Cavendish wins Giro 2nd stage from Goss

Australian cyclist Matt Goss finished second in a sprint finish to the second stage of the Tour of Italy in Denmark on Sunday.

Britain’s world champion Mark Cavendish won the stage, a 205km loop around the town of Herning, with Frenchman Geoffrey Soupe third.

American Taylor Phinney survived a late crash to hold onto the leaders’ pink jersey.

Phinney lost his chain with about 8km left but his BMC team worked hard to get him back into the peloton before the final sprint began.

There was a crash on the last corner, a few hundred metres from the line, that took out some of the sprint contenders but Cavendish was in the right place and kept his cool to take victory.