Pezcyclingnews: Tour’15 St.5: Greipel Guns It To Perfection!

Race Report: On a difficult day of crosswinds it came down to a superb sprint finish and with Cavendish mistiming his effort on Stage 2 he was determined to get it right. He held Greipels wheel on the run-in but with Alexander Kristoff heading for the line he could wait no longer and surged forward only to see Greipel and Sagan come past him seconds later and flash past the camera. Score: Greipel 2, Cavendish 0.Traditionally, Tours starting in the north of France, or in Holland and Belgium, have been a week of leg-blistering chases, daunting crosswinds and little guys struggling to hang on before they finally reach the mountains and begin to shine, if theyre not completely tuckered out by that point.This year however, weve had one classic after another and the main contenders are all still pretty near the front, except maybe for Thibaut Pinot (FDJ.fr) who was the main loser in terms of time yesterday. Today we returned to a more familiar type of route with a relatively flat parcours that should see the usual sacrificial breakaway followed by the mad sprint for the line. The big exception is that with Tony Martin (Etixx Quick-Step) in yellow, he may have been excused sprint train duty in the service of Cavendish.Armistice DayAs todays stage took the race over the Somme battlefields some teams were keen to show their respect to the fallen and before the roll-out Froome and Kennaugh from Team Sky laid a wreath at the Commonwealth...

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