Greig Leach

I feel like everytime I paint a race that includes Guillaume Martin (Cofidis) I paint some version of this image. Again he was caught up in a realitively small crash with about 14 kilometers to go. While he was quickly back up and onto his spare bike, it was a long hard chase to get back to the peloton. He had half of the team to help him work his way back through the cars (and his own team car). It was Nathan Hass, Kenneth Van Bilson, and Pierre-Luc Perichon who led the way. I believe the rest of the team was behind having gone down with their team leader. This race has been fairly crash free, although today saw the abandoment of Mads Pedersen (Trek-Segafredo) due to an early crash. Hopefully, Martin will not meet the same fate over night.