one thousand one hundred and fifty nine days

presidential tour of turkey stage 2

When they skid round the corner into the final stretch of the sprint, the commentators think he’s gone — Down through the corner now, Greipel’s still there, oh, Mark Cavendish, just knocked out of it, I’m afraid. But they are wrong.

Mark Cavendish is there.

Four hundred meters.

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