Greig Leach

Contemporary figurative art created with oilsticks on paper, watercolors, stained glass and mixed media color based images of people, food, cycling and faith-based iconography
 
 

Not Much of an Advantage TdF26-47

The Tour de France has many traditions, but one of my favorites is the chalkboard method of informing the riders of time gaps. It is always a woman on the back of the LCL sponsored motorcycle that keeps a running tally of the time gaps on a chalkboard that she then displays to the breakaway and the peloton (or any other groups on the road). Baptiste Veistroffer (Lotto-Intermarche) went out on a breakaway effort for the second time in a sprint stage. He must be a real glutton for punishment. It was a little easier today since he was joined in the doomed effort by Jakub Otruba (Caja Rural-Seguros). At this point with seventy-five kilometers to race, they had a mere minute and a half on the peloton. Unfortunately for them, this was the largest gap there ever got to the sprinters' teams chasing being. Chasing might be too strong of a word, perhaps monitoring would be better.