TDF, Stage 12: Keep Working!

As I painted this, I assumed that both Harry Sweeny (Lotto Soudal) and Nils Politt (Bora-Hansgrohe) were encouraging there two companions, Imanol Erviti (Movistar) and Stefan Kung (Groupaman-FDJ) to keep working together.  The quartet had built up a 56 second lead on their erstwhile break away companions and were now 15 minutes ahead of the peloton.  This is clearly the biggest gap a break has gotten on the peloton in this edition of the Tour.

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Tour, Stage 12: What Are You Saying?

Again, I don't know what the conversation was about, but it could well have been about setting a pace that would keep them away from the peloton but would also keep them all together.  The other possibility was that Nils Politt (Israel Start Up Nation) was voicing his annoyance with the work that Luis Leon Sanchez (Movistar) was doing.  Behind them, it seems that Imanol Erviti (Movistar) was listening in, question is, what language are they using.  Lagging a bit behind and starting to fade from the long effort of the longest day of the Tour was Matthieu Burgaudeau (Total Direct Energie).  While you can barely see him, Kasper Asgreen (Deceuninck-Quick Step) is still tucked into this break.

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Tour, Stage 12: Are You Having Fun?

Max Walschied (NTT) reaches over while he talks to one of his break away companion, Kasper Asgreen (Deceuninck-Quick Step).  Naturally, I have no idea what they were actually saying to each other.  But it is important to the success of a break away that everyone works together and feels up to the challenge had hand.  Ahead, Imanol Erviti (Movistar) is just ahead of the chatting duo.  By the way, I didn't get the scale wrong with Walschied, he is the tallest man in the peloton at 6'6" and just shy of 200lbs, a great guy to be behind in the pace line.  When I was racing back in the 70s I was considered too tall for the sport at just 6'1" so I take pleasure in seening these tall guys succeed at this level of racing.

This is a small 4x6 inch original watercolor painting that is available though my website at www.greigleach.com, or you can simply follow the direct link at the end of this post.  Since it is an original it is first come first served.  The painting was created using Yarka St Petersburg watercolors from Richesonart.com. The work sells for $75 plus shipping. And yes, international shipping is available.

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Paris Roubaix: Directing Traffic

Tom Boonen (Etixx-Quickstep) knew that two of his main rivals were over a minute behind and getting further back by the kilometer.  Boonen kept pushing those that were in the front group to keep working together.  While everyone wanted to win, none were interested in helping the four time winner Boonen get his fifth victory.  In this leading group were Edvald Boasson Hagen (Dimension Data), Imanol Erviti (Movistar), Ian Stannard (Sky) and now back in the fold, Matthew Hayman (Orica-GreenEdge), all with the pedigree to dream of victory in the velodrome of Roubaix at the end of this grueling race of 257.5 kilometers.

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Ronde van Vlaanderen: Next on the Road

The next group on the road was being lead by a three time former winner of this race, Fabian Cancellara (Trek-Segafredo).  Tucked onto his wheel was the Dutch Champion, Niki Terpstra (Etixx-Quickstep) and two riders who had been in the early break, Imanol Erviti (Movistar) and Dimitri Claeys (Wanty-Groupe Gobert).  Cancellara was hoping to become the first to win the Ronde van Vlaanderen for a fourth time.  He has announced that this will be his final season of racing, so it is now or never, if he hopes to set a new benchmark in Flanders.

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