HTC-Columbia's Mark Cavendish has scored his third stage win of the 2010 Tour de France on Thursday, the thirteenth stage victory of his career in cycling's biggest bike race.  The HTC-Columbia sprinter beat Italian Alessandro Petacchi and American Tyler Farrar by over two bike lengths on stage 11, a 184.5 kilometre ride from Sisteron to Bourg-les-Valence.
 
"I'm really pleased to have won again," Cavendish, already the victor in stages five and six, said afterwards.   "The team did a great job and we worked hard for this throughout the stage."

Asked about challenging for the green points jersey, a competition in which he is currently placed fourth, Cavendish responded "it's still possible.  There are two or three sprints left in the race, and hopefully I can get more wins. We'll see what happens then and take it stage by stage."

Cavendish's latest Tour victory is his sixth of the 2010 season and the 57th road win of his career.