Cavendish gets more from Giro
Mark Cavendish bagged his second stage win in this year’s Giro d’Italia after a sprint finish on the 11th stage from Turin to Arenzano yesterday.
American Tyler Farrar snatched second as Alessandro Petacchi, the Briton’s big sprint rival, came in third after getting boxed in racing to the line.
Petacchi’s LPR team-mate and Italian compatriot Danilo Di Luca, the 2007 winner, kept the race lead for a seventh straight stage, staying one minute 20 seconds ahead of Rabobank’s Denis Menchov of Russia. Cavendish, pictured, held the pink jersey after day one’s team time trial and won Sunday’s controversial ninth stage in Milan, where times were not added to the overall classification after riders said the city centre course was too dangerous.
Having won March’s Milan-San Remo Classic, Cavendish knew the finish well but was unaware Petacchi had been impeded. “As long as it doesn’t affect me, it’s OK,” he said. “It’s amazing when you smell the finish line. The team again did the perfect job for me.”
