Wollongong 2022, Women's Road Race: The Next to Try

Spela Kern (Slovenia) was the next to try and get away from the grip of the peloton.  While no one was really making a big move in the marquee teams, they also seemed to be of no mine to let anyone get a big gap either.  Even at 54 kilometers to race, the big moves were yet to happen.  Kern may have gone on the attack just to relieve the race boredom she must have been feeling.  It seemed the strong riders were more interested in a race of attrition than trying to put their rivals into serious difficulty.  As of yet, no one was willing to risk losing the race in order to win it. Will it all come down to the final lap?

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2014 UCI Worlds: Off the Front

While on the second lap of the 127.4 kilometer course there was a huge pile up started by a single touch of wheels.  It ended with easily thirty women going to the asphalt, the ditches and into tangled piles of limps, wheels and frames.  As they got back underway, it was a slow moving peloton that was trying to figure who was there and who had climbed off their bikes and into a waiting ambulance. The Slovenian rider, Spela Kern, decided that the pace was way too slow and it was time to attack the group.  With nearly 60 kilometers left to race, it was a very long shot that she would be able to stay away to the line.  This is a small original watercolor and ink painting that was created using Yarka St. Petersburg watercolors and Steve Quiller brushes from www.richesonart.com.  The painting is available through my artist website at www.greigleach.com.  To purchase this particular painting, just follow the direct link at the end of this post.

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