After the race, Cavendish praised the remarkable work put in by his Columbia team-mates.
All bananas you find in U.S. grocery stores are of the same variety, the Cavendish.
When Cavendish finally burst to the lead with scant meters to go, he was fresh.
That was the American team, Columbia HTC, whose sprinter, Englishman Mark Cavendish, won six stages.
Cavendish and Britons Geraint Thomas and Bradley Wiggins finished over five minutes behind Goss.
In 1992, the disease mutated into a form that is able to attack the Cavendish variety.
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It was, by all accounts, a superior-tasting fruit to today's supermarket stocks of the Cavendish variety.
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"There was a group of 22 who got away and we couldn't pull them back, " said Cavendish.
D. from Cambridge University, having studied physics at its world-famous Cavendish Laboratories, headed by Lord Ernest Rutherford.
Cavendish Corporate Finance, a British merger-and-acquisitions boutique, hopes that something similar is true in the business world.
The world's top sprinter, Mark Cavendish of HTC, will ride a Venge in this year's Tour de France.
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Cavendish, 25, becomes the first British rider to lead the Vuelta a Espana since Robert Millar in 1986.
Much fancied home favorite Mark Cavendish finished a disappointing 29th as the British team struggled to meet pre-race expectations.
What I admired most about Cavendish was his lavish praise for Hincapie and Renshaw, the teammates who sacrificed themselves.
Justin Urquart Stuart from Barclays Stockbrokers, David Kauders from Kauders Portfolio Management and Julie Lord from Cavendish Financial Management.
Cavendish was first across the line as his nine-man team covered the 13km course in 14 minutes six seconds.
The village of Cavendish peaked at 32.4C (90.3F), Charsfield recorded 31.4C (88.5F) and Santon Downham basked in 31.3C (88.3F).
Italian Marco Pinotti won the 2008 Tour of Ireland with Isle of Man sprinter Mark Cavendish claiming three successive stages.
Australian Matt Goss, a team-mate of Cavendish at HTC Highroad, reclaimed the leader's jersey after placing third on stage three.
The HTC-Highroad rider, a team-mate of Mark Cavendish, proved too strong for the 2008 winner Fabian Cancellara and Philippe Gilbert.
The fastest man on the planet, Cavendish could surpass Chris Boardman's British record for professional race wins during the Tour.
Cavendish's chances disappeared when he lost touch about 15km from the end.
All of these schools, Murray Park School, Dale Community Primary School and Cavendish Close Junior School, were rated "satisfactory" at their last inspection.
At one time in the 1930s eight Nobel prizewinners were working in the Cavendish, then the world's leading centre for experimental nuclear physics.
Cavendish's hopes appeared to have been boosted when rival Swiss sprinter Fabian Cancellara crashed, but the peloton could not close on the leading group.
Meanwhile, Britain's other great cycling star, Mark Cavendish , claimed his fourth win of this year's Giro after Friday's 254km leg from Busseto to Cherasco.
Armitstead's performance was a welcome boost for home fans after the bitter disappointment of Mark Cavendish's failure to win the men's road race Saturday.
"The fact that he knows that business well, but also has experience outside, is particularly attractive, " said Paul Mumford, fund manager at Cavendish Asset Management.
Stapleton has high hopes that his star rider Mark Cavendish of Britain will be in the race leader's pink jersey after the first three stages.
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