Mark Cavendish – “We're in a strong positon...”

“It’s can’t get any better than this. We said that, before we came to the Tour, that we’d be a dominant force and after a week we’ve shown that we are. We won, got the yellow jersey and now we’ve won again so it’s obvious that we’re at the peak of our game. _ “I completed the Giro a couple of months ago so I know what it’s like to get over mountains. It’s not the Pyrenees but I’m not aiming to get any results in the next few days; I’m just going to try and survive. I don’t know how many more sprint stages there’ll be but hopefully I’ll be up there again if there are some. _ “We got the race lead and have ambitions to keep it now so to be able to get through this first week with the yellow and white jerseys and then get first and second in the stage means we’re in a pretty strong position. _ “I was a little far back in the finale today and I lost Gerald’s wheel and I started from 10 riders back but didn’t panic because I know I can make up that ground because I’ve got the speed to but it wasn’t the ideal situation. Ciolek started to lead it out before I was there with him but it worked out perfectly. I got the run off from catching him and then I was able to accelerate a lot faster. It was brilliant and I’m really happy he could get second.”