Monday's stage: A 90-mile route from St. Joseph to Country Club Plaza in Kansas City.

Winner: Great Britain's Mark Cavendish of Team Columbia, in 3 hours 15 minutes 14 seconds.

Yellow jersey: Cavendish earned a 10-second time bonus as the winner of the stage and has a four-second lead over American Tyler Farrar of Garmin-Chipotle, who got a six-second bonus.

Quote of the day: "I had a point to prove in America." — Cavendish, who won four stages of the Tour de France but won his first stage ever on U.S. soil Monday.

Today's stage: The 126-mile route from Lebanon to Springfield is identical to the second stage last year, when a group of 12 broke away and George Hincapie sprinted to the stage victory and eventually, the overall title.

Live coverage: www.tourofmissouri.com offers streaming video; www.cyclingnews.com offers live commentary.