Tirreno-Adriatico: Kittel celebrates first win of the season - Cavendish breaks ribs

Follonica (SID) Top sprinter Marcel Kittel (Arnstadt) celebrated his first win of the season in the Tirreno-Adriatico stage race. The 29-year-old newcomer to the Katusha-Alpecin team won the completely flat second stage after 172 km from Camaiore to Follonica in a mass sprint, about a bike length ahead of world champion Peter Sagan (Slovakia) from the German team Bora-hansgrohe and the Italian Giacomo Nizzolo (Trek -Sagefradeo). In the overall classification, the Australian Patrick Bevin from Team BMC, who won the team time trial at the start on Wednesday, leads at the same time as his teammates Damiano Caruso (Italy), Greg van Avermaet (Belgium) and Rohan Dennis (Australia). The stage was overshadowed by a mass fall about seven kilometers before the finish, in which Sagan's teammate Marcus Burghardt (Zschopau), among others, fell. Former British world champion Mark Cavendish suffered a broken rib and other injuries in a fall the day before and had to finish the race on Thursday. "It's a clean fracture and should heal well," said Dr. Jarrad van Zuydam, doctor on the Data Dimension team. Cavendish had already fallen on the opening stage of the Abu Dhabi Tour in February and suffered a concussion and whiplash. "It's frustrating to have fallen again," said Cavendish: "Luckily nothing worse happened."

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Tirreno-Adriatico: Kittel celebrates first win of the season - Cavendish breaks ribs

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