Britain's Mark Cavendish adds Milan-San Remo to 2012 target list Cavendish's quiz teaser underlines the extent to which Sky have recruited from Cavendish's team over the past two or three years although, unusually, his memory let him down. Only four of his HTC High Road team-mates during that triumph are at Sky: Michael Barry, Bernard Eisel, Thomas Lovkvist and Edvald Boasson Hagen. Only remants of the HTC "train" remain together but they are in full working order. Not that setting up a Sky train is an issue. Cavendish feels getting that is more a mental exercise once you have a squad of world-class riders. The HTC teamwork was replicated at the World Championships by GB with a team that hadn't even ridden together properly before. If a team truly believe in the job they are doing, they will put their heart and soul in it. If eight people work well and the ninth person messes up, even if the other eight have been in the best riders in the world that day, none will get the recognition they deserve. But if eight do an oustanding job and the ninth person finishes off that job, the whole team gets the success. We were a group of friends who went through a lot together at HTC and it was the same at the worlds. GB were a group of friends who had one goal and we were willing to die for each other for that. I believe in the guys we have in Sky - I know many of them as old friends - and I believe we can achieve the same results if not better this year and next. Cavendish does not expect be blessed with a lead-out man of the calibre of HTC old boy Mark Renshaw but Geraint Thomas - not available for this year's Tour de France and Olympic road race because of track commitments - might go very close. "Mark Renshaw as a last man can never be replaced," Cavendish said. He was a sprinter before he worked with me. He got the odd result but he made his name working with me because we go got on so well together. He is the best in the world. But I am confident we will be successful. I have won plenty of races without Mark. Of the five Tour stages this year, I won two without Mark and I got second to [André] Greipel in another stage without Mark as well. It's not as if you always need a lead-out man but it does make your job much easier. It's more the mental stress that he takes away from you. That stress that causes you more fatigue than physical exertion. The Tour and Olympics provide the main focus for 2012, though the course for the latter is towards the outer limit of Cavendish's range, with nine climbs around the Box Hill circuit. With teams of only six riders, it is also a notoriously difficult race to control. A further complication is that Sky's Brad Wiggins, with his individual time-trail just a couple of days later, may have to play a more restricted role than he did at the worlds last year. "Only five of us did the full circuit in the world road championships," Cavendish said. The Olympics is always going to be tougher than the World Championships because you only have five riders but it's the same for every country. We're going to have to approach it differently. With the structure we had at the World Championship, it worked out pretty simple. It wasn't simple to win but the structure was a simple plan. It's going to be more complicated in the Olympics but Great Britain have riders capable of doing it.