Tour '24, Stage 19: The Ones He Left Behind

With his teammate up the road looking to win the stage Wilco Kelderman (Visma-Lease a Bike) was doing his best to disrupt the chase of Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost) and Simon Yates (Jayco-Alula).  Kelderman wouldn't pull through, but he chased anyone who tried to launch an attack.  Should the others manage to bridge up to Matteo Jorgenson, then Kelderman would be the freshest and able to still get a win for the team.  Both men had been in the break to function as support for their leader, Jonas Vingegaard, when he went on the attack.  Since that didn't happen, they were free to ride for the stage, still providing a collaborative duty for the team.

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Tour, Stage 1: Visiting the Doctor

The Tour de France, or any other bike race, is a high risk endeavour.  Today, it was the team leader of Astana, Jakob Fulgsang, who went down hard.  His teammates dropped back to pace him back to the peloton, and back into the race for the eventual final Maillot Jaune in Paris.  As they neared the back of  peloton, he stopped off at the race doctor to get a little cleaning and medical evaluation.  A final decision will be made about his injuries after the stage, but it looks more bloody than it is serious.  Crashing in races is what led me to stop racing many years ago.  Now, I just ride for the pleasure of the pedaling.

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Tour Down Under, Stage 3: Team Work

EF Education First was using some true team tactics today.  James Whelan had been out in the break all day.    Two guys jumped out of the peloton and bridged across to the original break, each had a teammate to join up with.  As the original group slowly fell apart, Whelan was able to press on helping his fresh legged teammate, Alberto Bettiol.  The duo put everything they had into the difficult final circuits around Uraidla.  The effort was most likely doomed, but it allowed the rest of the team to "rest" back in the chasing peloton.

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Bergen 2017, U23 Men's Road Race: Time to Pull Them Back

With just four laps left to race, the Spanish team decided it was time to chase down the remnants of the early break.  They wanted to set it up for a bunch sprint for the finale in hopes that their sprinter, Ivan Garcia, would be able to take out the win for Espana.  Garcia had just missed on the stage of this year's Vuelta in to his hope town of Gijon, I am sure he would love to redeem that effort with a win today.

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Tour Down Under: Bringing Home the Jersey, Final Stage

With all but the final sprint to contest Orica-Greenedge and Simon Gerrans could begin to believe that they had secured the Ochre Jersey and the over all win of the Tour Down Under.  At this point they are only about 5 kilometers away from the magical point in the rules were even with a crash all of the riders will be given the same time as those they were with at the finish line.  Orica-Greenedge knows that the sprinters will be able to best any of the other GC contenders that are in need of the seconds on offer at the finale.  So, Chapeau, Orica-Greenedge and Simon Gerrans!  This is an original watercolor and ink postcard that could be yours by visiting my artist website at www.greigleach.com.  Or you could just follow the direct link at the end of this post to get your piece of the Santos Tour Down Under.

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