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
 
 

Three Debutantes TdF26-52

The trio of Liam Stock (Lotto-Intermarche), Jakub Otruba (Caja Rural-Seguros), and Thibault Guernalec (TotalEnergies) went off the front from kilometer zero. With eighty-three kilometers left to ride of the one-hundred-and-eighty-kilometer stage, they were holding a gap of nearly two minutes over the sprinters' teams. The title I choose was because all three of them are riding their first ever Tour de France. I would say that it was also their first ever breakaway, but Otruba was off the front for most of the stage yesterday. He rode all day with Stock's teammate Viestroffer. It seems another vain effort since the stage appears to be a perfect day for the sprinters to strut their stuff.