Wollongong 2022, Mixed Team Relay: Starting with an Advantage

Having been given the green light to start their leg of the Mixed Team Relay, the French women started the course with a three second advantage over the time of the Australian women.  That was due to the great ride by their male counterparts in the opening leg of this team event.  Aude Biannic roled to the front first was Coralie Demay and Juliette Labous fell in behind in the opening meters of their part of the 28 kilometer relay.  The trio slipped against the Australian women ultimately finishing the day in seventh when all was said and done.  

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Wollongong 2022, Mixed Team Relay: Time to Use the Turbo

If you are unaware, Luke Durbridge's (Australia) - he is on the front - nickname is 'Durbo Turbo'.  He is often found on the front of the peloton chasing down break aways for his BikeExchange-Jayco team.  Today he is using that particular skill to pull himself, Michael Matthews and Team Australia towards a new best time as the men's half of the Mixed Team Relay.  His efforts and that of his female teammates were enough to earn the home team a bronze medal after a long time in the hot seat.  It does seem to be a pattern of these Worlds, to have an Australian rider sit in first place right up until the end of the time trials of these games.

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Flanders 2021: Just a Few More Pedal Strokes

For Elisa Longo Borghini (Italy) and her teammate, Marta Cavalli it was just a few more rotations of the cranks before their Mixed Team Time Trial was over.  With their male counterparts, and the woman this duo left behind (Elena Cecchini) the effort earned the Italians a bronze medal.  They just squeaked in ahead of the Swiss but it was enough to be on the podium in Brugge.

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Flanders 2021: Rolling Through Quickly

Regular readers of this blog will know that I enjoy a title that has more than one possible interpretation.  The same is true for virtually all of my large scale artwork as well.  Here, The Dutch men, Bauke Mollema, Keon Bouwman and Jos van Emden were taking very quick pulls on the front of their trio as they neared the end of their leg of the Mixed Team Time Trial in Brugge.  When the women had finished their leg of the race, they had improved on the time gaps handed to them by these three guys.  The Dutch are the defending champions in this discipline, but today they saw their title go to Germany.  With the rides of Annemiek van Vleutin, Ellen van Dijk, and Riejanne Markus the team in orange claimed the silver medal in Brugge.

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Flanders 2021: Is He Waving Farewell?

I may never know why Tony Martin (Germany) was waving his arm while in the first leg of the Mixed Team Time Trial with Max Walschied and Nikias Arndt. But it almost seemed as though he was waving farewell to all of his fans from around the world.  This is Martin’s last race as a professional and thanks to these two guys and his female teammates, Lisa Breannauer, Lisa Klein, and Mieke Kroger, it was a gold medal earning finale.  While he certainly couldn’t do it alone, nor did he, it was a truly fabulous way to end an even more amazing career as a professional cyclist.  I am going to miss watching him race, but I am sure he won’t be totally gone from the cycling world.

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Flanders 2021: You Only Need Two

Both Coryn Rivera and Ruth Winder knew that the time was taken when the second woman finished the course, so they weren’t too worried that they had left Leah Thomas behind.  The duo had built on the lead that their male teammates had given them, finishing their effort with the new best time.  Alas for us here in the States, their time didn’t stand up to those yet to finish.  They ended the Mixed Team Time Trial in eight place, not quite what they had hoped for as they gasped for air at the finish.

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

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Flanders 2021: Better Line Up, Better Speed

The trio of Elise Chabbey, Nicole Koller, and Marlen Reusser found it necessary to reset their riding order as the kilometers ticked by.  Reusser was hitting a brutal pace on the front and Chabbey just couldn’t pull through when her teammate needed to drop off of the front.  As she struggled, Koller moved up to the front to take over the pace making for the team.  It wasn’t long after the Chabbey had to surrender to the pace of Reissner (who plans to attempt the hour record next week) and left it to her two country women to finish the leg of the Mixed Team Time Trial.  They just barely lost out on the bronze medal by a fraction of a second to Italy.  Was this the moment it happened?

