Surrey Classic Part 2

:00:46. > :00:52.Hello and welcome to our final show from this year's RideLondon. The

:00:53. > :00:55.amateur riders have been out on the road since five o'clock this

:00:56. > :01:01.morning. Still they are finishing on the Mall. Now it is the big one, the

:01:02. > :01:07.London-Surrey Classic. The first time a World Tour one-day race has

:01:08. > :01:11.been staged on British roads. This showpiece event has new state is

:01:12. > :01:15.this year, joining the big one-day races on the continent. We will see

:01:16. > :01:21.the final of the Classic on the Mall in just over 2.5 hours, but in the

:01:22. > :01:26.meantime, thousands of the sportive riders are coming in after

:01:27. > :01:30.completing the 46 and the 100 mile rides. Millions being raised and

:01:31. > :01:34.many memories being made. It has been quite an event in London, all

:01:35. > :02:28.in celebration of the humble bicycle.

:02:29. > :02:33.Yes, some fantastic sites around London over the course of

:02:34. > :02:38.RideLondon. We are looking forward to the Classic. I am joined by Chris

:02:39. > :02:42.Boardman and Mark Cavendish. Good to have you with us. Mark, you're

:02:43. > :02:47.recovering from the crash in the Tour de France. How are you feeling?

:02:48. > :02:52.I am OK. I have just hit myself in the mouth with the microphone. I am

:02:53. > :02:59.worse now. I am ageing to be on my bike again. That is it. I cannot sit

:03:00. > :03:05.still. I am not in any pain any more, so I am looking forward to it.

:03:06. > :03:08.We will see you back out there soon. Chris, we have been spectators here

:03:09. > :03:11.this weekend but it has been something to behold? I have been

:03:12. > :03:16.spectators you'd every time and it is much better on this side of the

:03:17. > :03:21.barrier when you can have a beer afterwards. 100,000 people taking

:03:22. > :03:24.part this weekend in the areas forms, children all the way through

:03:25. > :03:28.to the best athletes in the world. It is fantastic, not just a

:03:29. > :03:31.celebration of the bicycle, but an opportunity for people to ride

:03:32. > :03:43.around the streets with no cars and see what that is like.

:03:44. > :03:47.It is an important event in so many ways. The Classic is under way. The

:03:48. > :03:50.professional peloton are out on the roads. Now that it has World Tour

:03:51. > :03:53.state is, how significant is that? It is the Premier League of cycling.

:03:54. > :03:58.It is the top any goal. You have to be invited to ride. It creates

:03:59. > :04:02.points for the end of the season. It is a massive step up in just a young

:04:03. > :04:07.event to be there. It is great we have a World Tour event in the UK.

:04:08. > :04:12.Of course, the prototype for this race was the test event for the

:04:13. > :04:22.Olympic road race in 2011, which you on not only Mall. What are your

:04:23. > :04:25.memories? We had a great team. We had a GB team and then England team.

:04:26. > :04:30.We had two. I had just won the green jersey of the Tour de France. I was

:04:31. > :04:34.on a high. With 2012 coming it was important we stamped their authority

:04:35. > :04:38.on that. We did it too much because we were marked out of the race in

:04:39. > :04:42.the following year. It is great to finish on probably the most iconic

:04:43. > :04:48.Avenue in the whole world, on the Mall, in front of Buckingham Palace.

:04:49. > :04:53.It is a special feeling. You on the green jersey and the world

:04:54. > :04:57.championship in 2011. That green jersey was a special memory. It is

:04:58. > :05:01.fantastic to see this year's green jersey winner in action in the

:05:02. > :05:08.Classic in the shape of Australia's Michael Matthews. I have mixed

:05:09. > :05:13.memories of the Tour de France. The first week did not go according to

:05:14. > :05:18.plan. We had a few heartbreaking moments at that point. But the

:05:19. > :05:23.second week onwards, it got better and better. The most special moment

:05:24. > :05:30.was probably the first stage that I won in the Tour de France this year.

:05:31. > :05:34.I did the same stage two years ago in the Tour de France, I tried to

:05:35. > :05:37.attempt it when I had four broken ribs. To win this year in the style

:05:38. > :05:43.that I did, that was the breaking point. Everything started to go

:05:44. > :05:48.really well from there. The hard work we put in, finally the Tour de

:05:49. > :05:54.France give me good luck. The imagination of winning the jersey,

:05:55. > :05:59.the goal I had set, it was something I thought would take more years to

:06:00. > :06:02.succeed in that goal. But I guess going into the Tour de France with

:06:03. > :06:07.the form that I had, and the full support of the team, it was when

:06:08. > :06:13.you're that I had to really go for it 100%. I will try to stay focused

:06:14. > :06:21.this week with training, try to do everything right. I will not go too

:06:22. > :06:26.crazy. Actually, I skipped a lot of the criterium races to try and get

:06:27. > :06:31.good form for the race this Sunday. I also tried to switch off. I got my

:06:32. > :06:36.motorbike licence this week. I can do something away from cycling but

:06:37. > :06:40.still have the main focus is on the weekend. I will have a break before

:06:41. > :06:46.my next race after this weekend. One more week of focus and I can chill.

:06:47. > :06:54.It was a complicated race last year when a big breakaway went. I had a

:06:55. > :06:57.few team-mates there. In the end, we brought it back for the sprint. My

:06:58. > :06:59.legs were not quite as good as I would have liked after the Tour de

:07:00. > :07:04.France last year. Hopefully they are better this year. Now it is the

:07:05. > :07:09.World Tour, I think it will be more controlled. Maybe Sky will try to

:07:10. > :07:14.control it for the sprint. With it being the first time as World Tour,

:07:15. > :07:18.no one is going to really know what is going to happen. Hopefully it

:07:19. > :07:24.will be an exciting race. I think it is still quite a short race, only

:07:25. > :07:29.180 K. Hopefully we will get good weather. That will be the nicest

:07:30. > :07:33.thing. The courses really nice. I like the small roads and the little

:07:34. > :07:39.climbs. It is a nice style of racing. Hopefully I can get a good

:07:40. > :07:43.result. One to watch today, Michael Matthews, the green jersey in the

:07:44. > :07:47.Tour de France. It was a fantastic year for Sunweb. He was very

:07:48. > :07:50.tenacious and he managed to stake through the mountains and kept

:07:51. > :07:53.gathering the points. We had injuries that took out lots of the

:07:54. > :08:09.competition and he was ready for it. His team

:08:10. > :08:12.were superb for him, the roads so hard all day, they did not do the

:08:13. > :08:14.lead out at the end, they spent all their energy setting him up. He

:08:15. > :08:18.delivers superbly on two occasions. He is a nice guy, a popular guy. He

:08:19. > :08:21.is one of the favourites. You will know better than anybody how hard it

:08:22. > :08:23.is to keep the form, whether you can take form from the Tour de France

:08:24. > :08:26.into an event like this. That is key, carrying through the form. I

:08:27. > :08:30.normally finish on my hands and knees at the Tour de France. It is

:08:31. > :08:36.21 individual base but what you do on the first day has an effect on

:08:37. > :08:40.how you are on the 21st day. If you feel good it is easy to push it a

:08:41. > :08:43.little bit and that can affect you for weeks. It is arguably the

:08:44. > :08:49.hardest endurance event on the planet. It can finish people for the

:08:50. > :08:56.whole season. He is quite resilient, Michael, he can climb like a

:08:57. > :09:00.climber. Will not be struggling at the back of the race. Compared to

:09:01. > :09:04.what he has done in the last three weeks, these climbs will not be a

:09:05. > :09:09.problem. If he can keep the top end speed at the finish, there are pure

:09:10. > :09:14.sprinters year, Elia Viviani, Andre Greipel, but he has done the Tour de

:09:15. > :09:18.France as well. Elia Viviani will be fresher, perhaps he will have the

:09:19. > :09:23.speed at the end. Let's look at some of the others to look out for. For

:09:24. > :09:28.me, it would normally be Andrei Greipel, but he has been form. At

:09:29. > :09:33.the Tour de France he was not filing. There are a couple of

:09:34. > :09:38.interesting ones. Ben Swift will be quite interesting. He got close in

:09:39. > :09:43.the Tour de France. He is on home roads. Elia Viviani has that sharp

:09:44. > :09:49.turn of speed. It should be a day for the sprinters. Normally it

:09:50. > :09:53.always is. It is difficult, the laps around Surrey, they are difficult,

:09:54. > :09:57.but it is a long running to the finish it normally does come back.

:09:58. > :10:02.It did not last year. When people push it can always come right down

:10:03. > :10:06.to the wire. There are teams here, especially Sky, it is the home race

:10:07. > :10:10.and they will want to set it up for the win and the sprint. We heard

:10:11. > :10:16.from Michael Matthews. Let's hear from some of the other main

:10:17. > :10:21.contenders in this one. I am feeling good. I really want to do the

:10:22. > :10:31.sprint. I really want to win the Classic. If we arrive in a bunch

:10:32. > :10:37.sprint, I am one of the faster in the group. We have a good chance,

:10:38. > :10:44.but if we see that the situation is too big at Box Hill, for sure we

:10:45. > :10:49.have the riders. One big name any move, Ian Stannard, or when Bill,

:10:50. > :10:54.Pete Kennaugh, we have the riders. We have a strong team. I started the

:10:55. > :10:59.classics well and I had health problems. I had chances in the Giro

:11:00. > :11:03.d'Italia that I did not finish. The same happened at the National is. It

:11:04. > :11:10.is good. I am quite often they are in the final. I will be competitive

:11:11. > :11:14.for the win. For me, the more aggressive the race, the better.

:11:15. > :11:19.Once we get out into the Surrey Hills, we will try to animate the

:11:20. > :11:26.race. It is better for me if I come in in a smaller group. The two times

:11:27. > :11:31.I have been on the podium I arrived with the guys and five guys. It is

:11:32. > :11:36.easier from a smaller group. There is a long way to go to get to the

:11:37. > :11:39.finish line. It is tough, but with it being World Tour this year, we

:11:40. > :11:43.will get the right combination of guys in the right teams, and it

:11:44. > :11:52.could potentially be an interesting race. There is always a group that

:11:53. > :11:59.tries to get away. Thomas was the last man standing last year. As

:12:00. > :12:05.always, the plan for a Quick-Step is to try and aggressively be in the

:12:06. > :12:09.break. We will try and win the race before the sprint and if that does

:12:10. > :12:15.not happen, we will try and win the sprint. Who will have the legs at

:12:16. > :12:19.the finish of it comes to a sprint? This is 183 kilometres, 20 K shorter

:12:20. > :12:24.than we have had in the past. How will that affect things? It will be

:12:25. > :12:28.over faster. The same race pans out, perhaps it is more aggressive, you

:12:29. > :12:39.will not get the sitting and waiting but it will not make

:12:40. > :12:43.much of a difference. The only chance that the non-sprinters have

:12:44. > :12:46.got, there are five series climbs in this event, the last is Box Hill,

:12:47. > :12:49.but from the last one that is about one out of racing. That is a long

:12:50. > :12:51.time to get organised and bring it back for the sprint. Michael

:12:52. > :12:54.Matthews was on the podium last year, third, Ben Swift has been the

:12:55. > :13:01.nearly man a couple of times. Put your neck on the line? I am going to

:13:02. > :13:06.see Sam Bennett. I did not see him before. I'd just as Chrissie was

:13:07. > :13:10.riding. Elia Viviani, I think Sky will control it. He might do it but

:13:11. > :13:15.Sam Bennett has stepped up another level. To see him do well would be

:13:16. > :13:20.nice. He is a nice kid. We will get to the race shortly. As well as the

:13:21. > :13:23.fellows on the commentary box, we will have David Millar doing his job

:13:24. > :13:30.out on the road, in amongst the riders. Go to have him there. Chris

:13:31. > :13:36.and Cav will make their way to the commentary box. Rochelle Gilmore is

:13:37. > :13:39.already there, as is the lead commentator, Simon Brotherton.

:13:40. > :13:45.Afternoon. Welcome to our live coverage. 94 kilometres to go. This

:13:46. > :13:50.is the rate. The riders set off from the centre of London, just around

:13:51. > :13:53.the corner from the mall. They started in Horse Guards Parade,

:13:54. > :13:59.heading out south west over the River Thames, and into the Surrey

:14:00. > :14:03.Hills. Staple Lane was the first climb. The highest point in the

:14:04. > :14:11.south-east of England, Leith Hill. Two lapse of this section, then won

:14:12. > :14:14.silver Box Hill and back to London. Through Kingston and Wimbledon and

:14:15. > :14:17.into the centre of the capital, through Whitehall, left through

:14:18. > :14:23.Admiralty Arch and into the finish on the Mall. Red-carpet treatment

:14:24. > :14:28.for the peloton for the men's World Tour race. The riders setting off

:14:29. > :14:33.from Horse Guards Parade, which was the volleyball venue at the London

:14:34. > :14:37.Olympic Games five years ago. It was a rolling start for the main field,

:14:38. > :14:47.with Buckingham Palace to the right-hand side. They headed out to

:14:48. > :14:50.the official start of the race. They went past many of the iconic

:14:51. > :14:58.landmarks of London. The official start itself was outside the

:14:59. > :15:00.Victoria and Albert Museum. That was where the flag went down. The real

:15:01. > :15:12.racing started. Just over 180 kilometres ahead of

:15:13. > :15:18.them. Over the Thames by the Chiswick bridge, the traditional

:15:19. > :15:44.finish for the boat race. At that time the peloton together and then

:15:45. > :15:55.Schmidt Cas, the el -- were allowed to get away.

