As I said earlier, the Belgium team was litter with amazingly strong riders. They went to the front of the peloton as the group swung onto the cobbles of Libby Hill yet again driving the pace to shuck as many sprinters as they could. Sprinters are notoriously bad climbers, so this course implies that it wasn't going to be a sprinter pulling on a Rainbow Jersey at the end of the day. Many of the roads in Belgium mirror the steep cobbled climbs of Richmond. Although I suppose that it was Richmond that was mirroring Belgium. One would deduce that this was a race for the long legs of Tom Boonen, and he was the one leading the team up the climb on this lap. I suspect that he hope to intimidate his rivals into submission.
This is a small original watercolor and ink painting that was created using Yarka St. Petersburg watercolors and Steve Quiller brushes from
www.richesonart.com. The works were done live in the middle of the Fanfest area across from the awards podium as the racing was going on. Prints and the originals will be available before very long at
www.richmond.com (the website of the Richmond Times Dispatch newspaper).
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