Originally Posted by grassmarket:
“I'd hope that Sky gave him the chance to go in the Tour of Britain. Not a big race in World terms, but he's earned the lap of honour.”
Good call !.......looks the ideal race for him
California usually coincides with the Vuelta and Sky usually send a decent team over there so I guess resources might be a little stretched over the next few weeks
Monday was a good day on the road.....
Sky's Viviani won stage 1 of Eneco in a sprint finish. Griepel went too early and finished 4th. The so called 'Golden Kilometre' with 3 intermediate sprints in the space of 1 kilometre was very entertaining !.......as it happened the breakaway just got there first and it was a bit like a points race on the track with points every few hundred yards. This all happened about 20K from the finish and I guess the idea is to incentivise the peloton to catch the break a bit earlier than they normally would to make the last 20K a bit more interesting rather than the usual peloton timing it to catch the break with 2K to go
Meanwhile Lucy Garner won stage 1 of the women's Route de France, the only major women's stage race held in France........it's a prologue and 6 stages. All the peloton finished together so the yellow jersey stays with the prologue winner