Greig Leach

There is a saying in bike racing that states, "You have to be willing to lose in order to win." I think the trio of Alison Jackson (EF Education-Oatley), Catalina Anais Soto (Laboral Kutxa-Fundacion Euskadi), and Sara Martin (Movistar) were taking the saying to heart. They along with the fourth companion had been working well together until Martin attacked the others. Once done, no one was willing to work together. Instead, each would attack the other. They would come back together and then someone else would try again, and again, and again. While they were doing this, the peloton was going about the business of chasing them down. They were caught about two kilometers after I painted this moment. Still each thought they couldn't afford to go to the line with the others, neither could they afford to risk trying to outsprint the marquee sprinters currently twenty-seven seconds behind them.