Greig Leach

For the longest time I had to self imposed rules that on retrospect didn't really make any sense. The first was not to use helicopter shots which went back to when I hoped to paint from a motorcycle in the Giro d'Italia a few years back. The second was to only use a horizontal formate. That at least was necessary when I was creating one of my two cycling books and needed some page design uniformity. Clearly, I have now broken both rules in the 2022 Tour de France. Tadej Pogacar's (UAE Team Emirates) attacks had split the peloton of contenders. Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) -and his teammate Sepp Kuss along with Nairo Quintana (Arkea-Samsic) were able to go with the attacks right away, but it took the Ineos-Grenadiers duo of Simon Yates and Geraint Thomas a bit longer to tag back on. David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ) was a bit stronger than the Brits coming back into contention. Quintana and Gaudu were able to move up into the top five with their efforts today. Thomas stayed were he was in third. And, of course, first and second stayed the same with no change in the time gaps either.