:15:56. > :16:09.Plenty of time to get back into things. On the first climb Duval and

:16:10. > :16:12.Kreder were dropped. They are going over the top of Leith Hill. The

:16:13. > :16:29.highest point in south-east England. That is what's what happened so far.

:16:30. > :16:41.There are our three leaders. Just to give you a bit of background, we

:16:42. > :17:10.have got Keisse from Quick Step. Twan Castelijns and we have Schmidt.

:17:11. > :17:13.Mark Cavendish has joined us. Good to see you. It would have been good

:17:14. > :17:25.for the riders to see that breakaway go and enable

:17:26. > :17:41.the race to settle down. The older this race gets, the more

:17:42. > :17:45.people want to be involved. People don't want a strong break to go.

:17:46. > :17:51.Those in the break would know they wouldn't be given a very long leash

:17:52. > :18:03.today? Absolutery. Ly. They know it will be difficult, but these are

:18:04. > :18:08.three strong guys. The rider in the blue is a former team mate of yours.

:18:09. > :18:22.Yes he is a strong guy. It is exciting to have him up here in the

:18:23. > :18:37.front. You have a good excuse not riding. But you're has been out on

:18:38. > :18:42.the course, did you enjoy it. I did. Coming from being a professional to

:18:43. > :18:46.not preparing for an event like that it makes sense you can't be as good

:18:47. > :18:51.as you, but you have expectations that you're going to be. But I was

:18:52. > :18:57.in the position of perhaps a lot of riders, where it was just a real

:18:58. > :19:03.challenge to get to the finish. The last 30 kilometres I stood up on the

:19:04. > :19:13.pedals and it was like knives going into my legs. That was a new

:19:14. > :19:21.experience. The last time I experienced that was on day 8 of the

:19:22. > :19:31.Giro d'Italia. There is a bit of wind out there so a tough day. In

:19:32. > :19:36.the UK we have dead roads. When you say dead roads, do you mean heavy?

:19:37. > :19:40.Yes, you feel like you're stuck to the road and if you're doing the

:19:41. > :19:46.same amount of power, but you're doing a slower speed. So the race

:19:47. > :19:52.has been brought down from just over 200 to 83 kilometres. It will be the

:19:53. > :19:59.same effort. You want racing to the finish than just a resilience, where

:20:00. > :20:04.people are on their hands and knees. They have changed the route they're

:20:05. > :20:10.on this loop, we have two loops before they head over Boxhill and up

:20:11. > :20:15.to London. Last year there were three of these loops around the

:20:16. > :20:21.common to the south of Dorking, to what degree does it change the

:20:22. > :20:28.emphasis of the race in favour of the sprinters? No the amount of laps

:20:29. > :20:33.doesn't make a position. Boxhill will be the hitter, as you saw in

:20:34. > :20:37.the Olympics, if the right move goes, it stays to the end. These

:20:38. > :20:44.circuits are more just to wear down the legs of the riders for the

:20:45. > :20:58.ascent up Boxhill to get the racing started.

:20:59. > :21:04.You have a hundred thousand people riding, traffic-free roads in the

:21:05. > :21:09.centre of the capital. Are you able to sort of enjoy a day like this,

:21:10. > :21:13.when you would rather be riding, or did you find it difficult watching,

:21:14. > :21:18.thinking I wish I would get out there. As a pro, you always want to

:21:19. > :21:23.race. As a racer you always want to race. Having seen the growth of

:21:24. > :21:28.cycling in the UK to see a festival of the sport, not just, not even as

:21:29. > :21:33.a sport, but as a festival of cycling, where people are riding

:21:34. > :21:38.with families or using it to commute, every form of riding is

:21:39. > :21:48.celebrated. It is incredible to see the centre of London, probably the

:21:49. > :21:55.most iconic road in the world, the Mall, to have people riding bikes is

:21:56. > :22:00.incredible. Not just the people on their bikes, but 150,000 people

:22:01. > :22:06.riding, but the amount watching everybody. I have the feeling that

:22:07. > :22:09.this race is so internationally recognised now, because of the

:22:10. > :22:15.course and the landmarks that it passes, I think that we have seen so

:22:16. > :22:19.many riders, big names, wanting to take part here and of course there

:22:20. > :22:25.is a lot of races that hold World Tour points and prize money, this

:22:26. > :22:30.race has become special to all of the professionals and they want to

:22:31. > :22:36.be part of team that races here. The most incredible thing that this race

:22:37. > :22:42.has been at the forward end of world cycling for is pushing the parity

:22:43. > :22:46.between the men's and women's race. There is equal prize money. The

:22:47. > :22:52.women's race was great and it was an exciting sprint. Yes it was a great

:22:53. > :22:56.race and it was Superfast and we saw a bunch sprint in the end and we

:22:57. > :23:02.thought the the rain it may split up. But we didn't see a lot of

:23:03. > :23:06.crashes, but we saw a lot of punctures. There was so many big

:23:07. > :23:10.names. We couldn't say exactly who the favourite was. There was about

:23:11. > :23:23.25 people on my list of favourites. So it was an exciting finish and

:23:24. > :23:27.Team Sunweb won. From the female colleagues I spoke to, it is

:23:28. > :23:31.arguably the biggest race on the calendar. It is and it has only

:23:32. > :23:36.existed for a few years to already be one of the most important races

:23:37. > :23:41.and I know being so close to the athletes that they do think all the

:23:42. > :23:48.way back in January, all the year before, this is a race they want to

:23:49. > :23:54.be part of. The riders going over the top of the hill. You thought

:23:55. > :23:58.that Sky would be one of the teams looking to control it. That seems to

:23:59. > :24:05.be what they're starting to do. Absolutely. They have got one of the

:24:06. > :24:09.favourites with Viviani. He has not come out of Tour de France. The guys

:24:10. > :24:15.from the Tour de France have the condition, but for a much longer

:24:16. > :24:22.race. To have that explosive power, the three weeks in the mountains

:24:23. > :24:28.takes it out of you. Sky will want to bring in their riders. His form

:24:29. > :24:39.is good, winning a couple of stages in the Tour of Austria. There we are

:24:40. > :24:44.with the front of line the Castelijns and Schmidt. I think they

:24:45. > :24:49.will have company soon. We have one more lap still to come. They will do

:24:50. > :24:55.through the high street in Dorking and have another lap before they

:24:56. > :24:59.then leave into Boxhill. They have have to look out, these are small

:25:00. > :25:04.roads around Surrey. You don't get to see more than a couple of hundred

:25:05. > :25:09.metres in front of you. It is easy to watch one or two people go, but

:25:10. > :25:13.then another two go around the corner and another two and it seems

:25:14. > :25:18.like small groups are going and then you have a big group at the front.

:25:19. > :25:27.For riders who continue want it to -- don't want it to end in the

:25:28. > :25:31.sprint it is a long way to go. Geraint Thomas made that move on

:25:32. > :25:35.Boxhill last year and he said he accelerated, looked behind, realised

:25:36. > :25:40.he was on his own and he thought, I have bought my ticket, I'm going to

:25:41. > :25:45.go with it. But he realised how far it was. He committed and you are in

:25:46. > :25:49.no-man's land if you're on your own. You need a strong group. If you

:25:50. > :25:54.don't put yourself there, you're chasing. Geraint was right to put

:25:55. > :26:01.himself on the front foot and hope somebody would come to him rather

:26:02. > :26:07.than have to chase a group down. 32 second is the gap and for the fist

:26:08. > :26:17.time we can -- first time we go live to David Millar on the motorbike. We

:26:18. > :26:23.are just coming over the Common. Going through the feed zone. I have

:26:24. > :26:33.never seen the race like this. It is going to hard so fast and the wind

:26:34. > :26:38.is ate so strong it is making it a different race. That is just people

:26:39. > :26:41.being dropped. Although it is pedestrian from the front when you

:26:42. > :26:45.see the lead camera. We will move up and you will get an idea. This is

:26:46. > :26:49.the peloton is splitting up all over the place and looking at the riders,

:26:50. > :26:56.and they're flat out. So at the moment it is a race of attrition.

:26:57. > :27:07.That shows how much it means to the big teams, they're riding at a high

:27:08. > :27:12.pace. UAE and Team Sunweb. I'm surprised. I've never seen them ride

:27:13. > :27:15.the race like this. Mark, you can sense in the peloton the intensity

:27:16. > :27:21.and the attritional nature of what is going on? Yes, everyone wants to

:27:22. > :27:24.be at the front. With the small roads you have to stay there. It is

:27:25. > :27:28.not a case of trying to break anything. It is with the small

:27:29. > :27:35.roads, if you're back, you're always playing catch up. There is so many

:27:36. > :27:42.people can fit on a road. Everyone will be pushing and that can take

:27:43. > :27:50.the energy, but it makes it harder if you're not concentrated. Your

:27:51. > :27:54.team, dimension data, they recovered well from your absence. It has been

:27:55. > :27:59.a long time sense was saw them at that end of a spript competing --

:28:00. > :28:04.sprint competing for the victory. He was unlucky where you couldn't

:28:05. > :28:10.separate on a photo finish by the naked eye. He got the win, but the

:28:11. > :28:14.team did well to pick up the pieces. Incredible, it is a team built

:28:15. > :28:19.around going and delivering me to a sprint. Not just the physical aspect

:28:20. > :28:21.of that, where they have been training differently, it is the

:28:22. > :28:26.nature of the pressure put on them. I'm there to carry the pressure of

:28:27. > :28:33.the team, because I have to deliver at the end of the guys working hard.

:28:34. > :28:37.It would be all right if you wanted your opportunity like Edward did. He

:28:38. > :28:41.went as a worker not as a leader. He didn't ask for the pressure. To

:28:42. > :28:45.carry that is one thing. But when things aren't going your way it can

:28:46. > :28:52.be harder and that weight gets heavier and heavier. To keep trying,

:28:53. > :28:57.I'm so happy it paid off. He is such a good man and such an amazing

:28:58. > :29:06.cyclist. It has been six years since his last Tour de France win. 2011

:29:07. > :29:11.was the last time. And attention to detail, which in the sprints is a

:29:12. > :29:14.big thing with you, knowing every inch of the road, I got the

:29:15. > :29:21.impression that homework paid off for him. There was a round about in

:29:22. > :29:28.the end and he another went to the right and the rest went to the left.

:29:29. > :29:34.Without giving too much away, we have a great group of people... He

:29:35. > :29:39.knew are to go? Yes he had the best guy in the car with Roger Hammond.

:29:40. > :29:43.He was a small guy compared to most cyclists, but he raced with his

:29:44. > :29:50.head. That is the best person to tell you what to do. And obviously,

:29:51. > :29:55.you know in your absence, they're looking to others, Mark Renshaw, who

:29:56. > :29:58.came second and what about Ryan Gibbons. Tell us about him as an

:29:59. > :30:13.outsider. He rode as a trainee rider last

:30:14. > :30:18.season. He caught my eye. Just how he's so races, he was not waiting to

:30:19. > :30:22.be told what to do. If he saw something that happened, he would

:30:23. > :30:26.adjust his strategy accordingly. That is quite rare in the modern

:30:27. > :30:32.generation of cyclists. He got a contract, he went, he won in

:30:33. > :30:37.Malaysia this year. As a sprinter, to get over some of the climbs in

:30:38. > :30:41.that race, it was phenomenal. He definitely has the talent. He needs

:30:42. > :30:46.a bit of confidence. He will be one of the best in the world in my eyes.

:30:47. > :30:51.When he realises that, he will be unstoppable. He has greatly doubt

:30:52. > :30:56.man depending on who they go with. He has a great man to lead them

:30:57. > :31:00.through in Mark Renshaw. If Mark Renshaw decides to go, like you

:31:01. > :31:08.said, he was second last year, we will see what happens. It is for

:31:09. > :31:15.kilometres to go. It is Iljo Keisse from Quick-Step Floors on the back

:31:16. > :31:18.at the moment. This is some of the information coming in, speed, power

:31:19. > :31:24.and cadence, the difference between Keisse and Elia Viviani, certainly

:31:25. > :31:28.the rider that one presumes Team Sky would hope to be involved at the end

:31:29. > :31:32.of the race should it come down to a sprint. You would have to favour him

:31:33. > :31:37.as being right up there and one of the fancied riders. You can see from

:31:38. > :31:42.the graphics, you can see how much more you have to put in, even though

:31:43. > :31:47.Keisse is not on the front, it is the power he has to put out to push

:31:48. > :31:51.himself along. This is why it is important for sprinters to be

:31:52. > :31:56.sheltered. People often think that sprinters are lazy, they do not do

:31:57. > :32:01.anything. It is a job for sprinters to go fast at the end. They need as

:32:02. > :32:14.much energy as possible to do that. That is why we have a team. It is

:32:15. > :32:17.not lazy to do the least work as possible through the race. It is a

:32:18. > :32:19.job. Sky are looking after Elia Viviani. He will be fresher at the

:32:20. > :32:22.end. Sun well bid that brilliantly for Coryn Rivera at the end

:32:23. > :32:27.yesterday. In the last lap we were trying to spot everyone. I had not

:32:28. > :32:34.seen in the whole race, which meant she was probably going to appear. At

:32:35. > :32:39.the last moment, she came to the front. There was a lovely move from

:32:40. > :32:43.her Finnish team-mate. She overtook Habberfield in that move to get to

:32:44. > :32:47.the front. Her team did a brilliant job. Absolutely. In cycling, the

:32:48. > :32:59.team is your strength for a sprinter.

