Cycling TOUR DE FRANCE: MARK CAVENDISH WAIVES AFTER FALL

The Tour de France is over after the first step for Mark Cavendish. Rider of Omega Pharma-Quick Step, Cavendish who fell 250m from the finish, will not be at the start of the second stage York and Sheffield. The Briton, who won 25 stages in the Tour, suffered an injury at his right shoulder: “acromioclavicular Severance ” revealed the diagnosis after an X-ray and ultrasound assessment.

The dream of seizing the stage win record on the Tour de France for Mark Cavendish therefore breaks in the hometown of his mother. He is the first in the group of 198 competitors in this 101th edition forced to give up. If he has 25 stage wins, Cavendish had won at heart to clinch this first step and then endorse for the first time the yellow jersey in this step filled with symbol for him.

But at the time of sparking off, everything collapses for him. “It was my fault,” he had said in a statement released by his team OPQS yesterday. “I personally apologize to Simon Gerrans-one of the other two (with the French Julien Simon)-runners dragged on the ground as soon as I have the opportunity, he added. In fact, I tried to slip in a passage that did not exist. I wanted so much to win.” 

So it’s without Mark Cavendish that the section with its his yellow jersey Marcel Kittel, will tackle the second stage, a grueling 201 km journey between York and Sheffield.


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