Cavendish seals hat-trick on gloomy day for Tour

Mark Cavendish lifted some of the gloom surrounding the Tour de France by becoming the first Briton to secure a hat-trick of stage victories in the Tour de France.

Unlike his second victory, Cavendish had to complete the final sprint from Lavelanet to Narbonne without the help of a team-mate, and he peeled out to the left to overhaul the Milram team with comparative ease.