Etixx-QuickStep defied the odds on Monday to further hush the doubts over their lead-out train.
It has been a challenge for the Belgian squad to perfect their sprint set-up since Mark Cavendish joined in 2013 and his former HTC lead-out man Mark Renshaw followed in 2014.
But not only did they make it two wins from two stages at the Tour of Turkey on Monday, they did so with Cavendish coming across the line on a flat tire.
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What is more, Renshaw also punctured in the closing stages before coming back to lead out.
“We went round a corner with 5km to go and my wheel went from me and I thought ‘that’s not good’,” said Cavendish.
“I had a little bounce and it was spongy, it wasn’t totally flat but it was really spongy and I thought ‘oh god, I either stop now…’ but then we were already on our third guy in the train so if I stopped we were one man short for [Mark] Renshaw anyway. So I thought ‘I’ll give it a crack’. I went easy round the last two corners then, yeah, went for it.
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