Cavendish bags his third stage win but his lead-out man is kicked out of the race

Mark Cavendish wins, Tour de France 2010, stage 11

published 15 July 2010

Mark Cavendish won his third stage of the Tour de France in decisive style but it was an ill-disciplined sprint, with his lead-out man Mark Renshaw nudging his head at Garmin's Julian Dean three times before shutting the door on Tyler Farrar.

Renshaw, the Australian HTC-Columbia rider, was kicked out of the Tour for repeatedly headbutting Dean. He was not listed in the results of the day's stage and was expelled, although HTC-Columbia were set to appeal the decision.

But it will still be a tall order for Cavendish to win the green jersey. There are only two sure-fire stages for the sprinters - at Bordeaux next Friday and in Paris on the final Sunday. Cavendish would need to win both and hope that both Petacchi and Hushovd are outside the top five or six. And that's without taking into account the possibility of Hushovd going on the attack to gain points on the mountain stages, as he did last year.

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Cavendish bags his third stage win but his lead-out man is kicked out of the race

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