:33:00. > :33:03.It is about confidence as well. I was looking in the peloton yesterday

:33:04. > :33:06.to transport Coryn Rivera. She spent lots of the race file at the back.

:33:07. > :33:09.Not once on the coverage could I see where she was. It takes confidence

:33:10. > :33:13.to be able to sit back there I know that if moves go, you have a team

:33:14. > :33:15.strong enough to be around you and bring you back to the front of the

:33:16. > :33:20.race at the right time. Absolutely, it takes confidence, to know what

:33:21. > :33:25.you're doing. She is a clever rider. She comes from behind and finds the

:33:26. > :33:29.right time to go. Last year, she had some incredible victories in the

:33:30. > :33:34.same style. Let's go back to David Millar on the bike. The three

:33:35. > :33:39.leaders are about to be caught, and the? It is amazing. The three

:33:40. > :33:43.leaders are riding well but Team Sky are driving this forward. The last

:33:44. > :33:48.section we have gone through was so technical. It was the scariest

:33:49. > :33:54.roller-coaster I have been on. We have just gone by the breakaway. The

:33:55. > :33:57.peloton is coming down so fast. Team Sky are doing the damage, whipping

:33:58. > :34:03.down that descent. There is no letup. With the small roads, there

:34:04. > :34:09.is no letup. They're trying to rip the race to pieces by people getting

:34:10. > :34:13.gaps, putting the pressure on. I have never seen it like this. It

:34:14. > :34:20.seems like there is a real intensity about the race this year. Has the

:34:21. > :34:23.World Tour status changed everything in the minds of the riders? I have

:34:24. > :34:27.seen it since the beginning of the race. There is a different attitude.

:34:28. > :34:32.There has been no moments of cameras. The pressure is on. It is

:34:33. > :34:38.easy to forget how much the World Tour not only means to teams but

:34:39. > :34:44.individuals. There are contracts, everything, if you get points. It is

:34:45. > :34:49.change the make-up of the race. There is no more joking around. This

:34:50. > :34:53.is a serious by grace. One other thing as well, the wind is always a

:34:54. > :35:00.key factor in by grace. What is it like, is it difficult to tell. Is

:35:01. > :35:05.the Wendy factor? It is difficult looking at the pictures to tell. It

:35:06. > :35:10.is. The course is turning, left and right and protected in places, but

:35:11. > :35:15.when it strings out, you can see. You have much better images of the

:35:16. > :35:20.front of the peloton, but I can tell by the body language, the flat-out.

:35:21. > :35:24.They know that if they can string it out on these roller-coaster

:35:25. > :35:28.sections, they will rip it to pieces back end. The tactic is to take it

:35:29. > :35:34.from the front, old school, and rip the race apart. Not from brute

:35:35. > :35:38.force, but the technicalities of the course and the wind that is present.

:35:39. > :35:44.The race rolling on through the Surrey countryside. Not far from

:35:45. > :35:49.Dorking. Team Sky forcing the pace on the front of the peloton. Mark

:35:50. > :35:54.Cavendish has had to move on but it was great to have him with us. He

:35:55. > :36:00.will be with Jill Douglas at the end of the race. If it is a sprint, we

:36:01. > :36:03.have the very man to dissect it afterwards, an expert, that being

:36:04. > :36:09.his speciality. Chris Boardman has joined as in the commentary box. We

:36:10. > :36:12.are mob handed this year. We have had a little breakaway group, but

:36:13. > :36:18.there was never really any intention to give them much rope. In some ways

:36:19. > :36:24.it is surprising with 80 kilometres to go that the peloton history

:36:25. > :36:27.acting so strongly. -- that the peloton is reacting so strongly.

:36:28. > :36:32.David Millar has said that they have got to use the terrain on the

:36:33. > :36:39.course. They have two series climbs to go. After Box Hill, it is about

:36:40. > :36:43.one hour of racing back to town. Sky riding like this is detaining anyone

:36:44. > :36:47.from making a move. Last year it was Geraint Thomas who made a move over

:36:48. > :36:53.the top of Box Hill. Nobody went with him so he was on his own with

:36:54. > :36:58.about 50 K to go. He did not quite make it to the centre of London. We

:36:59. > :37:02.saw in the finish of the Olympic Games in 2012, when it split up for

:37:03. > :37:09.the last time, up one Box Hill they did a lot more circuits, but similar

:37:10. > :37:12.terrain. On the long to town, it did not reform. Although it was a

:37:13. > :37:18.sprint, it was from diminished group. It is possible with this kind

:37:19. > :37:22.of pace that we could see a similar evolution of the race. How did you

:37:23. > :37:27.find the roads this morning, Rachelle? We have had some pretty

:37:28. > :37:32.rough weather in the last 24 hours? I thought conditions were

:37:33. > :37:37.challenging for the Surrey 100. The wind is quite strong. I find myself

:37:38. > :37:41.trying to slip into bunches to get some rest. Because the roads are

:37:42. > :37:47.dead, it seems that the power output, the always needs to be

:37:48. > :37:49.pressure on the pedals. I am very confident in bunch positioning, but

:37:50. > :37:56.I've found the roads extremely difficult. Tough conditions. It will

:37:57. > :38:01.be interesting to know with the other 35,000 people out there today

:38:02. > :38:04.felt that it was a little bit more challenging than previous years with

:38:05. > :38:08.the wind. I think some of them did find it more challenging than you,

:38:09. > :38:12.because looking out of commentary window on the finishing line, there

:38:13. > :38:16.are some people finishing that have been out there for a long time

:38:17. > :38:20.today. Still smiling for the most part, still pedalling, more

:38:21. > :38:25.importantly, and still rolling over the finishing line. 30,000 people

:38:26. > :38:31.out there on the road today. 100,000 people taking part on two wheels

:38:32. > :38:35.over the weekend. It is a great festival of cycling, 78 kilometres

:38:36. > :38:40.to go. As Chris Boardman was saying, Team Sky with the intent of keeping

:38:41. > :38:45.the pace high, detaining anyone from trying to disappear up the road. Ian

:38:46. > :38:51.Stannard, standing out of his saddle. Just to the right of your

:38:52. > :38:57.picture, second in line. The peloton fanned out right across the road.

:38:58. > :39:00.You can see that they're communicating on the radio to get

:39:01. > :39:03.some confidence from the team director, or the team leader on the

:39:04. > :39:08.road that they are doing the right thing. They will be in a world of

:39:09. > :39:12.pain, having to do this work. Do you think there is a situation where the

:39:13. > :39:17.sprinter or protected rider feels this is too hard, if we go this hard

:39:18. > :39:21.to keep the pace high I may not have the legs to finish in the end? On

:39:22. > :39:25.this kind of terrain, certainly on the part of the course there are

:39:26. > :39:30.now, there is a benefit to be near the front. Everybody has got to get

:39:31. > :39:33.over it and if you are near the front you do not have the

:39:34. > :39:38.deaccelerations and deceleration is, you have smooth lines through the

:39:39. > :39:42.corners. Once they get over the last of the Hells, from that point it is

:39:43. > :39:47.fairly flat. We have a problem. Owain Doull, who won a gold medal on

:39:48. > :39:54.the track as part of the team pursuit squad at the last Olympics.

:39:55. > :39:59.A really promising rider. Just 24 years of age. He will do his best to

:40:00. > :40:05.get back to the peloton. It is a strong British based team today that

:40:06. > :40:07.Team Sky have lined up. They had a big victory yesterday at San

:40:08. > :40:12.Sebastien, a famous one day race with Michal Kwiatkowski. Reward for

:40:13. > :40:17.him after his efforts during July own behalf of Chris Froome. It is a

:40:18. > :40:23.strong squad they have got here today, racing from Sky with Owain

:40:24. > :40:29.Doull, Jon Dibben, Pete Kennaugh, Tao Geoghegan Hart, Ian Stannard and

:40:30. > :40:35.Iljo Keisse -- and Elia Viviani. Kenny Elissonde is also racing for

:40:36. > :40:40.them today. Elia Viviani is the main man. Kenny Elissonde is on the front

:40:41. > :40:45.at the moment as the head through the high Street in Dorking. A pretty

:40:46. > :40:53.good spot to watch the race today as the starting point of the intricate

:40:54. > :40:56.circuits through the Surrey Hells, -- Surrey Hells, featuring the claim

:40:57. > :41:02.to Ranmore Common, and the tricky descent. There are couple of big

:41:03. > :41:14.screens in the high in Dorking for spectators to follow the race as a

:41:15. > :41:19.whole. That is the front of the race. A little bit further back,

:41:20. > :41:22.there is a chase going on for one of the riders from Team Sky who we saw

:41:23. > :41:29.a few moments ago, Owain Doull, working hard to get back on. He is

:41:30. > :41:36.not hanging about. 60 kilometres an hour. He has a convoy to go through.

:41:37. > :41:40.He will be happy to get into the reels. Yesterday for the women's

:41:41. > :41:45.race, there were no team cars because the circuit was so small.

:41:46. > :41:50.Once you punctured you were out of the race. There is more assistance

:41:51. > :41:56.today. Palu Geoghegan Hart at the front at the moment, doing plenty of

:41:57. > :41:59.work on behalf of his team-mate. Eighth overall in the Tour Of

:42:00. > :42:05.California earlier this year in the spring. And a decent result in the

:42:06. > :42:11.Tour de Yorkshire this year with the top ten finish in that one. There is

:42:12. > :42:16.lots of nervousness in the peloton. You can see the changing places at

:42:17. > :42:21.the front, setting themselves up for the next climb, which is not far

:42:22. > :42:25.away. About 43 kilometres to go, when they will go over the top of

:42:26. > :42:29.Box Hill, and it will be all down hill and flat into the finish. The

:42:30. > :42:35.next 30 kilometres of racing is critical. You can see with the

:42:36. > :42:41.intensity of the racing it will be very hard for anybody to make a move

:42:42. > :42:45.or gain any ground at all, even with the two climbs still to come. Hard

:42:46. > :42:51.to see the race splitting up at any point. I have to agree. We can see

:42:52. > :42:55.that Sky is on the front. Sunweb riders floating around. I was

:42:56. > :43:00.wondering whether Andrei Greipel's team would be riding for him. He was

:43:01. > :43:06.a little lacklustre at the Tour. It seemed like he was getting warmed up

:43:07. > :43:10.towards the end. He was second on the Champs-Elysees. He whittled down

:43:11. > :43:14.the sprinters in front of him and he still was not winning, not the form

:43:15. > :43:17.we have seen in the past. There were a few days where his team worked

:43:18. > :43:21.really hard and did a great job when he was nowhere to be seen in the

:43:22. > :43:27.sprints. That is most unlike him. He has won a stage in every grand Tour

:43:28. > :43:31.he has ridden for several years until this year's Tour. The camera

:43:32. > :43:36.showing what it is like inside the peloton. It looks like it is flowing

:43:37. > :43:42.from helicopter shots, but you can see how frantic it is, how little

:43:43. > :43:46.room to manoeuvre there is. It is a constant game of brinkmanship for

:43:47. > :43:49.positioning. Owain Doull picking his way through the team cars, finding

:43:50. > :43:54.his way back up to the end of the peloton in the not too distant

:43:55. > :43:59.future, hopefully. In this part of the circuit, there is not lots of

:44:00. > :44:10.room. The roads are not particularly wide tall. 73 kilometres remaining

:44:11. > :44:15.on the road back to central London. A big crowd waiting at the finish,

:44:16. > :44:20.they have been here all day. It is about one hour and 40 minutes left

:44:21. > :44:23.to race. Plenty of time for something to happen. The riders at

:44:24. > :44:26.the front are happy to back off because it is so narrow they can

:44:27. > :44:34.block the road and pretty much prevent anybody from attacking and

:44:35. > :44:39.taking them by surprise. It looks like Geoghegan Hart on the front for

:44:40. > :44:43.Team Sky. They really do have confidence today, Team Sky. A key

:44:44. > :44:46.kilometres to go and they have already been on the front trying to

:44:47. > :44:52.control the race. They start with seven riders, that is right, seven

:44:53. > :44:58.riders? The women started with six yesterday. Significantly smaller,

:44:59. > :45:01.well, smaller than they started with at the Tour de France makes a

:45:02. > :45:06.difference to the strength of your team to take control swelling. It is

:45:07. > :45:12.a relief for the teams that they do not have to put a bigger squad in

:45:13. > :45:14.for these races because they are stretched this weekend with San

:45:15. > :45:20.Sebastien, and the Tour of Poland as well. Teams are sending riders three

:45:21. > :45:23.ways at this time. It is probably why we have seen them stamping on

:45:24. > :45:27.the breakaway so quickly. The only got four minutes early on the stage

:45:28. > :45:30.and with a couple of hours to go, they wanted to bring it back because

:45:31. > :45:35.they know they have not got the numbers. If anything develops, a

