25 up for Cavendish in Tour stage 13 win

Mark Cavendish answered his critics with victory on stage 13 of the Tour de France to Saint-Amand-Montrond but there was drama for Chris Froome as Alberto Contador used a late attack to take more than a minute out of him in the general classification scrap.

Nicolas Roche finished in 11th and Dan Martin in 19th. Martin moved up to 11th overall while Roche jumped to 35th.

Cavendish awoke to headlines in French sports daily L'Equipe declaring his reign as the pre-eminent sprinter of the day over following Marcel Kittel's third stage win yesterday, but responded with his second win of this 100th Tour.

As crosswinds caused several splits in the peloton on the flat roads from Tours, Contador's Team Saxo-Tinkoff squad launched an attack off the front along with Cavendish and Sagan a little over 30km from the finish, and Team Sky could not find a response.

If there was good news for Froome, it was that Alejandro Valverde, who began the day second in the general classification, suffered an ill-timed puncture and ended up losing more than eight minutes, effectively ending his chances.

The victory for Cavendish is the 25th Tour win of his career, putting him joint third all-time alongside Andre Leducq, with only Bernard Hinault (28) and Eddy Merckx (34) ahead of him.

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