Yellow, gold and glory. Mark Cavendish has three goals for 2016 and the first comes at the Tour de France, where he has won 26 stages in his glittering career.
The 31-year-old from the Isle of Man will discover if the second is within reach on Friday, when the Olympic team is announced for Rio, where he hopes to compete for the so-far elusive medal in the omnium.
The third is regaining the Road World Championship title and with it the rainbow jersey he won in 2011 in Copenhagen. That takes place in Qatar in October.
First is the quest for another prize which Cavendish has lusted after and which has so far been unattainable - the Tour leader's yellow jersey.
Cavendish, as he often explains, can win stages, but he will never win the Tour - the fabled maillot jaune is won in the mountains, where his battle is one of survival.
Four times in a row, from 2009 until 2012, he survived before capping the Tour with victory on the final stage in Paris, winning the points classification's green jersey in 2011.
He is widely considered the best sprinter in the race's history and has won more stages than everyone bar Eddy Merckx (34) and Bernard Hinault (28), both five-time overall winners. The Tour organisers want to reward him.
Twice in recent years the opening stage has been designed for the sprinters, giving Cavendish an opportunity to take the race leader's yellow jersey.
Twice Marcel Kittel has proven to be Cavendish's nemesis. The German powered to victory amid the mayhem caused by the Orica-GreenEdge bus being stuck at the finish line to win in Bastia in 2013.
And Cavendish appeared to want victory so much in his mother's hometown of Harrogate a year later that he crashed out in pursuit of victory. Kittel screeched over the finish line in front once again.
Those results suggested to some that Cavendish is a fading force. But it would be foolish to write off the man whose record of Tour stage wins reads: 2008 - four, 2009 - six, 2010 - five, 2011 - five, 2012 - three, 2013 - two, 2015 - one.
At Utah Beach on July 2, at the end of the opening stage from Mont-Saint-Michel, Cavendish will hope it is he who finishes arms aloft.
Kittel's compatriot Andre Greipel is another contender at a venue with historic relevance.
Utah Beach was the code name for one of the five sectors of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on June 6, 1944, during World War II.
Cavendish has been told he cannot complete the Tour for his Dimension Data team if he wishes to race in the Olympics.
Should Cavendish take yellow at the third time of asking, leaving the Tour will be a little easier.
After the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, when he finished ninth in the Madison with Bradley Wiggins, he vowed never to finish the Tour early again.
But if he is to achieve his second summer's goal, he has been told he must return his focus to the track and to integrate with the team pursuit squad.
If he claims yellow, Cavendish would travel to Rio believing he can achieve anything.
Source: PA-WIRE