:45:36. > :45:41.significant break, it will be hard to bring it back. Sky are well-known

:45:42. > :45:43.for being able to calculate breakaways. Leaving them at a

:45:44. > :45:47.certain distance before they bring them back. Sometimes the viewers and

:45:48. > :45:52.myself get nervous about whether they are leaving it too late, but

:45:53. > :45:56.they really do the calculations well. They are not leaving anything

:45:57. > :46:01.to chance today. They are taking control a long way out. This is just

:46:02. > :46:05.the sort of race that would have suited Mark Cavendish with plenty of

:46:06. > :46:10.other teams looking to bring it back for a sprint. Owain Doull working

:46:11. > :46:18.hard to get back in the peloton. One man in the middle of the action at

:46:19. > :46:23.the moment, David Millar. Yes, this as well as Stewart Geraint Thomas

:46:24. > :46:28.attacked and led to the whole of the Team Sky attack. At this speed, it

:46:29. > :46:31.is hard to think they can do this for much longer. They are trying to

:46:32. > :46:35.launch Pete Kennaugh and put the pressure on the other teams to chase

:46:36. > :46:40.down and put Elia Viviani in the driving seat. The pace they are

:46:41. > :46:44.setting is infernal. They are using Geoghegan Hart, and he is one of the

:46:45. > :46:49.strongest riders. You can feel how narrow the roaders. At the moment,

:46:50. > :46:54.does not look like they're going to do anything. This point last year

:46:55. > :46:58.they launched offensive. They will either play the Elia Viviani card

:46:59. > :47:02.outbreak, but at the same time, I am not sure if they can take this all

:47:03. > :47:06.the way to the finish. I think something will happen soon. When

:47:07. > :47:09.Geraint Thomas made a break last year, he was hoping that some people

:47:10. > :47:18.would be with him when he looked under his armpit and made

:47:19. > :47:25.deacceleration? Geoghegan Hart looks like he's doing a final effort. They

:47:26. > :47:28.are really setting everything up, doing in the Telos. Elia Viviani is

:47:29. > :47:31.setting back. Either he is not feeling good ideas feeling so good

:47:32. > :47:37.they will let the other teams control it. It is looking very

:47:38. > :47:41.aggressive from Team Sky now. Absolutely, with Geoghegan Hart on

:47:42. > :47:42.the front. They have riders like Ian Stannard, who can ride on the front

:47:43. > :48:13.all Dave he needs to. Unfortunately Doull, the team

:48:14. > :48:17.tactics will play out. David Millar bang on the money with the

:48:18. > :48:23.suggestion that is what Geoghegan Hart was trying to do. It has done.

:48:24. > :48:28.It was a strong effort. It is breaking up. That is probably enough

:48:29. > :48:38.for this quality of rider. It only looks like a few metres, it is the

:48:39. > :48:44.penultimate climb of the day. That 10 metres could be the difference.

:48:45. > :48:48.They were ride ing so hard to make sure everyone was on the limit

:48:49. > :48:53.before they launched an attack. With seven man teams it won't take many

:48:54. > :49:11.to get away for it to be difficult to catch. Trying to see who that is.

:49:12. > :49:16.Is that Jack Bauer from Quick Step? Owain Doull can just about see the

:49:17. > :49:26.rear end of the peloton now. Having been forced to chase back after a

:49:27. > :49:34.technical issue. Two is not a big number as they go through the Moor.

:49:35. > :49:40.The roads are still wet. That causes a bit of a problem. These two now

:49:41. > :49:46.have some clear daylight behind they know it is a dangerous move. If they

:49:47. > :49:49.escape, Sky, who have been holding the race together, and won't play a

:49:50. > :49:51.part and all the other teams would be forced to do the work to try and

:49:52. > :50:16.bring it back. It is Ellison being overtaken. He

:50:17. > :50:21.did his turn at the front before Tao Geoghegan Hart. Hopefully he can get

:50:22. > :50:25.back into the convoy and back on to the wheels. Normally they can use

:50:26. > :50:30.the cars effectively to get themselves back into the group. With

:50:31. > :50:34.these narrow roads, the vehicles are being held back and they're well

:50:35. > :50:37.spaced out. Owain Doull is doing the right thing and riding at his own

:50:38. > :50:43.pace and waiting until he has a chance. We have the main peloton and

:50:44. > :50:47.a splinter group at the front. That might be too big a group to start

:50:48. > :50:51.working together. We will have a look as soon as we can and bring the

:50:52. > :51:02.make up. But the danger has been sensed. This race starting to split

:51:03. > :51:07.up. By riding at his own pace Doull, they will start to pick up some of

:51:08. > :51:10.the back markers. I think they will probably get themselves back on

:51:11. > :51:25.terms, depending on how this pans out. At the front we are up to three

:51:26. > :51:30.riders and that is a strong trio. Scombr Three riders ahead of

:51:31. > :51:37.peloton. Gives you an idea of how split up. We have about 18 riders in

:51:38. > :51:43.front of main peloton. The race is on here. Inside 70 kilometres to go.

:51:44. > :51:48.Just over an hour and a half of racing to complete. 30 minutes I

:51:49. > :51:51.would say in this difficult, twisting and lumpy terrain, before

:51:52. > :51:59.they drive back into London. This is where they have to get it get it

:52:00. > :52:08.together. Trentin a two-times stage winner in the Tour de France. The

:52:09. > :52:19.other is Daryl Impey. Impey in the middle from Orica-Scott was the

:52:20. > :52:26.first South African rider to win the jersey. Three very strong road men

:52:27. > :52:32.and in good form. Utterly committing themselves to this move now. It is

:52:33. > :52:38.good to see Trentin back in form. He rode in the Tour de France, but he

:52:39. > :52:43.didn't finish. He was beyond the time limit on one stage. They had

:52:44. > :52:49.some illness in the team and I'm not sure whether he was affect by that

:52:50. > :52:55.or if he was held back with Marcel Kittel. His form up until that point

:52:56. > :53:00.was excellent. This is a big group and it does seem to be toshinging

:53:01. > :53:08.well. This is the -- to be working well. That might be Michael Matthews

:53:09. > :53:14.of Sunweb, who one delighted to be sprinting from this group. He would

:53:15. > :53:21.do well to get to the back of that group. The pace of Sky seems to be

:53:22. > :53:26.having an effect. Kennaugh behind Impey's wheel. We have a gap for our

:53:27. > :53:30.motorbike to slot in behind them so, they have done some damage. The

:53:31. > :53:39.roads under the trees, changing from wet to dry all the time. These

:53:40. > :53:43.riders working well together. We still have Box Hill to come before

:53:44. > :53:49.the run back into London. Impey is driving it hard. Let's check on the

:53:50. > :53:58.breakaway with David on the motorbike. Kennaugh did an amazing

:53:59. > :54:05.attack and here they come by us. If we slow down, you get an idea of the

:54:06. > :54:09.break. Impey is in incredible form and I saw him in the Tour de France.

:54:10. > :54:14.Here they come and we will let them go by us. Because we are going into

:54:15. > :54:24.a technical section. They go faster than us down the downhill. Here we

:54:25. > :54:29.go. Bmc driving it and Dimension Day that. Jack Bauer there. We have a

:54:30. > :54:36.leader situation. And behind still nothing. Still nothing. No. It is a

:54:37. > :54:42.good gap. The riders in the middle group are the leaders now. We have a

:54:43. > :54:47.full blown race. This tactic by Sky has worked, but they're putting all

:54:48. > :54:53.their eggs in one basket with Kennaugh. You could see the gap not

:54:54. > :54:57.only opened up by the three at the front, but that first chase group,

:54:58. > :55:01.there was an enormous gap. They're still fighting it out from the

:55:02. > :55:05.helicopter shots we had. They weren't committed to work together.

:55:06. > :55:10.That can happen when a group gets too bloated and gets over six to ten

:55:11. > :55:16.riders, people sit on and the rot sets in and if that it Michael

:55:17. > :55:25.Matthews, they're not going to want to carry one of the best sprinters

:55:26. > :55:31.in the world to the finish. It looked like him. Michael Matthews of

:55:32. > :55:38.course will be brimming with confidence after his green jersey

:55:39. > :55:43.win in the Tour de France. Kennaugh dropping off the group. That is

:55:44. > :55:47.interesting he is choosing to give up his position. Maybe he has

:55:48. > :55:52.decided if this goes all the way, I'm suffering. Maybe he doesn't feel

:55:53. > :55:56.confident in the sprint. Maybe he can't stay with them up this climb.

:55:57. > :56:02.It is deceptive. You can't see how steep it is. But he has let go. Sky

:56:03. > :56:09.started this move and they have nobody in it. Kennaugh quickly on

:56:10. > :56:13.the radio to the team. He wasn't working through. So maybe it is just

:56:14. > :56:19.physical and he wasn't able to stay with the pace being set. Largely by

:56:20. > :56:28.Daryl Impey. They're going to have to have a change of tactic and this

:56:29. > :56:35.makes it more exciting. Sky have got two strong riders ahead of them.

:56:36. > :56:40.Just the pair of them. 16 seconds the gap. The last time we were made

:56:41. > :56:45.aware of the distance. Kennaugh who we are looking at it between the

:56:46. > :56:49.front of the race and that Michael Matthews group. We will call it

:56:50. > :56:54.that. It is interesting how athletes can cope with a situation like this.

:56:55. > :56:59.I know within my team we had a discussion about that yesterday.

:57:00. > :57:04.That some athletes are a bit hesitant to put their hand up and

:57:05. > :57:09.ask for support, in case they don't have on the day. It is difficult to

:57:10. > :57:13.know when you get out there, even if you have done all the preparation,

:57:14. > :57:17.how you're going to be on the day. It is a scary position to be in to

:57:18. > :57:22.put your hand up as a leader and have the team work for you. It is

:57:23. > :57:27.just a part of bike racing. It is a big responsibility. Yes, but in my

:57:28. > :57:31.case as a team manager, I'm trying to take the fear out of the

:57:32. > :57:40.athletes' minds to put their hand up and have a go. It is just pike

:57:41. > :57:47.racing -- bike racing. Pete will be disappointed, but he will do

:57:48. > :57:50.everything he can. One rider I spotted that is Vanmarke. This is

:57:51. > :57:55.the chasing group. He is looking behind. I don't know whether he is

:57:56. > :57:58.not getting any information or something's happening out of shot.

:57:59. > :58:06.You can see it is a steep descent. I remember this. Matthews confirmed as

:58:07. > :58:15.being in there. It is quite a select group here. Michael Matthews is the

:58:16. > :58:20.favourite for today and with the win yesterday, the team Sunweb are well

:58:21. > :58:24.connected. Same ownership. But the athletes are supporting each other

:58:25. > :58:28.and the women were lifted by the success of the men at the Tour de

:58:29. > :58:33.France and yesterday's win would have lifted the morale of the men in

:58:34. > :58:37.the team. Chris, what do you think about the fact that Mark Cavendish

:58:38. > :58:44.had the same favourite that I mentioned to you? Yes absolutely.

:58:45. > :58:52.There is probably about ten riders here who are classy. After the Tour

:58:53. > :58:56.de France, you're not sure where people are on form. Sometimes it is

:58:57. > :58:59.just how you hit the finish and how many team mates you have left to

:59:00. > :59:04.help. These two would like to get another check on their lead. They

:59:05. > :59:08.have lost 30% of their fire power. That will make a difference. This

:59:09. > :59:12.group seemed to be committed to the chase now. As we mentioned

:59:13. > :59:18.yesterday. Good to have a look at some of the others and go back to

:59:19. > :59:21.David Millar on the motorbike. We have just, were just about to come

:59:22. > :59:27.through. The second group is in front of us, the Michael Matthews

:59:28. > :59:31.group and then the two in front, with Impey and we have the third

:59:32. > :59:37.group. You will get an idea, you can see them there. Watch this. We will

:59:38. > :59:42.show you how much of a gap there is. That is already. That is quite a big

:59:43. > :59:48.group. That is the remainder of the peloton and that is being led by a

:59:49. > :59:53.mix match. You see the size of the gap. We are about to come up. And

:59:54. > :00:01.you will see this is the Michael Matthews group and we have Jacques

:00:02. > :00:08.Bauer and a lot of hitters. Peter Kenyon. Ben Swift is there. Jack

:00:09. > :00:14.Bauer at the front. And to the next group. That is group two. Behind

:00:15. > :00:18.them is the peloton and here is the lead two riders and they know they

:00:19. > :00:28.don't have a chance. Because there is so far to go. We come by them

:00:29. > :00:33.there is Trentin and Impey. What has to happen is that that group, it is

:00:34. > :00:36.almost worth it for those two to wait for that group. All start

:00:37. > :00:42.working together and lose the peloton. That is the current race

:00:43. > :00:50.situation. I love the pictures when we can see the gap and the distance

:00:51. > :00:55.covered. So we have confirmation of who is in the second group and it is

:00:56. > :00:59.hard to think how the peloton will get back on terms. David is right

:01:00. > :01:03.the two up the front were part of reason that we have split the race

:01:04. > :01:08.up and they were the ones that got out there and forced the pace. But

:01:09. > :01:13.now the way it has developed, this is not a likely move. Just two of

:01:14. > :01:19.them are unlikely to hold that move off. Impey has been on the radio,

:01:20. > :01:23.but he is not getting any commitment from the team to back off and wait

:01:24. > :01:31.for the group. They will keep plugging away.

