Steve Cummings believes that Mark Cavendish has answered his critics in the best way possible after the Manxman won his second stage of this year's Tour de France in Angers on Monday.
The Dimension Data sprinter won the opening stage of the race and donned the yellow jersey for a day. After conceding it on stage 2, he came back to beat Andre Greipel (Lotto Soudal) the following day.
Coming into the race, however, Cavendish was seen by many as a relative underdog to win sprint stages.
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"It's like old Cavendish, popping them out left, right and centre. Unbeatable. Fastest man on the planet, I've said it before," a jubilant Cummings told Cyclingnews at the finish line in Angers.
"He is just a superb talent and some people like to write him off but I'm just so happy that he just comes back and there you go."
Cummings role was to sit back throughout most of stage 3 after he had spent a significant amount of time working to defend yellow the previous day and it was Cavendish's core sprint train that delivered him to the line. He positioned himself on Greipel's wheel before coming passed on the German's left shoulder.
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