After five days of racing at the Amgen tour of California
Mark Cavendish and Peter Sagan have shared the podium
on four occasions.
And Cavendish, now owns the points jersey that Sagan has won five years in a row.
Before the race got started; we talked to both men
about their relationship with each other
particularly in the context of the coveted, Green Jersey of the Tour de france.
-Talk a little bit about your relationship with Peter Sagan
-We've always got on well, you know
He's a good guy, he's funny and I think
the guys who win a lot of races always, they have this respect for each other
The guys at the top tier,
we all get on really well with each other no matter what discipline we do.
And so yeah, we have a great relationship actually and uh,
yeah we kind of-- we compete against each other but, usually
the races that I'm going to win at he's not going to be second, he'll usually be a bit further down.
And the races he's gonna win at I'm not going to be second I'll be a bit further down.
-You've won the Green Jersey at the Tour de France every year that you've raced the Tour de France
Before that, Mark Cavendish had won the Green Jersey
He's a very fast sprinter, you're also a sprinter
You're very good in the Classics
You're different riders but there's definitely some overlap
Can you talk a little bit about what your relationship with Cavendish is like?
-I think that Mark is more of a sprinter (than) me
But maybe if it's a hard stage, I can be compared with Mark
But it must be a really hard stage not flat (Laughs)
But yeah, relationships with Mark, I think is okay.
(We've known each other) for five years
When I come in the pro five or six years
But you know, in the race he's riding for another team
and me, I'm riding for another team
And then in the race, yeah, we are competitors
But then in normal life, yeah, we speak together
Also yesterday in lobby I was speaking with him (and drank coffee)
We are working in same work, no?
Like, (laughs) same office in the race.
-He's under a lot of pressure at the moment within his team
If you had any words of advice or how to cope with that, what would you say to him?
-I don't know, I've-- I don't know (laughs)
He's a rich young man isn't he(?) so, he should be alright I think.
-For more from the Amgen Tour of California, click up there
To hear Mark Cavendish tell a story about the biggest mistake
mistake he ever made before a race, click down there.
And to subscribe to GCN click on Mark Cavendish, in the Green Jersey of the Amgen tour of California
He looks cold.
I'm cold.
Only one of us is getting kisses on our cheeks though.
