Cavendish targets Tour green jersey and worlds in 2010

Top sprinter Mark Cavendish will focus this year on becoming the first British winner of the Tour de France's green jersey and on the road world championships in October.

"Last year it wasn't a failure for me not to win the green (points) jersey, although I was disappointed," Cavendish told reporters at his HTC-Columbia team launch in Mallorca, Spain.

"But this year if I don't win it, it will be a failure. From now on until I retire, in the Tour the green jersey will always be my biggest aim."

Cavendish, the six times stage winner of the 2009 Tour including on Paris's Champs Elysees, said he would also concentrate on the road world championships.

"The world championships (road-race) is also a massive, massive focus for me," he said.

"Just thinking about pulling on the (winner's) rainbow jersey gives me goosebumps."

Cavendish ruled out taking part in the October 3-14 Commonwealth Games, saying the Paris-Tours Classic, which clashes with the Games, was a bigger objective.

"I made the mistake of putting national pride ahead of my career in the 2008 Olympics and I'm not going to do that again," he said.

Asked if he might consider a change to new British team Sky in the future, Cavendish said his current squad, HTC-Columbia, gave him the ideal support to win races.