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Cavendish wins 11th stage of Tour of Italy

British cyclist Mark Cavendish won the 11th stage of the Tour of Italy in a sprint finish following a 214km run from Turin to Arenzano on Wednesday.

It was the third stage win of this year's race for the Columbia rider, after becoming the first British man to ever win a stage on the Tour of Italy, when he won on opening day.

Italian Dani Di Luca retained the leader's pink jersey and maintained his lead of 1min 20secs over Russian Denis Menchov, while Australian Michael Rogers is a further 13secs back with American Levi Leipheimer at 1min 53secs.

"I seem to be in better form than I thought I was," said Cavendish.

"I was already happy with one victory (in Milan) but two wins are better than one. I was a bit worried that I would suffer on the Turchino (a climb at 20km from the finish) and thought it was going to take the sting out of my legs.

"But I seemed to be floating up there. It's unbelievable how deep you can go when you can smell the finish." Di Luca refused to believe that the winner's jersey was his to lose.

"There aren't many teams that can win the stages and it was for this reason that it was so quick," said the Italian. "There's a lot of work to do, but there are some hard stages." ARENZANO, AFP

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