:01:32. > :01:37.Nice it would be good to get confirmation of who is in that

:01:38. > :01:45.group, Oliver Naesen, Jack Bauer, Michael Matthews as well. Sam

:01:46. > :01:50.Bennett. That is the big win, Rochelle Gilmore's favourite for the

:01:51. > :01:53.day. Michael Matthews is probably the favourite in regard to his

:01:54. > :02:00.condition and the confidence he brings out from the Tour de France.

:02:01. > :02:07.He has a team-mate with him as well, Soren Kragh Andersen. It would be

:02:08. > :02:10.good to make sure. Physically, and with the confidence, Michael

:02:11. > :02:13.Matthews will be the standout favourite, but Sam Bennett will, in

:02:14. > :02:19.a little more fresh. It would mean so much to him to ever victory this

:02:20. > :02:24.year. He has stepped this year. For me, he is a favourite, because

:02:25. > :02:31.knowing him personally, he is a top guy, as is Michael Matthews. The my

:02:32. > :02:34.two favourites for the day. Confirmation it is Andersen in that

:02:35. > :02:39.group as well. They're holding the lead at the moment. You saw from the

:02:40. > :02:44.motor bike with David Millar on the course, it looked like a good lead

:02:45. > :02:48.that they had, but in the scheme of things, in a race like this, it is

:02:49. > :02:52.an advantage which can quickly disappear. They have won more climb

:02:53. > :02:57.to go, all over the top of Box Hill. There are a few lumps, but that is

:02:58. > :03:02.the main one. After that, it is 60 minutes to read back to London. It

:03:03. > :03:06.is more frantic than you would expect in a race with 60 kilometres

:03:07. > :03:09.to go. But they know that they have less than 20, just 20 kilometres, to

:03:10. > :03:23.form this race. Here we are, this looks like the

:03:24. > :03:38.chase group. Towards the back, I can see even Lampard. -- even Lampard

:03:39. > :03:47.is. 13 seconds, the gap. Still going on the road towards stalking. Box

:03:48. > :03:51.Hill looming on the horizon. It is still mightier Trentin and Daryl

:03:52. > :04:01.Impey, the two riders at the front. -- Matteo Trentin. There are

:04:02. > :04:05.probably about 20 riders now, 22 riders left in this race, assuming

:04:06. > :04:12.the peloton does not get back on terms. We have not had any images of

:04:13. > :04:16.the main peloton for some time, but everybody seems to have somebody in

:04:17. > :04:22.this group. I am not sure that we saw a Sky rider in the chase script.

:04:23. > :04:34.This is a helicopter shot. We can check. Just making a note myself of

:04:35. > :04:39.who is in the chasing group. We will be able to bring you that shortly.

:04:40. > :04:43.Pete Kennaugh is still in the chase group, in the Michael Matthews

:04:44. > :04:47.group. He has dropped back. You do not have any kind of a problem that

:04:48. > :04:52.stopped him sticking with this group. Maybe the terrain had changed

:04:53. > :04:56.slightly. I am sure we will get some postrace interviews to fill us in.

:04:57. > :05:02.These two are persisting and they have pushed the lead up by five

:05:03. > :05:10.seconds as I speak. Experience Road men and they have decided this is

:05:11. > :05:14.worth persevering with. Behind, of course, when we get onto wider

:05:15. > :05:17.roads, and our camera bacon stick with the chasing group longer, we

:05:18. > :05:23.will see just who it is that is doing the work. There might be

:05:24. > :05:31.around 20 riders but it depends on how many of them are prepared to do

:05:32. > :05:36.the chasing. Ben Swift involved in the chase group, Michael Matthews

:05:37. > :05:43.from Sunweb. Sure enough, gaps are appearing in the chasing group. That

:05:44. > :05:47.is Oliver Naesen on the front in the Belgian national champion's jersey.

:05:48. > :05:52.I think that maybe Ben Swift who has gone past him onto the front. The

:05:53. > :05:56.gaps are being caused by pace, it is not people being dropped by physical

:05:57. > :06:01.ability, the riders at the back are not following the wheels and trying

:06:02. > :06:06.to get people to come from the back can join in. There is no harmony. An

:06:07. > :06:10.interesting development. In that group, Jack Bauer, Michael Matthews.

:06:11. > :06:14.They are coming in for the fourth sprint in the high Street in

:06:15. > :06:22.Dorking. Stefan Kueng is there as well, Dylan Vanbaarle, Sep Vanmarke,

:06:23. > :06:30.both from Cannondale, Jasper Stuyven is there, and Oliver Naesen. From

:06:31. > :06:36.AG2R. He is a team-mate of Romain Bardet. He is not here today. They

:06:37. > :06:42.are pretty well represented. There is a rider from Dimension Data as

:06:43. > :06:46.well. I got a slight limbs of him. I am not sure who it was. There is

:06:47. > :06:51.Matthews, number 54, and Andersen, his team-mate, is in front of him.

:06:52. > :06:55.They're trying not to do any of the work at the moment. That is the

:06:56. > :06:59.problem if you have riders not going through in a group. I think it might

:07:00. > :07:04.be Scott Thwaites from Dimension Data. There is a little gap at the

:07:05. > :07:09.back of the group as people are trying not to work. Riders are

:07:10. > :07:13.saying, I will not just nip onto the back. If you want to stay with the

:07:14. > :07:18.script, you will have to ride through. They are not happy at the

:07:19. > :07:23.moment. That is why the two at the front, despite being vastly smaller

:07:24. > :07:29.numbers, they are gaining time. 24 seconds, that is the lead. We are on

:07:30. > :07:35.the a 24 in Dorking. They have turned left through the Cockrell at

:07:36. > :07:39.the roundabout. They are heading in the general direction of the climb

:07:40. > :07:45.to Box Hill. Matteo Trentin. If you have joined the coverage, these are

:07:46. > :07:51.the riders at the front, Daryl Impey in the Navy, from Orica-Scott, a

:07:52. > :07:55.team-mate of Adam and Simon Yates. A South African -based rider, who had

:07:56. > :08:06.a strong performance in the Tour this year. Trentin, a two-time stage

:08:07. > :08:08.where, in 2013 and 2014, from Quick-Step Floors. Yves Lampaert is

:08:09. > :08:15.his team-mate. The pair of them in discussion in that group. I get the

:08:16. > :08:23.impression that the peloton might come back together. Yes, the peloton

:08:24. > :08:29.is chasing furiously. Bora-Hansgrohe and Katusha. Behind, it isn't one

:08:30. > :08:33.long line. 20 metres from me, I can see Pete Kennaugh, the back of the

:08:34. > :08:37.group. That is how close. It is quite confusing with the images, but

:08:38. > :08:41.I have the back of the group right next to me. That is why the harmony

:08:42. > :08:47.was disappearing and no one was working together. Bora-Hansgrohe and

:08:48. > :08:53.Katusha are chasing madly behind. That will deter everyone working

:08:54. > :08:57.well together in the chase group. These are the riders up front. This

:08:58. > :09:02.is the group and this is the peloton coming up on them. The two riders up

:09:03. > :09:07.on them. The two riders op-ed, I do not know, the race is about to kick

:09:08. > :09:11.off again on Box Hill. It looks like a very fluid situation out on the

:09:12. > :09:14.road. Yes, if they can get to Box Hill it will reshape again and they

:09:15. > :09:19.will have given themselves something of a head start. They're all just

:09:20. > :09:22.playing brinkmanship, trying to sit on the back of this group. It looks

:09:23. > :09:30.like it will reform before they get there. We will start all over again,

:09:31. > :09:34.apart from the two out who are holding a 24 seconds. The riders

:09:35. > :09:43.outfront, holding their ground at the moment. It is quite a chase

:09:44. > :09:48.behind. The main body of the field are refusing to give up, refusing to

:09:49. > :09:58.give way and chasing hard. This is the climb of Box Hill, the average

:09:59. > :10:04.gradient 3.9%. The maximum, 9.3%. It is such a popular spot with

:10:05. > :10:08.cyclists. It always has been, but particularly since the Olympic Games

:10:09. > :10:12.as part of the road race course. At any time of the week, when you go,

:10:13. > :10:18.there are always cyclists all around. Here we go. The fate of the

:10:19. > :10:24.climb. I do not think it is quite as long as that. It is false flat in

:10:25. > :10:29.places. After this much racing, it can be pretty tough. It depends how

:10:30. > :10:35.hard you go up. The speed is the big you have to remember. I would be

:10:36. > :10:40.interested to ask you, Chris, how you feel about Box Hill. It is so

:10:41. > :10:43.famous because of the Olympics but people generally have the idea that

:10:44. > :10:46.it will be a nasty climb, but down there this morning, I realised

:10:47. > :10:52.again, I have written the course many times, that Leith Hill for me

:10:53. > :10:57.is a tougher climb. I would agree but this was part of the Olympic

:10:58. > :11:02.circuit and it has status because of that. Less than 4% average gradient

:11:03. > :11:07.but if you go a bit quick enough it can still do damage. It has a lovely

:11:08. > :11:12.road surface. That is something left over from the Olympics. Originally,

:11:13. > :11:17.they resurfaced the climb part of it, which you can see. They left the

:11:18. > :11:22.descent, which was the bit you needed to have a good surface on.

:11:23. > :11:27.For sprinters you need the climb to have a good surface as well. Do not

:11:28. > :11:31.pander to them, I say. I think it is the false flat after the climb that

:11:32. > :11:39.is hardest, and through the next section after the top of the climb.

:11:40. > :11:44.It does not drop straightaway. No, it is a false flat. Also, the next

:11:45. > :11:50.ten kilometres is quite up and down as well. It is a climb that I really

:11:51. > :11:55.enjoy. You can see that the surface is just beautiful. The riders piling

:11:56. > :12:01.it on on the climb. Still riding at 28 kilometres per hour. They have

:12:02. > :12:05.got them inside as they go round the hairpin. 28 seconds between them.

:12:06. > :12:12.You would expect this group to be losing time, the two, but if they

:12:13. > :12:17.can hold off over the top, they have a chance. About one hour and ten

:12:18. > :12:21.minutes of racing remaining. Quite faint hopes, but they will stick

:12:22. > :12:26.with it. They will stay outfront as long as they possibly can. These two

:12:27. > :12:31.riders are about as strong as you're going to get if you have appeared on

:12:32. > :12:35.a breakaway group. Just a little bit back down the climb with one of

:12:36. > :12:40.Michael Matthews' team-mates from Sunweb on the front of the chase

:12:41. > :12:44.group. Just under 20 seconds. Jack Bauer is well placed in second

:12:45. > :12:48.place, the current time trial champion of New Zealand in the blue.

:12:49. > :12:53.Jelle on his sleeves, another one who had a solid Tour de France. A

:12:54. > :12:57.rider who has had success on British roads in the not too distant past,

:12:58. > :13:01.riding in the Tour of Britain. A good number of the field have raced

:13:02. > :13:06.on the Tour of Britain over the years. Jack Bauer is one of them,

:13:07. > :13:11.winner of the stage that finish near Bath. Towards the front of the

:13:12. > :13:16.peloton today. One of the advantages of setting a high pace for Sunweb is

:13:17. > :13:22.it keeps everybody pinned down and discourages attacks from coming. And

:13:23. > :13:27.let's see if there are managing to set a high enough pace for that to

:13:28. > :13:31.happen. The gap is down to 17 seconds. They are on the same

:13:32. > :13:38.straight, and here comes a move. It looks like a rider from BMC on the

:13:39. > :13:45.front. It has done enough. That is six riders pulling clear. Remember,

:13:46. > :13:48.Jean Pierre Drucker was the winner a couple of years ago, from BMC, the

:13:49. > :13:57.biggest win of his career at the time. He has won a stage of the

:13:58. > :14:03.Vuelta design your sins. BMC hoping for a good ride from him. You can

:14:04. > :14:08.put people in difficulty on this climb, but not enough to make it

:14:09. > :14:12.stick. It certainly sounds the death knell for these two. Less than ten

:14:13. > :14:16.seconds. Not much of the league, you can see that from the helicopter

:14:17. > :14:27.shot. They will be reeled in shortly. You can see how much this

:14:28. > :14:34.has strongly peloton out. -- strung the peloton out. This is the front

:14:35. > :14:38.of the chase group, behind the two leaders. Daryl Impey doing a strong

:14:39. > :14:44.turn at the front of the race. They must know that the peloton are hot

:14:45. > :14:52.on the heels. As they make the climb up towards the top of Box Hill.

:14:53. > :15:00.The last big obstacle of the day and these two are unlikely survive it

:15:01. > :15:04.and are looking behind. I think that flurry of attacks has caused

:15:05. > :15:12.something of a lull behind. They might just get over the top. But the

:15:13. > :15:16.race is on behind them. The issue in the Olympics wasn't the severity of

:15:17. > :15:25.the climb, but the cumulative effect of it. Yes it is not just steepness,

:15:26. > :15:37.but how fast you hit it and everybody's come at it quick. Let's

:15:38. > :15:46.go over to David on the motorbike. You will be familiar with those

:15:47. > :15:51.roads, it must bring some memories. Yes there is one rider flying.

