World Champions on track at Manchester World Cup

There will be plenty of rainbow jerseys on the boards at the Manchester UCI World Cup this weekend, with World Madison Champions Rob Hayles and Mark Cavendish and World Scratch Race Champion Alex Rasmussen featuring in their respective events.

The madison, considered one of the most spectacular track events, will see three of the top four madison teams from the World Championships competing. Hayles and Cavendish will face tough opposition from Belgians Matt Gilmore and Iljo Keisse, who placed third at the World's, and Russia's Mikhail Ignatiev and Nikolai Troussov, who placed fourth. However, with a number of strong parings from other nations including Alex Rasmussen and Michael Morkov from Denmark, Fabio Masotti and Marco Villa from Italy, Richard England and Sean Finning from Australia, Guido Fulst and Leif Lampater from Germany and Spain's Joan Llaneras and Miguel Alzamora, a podium place will be hard to attain.

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