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Cavendish strikes again on Stage Fourteen, Tour de France 2016

16th July 2016

Mark Cavendish in his HTC Colombia days, by Brendan Rankin, Flickr, Licence CC BY-ND 2.0

Mark Cavendish won Stage 14 today in a bunch sprint at Villars-les-Dombes bird park, after a slog up the Rhône valley into a Mistral headwind. 

The Manxman chose to be on the wheel of Marcel Kittel again, and again it proved to be a winning tactic. He came past the big German shortly before the line to take the win. Kittel protested because Cavendish closed him off slightly after coming past, but the outcome was already decided by that point.

This video shows the final kilometre of the stage.

Earlier, four riders were in a break - Martin Elmiger, Jérémy Roy, Cesare Benedetti, and Alex Howes. The last of them was caught with 3.4km left, paving the way for a bunch sprint.

CyclingNews has the full race results and overall standings.

This is the Stage 14 highlights video.

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