When the Orica GreenEdge team bus became lodged under the banner at the finish line with the peloton less than 20 kilometres away, the teams were initially told the finish line would be moved 3km forward. But once the bus was moved with the riders already in the town's suburbs the original finish was restored and just moments after the announcement was relayed to riders a huge crash took out two of the favourites - Peter Sagan and Andre Greipel - while Cavendish's hopes were ended as he was caught in the queue. "What caused the problems was the change to the finish," Cavendish said. "We were hearing in the radios with 5km to go the finish was in 2km. Then a kilometre later, it's at the...
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