Tour de France 23, Stage 10: Looking Around

The Tour de France rides through beautiful landscapes daily, yet the peloton is often to stressed to get a chance to see anything other than the wheel millimeters ahead of them. (one reason it has been since the start of Covid that I have ridden in a pace line.)  It is nice to see Warren Barguil (Arkea-Samsic) take a moment to admire the view including the hear of cows just around the bend.  He and Esteban Chaves (EF Education-EasyPost) had slipped off the front of the small break away on the descent of the Col de la Croix Saint Robert.  Chaves is wearing the jersey of the Columbian national champion, quite an honor given the caliber of riders from his home country.  The pair had caught and dropped the previous pair of escapees and were off to dry their luck with 96 kilometers to race.

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Paris Nice, Stage 7: Evenly Matched

The two leaders of their respective teams found themselves riding shoulder to shoulder past the melting snow with just one kilometer left to race.  Alberto Contador (Trek-Segafredo) and the Colombian champion, Sergio Henao (Sky) seemed to be evenly matched, but out ridden by Richie Porte (BMC).  Henao was higher on the GC then Contador, so if the Spaniard wanted to take over the Maillot Jaune, he was going to have to attack the Colombian.  He did, but wasn't able to get enough of a gap to close the time difference.  With Alaphilippe down the mountain side, it was Henao that would be wearing the Maillot Jaune for the final stage into the streets of Nice.

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Giro Stage 14: And Away He Goes

Resplendent in his Colombian National Time Trial Champion kit, Rigoberto Uran (Etixx Quickstep) rolled down the start ramp full of hope and determination.  Uran has been caught out in several stages by the accelerations of Fabio Aru (Astana), Alberto Contador (Tinkoff Saxo) and Richie Porte (Sky), so the individual time trial should have been his chance to regain some of his time losses thus far in the Giro.  But like Porte, today just didn't seem to go according to script for the leader of the Etixx Quickstep team.

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