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
 
 

Winning the Stage & the Maillot Vert TdF26-29

Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) was able to hang with the breakaway from the large breakaway over the final two climbs of the day thus being able to sprint it out for the stage win in Foix. It wasn't really in question that he would win the sprint as he was the only sprinter left out of the remaining ten. Clearly, he won handedly as you can tell by this view of his victory salute. His teammate, who had helped to bring him to the line, Quinn Simmons, took second on the stage just ahead of Pablo Castrillo (Movistar). It would be another fourteen minutes before the erstwhile Maillot Jaune and the rest of the peloton got to this point in downtown Foix. Tomorrow, Pedersen will start the sprint stage already in the sprinter's Green Jersey. Chapeau!