:15:52. > :15:57.Trentin and Empey and he has made a big difference. For the people who

:15:58. > :16:03.do Box Hill, they were going about 27 or 28 constantly. When Drucker

:16:04. > :16:08.attacked he was doing 37 kilometres an hour during those 500 metres. It

:16:09. > :16:14.is pretty nuts. You can see the difference now. Impey and Trentin

:16:15. > :16:22.are hanging on. But the peloton has come to a lull. All those attacks.

:16:23. > :16:27.There you can see the peloton is looming. It is ominous. If that move

:16:28. > :16:33.has gone, it is looking good for sprinters. The sprinters will be

:16:34. > :16:35.happy with that. You can see the peloton in there behind Trentin and

:16:36. > :16:52.Impey. Behind them is the rider. Trentin

:16:53. > :17:00.has been riding carefully, but with that extra number, he is thinking it

:17:01. > :17:05.might be worth of here. They're going see if they can stay clear of

:17:06. > :17:15.the summit. Riders disappearing among the trees, high up on the top

:17:16. > :17:19.of box HIV. -- Box Hill. They may reform and start to make contact

:17:20. > :17:25.again on the descent. But one long line. The peloton split roughly in

:17:26. > :17:30.half with riders just struggling to stay on. We have one rider who has

:17:31. > :17:45.ridden off the front. I think he will be too late. That is STeiven.

:17:46. > :17:52.They have three riders of top class quality. He has given Trentin the

:17:53. > :18:02.enthusiasm. The same with Impey. All three reinvigorated now. If you were

:18:03. > :18:06.in this situation, you would feel happy as a sprinter? I have probably

:18:07. > :18:12.never been a break of three. You would be thinking we have got this.

:18:13. > :18:16.Yes, I think that given that the bunch behind smelled and they came

:18:17. > :18:24.back together and I think there is a lot of teams with interest to bring

:18:25. > :18:29.this back to a spript. Sprint. We will assume Greipel is in there and

:18:30. > :18:38.his team will want to close it down as well as Sky and Sunweb. They will

:18:39. > :18:43.want to bring it back for a sprint. Between Box Hill and the finish, the

:18:44. > :18:49.moves go and it will take a strong rider to take it all the way to the

:18:50. > :18:56.finish. I think they have got a chance. It is a slim one, but it is

:18:57. > :19:03.a chance. It will be decided in the next few kilometres when they get a

:19:04. > :19:09.- eoff the hill. We will see how it is faking shape. -- taking shape.

:19:10. > :19:15.These three are riding as if they have a chance here. It is great to

:19:16. > :19:19.see them animating the race. Inside the last 50 kilometres and the road

:19:20. > :19:24.back into London. The sun is shining at the finish. Hopefully it will

:19:25. > :19:36.make its way down to the peloton as they head from Box Hill, Box Hill

:19:37. > :19:42.village and over Headley Heath, one of the few remaining heathlands in

:19:43. > :19:47.Surrey and then they head to Leatherhead. And then the route

:19:48. > :19:52.leaves Leatherhead and recrosses the M25 and we know we are on our way

:19:53. > :20:11.back into central London. This has given it impetus. As you

:20:12. > :20:17.can see they're not hanging around. They're making the most of the

:20:18. > :20:22.opportunity, however small it is. We will get some time checks, see how

:20:23. > :20:26.the peloton is getting organised and who is doing the chasing. I think

:20:27. > :20:35.they will take a few more minutes to get organised. Some of the domestics

:20:36. > :20:43.will be further back down and it is worth the peloton's time to wait.

:20:44. > :20:59.There is the front of the peloton. Here is the front of the race again.

:21:00. > :21:16.20 seconds is the gap as Impey presses on at the front. Stiven

:21:17. > :21:30.still hasn't decided whether it is worth it. 20 seconds is the lead. So

:21:31. > :21:32.no change since the group formed. Jester Steiven came second in the

:21:33. > :21:46.Giro d'Italia. They're still thinking there is

:21:47. > :21:51.still plenty of riders and this could end in a breakaway. Three of

:21:52. > :22:14.them forced themselves off the front with a reasonable gap.

:22:15. > :22:28.It is a beautiful pedalling style and he is riding a good style and

:22:29. > :22:33.they can start to point their toes. But he looks good out there. I'm

:22:34. > :22:43.sure he is not feeling fresh, but he looks fresh. It is a very big part

:22:44. > :22:47.of it as we see when some riders are under pressure they have the most

:22:48. > :22:54.beautiful pedalling style. That is intimidating if you can keep the

:22:55. > :22:57.composure on the bike when you're tie -- tired. There is the result of

:22:58. > :23:36.king of mountain, ore Box Hill. That is the view back to the chasing

:23:37. > :23:42.group. Here we are with the leaders. Their next area of population they

:23:43. > :23:47.will be heading to is Leatherhead. The three of them working together

:23:48. > :23:52.here. 15 seconds the gap. They're going to persevere and see if they

:23:53. > :23:56.can snap the elastic. The secondary possibility is they drive on and

:23:57. > :24:01.keep the pressure on behind, it does split up and they find their numbers

:24:02. > :24:06.swelling and they get a bigger breakaway and they're part of it.

:24:07. > :24:12.Sometimes it is a pre-emptive strike to be in a breakaway that doesn't

:24:13. > :24:17.exist yet. Behind it is not chasing it is attacking. It is Sky getting

:24:18. > :24:22.involved as well. With Sunweb. Sunweb will be keen for the race to

:24:23. > :24:33.come back together. Certainly in time for the finish with Michael

:24:34. > :24:37.Matthews as their main rider today. I think that is Bauer in the blue

:24:38. > :24:42.with the yellow sleeves from Quick-Step. He has been following

:24:43. > :24:47.every move, policing the front of the peloton. He will be trying to

:24:48. > :24:51.disrupt the chase by staying close to the front. They will swing over

:24:52. > :24:59.and he won't go. That was Anderson getting a couple of gels and a

:25:00. > :25:06.bottle and No 14 is Selig. He would be the, one of the key men for Sam

:25:07. > :25:11.Bennett at the end. Selig finished fourth in one of the sprints in the

:25:12. > :25:19.Tour de France. The roads widening and flattening as they turn back to

:25:20. > :25:22.the centre of town. The riders taking the opportunity to get some

:25:23. > :25:27.bottles and have the confidence now to go back and get some food for the

:25:28. > :25:31.team. You can see the rider there just waving the camera bike away. We

:25:32. > :25:38.forget these images are being brought to us by a cameraman on the

:25:39. > :25:42.back of a motorbike, who is a lovely big lump to follow to slip stream

:25:43. > :25:48.and they're actually starting to affect the race. The bike moves

:25:49. > :25:52.forward a bit and here we are back with the leaders and Impey's doing a

:25:53. > :26:04.mountain of work. Trying to keep this going. He certainly is. They

:26:05. > :26:10.can tart to sniff -- start to sniff the finish. 42ks, so less than an

:26:11. > :26:18.hour of racing. So much experience Daryl Impey. He won the Tour of

:26:19. > :26:26.Turkey back in 2009. He nearly snatched a stage win in the Tour de

:26:27. > :26:31.France last year and finished second behind Steve Cummings. Cummings

:26:32. > :26:37.winning his second Tour de France stage and Impey was second. Steve

:26:38. > :26:42.Cummings would have enjoyed a breakaway like this. He had a couple

:26:43. > :26:45.of goes at the Tour de France. Amazing he even got to the event

:26:46. > :26:51.after the crash he had earlier in the year. I didn't think he would

:26:52. > :26:56.make it back. He came back and made both national trials. Got to the

:26:57. > :27:01.Tour, didn't quite manage the stage and got caught up in the GC battle.

:27:02. > :27:07.He chose a hard stage to try and win. With about 30 kilometres he was

:27:08. > :27:14.on his own in the lead. But that final climb was too tough. But great

:27:15. > :27:18.to see him animating the race and he won the national Championship in the

:27:19. > :27:23.Isle of Man before the Tour in the road and the time trial, coming back

:27:24. > :27:28.from a nasty injury. That has no doubt secured his place in the Tour

:27:29. > :27:33.de France. Who knows if that affected his base form going into

:27:34. > :27:38.the Tour. 18 seconds. It is not changing this gap. It is not as if

:27:39. > :27:43.the peloton are sitting up. They have seem to be getting organised

:27:44. > :27:47.and you can see riders coming up and rejoining the peloton. The attacking

:27:48. > :27:51.has stopped. The last of the hills is behind them and they're starting

:27:52. > :27:56.to think about a sprint finish. The riders are thinking I'm not going to

:27:57. > :28:07.get away. I will go into the service of my team mates. So the chase is

:28:08. > :28:11.getting organised. For me in races, as a spripser or a - sprinter when

:28:12. > :28:18.there was one hour left, it was that mental Triggs hear the says, OK, you

:28:19. > :28:26.have worked so hard for so long, it is only one hour more of pain, can I

:28:27. > :28:30.do this. That is when you demand the team bring the break back, or you

:28:31. > :28:38.feel good, you may have suffered and thought it is too hard, that

:28:39. > :28:51.triggers at one hour to go is important. You learn to break the

:28:52. > :28:55.race up into chunks. I would count in kilometres and then the type goes

:28:56. > :29:00.quicker. It is incredible how much you can suffer in a race, but when

:29:01. > :29:06.you get inside that one hour you feel good. You can smell the finish

:29:07. > :29:15.line and all the pain is behind you. No matter how hard it will be in the

:29:16. > :29:22.last hour, the finish hour is less than an hour away. People wonder why

:29:23. > :29:25.sprinters are off the back and not contributing, they think you're

:29:26. > :29:32.bluffing, but you're going through that much pain, they say how did you

:29:33. > :29:36.come good, you must have been bluffing, but with sprinters when

:29:37. > :29:42.you can smell the finish line is closer, your body goes to another

:29:43. > :29:52.level. It is a different energy source for sprint and we see riders

:29:53. > :29:57.hanging on and they switch to a different energy source, burning

:29:58. > :30:01.lactic acid. These three are extending the lead. This is our

:30:02. > :30:05.first look at the chasing formation behind and we are not seeing a team

:30:06. > :30:16.come together and boss this one. This might be confidence, with less

:30:17. > :30:20.than 30 seconds gap, they think they have it under control, but it is not

:30:21. > :30:26.to be taken lightly with riders of this class up the road. You may be

:30:27. > :30:30.called, Chris, that this is possible, to take it to the finish.

:30:31. > :30:35.I will still go with the fact that the sprint teams will come to the

:30:36. > :30:40.front. It is a fast run into the finish. The thing about the sprint

:30:41. > :30:46.is, the sprint is very difficult to judge. The roads are so wide. They

:30:47. > :30:49.will have a few sprint trains going and if something happens on the

:30:50. > :30:54.right side of the road and you are on the right side of the road, it

:30:55. > :30:57.can all be over. When there are a few corners coming into the finish,

:30:58. > :31:02.you can control it more, but the white sprint finish makes it

:31:03. > :31:06.difficult to judge. We just have the double bend as they come round

:31:07. > :31:11.Admiralty Arch. It is probably the widest road that any of them will

:31:12. > :31:15.ever race on. We have not seen so much in the way of sprint trains

:31:16. > :31:19.this year, funnily enough. We expected and wait for it to happen,

:31:20. > :31:22.but we have seen a lot more individual sprinting and people

:31:23. > :31:27.finding their own way, which makes it more interesting for us. Mark

:31:28. > :31:31.Cavendish heavily relies on Mark Renshaw and some other team-mates

:31:32. > :31:36.for a sprinting, but other sprinters, especially in our team,

:31:37. > :31:41.we have Giorgio Bronzini, who jumps from wheel to wheel. Like Robbie

:31:42. > :31:45.McHugh in use today back in the day. A freelancer. Riding on the

:31:46. > :31:50.coat-tails of others. Sometimes you need to be able to do that. Dan

:31:51. > :31:55.McClane, the British rider, needed to do that in the Tour de France,

:31:56. > :31:58.trying to get into some sprint trains. He writes for a smaller

:31:59. > :32:04.French team that do not have the firepower to do it for him. He has

:32:05. > :32:08.certainly shown another in the sprints in the Tour de France to

:32:09. > :32:12.suggest that if he had a strong team around him, he could maybe deliver

:32:13. > :32:23.some good results. The league is being eroded. It is a little under

:32:24. > :32:27.20 seconds. I think they would need a minute with 15 kilometres to go if

:32:28. > :32:32.they were going to have a chance. The confidence is building in what

:32:33. > :32:37.has become the peloton again. This will come down to a mass gallop. It

:32:38. > :32:42.looks that way. BMC are prominent, up towards the front, Katusha with a

:32:43. > :32:49.rider on the front of the peloton. BMC putting some riders in there as

:32:50. > :32:54.well. Just looking at the squad, Drucker is the main man, the rider

:32:55. > :32:59.from Luxembourg who won a couple of years ago. Stefan Kung is also a

:33:00. > :33:04.strong young rider, the former world individual pursuit champion on the

:33:05. > :33:09.track. At the front of the race, it is Matteo Trentin followed by Jasper

:33:10. > :33:17.Stuyven and Daryl Impey. The rider from Italy on the front. Stuyven and

:33:18. > :33:23.Impey from South Africa. They are just going over the M25. Traffic is

:33:24. > :33:30.flowing freely. Little traffic report for free. If it is flowing

:33:31. > :33:35.freely, it is mentioning. Often it is not. I'm usually free-flowing.

