Stage 12 of the Giro d’Italia worked out perfectly for Mark Cavendish, who clocked up his second win of this year’s race prior to heading home and beginning his preparations for the Tour de France.
Cavendish predicted before the start that it would be a bunch gallop and so it proved. This was mainly due to the work of his HTC Highroad team, which dragged the peloton along for many kilometres, reeled in the day’s break, and then gave him a perfect lead-out to the line in Ravenna.
The sprinter wasn’t feeling the pressure this morning, despite his focus on grabbing win number two. He signed autographs with fans and, as the video below shows, even accepted Italian television’s request to sing a tune prior to heading off.
We’ll leave it up to you to decide whether he’s got a career ahead in showbusiness, but the moment was one of the more unusual sights from this year’s sign-on areas.