Mark Cavendish will complete his final Tour de France after surviving the last mountain stage safely inside the time limit, but nobody was taking any chances when the peloton assembled in the port in Nice on Saturday morning.
Although Astana Qazaqstan hoped Cavendish would enjoy one more outing on the roads of the Tour in Sunday's time trial from Monaco to Nice, the team elected to mark his final haul of 35 stages here, lest it prove to be the Manxman's final act on the race.
