Tyler Farrar's Diary - Still no cigar
Close calls
Well, two more sprint stages in the books and two more near misses. One second- and a third-place are certainly nice, but not quite the win we have been looking for.
We're definitely getting our timing dialed for the bunch kicks, though. Julian has been amazing the last couple of days! It's going to click one of these days.
The only bummer today was that both Christian and Ryder crashed. This was the third time Ryder has hit the deck! They say bad things come in threes though, so I guess he's gotten them all out of the way now.
Christian's was a lot scarier; we were going about 65kph when he went down. I was having images of the Giro all over again, but luckily he seems to have walked away from it with only scrapes and bruises.
The next few stages are going to start getting interesting. They certainly could be field sprints, but they are also prime long break stages. We'll be covering all our bases, so we'll be ready regardless of what happens.
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