British scurry star Mark Cavendish wins second theatre of Tour of Catalunya

By Brendan Gallagher 641PM GMT twenty-three March 2010

Sprint aristocrat Mark Cavendish won the second theatre of the Tour of Catalonia Photo GETTY IMAGES

Hampered by a critical dental infection, Cavendish longed for majority of his peculiarity precision in January and Feb and has, unsuprisingly, done a delayed begin to the season.

However, after removing a little great racing miles in his legs at initial Tirenno-Adriatico and afterwards Milan San Remo last week finish Cavendish has arrived at the Tour of Catalunya in majority some-more rival shape, something he showed rught afar on Monday when he accomplished seventh in the Prologue.

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Cavendish degraded Juan Jos Haedo of Saxo Bank with Aitor Galdos of the Euskaltel-Euskadi group in third place. His win equates to that he additionally retains his seventh place in ubiquitous classification.

The 182km theatre was dominated primarily by the USA"s Peter Stetina (Garmin-Transitions) and Spain"s Jonathan Castroviejo (Euskaltel-Euskadi) who got afar in a mangle after 9km and at one theatre stetched their lead to 8min 30sec prior to long after the perfectionist Alts Els Angel stand that Cavendish, behind in the peloton, crested in great figure - an additional indicator of returning form.

HTC Columbia led the follow and the mangle was eventually reeled in with13km to go after that the big scurry teams vied for positon, HTC Columbia you do a great pursuit in bringing Cavendish to the front.

"There were a lot of teams scraping for on all sides at the finish and it was utterly dangerous," pronounced Cavendish.

"But even though we"ve got a immature patrol here and they"re still guidance the ropes, they stayed together and gave it 100 percent. Without them I wouldn"t have been means to do my sprint. I wouldn"t have been there."

The majority inclusive leader of the peloton in 2009, Cavendish pronounced it had been tough not to take any victories prior to he eventually claimed his scurry win in Spain.

"By this point in the deteriorate last year I had 6 victories. This time the year began really bad and not to have won anything so far has been frustrating. But my form"s been removing improved and improved and the group never lost conviction in me."

Cavendish"s win is the 52nd of his veteran career, and the twelfth for HTC-Columbia men"s group this season.

Tour of Catalunya Stage Two

1 Mark Cavendish (GB) Team HTC - Columbia 41546 2 Juan Jos Haedo (Arg) Team Saxo Bank 3 Aitor Galdos (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 4 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit en Ligne 5 Michel Kreder (Ned) Garmin - Transitions 6 Manuel Antonio Leal Cardoso (Por) Footon-Servetto 7 Kristijan Koren (Slo) Liquigas-Doimo 8 Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 9 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Garmin - Transitions 10 Daniel Moreno (Spa) Omega Pharma-Lotto

General sequence after theatre 2

1 Paul Voss (Ger) Team Milram 42043 2 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Team Radioshack 00001 3 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Team Radioshack 00002 4 Dominik Nerz (Ger) Team Milram 00004 5 January Bakelandts (Bel) Omega Pharma-Lotto 6 Davide Malacarne (Ita) Quick Step 7 Mark Cavendish (GB) Team HTC - Columbia 8 Craig Lewis (USA) Team HTC - Columbia 00005 9 Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 00006 10 Kristijan Koren (Slo) Liquigas-Doimo