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Flanders 2021: A Little too Soon

I’m am not quite sure how or why Christina Schwieberger (Austria) went a little too early when it was the women’s team’s time to hit the Mixed Team Time Trial course.  She desperately tried to hold still on the ramp as she waited for her teammates, Kathrin Schwieberger and Sarah Rijkes to get the green light for the start.  Was it her starting too soon, or did the guy holding her upright while she waited just let her go.  Regardless, she did not start off put ended up waiting for the others at the base of the ramp.  Once they started, she re-clipped and off the three went.  Her entire team ended the day in 12th place so perhaps they were penalized for her false start.

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Flanders 2021: Passing the Devil

He had to show up after all these Worlds are being raced in his home country.  The male half of the Spanish team, Xavier Mikel Azparren, Diego Lopez and Lluis Mas, seemed to take no notice of Didi Senft as the sped by.  Senft is a long time fixture on the side of the road at most major European cycling events. It always warms my heart to see him bedecked in his Devil’s outfit leaping high in the air as he cheers on every cyclists as they ride pass him.  The Spanish trio was on a good ride but didn’t managed to finish in the top ten at the end of the day.  Hopefully, both the Spanish men and women will fair better in there respective road races on the weekend. 

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Flanders 2021: Working Together

 The first to roll down the start ramp in Knokke Heist was the UCI World Cycling Team for the Mixed Team Time Trial.  The race is comprised of a team of three men who race on leg of the course and then as they finished, a three woman team starts off for the second leg.  The intermediate time is taken when the second rider crosses the line, and then the final combined time is taken when the second rider in the women’s team crosses the finish line.  This team is made up of riders from many nations including a refugee from Syria who have traveled to the UCI training center in Switzerland in hopes of furthering their cycling careers.

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Yorkshire 2019 - MIxed Relay: Leaving It all on the Road

Lisa Brennauer and Lisa Klein struggled to catch their breath after a truly all-out effort to put Germany into a Gold Medal position.  Clearly they had done everything in their power to hold improve on the position provided to them by their countrymen.  As they struggled to breath, they knew that only the Dutch women could out ride them.  Alas, that is exactly what happened, but their ride did earn them the Silver in the first Mixed Relay of the UCI Road World Championships.

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Yorkshire 2109 - Mixed Relay: On the Limit

The trio of Dutch men, Jos Van Emden, Bauke Mollema and Koen Bouwman were determined to give the countrywomen the best time advantage they possibly could.  The trio was the first to best the British men after their leg of the relay.  So now it is up to the women to complete the job.

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Yoirkshire 2019 - Mixed Relay: A Ride to Celebrate

As the British women finished their leg of the relay, Anna Henderson reached out to Joscelin Lowde knowing that they had just finished with a great time.  The women had added to the advantage passed to them by their countrymen placing the home team in the hot seats of race leaders.  As more teams finished, it was proving to be a ride truly worth celebrating.  At the end of the day, the ride was good enough for a bronze medal in the first ever Mixed Relay Team Time Trial.  Chapeau, or should I say "hats" to the entire British team?

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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Yorkshire 2019 - MIxed Relay: Now It Is Our Turn

As the second Spanish man crossed the finish line, it was the women's turn to hit the time trial course.  As Margarita Garcia, Sheyla Gutierrez and Lourdes Oyarbide rolled down the ramp, the Belgium team waited for their man to cross the line in turn.  For the record, the women in blue are Sofie De Vuyst, Valarie Demey, and Julie Van De Velde.  I was hoping for a baton pass, but this does seem considerably saver and more logical.

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Yorkshire 2019 - Mixed Team Time Trial: Starting It All

Here we go again!  This is the first painting from this year's UCI Road World Championships.  And it is the first time the Mixed Team Time Trial has been used in the Worlds.  This race replaces the Team Time Trials where riders rode for their trade teams with both professional women's and men's teams competing for the Gold Medal of world champions.  Instead, the race has three men doing one lap of the course, followed by three women starting as the second man crosses the line.  The total time is taken once the second woman crosses the line.  It is all a little confusing until I got to watch the racing.  I was releaved to see that there was no baton being passed, which I feared since the race was being refered to as a relay.  So, all that being said, this is the first three men to hit the course representing the UCI Cycling Center.  The three men are Ben Katerberg (Canada), Dillon Corkery (Ireland) and Petr Kelemen (Czechia).

And you can watch this painting come to life on my YouTube channel as I talk about the race and watercolor painting.

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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