Greig Leach

This title is a bit of an understatement. While it is true that today's second stage was an individual time trial around the downtown streets of Rotterdam, it wasn't remotely a calm noodling around a city center. The newly crowned Olympic Road Race Gold Medalist, Kristen Faulkner (EF-Oatley-Cannondale) was flying around the course just barely missing the hot seat by less than three quarters of a second. Her finish time was enough for her to hold onto fifth place on the second stage of the day. I should note that she also won a gold medal in the Olympic Track Cycling Team Pursuit. She is here with two others from that gold medal winning team, but neither are on her trade team today.