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| Cavendish wins Tour de France 15th stage Posted: 17 Jul 2011 08:43 AM PDT
Perfectly set up by his lead-out man Mark Renshaw, the Briton surged with 200m to go before the finish line in Montpellier to easily beat American Tyler Farrar and Italian Alessandro Petacchi. The win, his 19th overall in the Tour de France, strengthened the Manxman's top spot in the race for the green jersey. In the points classification, Cavendish now leads Spaniard Jose Joaquin Rojas by 37 points and Belgian champion Philippe Gilbert by 71 points before the second rest day in this Tour. The overall leader's yellow jersey remained on the back of Frenchman Thomas Voeckler, who finished within the main pack. Voeckler leads Luxembourg's Frank Schleck by one minute and 49 seconds with Australian Cadel Evans third 2:06 behind. The long ride along windy roads from Limoux included a long breakaway involving Dutchman Niki Terpstra, Russian Mikhail Ignatyev and Frenchmen SamuelDumoulin, Mickael Delage and Anthony Delaplace. The last of the escapees, Terpstra, was caught two kilometres from the line. — Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price. |
| Magical Mickelson joins Clarke in the lead Posted: 17 Jul 2011 08:23 AM PDT  Mickelson picked up an early birdie at the second. — Reuters pic American Mickelson has flattered to deceive at the third major of the season, managing just one top-10 finish in 17 previous appearances, but he showed he meant business by racing to the turn in a wind-defying 30 strokes, five under. Ignoring 35-mph gusts, the strongest winds of the week at Royal St George's, and squally showers, Mickelson picked up an early birdie at the second. He then struck a long, raking approach under the breeze at the par-four fourth, one of the most difficult holes on the links course, before knocking in a 15-foot birdie putt. Mickelson, a four-times major winner, picked up another stroke at the sixth before joining Clarke on five-under by coaxing in a 20-foot putt for an eagle three at the seventh. The triple US Masters champion then produced a laser-guided missile of an approach to 12 feet at the eighth but his putt agonisingly lipped out. Mickelson had a chance to go out in a remarkable 29 strokes but his 15-foot birdie putt slipped by the hole at the ninth to leave him five-under for the championship. Clarke opened with a birdie at the second before bogeying the fourth to go back to his overnight position of five-under. In third place on three-under was Clarke's playing partner Dustin Johnson of the US American Rickie Fowler and Thomas Bjorn of Denmark were on two-under through seven holes. — Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price. |
MONTPELLIER, July 17 — Mark Cavendish delivered a textbook sprint in the finale of the 193-km 15th stage of the Tour de France today to snatch his fourth victory in this year's event.| You are subscribed to email updates from The Malaysian Insider :: Sports To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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