Tour of Britain

[prettybird]

G, Froome and former winner Poels announced as part of Team Sky's Tour of Britain team. So no Vuelta for them. I can understand why G wanted to race in the Tour of Britain as it is starting in Wales.

Unfortunately, it's not coming to Scotland this year so won't get to see them

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/geraint-thomas-chris-froome-lead-team-sky-tour-britain-391355

Should be good. I'm hoping to get to the London leg and get some pics.
I'm not sure I can cope with the revised World Tour calendar. I still havent completely caught up with the Tour of Poland. I'll need to clear some space on the sky box before the ToB starts!

Couple of pics I got at Ride London

The Velogames team picking for Tour of Britain is open until Sunday lunchtime - have picked a team but it really was a names out of a hat job as there are lots and lots I don't know.

Joe Nally for the Great Britain team is ds' pick. Very young still but with great potential.

Ds has raced against him; Joe once chose not to lap him in the final round of a Crit , so that ds and the other rider could finish "properly". Ds' other claim to fame is once having eliminated Joe in a Devil

My DH's claim to fame is having raced against Chris Hoy on the track (they are same age). DH was in National timetrial also entered by Sean Yates, and used to chitchat with Dr. Hutch.

I have discovered that G's Twitter feed is quite funny (he mentions the other Chris quite a bit). DH pointed out many fans spilling over the barriers while G was being interviewed on last night's broadcast.

This was who was in the next pen when ds had his first race in a velodrome - which was also the first event ever at the Sir Chris Hoy velodrome