The South-African based team also announced they were hiring
Australian Mark Renshaw and Austrian Bernhard Eisel, two former
team mates of Cavendish who will be tasked with setting him up
in the sprints.
Cavendish, who is joining from Etixx-Quick Step, won the road
race at the world championships in 2011.
He has 26 Tour de France stage wins to his name.
(Reporting by Julien Pretot; Editing by Sudipto Ganguly)
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