Cavendish stronger than his wounds makes an encore on the finish line in Fano

Stronger than the wounds and scars that mingle with his tattoos, Mark Cavendish, by burning Matthew Goss and Daniele Bennati, has put his second mark on this Giro d'Italia which has finished from Modena to Fano. In the history of the Giro, Fano has often been a land of conquest for sprinters. It was also the last time the Giro came here in 1983 with the success of an Italian sprinter, Paolo Rosola who also wore the pink jersey. This year the winner, in front of the beautiful partner Peta Todd and the very small Delilah Grace dressed in pink, was the rainbow jersey of “Cannonball” Cavendish who, unlike the other big names in sprints, such as Thor Hushvod and Tyler Farrar, did not suffered on the ups and downs placed in the final, in particular on the small ramp of Gabicce Monte. Still interlocutory stage waiting for the first difficulties scheduled in tomorrow's stage towards Porto Sant'Elpidio and above all in Sunday's stage which will go up to Lake Laceno: waiting for the eagles, the Giro - which just before Rimini crossed the Rubicon today, as if to symbolize that from tomorrow it will be a battle – he lived a quiet day overall, marked however by other crashes, in the central phase of the stage, which again saw Taylor Phinney as protagonist. The American, rather dejected and demoralized, remained detached and never returned to the group, losing over 12 minutes. For him, the Giro that seemed like a pink fairy tale is turning into a sort of nightmare. The pink jersey still on the shoulders of the Lithuanian Ramunas Navardauskas while for the red jersey in the points classification there is an increasingly challenge between Cavendish and the Australian Goss, who sportily shook hands with the British world champion after the finish line, saying: “You are the stronger than all".