Sky seek compensation as Mark Cavendish misses out on Tour of Britain stage two victory Cavendish's departure underlines Sky's intention to concentrate on Grand Tours in the future and follows Brailsford hinting after this year's Tour de France that a new goal could be to win all three Grand Tours in the same season, something that has never been achieved by one team. For that to happen, one of his two main general-classification riders - Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome - would have to ride the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España while the other concentrates on the Tour de France. No decisions will be made until the 2013 Tour de France route has been announced, and then scouted, but it raises the intriguing possibility of Wiggins not riding the Tour de France next year. Brailsford was on holiday in Majorca recently but kept eye on Chris Froome's performance at the Vuelta, where he rode as the Sky team leader, finishing fourth a month after his superb second place in the Tour de France behind Wiggins. "Winning consecutive Tours is going to be very difficult for anybody now but I think a rider can still win the Tour of Italy and Spain," Brailsford said. The Vuelta this year was a great lesson for Chris on the big stage, picking up the baton and running with it. You can be No2 in the factory as much as you want but when that No1 walks away and gives you the keys and says, "You are opening up tomorrow," it's a totally different experience. That's what Chris has just had. He did remarkably well and has learnt a lot and showed his tenacity. It would have been easy for him to capitulate in the second week but he ground his way through. When you match that up with his physical ability, you can see how he has performed so consistently. He is still relatively young in Grand Tour experience. Meanwhile, the Tour of Britain continues in Scotland on Tuesday after Cavendish's narrow defeat by Australia's Leigh Howard on stage two cost him a 10-second win bonus and the leader's jersey. Boy van Poppel takes over that mantle, with Luke Rowe the best-placed British rider in third.