Kristoff: Kittel needs to mess up for others to win

As Marcel Kittel (Quick-Step Floors) became the first rider of this year's Tour de France to take a second stage win, Alexander Kristoff (Katusha-Alpecin) took his second straight top-five finish in a bunch sprint. With Kittel dominating the sprint competition so far, Kristoff said that the German would have to get things wrong for the others to usurp him in a bunch gallop.

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Born in Ireland to a cycling family and later moved to the Isle of Man, so there was no surprise when I got into the sport. Studied sports journalism at university before going on to do a Masters in sports broadcast. After university I spent three months interning at Eurosport, where I covered the Tour de France. In 2012 I started at Procycling Magazine, before becoming the deputy editor of Procycling Week. I then joined Cyclingnews, in December 2013.