Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme has come under some abuse for the way the Green Jersey points are awarded. Peter Sagan won the competition for the third straight year even though he failed to win a stage in 2014 and Marcel Kittel took 4 but wasn’t even second in the classification. And Prudhomme may change the points scoring system.

“It is not possible that the difference is so great," says Prudhomme in a podcast from The Telegraph. “Sagan did not win any stages, but finished very often among the first few riders. Also very pretty, but the gap with a rider who wins four stages should not be so big. We will look at it.”

Prudhomme was also quick to point out that the change of scoring is nothing against the dominance of Peter Sagan. “It is great Sagan won the past three years. Even if he wins for the next decade, it's no problem."

The 2011 Tour, where Cavendish won Green, was the last edition before the new scoring system, where the organisers reduced the number of points on the finish line but had more available at Intermediate Sprints, favouring the fast men more than jack of all trades like Sagan.