Highlights
- Mark Cavendish got his cycling season up by winning Stage 3 of the Dubai Tour
- Cavendish had finished fourth in the first stage.
- Marcel Kittel finished 3rd behind Nacer Bouhanni, who bagged the 2nd position
Marcel Kittel, who suffered technical troubles in the first stage and was nowhere to be spotted in the second, used his unmatched power to sprint out of his skin in the last couple of kilometers and finished third, behind Team Cofidis’ Nacer Bouhanni, who bagged the second position.
Cavendish had finished fourth in the first stage. Winner of the second stage on Wednesday, Elia Viviani fell behind in the closing moments of the race and finishes sixth.
However, the Quick-Steps Floors rider maintained the overall lead, taking over Stage 1 winner Dylan Groenewegen.
“I was a bit disappointed after the first two stages but I knew I was there. I was confident of the guys,” Cavendish said after his win. “It’s difficult to beat Viviani in the kind of form he is in so I banked more on my jump tactics. I jumped around well and that gave got me going while I was approaching the finish line. I’m just a bit disappointed with myself that this win came now, because yesterday and day before, I was close and I had just given up paddling. Had I done that, I’d have won. When I don’t, I sometimes finish second. But yeah, this win is one more than what I’ve achieved in the last six months so pretty happy getting off the mark this early in the season.”
(The correspondent’s trip to Dubai was paid for by the Dubai Tour)
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