Tour de France 2012: Mark Cavendish focused on Games It brings extra motivation. That is why I am changing [my training]. I will not be as successful in the Tour de France as I have been in the past. Cavendish, who will compete in the Olympic race just six days after the Tour ends on July 22, has been forced to adapt because of the demands of the road race course for London 2012, which will include nine ascents of Box Hill in Surrey. The training is already paying off. On Sunday, Cavendish enjoyed the first general classification win of his career at the Ster ZLM Toer in Holland. It was a benchmark in my career. I knew it was possible to do. It is absolutely important [to have won that before the Olympics]. The Olympic organisers originally had a flatter route but it was rejected by the UCI (International Cycling Union). If Box Hill was in the Tour de France, it would not even be categorised as a climb. So one time of Box Hill, it's not categorised. Four times, yes, you're starting to feel the hill. Six, seven. Hmmmm. And nine times, yes, it's a climb. It is not going to be a bunch sprint at the end. There will be a group of less than 50 riders at the finish and I have to be there with those guys. Cavendish's chances of multiple Tour stage victories may also suffer because he has joined Team Sky, where there will be as much emphasis on Bradley Wiggins's attempt to become the first Briton to win the Tour as on Cavendish's sprinting. Always in the past I have had a team dedicated to me, and Bradley has always had a team dedicated to him. But this time it will be different for both of us. They won't be specialists as they have been before," said Cavendish, during an interview for the Nolan Partners Sports Industry Breakfast Club on Tuesday. Cavendish's training regime, which has seen him discard "sugars and fizzy drinks" and only eat pasta during competitions, has been accompanied by a belated conversion to sports science. He said: "I never used to listen to a sports scientist who would tell me how to train when they hadn't ever been on a bike. They used to do all these tests and come back to me and say "you're ****." They shouldn't compare me with someone else. I am a different rider. The sports scientists we have now are fantastic so my training is more controlled. But I still have certain rules of my own. I won't cross the same road twice during a ride. I have a bowl of Special K in the morning with rice milk. My body responds well to rice and Special K is made of rice. Then I go out and ride anywhere between 2 hours and 7 hours, 60 to 200 kilometres per day. I vary my training, Last week in Italy I did an 11km hill climb five times. Cavendish said he was delighted at David Millar's decision to make himself available for the Olympics. Millar became eligible after a British team by-law which prevented serious drug cheats from competing at the Olympics was declared unenforceable. "It is not for me to comment on the decision of the court but Millar is, I would say, more than essential to the road race team and I'm delighted he will be available," said Cavendish, who has always insisted cycling should be given credit for confronting its drug problems, claiming other sports "sweep it under the carpet." That there will be less than a week between the end of the Tour and the Olympic road race has led to speculation Cavendish may not complete the Tour, but he says his obligation to sponsors like Sky means he will take the race as seriously as ever. He said: "Doing both the Olympics and the Tour isn't easy but it is possible. The Tour is my job. Commercially if a sponsor puts in money the Tour de France is the big deal so I have to do it. I want to do it. It is what my season's about. I have to display my sponsor's logo. There's no better way to display your sponsor's logo than going over the line with your hands in the air.