Greig Leach

I am baffled by Garmin Sharp's actions today. Their team leader, Andrew Talansky has dropped off the back of the peloton, riding somewhere amongst the following caravan, obviously suffering a bad day. He as been seen regularly touching the small of his back and his left hip, the hip he went down hard on a couple of days earlier. Not only have they not sent any one back to help pace Talansky, they then went to the front of the peloton and drove hard creating a bigger gap between the peloton and their own man. I would have expected them to at least get on the front and try to slow down the over all pace, but instead it looked like they may have been setting up a launch for Tom Jelte Slagter. All in all, it was curiouser and curiouser.