Cycling: Cavendish aims to be in the pink

Friday 27 April 2012 21:38 BST

Team Sky's Mark Cavendish (Reuters)

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Team Sky's Mark Cavendish has targeted the leader's jersey and victory in the team time trial at the Giro d'Italia next month.

The Manx cyclist heads a nine-man squad for the race, which begins in Denmark on 5 May before moving to Italy.

It will be the first time Cavendish has ridden for Team Sky in a Grand Tour event since joining them.

"We want to win the team time trial and hopefully that will get us the pink jersey – if we could achieve that it would be a massive honour," he said. "It should be a really good three weeks."

Cavendish, who moved to Team Sky at the beginning of the season, has been competing with Bradley Wiggins in the Tour de Romandie, which finishes tomorrow.

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