Mark Cavendish - "I'm more focused on stage wins..."

 “I always say that I’m put in the best position by the guys, so if we don’t win it’s down to be me. Everybody sees the finish, they see all the team support and it can be said that all I have to do is finish but when you lose after these guys on my team have put so much in, it’s a hard thing to take – especially at a young age. When the guys go one hundred per cent and I can’t finish it off… it’s not a great feeling. When they do the work and I can get it right – you’ve done the best that day and taken the win – then it makes it a massive difference. It’s a great feeling.
“I’m more focused on stage wins. I want to get to Paris. I want to win on the Champs-Elysées but obviously there should be other stage wins coming so maybe I can build my points back towards Thor. Like you saw today, I’m not going to go for the intermediate sprints but I’m going for stage wins and hopefully the green jersey will come with that.
“It was a technical finish with a lot of corners and sections that were slightly uphill but we had a dominant team with all nine guys riding at the front in the finish and they took me to 200 meters to go.”