Cavendish was focused Friday afternoon when he met the press ahead of Saturday’s Milan-San Remo. The 2009 winner of the season’s first one-day monument will share leadership duties for HTC-Highroad with the up-and-coming Matt Goss.

A close look at the new Specialized Venge aero bike Cavendish and others will ride Saturday

With the 2009 winner and the most successful sprinter of the 2011 season, HTC-Highroad will enter Saturday’s Milan-San Remo, the first of the spring classics, with two viable options.

TERNI, Italy (VN) — It’s not time to hit the Mark Cavendish panic button just yet. So says HTC-Highroad sports director Valerio Piva.

Cav on hometown fame, Brazilian driver charged

Though Mark Cavendish has been relatively quiet so far this season, HTC-Highroad brass is confident that their ace sprinter is poised for a brilliant season.

HTC-Highroad's Mark Cavendish scored a sprint victory in the final stage of the 2011 Tour of Oman as Robert Gesink wraps up the overall.

Haussler v. Cav'; Contador's mystery meat; Bauer dreams big

Cavendish and others are using the new Shimano Di2 shift option at the Tour Down Under

ADELAIDE, Australia (AFP) — British sprint king Mark Cavendish had to pick his way through traffic to finish in the Tour Down Under Thursday, leaving officials red-faced at the third stage of the event.

Why are the marquee sprinters at the Santos Tour Down Under not in winning form?

HTC-High Road's Mark Cavendish declined to be drawn into a pre-race verbal battle with sprint rival Andre Greipel on Saturday as the two prepared for a historic duel in Australia this week.

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The HTC-HighRoad rider will battle Andre Greipel for stage wins at the Australian race in 2011.

Mark Cavendish says he's not getting the love he thinks he deserves from HTC-Columbia and hints that his relationship with the team has soured.

Mark Cavendish might be able to walk down the street in New Delhi without being recognized, but slip him into the athlete’s village at the Commonwealth Games and he gets mobbed.

From Gilbert to Cavendish, a look at the favorites for the elite men's road race.

The team leader says the U.S. has fielded one of its strongest world championship teams ever.

Dave Brailsford says Cavendish could win if circumstances are right. But he's got a Plan B, as well

The British sprinter says he's revising his goals after seeing the worlds course in person

Despite reluctance from other athletes — and reports of snakes in dorms and collapsing bridges — Mark Cavendish says he'd like another medal from the Commonwealth Games.

The team won two stages at the Vuelta, four stages and the overall at the Tour of Britain, two stages and the overall at the Giro di Toscana, and took victories at Belgium's Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen and the GP Isbergues in France.

The 2010 Vuelta a España wrapped up Sunday with an thrilling sprint victory by Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Transitions) that capped what most agree was the most exciting and demanding Vuelta in years.

Farrar wins the final stage in Madrid and Nibali secures the overall

HTC-Columbia speedster out-kicks Saxo Bank's J.J. Haedo and Footon's Manuel Cardoso.

Tyler Farrar called accusations by Mark Cavendish that he’s receiving help in the sprints from Belgian rider Wouter Weylandt “ridiculous.”

Cavendish hits his groove, outkicking Thor Hushovd for the win in stage 13

Mark Cavendish bounces off a perfect lead-out to coast across the line, while Farrar fights for second.

The Omega Pharma-Lotto strongman attacks for the win in the final kilometer as a daylong break comes to naught.

Yauheni Hutarovich — the lanterne rouge of the 2009 Tour de France — claims his first grand-tour victory ahead of race leader Mark Cavendish and Tyler Farrar.

HTC-Columbia set the early top time in the nighttime stage and it withstood challenges from Liquigas-Doimo and Saxo Bank.

Alberto Contador probably won't show, but the third-best man in the Tour, Denis Menchov, is signed up.

Petacchi secures the green jersey as Cavendish repeats his 2009 final-stage win. Contador rolls safely to his Tour win.

Cavendish comes off Cervelo and Petacchi to take his 14th Tour stage. Garmin's Dean is second and the GC stars cross rest up for the Saturday TT.

Mark Cavendish handily won the field sprint behind Astana’s Alexandre Vinokourov, moving up in the points standing at the Tour de France.

Updated with Renshaw's statement: 'I am extremely disappointed and also surprised'

Thursday's win breaks the sprinters' record of a dozen Tour victories, held by Mario Cipollini, Erik Zabel and Robbie McEwen.

Cavendish wins his 13th career Tour stage, but his lead-out man Renshaw is thrown out of the race for head-butting Julian Dean.

Chasing points or stage wins, the sprinter teams are gearing up for battle in Thursday's stage 11

Cavendish gets back on track and goes two-in-a-row in France. Farrar is second.