:33:36. > :33:40.Just 36.5 kilometres to go. The weather improving all the time. 20

:33:41. > :33:45.seconds is the official gap we are getting from the race radio as well.

:33:46. > :33:50.That is accurate, what you're seeing at the top left of your screen.

:33:51. > :33:55.These three continuing to press on and on the off chance that something

:33:56. > :33:59.happens to let them stay away. For riders like Trentin and Impey, this

:34:00. > :34:04.is the chance of doing something. If it comes to a sprint, they will not

:34:05. > :34:09.be at the front. They are smart riders as well. Trentin knows, this

:34:10. > :34:13.is the opportunity I have, the only one I can create today. We may as

:34:14. > :34:19.well get stuck in because the only other option is to wait in the

:34:20. > :34:22.bunch. He is clever. You have always got to like riders who are prepared

:34:23. > :34:27.to try and animate the race. Let's go back on the road with David Mele.

:34:28. > :34:31.Hopefully you will be able to show as the gap in real terms between the

:34:32. > :34:37.trio at the front and the chasing peloton. What you do not see on TV,

:34:38. > :34:41.these are the three riders about to come by. Matteo Trentin is on the

:34:42. > :34:48.front. And Jasper Stuyven and Daryl Impey. Driving forward. You do not

:34:49. > :34:52.see the howling tailwind on TV. It will give them hope. It is one of

:34:53. > :34:56.the reasons the peloton will not give them so much time. Although the

:34:57. > :35:02.distance is quite big, there they are coming round the corner. Four

:35:03. > :35:08.teams are contributing, Team Sky, with Tao Geoghegan Hart back on the

:35:09. > :35:12.front, BMC, Sunweb and Katusha. Four teams are chasing. They know they

:35:13. > :35:15.cannot give the breakaway any room. When it is a tailwind with three

:35:16. > :35:21.riders that strong, they can have such an advantage. Distance wise it

:35:22. > :35:27.is quite long because they are going so fast, 55 kilometres per hour, it

:35:28. > :35:32.is flat out. They will not give them any room at the moment. Flacco

:35:33. > :35:36.chasing on the road towards London. Interesting that Katusha are

:35:37. > :35:42.contributing, one of the four maintains that David was saying was

:35:43. > :35:46.contributing. In perhaps that suggest that Alexander Kristoff is

:35:47. > :35:49.feeling good. At his best, he would be one of the riders at the front.

:35:50. > :35:58.Yes, disappointing Tour de France for him. He did not come close. He

:35:59. > :36:03.was thereabouts in the sprints but he did not take a stage. He will

:36:04. > :36:10.want something out of the remaining part of the season. 177 was Elia

:36:11. > :36:20.Viviani from skies who won a gold medal in the Yonny on the track one

:36:21. > :36:27.year ago. -- in the omnium. He has won about four stages in the Tour of

:36:28. > :36:31.Britain, including one in London. Trek-Segafredo are lining the team

:36:32. > :36:39.at bank Katusha. It looks like it is getting organised. Despite having so

:36:40. > :36:42.many riders, Sky, they just have Tao Geoghegan Hart at the moment

:36:43. > :36:44.contributing to the chase. They feel it is under control and they will

:36:45. > :36:51.press everybody else into service with about 15 kilometres to go. With

:36:52. > :36:55.so many riders from Trek-Segafredo at the front of the peloton, it will

:36:56. > :37:02.not make things easier for the leaders. The comfortable, Ian

:37:03. > :37:07.Stannard is held in reserve, a big engine, waiting until it is time to

:37:08. > :37:11.go to work. On this flat terrain, you can sit in the wheels and be

:37:12. > :37:17.confident. You can see how much easier it is to sit there, virtually

:37:18. > :37:22.freewheeling when the 20 riders back, compares to these three are

:37:23. > :37:30.absolutely driving. There is no letup et al. 22 seconds is the

:37:31. > :37:35.current time gap. Chris, in your opinion, what could we expect the

:37:36. > :37:39.lead out order to be for Elia Viviani of Sky? It is hard in

:37:40. > :37:44.women's cycling to find that last lead out rider that you can depend

:37:45. > :37:48.on. Those riders have to be a sprinter in their own right,

:37:49. > :37:52.superfast. You often find that a rider that is fast enough to win a

:37:53. > :37:56.race does not want to be the last man in the lead out, they want the

:37:57. > :38:00.opportunity for themselves. I am not sure they will go in that direction.

:38:01. > :38:04.Looking at the make-up of the team, it might be about making sure that

:38:05. > :38:09.we get there and they will let Elia Viviani find his own way. They will

:38:10. > :38:14.not be the team that tries to close it down the last few kilometres, and

:38:15. > :38:19.then they will use the trains of the other teams. -- they will be the

:38:20. > :38:25.team that tries to close it down. Mark Renshaw has been a superb lead

:38:26. > :38:28.out man for Mark Cavendish. But he is a very good rider in his own

:38:29. > :38:32.right and the did come a point where he did go off and do his own thing

:38:33. > :38:38.for a little while but he found it harder to get those big victories

:38:39. > :38:41.and take the extra step and the responsibility of it. The

:38:42. > :38:44.responsibility is massive. If you have a team meeting, there might be

:38:45. > :38:49.several riders in the team that say they never get opportunities. If you

:38:50. > :38:54.say, who is feeling good today and once the team to ride for them? You

:38:55. > :38:58.will find that not many riders have the confidence to put their hand up

:38:59. > :39:02.and say, I want the team to work for me. And even if Mark Renshaw has the

:39:03. > :39:10.physical ability to be a world-class sprinter. Riders need to step away

:39:11. > :39:15.from that role of lead out man at some point and have a go, see how it

:39:16. > :39:19.goes. That is one of Mark Cavendish's great qualities. It is

:39:20. > :39:22.about delivering. He has done it time and time again. He is able to

:39:23. > :39:28.take that responsibility on board and be the kind of leader that other

:39:29. > :39:32.riders want to ride for, because of the way he responds to them. Because

:39:33. > :39:37.he wins. Because of the way he deals with them? The team get caught

:39:38. > :39:40.badger team gets confidence when you believe. We have seen it with

:39:41. > :39:44.Sunweb. If you do all the work and the person you're working for

:39:45. > :39:48.delivers the result, it is a fantastic feeling to be part of that

:39:49. > :39:53.team. It is something I could not be myself but I can feel proud to be

:39:54. > :39:57.part of this. You can see coalitions forming very quickly and becoming

:39:58. > :40:02.very tight. As a sprinter myself back in the day, I had some very

:40:03. > :40:06.wise advice that did not sink in until after my career. Giorgia

:40:07. > :40:11.Bronzini said to me many years ago, I was very introverted, and I spent

:40:12. > :40:15.a lot of time in my room. She said, when you need the support of the

:40:16. > :40:21.team, you also need to invest time in personal relationships. It is

:40:22. > :40:24.different in men's cycling. This is back when women's cycling was not so

:40:25. > :40:29.professional and riders were not paid to do a job, it was for the

:40:30. > :40:33.Passion of it. I realise now it is important for a sprinter to spend

:40:34. > :40:37.time with their team-mates, give them confidence and talk to them

:40:38. > :40:41.about how you are feeling. It is important to build those

:40:42. > :40:47.relationships when you have to ask your team-mates to lay down the

:40:48. > :40:52.line. We saw that with the Astana team in the Tour de France. They

:40:53. > :40:56.simply did not like each other. The fact they were being paid hundreds

:40:57. > :40:59.of thousands in some cases did not matter. They did not like each other

:41:00. > :41:05.and when it got tough, they were not bothered about the result. Let's go

:41:06. > :41:08.back to someone on the road to one a your race is back in the day, David

:41:09. > :41:14.Millar is back with the leading riders. The gap is back to nearly

:41:15. > :41:19.half a minute. It is the peloton, not the leading riders. The chase

:41:20. > :41:23.has fallen to pieces. Slow down. There is only one Katusha rider

:41:24. > :41:31.left. Sunweb have pulled out, even BMC. They are blocking. A Quick-Step

:41:32. > :41:40.rider went up. Trek-Segafredo are the chase. About two kilometres of

:41:41. > :41:45.all, all the riders did pay loss. On Sunweb rider is left on the front.

:41:46. > :41:49.All the teams are running out of team-mates to do the chasing. What

:41:50. > :41:54.they do have left, they want to save it for the final lead out. In the

:41:55. > :41:58.meantime, the three strong riders up the front, normally they would not

:41:59. > :42:04.stand a chance, but because of the tailwind, they do. Sunweb have tried

:42:05. > :42:08.to call the bluff, but it has been called. The Katusha rider cannot do

:42:09. > :42:14.it on his own. It has got very interesting. The peloton is getting

:42:15. > :42:17.desperate. I noticed that all the Trek-Segafredo riders all went to

:42:18. > :42:20.the front of the peloton, presumably they went up there too disruptive

:42:21. > :42:27.thing that was going on. Yes, showing dominance. It is showing

:42:28. > :42:33.morale and the fact they are ready to counterattack if they are caught.

:42:34. > :42:36.It deters the whole chase. Before Trek-Segafredo sitting up, you add

:42:37. > :42:42.all these team-mates sitting up and they go back to do the rotation and

:42:43. > :42:45.instead of another person coming in, a Trek rider comes in and starts the

:42:46. > :42:48.rotation. They were not doing anything wrong but interrupting the

:42:49. > :42:54.chase to the point where the other team-mates started giving up in

:42:55. > :42:58.front of them. Katusha was left with one rider and four Trek-Segafredos.

:42:59. > :43:06.It is a Classic old school technique to make the time gap glide. There is

:43:07. > :43:11.only two Katusha riders. One Sunweb rider. Three riders against three

:43:12. > :43:17.riders are out of sight. Those three riders are not strong enough to

:43:18. > :43:21.chase those guys with this tailwind. Trek-Segafredo keep holding the play

:43:22. > :43:26.is hoping to block what is going on. In the meantime, Trek are doing the

:43:27. > :43:29.same. It is an interesting tactical situation. The team mate -- the

:43:30. > :43:33.team-mates of the sprinters will have to come up and commit to the

:43:34. > :43:37.chase. I cannot see those three riders and it is a long straight.

:43:38. > :43:47.These guys will know this and that is the advantage when you have a

:43:48. > :43:50.tailwind. The rat terminal velocity. We are doing 67 kilometres per hour

:43:51. > :43:52.and we are doing the same speed as them. Brilliant pictures from David

:43:53. > :43:57.Millar out on the motorbike with the pilot doing a fantastic job as well.

:43:58. > :44:03.The race is flat-out back to London. At the moment, it seems to be

:44:04. > :44:05.benefiting those at the front. We talked about the size of the teams

:44:06. > :44:11.earlier, which is changing the dynamics to the race. You have nine

:44:12. > :44:16.riders in the Tour de France, we are going to seven riders. It changes

:44:17. > :44:21.things. You can influence the race but you cannot control it. Everybody

:44:22. > :44:27.is finding that out. They are playing brinkmanship, watching the

:44:28. > :44:30.kilometres takeaway. These are the three high-quality riders. The three

:44:31. > :44:35.that are chasing are not good enough to bring them back, with all due

:44:36. > :44:39.respect. It has gone to well over half a minute. Because of the

:44:40. > :44:42.quality we have got at the front and the weight is panning out behind,

:44:43. > :44:44.normally you would not give them a chance with this sort of gap and

:44:45. > :44:59.distance from the end. With the likes of Greipel and

:45:00. > :45:05.Viviani they're teams that we would normally see at the front. That is

:45:06. > :45:12.why the prediction was it would come back to a sprint. But in the case of

:45:13. > :45:19.Kristoff, he seems to have reacted to the disappointment of Tour de

:45:20. > :45:28.France better than say dprie pel. We have -- say Greipel. I wondered how

:45:29. > :45:38.Kristoff would feel, he had a heavy fall. Presumably Greipel's team are

:45:39. > :45:43.saying, we will see if somebody has pulled it back. If he bluffs, I

:45:44. > :45:50.think people will believe it. But I think it will come down to a sprint,

:45:51. > :45:53.despite it being 35 seconds. But we have seen Sky have sent somebody up

:45:54. > :45:58.and still not gone through in fourth position now. So everybody looks

:45:59. > :46:02.like they're about to contribute, but only Dave can see on the ground

:46:03. > :46:08.they're present, but not actually working through. We are seeing one

:46:09. > :46:12.rider riding on front and everybody else is waiting. We have seen a

:46:13. > :46:17.quick shot of the back of the chasing group and Sunweb seem to be

:46:18. > :46:22.all positioned together, bar that one rider. That may mean they're

:46:23. > :46:29.getting ready to come to the front and it depend how Michael Matthews

:46:30. > :46:33.is feeling. Even if he did struggle over the climbs, he will now get

:46:34. > :46:38.that adrenaline and start to feel good. You used the word feel, that

:46:39. > :46:43.is what it is. Only the riders can feel the gap and think, what is the

:46:44. > :46:48.gap, how is it changing, how do I feel. Behind in the peloton the

:46:49. > :46:57.teams are starting to get tomorrow and form up. Tha get together and

:46:58. > :47:03.form up. They have drawn together just waiting to do something. I

:47:04. > :47:10.still think it is going to happen. But it made a fascinating race. We

:47:11. > :47:16.are looking at a drag race back into London. As you can see, the rider

:47:17. > :47:25.from Katusha Alpecin has not got in here. It looks like Tao Geoghegan

:47:26. > :47:30.Hart, who did a lot of work earlier. But clearly he has a second wind.

