{"id":82214,"date":"2015-07-14T15:01:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T13:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/?p=82214"},"modified":"2015-07-14T15:01:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T13:01:59","slug":"battle-for-the-green-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2015\/07\/14\/battle-for-the-green-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle for the Green Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Let\u2019s sum up what\u2019s happened so far in the fight for the Green Jersey in this year\u2019s Tour. And don\u2019t forget to enter our <a href=\"www.welovecycling.com\/appen\" target=\"_blank\">Tour de France contest<\/a> for a chance to win the actual Green Jersey signed by every rider who wore it during the Tour<\/strong>!<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Peter Sagan in the lead<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Time for Mark Cavendish<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>New rules for sprinters in this year\u2019s Tour<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Peter Sagan (Tinkoff-Saxo) is running out of stages. In an almost complete repeat of 2014, the Slovakian pulled on\u00a0a Green Jersey without even winning a stage.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-82220\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2015\/07\/profimedia-0252606502-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Three second places, two thirds and a fourth have seen Sagan pull ahead of Andr\u00e9 Greipel in the points classification, but he once again seemed to let opportunity slip away with a fourth place finish in Saturday\u2019s Stage 8 after the other sprinters had already fallen away.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Chris Froome (Team Sky) held on to the Yellow Jersey by 11 seconds over Sagan.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Cav Returns<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Mark Cavendish is considered one of the finest sprinters of his generation, possibly even the best. Entering the 2015 Tour de France, he was third in all-time stage wins, with 25 total victories.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-82221\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2015\/07\/profimedia-0252563994-600x406.jpg\" alt=\"Fougeres Tour de France Stage 7 10th of July 2015\" width=\"600\" height=\"406\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But the last time Cavendish won a stage was Stage 13 of the 2013 Tour de France (last year he crashed in Harrogate on the opening day).\u00a0Although he hasn\u2019t lacked for victories since then, he hasn\u2019t taken them like he did in his early years, leading to whispers that he\u2019s been eclipsed by riders like Sagan, Alexander Kristoff or Marcel Kittel as the best sprinter in cycling.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s Stage 7 win has pushed back strongly against these stories. In a classic field sprint, Cavendish did what he does best, fighting through traffic to give himself a clean line to the finish, where he proved unbeatable. That win puts him in third place going into Stage 10 from Tarbes to La Pierre-Saint-Martin.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>New Sprinting Rules<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Starting this year the Tour will award more points to the winner of a flat stage and less to the second and third place finishers. Previously the top three places were awarded 45, 35 and 30 points respectively. Now they are awarded 50, 30 and 20 points. This means that the rider who wins the stage will have a greater advantage over the others, bringing pure sprinters back into contention for the Green Jersey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s sum up what\u2019s happened so far in the fight for the Green Jersey in this year\u2019s Tour. And don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":82223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[329],"tags":[],"global-categories":[],"class_list":["post-82214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-road-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>Battle for the Green Jersey - \u0160koda We Love Cycling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Let\u2019s sum up what\u2019s happened so far in the fight for the Green Jersey in 2015 Tour de France.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2015\/07\/14\/battle-for-the-green-jersey\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Battle for the Green Jersey\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Let\u2019s sum up what\u2019s happened so far in the fight for the Green Jersey in 2015 Tour de France.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2015\/07\/14\/battle-for-the-green-jersey\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"\u0160koda We Love Cycling\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-07-14T13:01:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2015\/07\/opener22.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"525\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"350\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Adam Marsal\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2015\/07\/14\/battle-for-the-green-jersey\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2015\/07\/14\/battle-for-the-green-jersey\/\",\"name\":\"Battle for the Green Jersey - 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