Paris Olympics 2024, Men's Track Cycling Omnium Tempo Race: Chasing the Italian

In the second event in the Men's Omnium is the Tempo Race.  The riders amass points by either winning lap sprints (1 point) or by lapping the peloton (20 points).  Whomever amasses the most points by the end of the 40 laps of the velodrome wins the race, however the points they win do not carry over into the Omnium points total.  With just a lap or two to go, Elia Viviani (Italy) decided he should earn at least one point, meaning he should hold eighth by the end of the second event.  Chasing the Italian is another road cyclist, Ethan Hayter (Great Britain).  He finished one place behind Viviani.

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"Chasing the Italian PO24-81" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Tour Down Under '23, Stage 1: All About Seconds

 Once the peloton had caught the lone rider up the road, all of the bonus seconds were on offer at the second intermediate sprint as they rode through Tanunda.  Michael Matthews (Jayco-AlUla) managed to take a second second place taking four seconds off is total time thus far.  Corbin Strong (Israel-Premier Tech) took first.  Ethan Hayter (Ineos-Grenadiers) looked to his left and sat up knowing he had been beaten, but that allowed Matthews to just get pass him to claim second.  Alberto Bettiol (EF Education-EasyPost) tried to prevent either Hayter or Matthews from gaining any time on him, but just missed out on the bonus seconds coming in fourth.  Now he has to hop that Matthews doesn't win the stage.  Should he do so, then it will be Matthews in the Ochre Jersey of race leader tomorrow.

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Paris Nice 2022: Losing Touch

I always feel bad painting riders slipping off the back of the peloton, seemingly having the race go away from them.  With 32 kilometers left in the stage, Ethan Hayter (Ineos-Grenadiers) was struggling to hold onto the stretching tail of the peloton.  Just ahead, Stefan De Bod (Astana Qazaqstan) wasn't fairing much better.  I did feel better (spoiler alert), when Hayter managed to finish the stage inside of the top ten.  All the more impressive since it was a mass sprint up a two kilometer rise to the line.

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