Tour Femmes '25, Stage 7: Two Chasing Two

Alas, Maud Rijnbeek wasn't able to go once the stage hopefuls attack.  With two women up the road, Ruth Edwards (Human Powered Health) was working with Shirin van Anrooij (Lidl-Trek) to chase the leaders down.  As they rode both were offered a bidon from the neutral service 'water boy' which they both refused not wanting any extra weight for the final twenty-one kilometers as they climbed the Col du Granier.

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"Two Chasing Two TdFF25-40" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Ronde van Vlaanderen '25: Visma Chases

Having missed being able to go with the attack on the Oude Kwaremont, Visma-Lease a Bike was forced to chase.  They had the numbers to bring back the leading trio, so it was Wout van Aert, Matteo Jorgenson, and Tiesj Benoot riding hard together.  They were joined in the effort by two of the former attackers, Stefan Kung (Groupama-FDJ) and Jasper Stuyven (Lidl-Trek).  Despite their collective best efforts, only van Aert was able to rejoin the front of the race, with the others remaing the second group on the road.

Another spoiler, while he did rejoin the leaders, van Aert finished fourth on the day, just off of the podium.  I should point out that his teammates Benoot and Jorgenson finished sixth and 47th respectively.  Kung ended up seventh and Stuyven was fifth.

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"Visma Chases RVV25-5" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Paris Nice '25, Stage 6: Blown Apart

When the Peacock stream of the race came on air today, the peloton had already been blown apart.  So, I am not super sure if it was the wind, the plans of the combinations of  Ineos-Grenadiers and Visma-Lease a bike, or a combination of the two, but the effects were the same regardless.  With the front group going hard, riding at upwards of forty miles per hour, those behind or caught off guard struggled to get their chase organized.  It became confusing as to who was were, but if you weren't in the group driving the pace or in the second group chasing hard, you were never going to see the front of the race again.  And if you had hopes of placing well in the general classification, you hopes were just blown apart by the weather and riding style today.

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"Blown Apart PN25-24" (Original art by Greig Leach)

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Tour de France Femmes '24, Stage 5: She Tried

The race commissare on the back of the motorcycle was making sure that no cars or motorbikes were between Maeva Squiban (Arkea-B&B Hotels) and the peloton.  Since she was slowly being reeled in by the group behind, he didn't want them to get any extra advantage in their chase by catching a draft off any of the press or support vehicles.  Squiban had gone off on her own in hopes of bridging up to the three leaders but it just didn't work out for her.  At least she tried.  It wasn't a day for just sitting in the peloton and hoping you could outsprint everyone else, particularly if you aren't known for your sprinting prowess.

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"She Tried TdFF24-25" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Paris Olympics 2024, Women's Road Race: Chasing the Chasers

It was the crash of Chloe Dygart (USA) that broke the peloton apart as they started up the Montmartre climb.  Once she got back up and underway, she spent a great deal of time chasing down those ahead of her on the road.  By this point she had dropped the third group on the road, enough so that her team car has been able to slide in behind her.  She chased for the rest of the day, almost catching the chase group as they finished the race in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower.  She finished the day in 15th just over three and a half minutes behind the new Olympic Gold Medalist.

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"Chasing the Chasers PO24-65" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Tour '24, Stage 19, Looking to Catch Back On

Guillaume Martin (Cofidis) had been dropped near the summit of the Cime de La Bonette.  He was diving down the mountain as fast as he possibly could in hopes of catching back onto the tail of the greatly reduced peloton.  He did manage to catch up, but did so at the base of the final climb of the day.  Once the road went up again, he wasn't able to hold on.  Given that he had detached on the previous mountain, and had spent huge amounts of energy to catch, it was little surprise he was dropped again.  He did finish nineteenth on the stage which was enough to keep him in thirteenth overall.  

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"Looking to Catch Back On TdF24-119" (Original art by Greig Leach) 

Tour de France 23, Stage 12: Three Chasing Three

After innumerable attempts, riders were finally able to get off the front of the peloton over the summit of Col des Ecorbans.  With three up the road, Ion Izagirre (Cofidis), Matteo Jorgenson (Movistar) and Andrey Amador (EF Education-EasyPost) started collaborating on the descent to try and catch back up to the leaders.  They only needed to bridge eleven seconds, but it seemed to be just as hard to catch the other three as it had been to get away from the peloton.  It wasn't helping them that one of the guys up the road was an extremely skilled descender.

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Ronde Van Vlaanderen 23, Men's Race: The Help He Wanted

The German Champion, Nils Politt (Bora-Hansgrohe) was happy to see Axel Zingle (Cofidis) ride up to him.  Politt had attacked the peloton in hopes of bridging up to the leaders, but had been struggling on his own, caught in no-man's land between the two groups, he was unable to make more progress until Zingle came along.  The pair joined up with the leaders just in time for the big names to start attacking each other.

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Paris Roubaix '22: Crossing on His Own

The way Dylan Van Baarle (Ineos-Grenadiers) left the peloton and set out to catch the leaders implied that he was going to be a force to reckon with in the remaining 48 kilometers.  He was now just 41 seconds behind as he turned onto the Mons En Prevele pave section.  Ahead it can be supposed that those ahead would welcome some fresher legs to help them stay away from the others.

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Paris Roubaix: In Pursuit

Jeremy Lecroq (B&B Hotels) knew a good wheel to latch onto.  When Sonny Colbrelli (Bahrain-Victorious) went off the front of the pursuers in search of the duo up the road, only Lecroq had the legs to go with the European Champion.  The duo were using the smoother roads to try and bridge across.

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Bergen 2017, U23 Men's Road Race: In Search of the Others

This trio lead by Joseph Areruya (Rowanda) and included Vitaliy Novakovskyi (Ukraine) and Saymon Musie Mehari (Eritrea) were off the front of the peloton search for the two groups up the road.  They were building a lead and trying to tell the two just up in front to wait for them.  Ultimately these three, the pair just ahead and the leading quintet all joined into a strong break that would be frustrating the chasing peloton for quite a few kilometers to come.

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