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What helped Cavendish was the premature jump from Petacchi, gifting him the ideal platform from which to accelerate. The Italian went deliberately, being as he was in the market for points in the sprinters' competition, wishing to avoid his racing line becoming obscured by other riders, and knowing that any finish inside the top 3 would suffice.