Greig Leach

Sprinters in the Tour de France have two slightly competing objectives, one is stage victories, the other to wear the Green Jersey of best overall sprinter. These can be competing objectives because the sprinter and his team can expend quite a lot of energy sprinting for the intermediate sprint points, energy they made need when it comes to the final kilometer of the stage. It can be telling to see which teams come to the front of the peloton as they pass under the 1000 meters to go point for the intermediate sprint line. Today it appeared that Mark Cavendish and his team, Omega Pharma Quickstep, were going to fight out the points with Peter Sagan and his boys of Cannondale. Neither capture the maximum remaining points, they each just watched the other to make sure neither was going to started building a significant point lead.