McEwen: Tour de France course made Sagan unbeatable in green

After Peter Sagan sailed to another green jersey at the 2014 Tour de France, the race organisers ASO introduced a new points system to give the sprinters a fighting chance of beating the Slovakian. Try as they might, they couldn’t stop the Slovakian from romping to his fourth consecutive points classification victory, bringing him up to equal second with Sean Kelly in the overall standings. Three-time stage winner André Greipel put up a good fight early on but once the race moved into the mountains the German was no match for Sagan.

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