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The award is also, no doubt incidentally, a celebration of Cavendish's exuberant personality: this is not, repeat not, Nigel Mansell on a bike.

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She has found herself on the outside of British Cycling's charmed circle, a position underlined by her performance in the World Championships in Copenhagen last autumn, when she was heavily criticised for a lack of team spirit that, it was said, lay behind a failure to match Cavendish's historic success in the men's race the following day.

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The only excitement came with Cavendish's dash a few hundred yards from the finish for his third stage victory in this race.

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They could have relied instead on Cavendish's intelligence, and his ability to shut down the discussion by pointing out that since transfers cannot be announced before August, he was unable to shed light on the matter.

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As the countdown to the Games continues, retail sector watchers at investment bank Barclays Capital think 2012 will be big for both Cavendish's professional racing outfit, Team Sky, and the general public, who are embracing the grassroots Sky Ride campaign, which aims to get a million more people cycling regularly by next year.

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There are other subtexts to Cavendish's early start and full programme.

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The head of Marshall Cavendish's publishing group said the sale would let the company focus on K-12 textbooks and assessment-books business in the U.S. and on expanding its school education publishing businesses globally.

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The pair built lengthy lists of victories, with Cavendish's the better for quality, but this summer Greipel finally switched squads after it became clear to him that he would never be let into the biggest races as long as he was on Cavendish's team.

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Why, for example, should Mark Cavendish's handlers have banned questions, at a press conference three months ago, about his possible move to Team Sky?

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