Tour de France: Manxman re-emerges from the peloton for double sprint glory Mark Cavendish went off the radar for two weeks during the Tour de France, only for the Briton to re-emerge with victories in the last two sprints of the race right on cue for the London Olympics. After winning the second stage, Cavendish was never in the mix when Andre Greipel claimed three stage victories. But yesterday, the German rider was nowhere to be seen as the Manx Missile snatched his fourth consecutive victory on the Champs Élysées. Cavendish's win came just six days before the Olympic road race, an event he will contest with three Team Sky mates and David Millar. Scot Millar is expected to be Cavendish's lead-out man. If he needs one. Earlier this year, Tour de France champion and teammate Bradley Wiggins said of Cavendish that he could win a sprint "with a black bin bag on his head." He does not need much help. He is so fast. Cavendish proved Wiggins right when he won his last two sprints in awe-inspiring fashion, kicking off his effort from over 200 metres from the line. I planned to go at 300 to go. I knew I could go long, especially with the wind today. It was a side back cross wind. Last year it was a block headwind," he said. You could go slightly early. I was going to go at 300 but we came around the last corner at such speed that I thought I'd just use my acceleration now and hopefully distance the other guys and hold on. It was a gamble, but it was one that paid off. It is, however, a season-long effort, according to Cavendish, who claims he has been ready for some time. I've had good form since the Giro d'Italia. Everything's on target since then, it still is," he said. I'm very ready for the Olympics now. Between four of the five guys who are in the Olympic Games squad, there are seven stage wins at the Tour de France so we're going to have an incredibly strong team and we're not just going to the Games to see how it goes. We're fully excited about it and we'll just wait for next Saturday. My legs are really good. You've seen my sprint is really good and I just like getting to the finish. I've got an incredible team to try and do that in London four out of five of us have won stages here. All four Britons, together with Ian Stannard, are due to combine on Saturday in a bid to help Cavendish win Olympic gold in the 250km road race on the opening day of London 2012. Cavendish has won on the French capital's most famous boulevard in each of the Tours he has completed - in 2009, 2010, 2011 and now in 2012. The 27-year-old, who also won stages two and 18, now has 23 Tour stage wins, moving above Lance Armstrong and Andre Darrigade into fourth place in the all-time list.