Mark Cavendish to make return to track at Rio Games? Cavendish, who made his name on the track where he won the Madison world title alongside Rob Hayles in 2005 before switching to road cycling, quit the velodrome less than a year after his disappointing outing at the 2008 Beijing Games when he was the only member of Team GB's track squad not to win a medal. The Briton made his last international appearance on the track in 2009 alongside Madison partner Peter Kennaugh at the Track Cycling World Championships in Pruszkow, Poland, before making a one-off return at the Revolution series at the Manchester Velodrome in 2011. Event organisers of the International Belgian Open, though, have announced that Cavendish will enter the scratch race and the Madison, alongside compatriot Owain Doull, at the two-day meeting in Ghent, Cycling Weekly has reported. Following International Cycling Union rule changes, riders are now responsible for earning enough qualifying points for UCI World Cup meetings and subsequent World Championship and Olympic events. With the International Belgian Open carrying qualifying points for the UCI World Cup, the first round of which is in Manchester in November, Cavendish's inclusion in the starting line-up would suggest that the 28-year-old is considering a return to international track cycling. Meanwhile, it is expected that Sylvain Chavanel, Cavendish's Omega-Pharma-Quick Step team-mate, will join UCI ProContinental team IAM Cycling next season after the Frenchman confirmed that he would be leaving the Belgian squad at the end of this season, saying he was joining "a team that will announce the news on Thursday."