Tour, Final Stage, The Art of Cycling

 Rigoberto Uran (EFPro Cycling) wanted to make sure his teammates, TeJay van Garderen and Hugh Carthy were taking in the beauty of the moment they were experience as they road across the plaza at the Louvre.  The art that resides past the entrance within the glass pyramids designed by Pei, is some of the most important artworks in the world.  As the peloton rounds the corner ahead, they will allow UAE-Team Emirates and Tadej Pogacar to have a promenade onto the Champs Elysees before the race for the final sprint begins.

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Tour, Stage 18: It Doesn't Get Any Easier

 There is an adage in cycling that seems to be attributed to Greg Lemond the only American to win the Tour that has not had is victories expunged for doping.  He is quoted as saying that riding never gets easier, you just get faster.  This was the opposite for this quartet on the lower slopes of the Montee du plateau des Glieres.  Pierre Rolland (B&B Hotels-Vital Concept) was drifted back through the peloton having once been in the break away.  He is now hoping to latch on to the EF Cycling trio of their leader, Rigoberto Uran and his domestiques Daniel Felipe Martinez and Hugh Carthy.  It may not be fair to call Martinez a domestique, after all he has won a mountain top finish stage in this year's Tour.

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Tour, Stage 13: Scooting Off the Front

 The peloton let the large early break go, the best placed rider was over an hour down on the general classification. So it was looking like it was going to be a stage with two separate races playing out at the same time.  With seventeen guys in the break it was too large to be manageable.  With that understood, it was Hugh Carthy (EF Pro Cycling) that scooted off the front with Valentin Madouas (Groupama-FDJ) in tow.  Impressive as it is that Carthy was able to ride away at the best of times, it is even more so today.  The EF rider has been riding with a broken wrist for the last couple of stages, so being able to ride others off his wheel on a climb is super human (or super nuts).

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Tour, Stage 2: Just About Back

Daniel Felipe Martinez (EF Pro Cycling) had the misfortune of crashing on the penultimate descent of the day, the Col d'Eze.  With just three teammates up the road, two of whom were the teams GC contenders, it took some time of the only available teammate, Hugh Carthy, to drop back to help out.  The EF duo road incredible hard through the streets of Nice in their successful attempt to rejoin the peloton.  Sadly for Martinez, the effort left him unable to hang on to the peloton on the final climb up the Col des Quatre Chemins.  The lost time most likely ruined his chances of repeating his Maillot Jaune winning Criterium de Dauphine, but the team still has two cards to play in the race for the Yellow Jersey.

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Giro, Stage 9: Mouthing Off

Manuele Boaro (Bahrain-Merida) was clearly annoyed with his fellow break away companions.  An annoyance that seemed not to phase Fausto Masnada (Androni Giocattoli).  Both riders had a teammate in the break and wanted the others to do more work (both hoping to launch their teammates on to the final climb with a sizable lead).  Hugh Carthy (EF Education First) seemed to question the antics of the Italian, some times you just need to race your bike.  I suppose they can be forgive, I am sure they are all exhausted from the day, and from nine days of racing.  Somehow, both Mathias Brandle (Trek-Segafredo) and Simone Andreetta (Bardiani CSF) stayed out of the converstaion, perhaps opting to letting their legs do the talking.

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Ruta del Sol Stage 4: Stuck in the Middle

As I have said the nine man break split apart, leaving riders all over the road.  At this point Greschke and Selvaggi were extending their lead on these three and the peloton.  Four others had already surrendered and been picked up by the Tinkoff-Saxo led peloton.  That left Hugh Carthy (Caja Rural-Serguros), Eugene Duyn (Team Roompot) and Romain Sicard (Europcar) stuck in the middle, in the oft called "no man's land."  The trio was hoping that it would be the two ahead that they would see first rather than hearing the whirring sound of the spinning wheels of the peloton.

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