{"id":184436,"date":"2021-07-07T10:11:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T10:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=184436"},"modified":"2021-07-07T10:11:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T10:11:32","slug":"mark-cavendish-makes-it-three-thanks-to-a-perfect-lead-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2021\/07\/07\/mark-cavendish-makes-it-three-thanks-to-a-perfect-lead-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Cavendish Makes It Three Thanks to a Perfect Lead-Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Manxman took another win which must have felt extra sweet as Cavendish was dropped on this stage back in 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>His third stage win was down to a great team work and the 36-year-old was the first to point that out: \u201cIt was an old school, run of the mill, like you\u2019d read in a cycling magazine, textbook lead-out. Just get the lads on the front as fast as they can so no-one can come past you.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-controller-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Who doesn\u2019t like a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkCavendish?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MarkCavendish<\/a> interview? \ud83d\ude03<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TDF2021?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TDF2021<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w6FdUuD7yH\">pic.twitter.com\/w6FdUuD7yH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Soudal Quick-Step Pro Cycling Team (@soudalquickstep) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/soudalquickstep\/status\/1412494180207796227?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async data-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe knew this finish. I didn\u2019t make it to this finish last time in 2015, I got dropped and Greipel won. We studied that. We knew if you took that last corner wide, you\u2019d keep the speed, and actually it split in the wind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The strength of the Deceuninck &#8211; Quick-Step team really showed on this stage. They stayed comfortably in the front as the wind caused a split in the peloton and then delivered their sprinter in a perfect way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just humbled. You\u2019ve got the winner of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2021\/04\/05\/kasper-asgreen-wins-tour-of-flanders-and-other-cool-news-from-the-world-of-cycling\/\">Tour of Flanders<\/a> [Kasper Asgreen], you\u2019ve got the world champion who\u2019s had the yellow jersey [Julian Alaphilippe], you\u2019ve got Michael M\u00f8rk\u00f8v who\u2019s going to the Olympics, and the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad winner [Davide Ballerini] leaving everything on the road for me. I had to finish it off for them. I didn\u2019t really do anything until 150m. It was the team. I have to thank them.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_184440\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-184440\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2021\/07\/Cavendish-Tour-stage-10-profimedia-0619987104.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-184440 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2021\/07\/Cavendish-Tour-stage-10-profimedia-0619987104.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Cavendish\" width=\"1000\" height=\"678\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-184440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cavendish took his third stage win. \u00a9 Profimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The battle for the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2021\/07\/05\/the-story-of-the-tour-de-france-jerseys-how-the-skoda-green-jersey-came-to-be\/\"> \u0160koda Green Jersey<\/a> continues. Colbrelli and Matthews took the first two positions at the intermediate sprint at the top of a 3km uncategorised climb. Cavendish was nowhere to be seen at that point. However, his stage win meant that he once more extended his lead in the points competition. Will he wear the \u0160koda Green Jersey in Paris? The Manxman is still humble.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t go for the green jersey, I go for stages and hope the green jersey comes from that. I always try and pick up points but I\u2019m not going to put myself over the limit to do it. They\u2019ve gotta try something, it\u2019s bike racing, but I feel like they\u2019ve burnt their matches doing that. My team stayed round me and got me over it. I just needed to get over that climb and I knew I\u2019d be safe for the sprint.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Manxman took another win which must have felt extra sweet as Cavendish was dropped on this stage back in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":184437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[329],"tags":[5389,461,3453,433,5425],"global-categories":[3366],"class_list":["post-184436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-road-cycling","tag-2021-tour","tag-mark-cavendish","tag-skoda-green-jersey","tag-tour-de-france","tag-tour-de-france-2021","global-categories-cycling"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mark Cavendish Makes It Three Thanks to a Perfect Lead-Out - \u0160koda We Love Cycling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Manxman took another win which must have felt extra sweet as Cavendish was dropped on this stage back in 2015. 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