Dauphine, Stage 2: Letting Them Go

Robert Power (Qhubeka-ASSOS) had done well to get himself into the early break, particularly with a Cat 1 climb to start of the stage.  However, a little over half way through the stage he just found the pace a bit too much and let his now former break away companions go on up the road without him.  Shane Archbold (Deceuninck-Quick Step), Matthew Holmes (Lotto Soudal), Lukas Postlberger (Bora-Hansgrohe) and Anthony Delaplace (Arkea Samsic) didn't even seem to take a look back over their shoulders as they got on with the task at hand.  Power dropped back to the peloton and then out the back of that group too.  About twenty kilometers later he was the first to drop out of this year's Criterium du Dauphine.  I hope his problems aren't too serious.

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Tour of Britain, Stage 7b: Cav Leads Them Round

Mark Cavendish (Dimension Data) seemed to announce that he would not be going for the stage victory today.  He went to the front of the peloton and with the help of  Ian Stannard (Sky) and Robert Power (Orica-BikeExchange) set about the task of bringing the escapees back.  Dimension Data has the Yellow Jersey in the fold, on the back of Steve Cummings, so letting those in front gain time wasn't really in the cards.  More of a threat were those in on the team leader's wheel, Rohan Dennis (BMC) sitting just inside of a minute behind.  Dennis is equal on time after this morning's time trial with Tom Dumoulin (Giant-Alpecin).  So it could be that Cavendish was just making the race hard for everyone rather than actually trying to chase down Andre Greipel (Lotto Soudal) and company.

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