Cavendish hopes for a sprint finish today

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Mark Cavendish hopes for a sprint finish at the end of Friday's seventh stage in Chiavenna ? but Columbia-Highroad's Erik Zabel said the team would measure their efforts if it came to a pursuit between a breakaway and the bunch.

It's another long stage, 244 kilometres from Innsbruck in Austria, dragging steadily uphill for most of the day before a 30-kilometre descent to the finish.

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