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The Tour de France got underway in 2014 with a three-day race on English soil. This was the signal for Mark Cavendish to surge ahead, but the British rider took too many risks, falls and had to bow out, unintentionally paving the way for Marcel Kittel, who kicked off his Tour de France with a sprint victory and the yellow jersey in a repeat of his performance the previous year. None other than Britain's Princess Kate presented Kittel with the yellow jersey. The German sprint bomb not only started like the year before, he also ended with the same result: four wins to his credit.
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