Cavendish was left with a collapsed lung and two broken ribs from his fall in Kuipke in Ghent. However, the rehabilitation went well and at the beginning of January the 36-year-old Briton again joined his team’s training camp in Calpe, Spain. He extended his contract with the Belgian team for a year last winter.
Cavendish already won a stage in the Tour of Oman in 2011.