Mark Cavendish slammed on the last sprint of the first phase of the Tour de France Photograph: Eurosport
Imprint Cavendish's long for winning stage one of the Tour de France and wearing the yellow shirt finished in a fiasco when he slammed 300 meters from the completion line as the German Marcel Kittel sped to triumph in a rehash of his win in the opener in 2013 in Corsica. Cavendish lost control of his front wheel as he endeavored to rise up out of the pack in the last 400 meters, and he was left nursing a harm to his right shoulder. It was vague whether he would proceed with the race on Sunday.
With David Cameron and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge looking on – and with the Duchess wearing a green dress which was more than fitting for a stage anticipated that will end in a sprint complete – Cavendish was cheered over the line by a thoughtful swarm as he accelerated frightfully in holding his wrist at a clumsy plot that recommended a broken collarbone. It was an astringent rehash of his mishap on his presentation Tour, when he fell on the run-into the stage in Canterbury.
The Manx sprinter had been utilizing his head and shoulders as a part of a urgent endeavor to push Australia's Simon Gerrans to the left with the goal that he could have a reasonable raced to the line, yet lost his offset and fell intensely on his right shoulder. Gerrans, a stage victor and yellow pullover wearer a year ago, additionally hit the deck. The tumult left just four of the 198 riders in with a shot of the win, and they were headed in by Kittel from Peter Sagan, a year ago's focuses champ, with the Lithuanian Ramunas Navardauskas in third.
Cavendish's Omega-Pharma-Quickstep group had hit the front of the race with four kilometers staying, covering out the peloton with their pioneer in their slipstream, however Kittel's Giant Shimano squad came close by them in the last two kilometers, and when the peloton hit the last ascend Parliament Street to Betty's tea shop, with the completion line 200 meters past, no group was in control.
At the foot of the incline, onlookers had started written work Go Cav in boundless letters of green chalk in the morning; all through the stage, the scenes were commonplace from the Grand Depart in London in 2007 and Le Tour en Angleterre in 1994, yet set against the luxurious scenery of the Dales, and with observer numbers considerably bigger. The hardest area over the Cray, Buttertubs and Grinton Moor ascensions was livened up by a performance escape from the most established rider in the race, the German Jens Voigt, who was on the first day of his seventeenth Tour at 42 years old.
Voigt assaulted in the opening meters after the protracted run-out from the middle of Leeds, together with the Frenchmen Benoît Jarrier and Nicolas Edet, however deserted his buddies right away before the day's halfway sprint at Newbiggin with 48 miles secured, to produce a lead that arrived at four prior minutes the sprinters' groups responded, and brought him to heel. By now, nonetheless, he had taken an early lead in the King of the Mountains standings, albeit after Sunday's stage to Sheffield, with its nine ordered ascensions, he is unrealistic to stay in the polka-speck pullover.
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