The Columbia-HTC lead-out train showed the others how to do it on stage one of the Tour de France, propelling Mark Cavendish to his first stage win of this Tour, and fifth in total. And yet it had looked, in the final kilometres, as though the well-drilled yellow, white and green machine wouldn’t have things all their own way. Team Milram, with former Columbia man Gerald Ciolek, the Cervelo Test Team, with Thor Hushovd, and Garmin-Slipstream, with Tyler Farrar, sent their own trains up to …

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All aboard the Columbia train