The Dubai Tour had been billed as the renewal of the supposed rivalry between Mark Cavendish and Marcel Kittel, and the Manxman rued his own tactical errors as he was forced to watch the German sprint away for a second stage win and the overall title on the final day.
Cavendish, who was second behind Kittel on the opening stage, found himself out of position as he came through a sharp right-hand bend in the final couple of hundred metres, and left himself with too much to do in the finale, which played out in the shadow of the Burj Khalifa skyscraper.
Speaking shortly after the stage, the Dimension Data rider described it as a “tactical fuck up” and explained what went wrong.
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“We had the plan, it was to get on Kittel’s wheel in the last kilometre, and then lay off. We knew the last corner was tight, so if we carry more speed and get a run-up I would be alright. In fact, I did the complete opposite,” he said.
“[I] ran right up [Elia] Viviani’s wheel and I started the corner on the inside. If you take a wide angle into it you carry the speed a lot more. Yeah, it was a tactical fuckup. I came in really hot on it, had to lose too much speed.
“I couldn’t get it going – without big levers you can’t get it going again out of the corner. I just cooked myself on the acceleration out of the corner. There’s not much I could do. There’s no way, 150 to go…”
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