Tour de France 2014

Eisel probably won't be at OPQS (or whatever they are set to be called) next year. Leferve is set to reduce the team by 3 riders, in preparation for the new UCI limit of 22 riders per team by the start of the 2017 season, and he's looking to bring in some young riders who can climb, and is under pressure from Bakala to bring in more Czech riders. Eisel doesn't fit that brief. So unless they are set to dismantle some of the existing sprint train (and Petacchi and Steegmans would be prime candidates to leave) I doubt they'll have room.

And, as Oliver said, Cavendish was disappointed when Eisel chose to stay at Sky in 2013.

Did Eisel have a choice? Cav broke his contract under special dispensation from the team to join OPQS, would Eisel have had the same option? I seem to remember Quickstep would have had to have paid something like £1million to break Cav's contract, but Sky waved it. Since they signed Eisel with Cav did he get the same length, 3 year contract?