Tour of Britain, Final Stage: Riding Around with Yellow

Unlike the Tour de France, there was no promenade around the streets of the capitol city of the Tour of Britain.  With a group up the road, it fell to Team Dimension Data to ride tempo, not letting the escapees get to far away.  So Mark Cavendish rode in behind the Yellow Jersey of Steve Cummings with the rest of the team on the front including, Johann Van Zyl, Jay Robert Thomson, Mark Renshaw, and Bernhard Eisel.  It is reported that Cavendish has been ill for much of the Tour, but stayed in the race to help his teammate ensure Yellow on the final podium of the race.

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Tour of Britain, Final Stage: The First to Launch

The Sprint Jersey wearer, Jasper Bovenhuis (An Post Chain Reaction) was the first to jump out of the peloton, he was clearly off to rack up as many more sprint points as possible.  Immediately on to the Dutchman's wheel was Tom Stewart (Madison Genesis).  Before the duo had cover half of a kilometer both Taylor Phinney (BMC) and Gabriel Cullaigh (Team GB) joined them.  The foursome went straight to work opening up a thirty second gap on the following peloton before they were around the first lap of the streets of downtown London.

This is a small watercolors and ink painting measuring just 4"x6" and was created using Yarka St. Petersburg watercolors and Steve Quiller brushes from www.richesonart.com.  This painting and all of my Olympics artwork will be 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.  It is only $75 USD and international shipping is available.

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Tour Stage 3: Not Enough Road

When Jan Barta (NetApp-Endura) sensed that the peloton was closing in, he jumped away from his compatriot, Jean-Marc Bideau (Bretagne-Seche) and pushed on in hopes of a solo victory.  Barta has proven his abilities to go it alone having just become the Time Trial Champion of the Czech Republic.  As he peaked under his arm, I am sure his thought had to be, "There is not enough road between my wheel and the peloton."  I am sure the sprinters where glad to see him as they crested this small rise, they don't like sprinting for second place on the stage.  This is an original small watercolor and ink postcard that is available through my artist website at www.greigleach.com.  In addition this painting will be part of my soon to be self published, "Book de Tour".  To learn more about the book project, to pre-order you copy, or to get involved in bringing this art of racing to print, please visit https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1335072134/book-de-tour.  To purchase this particular painting, just follow the direct link at the end of this post.

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