Eyewitness – Tears flow as Mark Cavendish, family and Astana Qazaqstan celebrate a historic Tour de France stage victory

The emotional shout of “Go Mark!’ in different languages from inside the Astana-Qazaqstan team was the first sign that history was about to be made at the Tour de France on Wednesday afternoon.  

I was stood outside the team bus with a few other media, watching the final kilometres on our mobile phones. But we were a few seconds behind the live French television images on the bus and could imagine what was happening.