Aldag and Ryder clash over Mark Cavendish's Tour de France non-selection

The drama following Mark Cavendish's non-selection for this year's Tour de France showed no signs of subsiding after Dimension Data team manager Doug Ryder and head of performance Rolf Aldag publicly aired their differing opinions over the inclusion of the sprinter before the start of stage 1.

Daniel Benson

Daniel Benson was the Editor in Chief at Cyclingnews.com between 2008 and 2022. Based in the UK, he joined the Cyclingnews team in 2008 as the site's first UK-based Managing Editor. In that time, he reported on over a dozen editions of the Tour de France, several World Championships, the Tour Down Under, Spring Classics, and the London 2012 Olympic Games. With the help of the excellent editorial team, he ran the coverage on Cyclingnews and has interviewed leading figures in the sport including UCI Presidents and Tour de France winners.