Three stages are available for sprinters in the Tour de France this week and new British Road Champion Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma - Quick-Step), has not lost hope of catching the leader of the points classification, Peter Sagan (Cannondale) in spite of the advantage of 106 points in Slovakia. Cavendish is currently third in the battle for the maillot vert, with Andre Greipel (Lotto Belisol), in second place, 93 points behind Sagan. cheap cycling jerseys The former world champion has won stage 5 with a disappointing sixth phase in which he crashed in the final only to be killed by the lead-out of Lotto Belisol deliver a victory for Greipel and Argos-Shimano. Although understandably frustrated at the moment, Cavendish won point of view on the matter. "He does not regret what happened in Montpellier," he told AFP. "These are the things that can happen and I lost one of the best in the world." While all attention is focused on the user's yellow jersey Chris Froome and Team Sky, Mark Cavendish took his time to relax with his family on Monday and recovered in the team hotel in the UK, after a grueling first week of this' year Tour de France. The Manxman survived a difficult two days in the Pyrenees, but now I should be back on stage in northern France next week, with several opportunities to stage wins likely to occur for the sprinters, from 197 km tenth stage Tuesday to Saint-Gildas- des-Bois de Saint-Malo, Brittany. Cavendish knows, however, that their chances of wrestling back the green jersey of Peter Sagan are scarce, with the Slovakian more than 100 points at the top of the standings and German Andre Greipel also above it. "He does not regret what happened in Montpellier.cycling team jerseys These are just the things that can happen and I lost one of the best in the world," said his close loss to old rival Greipel. "The first week was harder than normal and I'm tired. Was hot a couple of days and it was the best trip here from the Pyrenees. "The race was difficult and there was no real control of the race in the first nine days, which is quite unusual for the Tour de France. "But overall we are happy, we have a stage victory and was about to go on trial, and now expect to be a second week more relaxed. "I think this week will be similar to what the first week of the Tour is usually the same, with a little 'less stress, because the GC has some sort of take shape, and see what happens."
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