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Cavendish Giro 2022 stage three"I'm just happy I could hold on for that long!": Mark Cavendish WINS stage three of the Giro d'Italia
Mark Cavendish won the opening sprint stage of the Giro d'Italia, surging to victory on stage three ahead of Fernando Gaviria and Arnaud Démare in Balatonfüred.
The Manx Missile was guided to the final three hundred metres by a flawless Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl leadout, with the ever-reliable Michael Mørkøv and Davide Ballerini impressing once again.
As the finish line loomed, none of Gaviria, Démare and Biniam Girmay could come around Cavendish, with the 36-year-old staying in front.
It is his 16th Giro d'Italia stage win, but a first for nine years — his last coming in Brescia in 2013 — and his team's first stage win at the race since 2018.
Speaking after the stage, Cavendish said: "It was really nice. We wanted to get good in this first sprint, we did and I'm very happy.
Ladies and gentleman, Mark Cavendish. #Giro pic.twitter.com/YVNxk96FnA
— Giro d'Italia (@giroditalia) May 8, 2022
"We've got half a team for the climbs and half a team for the sprints, but everybody committed. Ballerini, Van Lerberghe and Mørkøv, I've got an incredible final group there, and they delivered today.
"In the end I had to go long. I went at 300m to go. I had to hold a side and I'm just happy I could hold on for that long."
Mathieu van der Poel retained the maglia rosa, finishing comfortably in the peloton, having helped guide teammate Jakub Mareczko to fifth place. Pre-stage favourite Caleb Ewan finished eighth.
Tomorrow is the first of three rest days at this year's Giro, and will see the riders travel to Sicily ahead of the Mount Etna summit finish on Tuesday.
Dan joined road.cc in 2020, and spent most of his first year (hopefully) keeping you entertained on the live blog. At the start of 2022 he took on the role of news editor. Before joining road.cc, Dan wrote about various sports, including football and boxing for the Daily Express, and covered the weird and wonderful world of non-league football for The Non-League Paper. Part of the generation inspired by the 2012 Olympics, Dan has been 'enjoying' life on two wheels ever since and spends his weekends making bonk-induced trips to the petrol stations of the south of England.
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Last year at the Tour, I thought that people talking of even one further Cav victory was slightly embarrassing and rather tasteless- drawing attention to the lack of success by a giant of the sport in recent years. I was not relishing his difficult times, as many have done with Froome, simply hoping that the 'boosters' would just leave Cav alone to do what he could. I was overjoyed and amazed at his first win and there were more bonuses to follow. He’s done it again, with the assistance of a superb team. Let's just enjoy it, and hope but not expect that there's more to come. Leave the expectations to him and the team, because you can't do what they have done without them! Fantastic!!
Was an absolute class sprint, all the way from 5km out, finished off by a legend of our sport!
Quickstep did a proper old-school leadout train although they did drop Cav off rather early, 300m to go. Think he made some remark about someone 'going missing'. I watched that sprint thinking that he'd gone way too early and would get overhauled. But what do I know? Nice win.
I hope we get to see head-to-head sprint with Biniam G in the mix.
He seemed to do the classic Cav of old thing where he's able to have a second kick near the line, just as everyone else was getting close he looked like he found a little bit more/faded less
Brilliant !
Great to see