Cavendish Sprints to Victory

Britain’s World Champion Mark Cavendish emphatically won the 2^nd stage of the Giro d’Italia, powering through the bunched sprint.

“It’s a new team (SKY) for me this year, some of the riders here hadn’t worked with me before as a squad, but races like these Grand Tours are the ones I thrive in.” Cavendish said.

Winning the 2^nd stage – a 128 mile loop which started and finished in the Danish town of Herning, he won his eighth career stage victory in the Giro. In the past it has taken Mark a day or two to find his sprinting legs in a Grand Tour having only won at the first attempt in Brignoles in the 2009 Tour de France.

Mark looked in danger of being boxed in, in the closing stages but once again his Welsh team-mate Geraint Thomas did a fantastic job of delivering him to the line.

Taylor Phinney (BMC) retains the Maglia Rosa despite dropping his chain 8.1km from the finish.