:47:31. > :47:35.That is the straw he has drawn for the day. The helicopter gives you an

:47:36. > :47:40.idea of the speed. But it is still not fast enough as the break creeps

:47:41. > :47:43.clawing away and grabs another second and another one. It is

:47:44. > :47:52.stable. But it is a big gap that they have got now with 24 kilometres

:47:53. > :47:59.to do. -- to go. You can can see to the front of peloton sub Wen --

:48:00. > :48:04.Sunweb are lined up and they have directions. The fact they're

:48:05. > :48:08.together and moving to front of the peloton, they're having confidence

:48:09. > :48:13.in Michael Matthews and we will see them move to the front. If they have

:48:14. > :48:19.to. A lot of teams play the mental game and wait to see who will take

:48:20. > :48:23.on the chase. 35 seconds with just under 24 kilometres to go. We will

:48:24. > :48:27.see some of the teams who are having sprinters that feel good move to the

:48:28. > :48:37.front. Half an hour of racing remaining. And it is all but flat

:48:38. > :48:46.all the way back here. Just that climb up through Wimbledon to the

:48:47. > :48:52.common before they then head back down through Putney and over the

:48:53. > :48:59.river. While we are watching the race unfold, we still have riders

:49:00. > :49:04.coming in from the RideLondon event. We are in Kingston, that is another

:49:05. > :49:07.good place to watch the classic. One of the few places you can see the

:49:08. > :49:13.race on the way out and the way back. It was a key spot in the

:49:14. > :49:20.Olympics for the time trial. Remember the day Bradley Wiggins won

:49:21. > :49:25.the time trial. . Well sheltered from the wind among these buildings.

:49:26. > :49:33.It will get more densely populated as they head to the Mall. Beautiful

:49:34. > :49:37.shots of the Thames. One more sprint to come at Wimbledon, the fifth and

:49:38. > :49:43.final sprint. But it is all about who is going to win the race itself

:49:44. > :49:49.today now. These three have been mopping up the points. But I don't

:49:50. > :49:53.think they will even flinch as they approach the line. They will roll

:49:54. > :49:58.through and focus on the effort at staying away. They have lost some

:49:59. > :50:05.ground. 28 seconds now as perhaps as a result of these bends. I would

:50:06. > :50:13.estimate they're ten minutes from Wimbledon now. And the run-in to

:50:14. > :50:17.central London. A big crowd waiting on the Mall, all the way up

:50:18. > :50:22.Whitehall as well. I wonder, because they have a cut off for other people

:50:23. > :50:25.in the big mass participation rides this morning and there is still a

:50:26. > :50:30.lot of people rolling over the line. But at some point they're going to

:50:31. > :50:34.have to say, I'm sorry and divert the remaining few off the road so

:50:35. > :50:38.that the race can come through. Considering we are half an hour

:50:39. > :50:47.until they arrive, that will be soon. We haven't seen anything like

:50:48. > :50:54.a broom wagon coming through. Trentin in the blue and white is a

:50:55. > :51:05.two-time stage winner in the Tour of France. Stuyven there. He is in the

:51:06. > :51:13.red and black. As they head near Hampton Court palace and Daryl Impey

:51:14. > :51:19.from South Africa racing for Orica-Scott. They're half a minute

:51:20. > :51:27.clear of the peloton. That was the scene of the closing moments of the

:51:28. > :51:31.time trial in the Olympics. You remember the pictures of Bradley

:51:32. > :51:40.Wiggins sitting on that throne, giving the victory sign. What a week

:51:41. > :51:44.that was. Coming so soon after his victory on the Champs-Elysees in the

:51:45. > :51:49.Tour de France. They have lost nearly ten seconds. Let's go back on

:51:50. > :51:56.to the road and join David Millar at the back of the peloton. We are just

:51:57. > :52:07.coming by now. Ben Swift had a puncture. UAE has two team mates.

:52:08. > :52:11.Team Sky, Viviani is there. Orica-Scott are there. That is the

:52:12. > :52:18.reason we are not seeing some of the teams on the front helping with the

:52:19. > :52:23.chase, they have no team mates left. It is getting desperate. Katusha are

:52:24. > :52:27.flat out and even here, it is up close and personal, but this is a

:52:28. > :52:32.hard run-in. Especially with a tail wind. I remember with the Olympics,

:52:33. > :52:37.you can't underestimate the effect. It is a flat out chase. It is due to

:52:38. > :52:41.this howling tail wind and the strength of the riders at the front

:52:42. > :52:47.and only one or two team may wants can commit to the chase -- team

:52:48. > :52:51.mates can commit to the chase. It is a pursuit between the left over guys

:52:52. > :52:59.and the guys who have been chasing for a long time and behind those

:53:00. > :53:12.four chasers you have the Bmc and Quick-Step. We will come back. Bmc.

:53:13. > :53:16.Five riders. Sunweb, four. Five for Trek-Segafredo and only three people

:53:17. > :53:23.chasing. Only two Katusha riders and one Sunweb. Three versus three. That

:53:24. > :53:32.is not enough at the moment. More people need to join in, don't they,

:53:33. > :53:33.Chris? I looks to me as if they're playing brivengmanship --

:53:34. > :53:39.brinkmanship and people can get involved in the chase. We have seen

:53:40. > :53:46.do this and time it wrong and not make the bridge. It is a fascinating

:53:47. > :53:51.run-in. Races can be boring, they're flat and you can wait for a sprint.

:53:52. > :53:56.But we haven't seen that, we have seen some proper racing and we have

:53:57. > :54:01.the new points that are coming in, being this one of major races in the

:54:02. > :54:10.season. So it is important for everybody. It was up close and

:54:11. > :54:16.personal. I thought Ian Stannard was going to have a chat with him!

:54:17. > :54:22.Inside the last 20k and it is still 25 seconds. In your opinion, Chris,

:54:23. > :54:28.at this point of the breakaway riders, will they be pushing on the

:54:29. > :54:32.pedals with 100%? Yes right now they have got, there is no thinking about

:54:33. > :54:36.the finish. They have put a lot into creating this move. They have got

:54:37. > :54:42.absolutely nothing to lose and for the moment they are a team of three.

:54:43. > :54:49.They're their own little team. That will disband inside the last five

:54:50. > :54:54.kilometres and sometimes the break assassinates itself by starting to

:54:55. > :54:58.play that game too early. Then they can get swamped. It wis be close. --

:54:59. > :55:05.it will be close, but I think we will see a lot of people coming into

:55:06. > :55:13.the chase in the not too distant future. But they have lost more than

:55:14. > :55:19.10 seconds of their lead. The riders heading for Wimbledon. There is the

:55:20. > :55:30.chasing peloton. It is certainly strung out. Looks like they're going

:55:31. > :55:34.over the A3. People are strung out and feeling confident that nothing

:55:35. > :55:39.will disrupt the flow and I don't have to fight to be closer forward A

:55:40. > :55:43.lot of riders are comfortable and waiting to get to the finish.

:55:44. > :55:50.Because their opportunities have gone and in some cases their job is

:55:51. > :55:56.yet to start. This is the Prudential RideLondon classic. Just 18

:55:57. > :56:03.kilometres remain. We are on the Mall beside Buckingham Palace. It is

:56:04. > :56:08.a World Tour event and the first time Britain has hosted it own men's

:56:09. > :56:12.World Tour events. Yesterday we had the first women's World Tour event

:56:13. > :56:17.with the Classique, that was also held last year. But the men taking

:56:18. > :56:21.centre stage this afternoon. Just before we get into the thick of the

:56:22. > :56:27.final action, it is worth saying you might see some ride wers numbers on

:56:28. > :56:34.their -- riders with numbers on their bars, they're supposedly going

:56:35. > :56:40.to close the road at quarter two for the other riders. But they will be

:56:41. > :56:44.held at the side of the road until the race goes past. This is an

:56:45. > :56:50.arrangement that has been made in advance. Normally they cut the road

:56:51. > :56:59.and say that it is. But they will hold them and let them continue.

:57:00. > :57:03.That is an interesting development. The leading riders are in Wimbledon.

:57:04. > :57:10.Trentin in the blue and why not. Impey in the naval and Stuyven in

:57:11. > :57:15.the red and black. Katusha with two lonely riders at the front. We have

:57:16. > :57:20.had a strong indication that Kristoff must be feeling good. A

:57:21. > :57:24.committed effort. Michael Matthews, Viviani, is there any other

:57:25. > :57:30.sprinters we should look out for? Possibly Sam Bennett. Of course we

:57:31. > :57:36.have mentioned him. My favourite for the day. It is hard to tell, because

:57:37. > :57:43.it is so kwied and there is a lot of room to -- wide and there is a lot

:57:44. > :57:48.of room to manoeuvre. Once you're in London it is flat and you get

:57:49. > :57:55.shelter. We have seen some surprise wins here. So I think Greipel is

:57:56. > :58:00.still in with a chance. Because it is not suited to a clean leader, he

:58:01. > :58:05.could jump wheels and be there. It is a really, because of the wide

:58:06. > :58:10.sprint and you can do it without a team, dprie pel is such -- Greipel

:58:11. > :58:15.is such a strong sprinter, if you make a mistake, you can correct it.

:58:16. > :58:20.We have seen that in the past with the women. It is a strong sprint.

:58:21. > :58:24.Sunweb starting to get involved again. They sense they're close

:58:25. > :58:28.enough to the finish and to the three ahead. It is 15 seconds. I

:58:29. > :58:33.think that is the end of it. They're back in sight and they know they're

:58:34. > :58:40.in control of the race and these three, they can overhaul them when

:58:41. > :58:45.they need to. It is almost certainly going to be a bunched sprint here

:58:46. > :58:51.now and the peloton, the confidence has let them tangle and starting to

:58:52. > :58:57.assemble. Rather than getting on the front, they will be doing just

:58:58. > :59:00.enough to keep it at this distance. The two riders from Katusha have

:59:01. > :59:06.helped to make the difference and they have not had a lot of help from

:59:07. > :59:13.elsewhere for a while now. These three will know that the peloton is

:59:14. > :59:19.not too far away. It is a big distance and that will stake some of

:59:20. > :59:29.the enthusiasm out of the efforts as well. We have two Katushas at front,

:59:30. > :59:36.and Sunweb and Quick-Step have some riders up to front end. Katusha have

:59:37. > :59:41.taken control of the chase and done a superb job. They will have the

:59:42. > :59:47.director telling them coming into RideLondon it is important for us,

:59:48. > :59:53.the disappointment of not winning a sfaj at the Tour de France. But it

:59:54. > :59:58.could be Kristoff saying I'm up for this. It has been, the Katusha team,

:59:59. > :00:02.that have taken up the chase. Sometimes that pressure for a

:00:03. > :00:07.sprinter that your team has done so much work it can work both ways and

:00:08. > :00:09.you get too nervous you don't want to let them down, or you say I have

:00:10. > :00:20.to finish this off. Daryl Impey has not been able to

:00:21. > :00:25.hold the pace on the climb up to Wimbledon Village. I know this road.

:00:26. > :00:30.It is quite a drag. He has got the message in his ear, it is coming

:00:31. > :00:35.back, less than 15 seconds. He was driving it over the top of the last

:00:36. > :00:40.climb. He is paying for that effort now. These two are persisting. The

:00:41. > :00:47.passion of before seems to have ebbed away. They know that they are

:00:48. > :00:50.almost certainly destined to be caught. Despite that, Jasper Stuyven

:00:51. > :00:55.still looks pretty good on the bike. He is certainly very fluid, really

:00:56. > :00:59.stylish. Both of them are. These twists and turns, it would help them

:01:00. > :01:04.if they were going to persist. It is hard to get a real chase happening

:01:05. > :01:09.behind. People tend to be penned in position through the bends. What is

:01:10. > :01:12.it like on the road? We just came up the little falls flat that would not

:01:13. > :01:20.be an issue, and it is ready Ian Stannard attacked last year, behind

:01:21. > :01:23.Geraint Thomas. It is Jasper Stuyven and Matteo Trentin left. Nobody

:01:24. > :01:29.would have seen Trentin begging for a bottle before. After the initial

:01:30. > :01:33.attack on Pete Kennaugh, he and Daryl Impey only had the one feeds

:01:34. > :01:36.on. They never got the gap over one minutes they never had a team car

:01:37. > :01:42.and there has been no neutral service to give them bottles or

:01:43. > :01:45.food. That would have been contributing massively. I always --

:01:46. > :01:50.I almost felt like getting Stewart Poulson, the man who has got me

:01:51. > :02:00.through today, to go back and get bottles for them. Stuyven has been

:02:01. > :02:04.incredible, as has Impey. Everyone underestimates the running. It just

:02:05. > :02:10.wears you down. It is not that hard, but it is very long. It is almost a

:02:11. > :02:15.60 minute time trial. After a race like this, you cannot complete with

:02:16. > :02:19.-- you cannot compete with the peloton.

:02:20. > :02:23.David Millar, the good Samaritan, going back with some Mars bars. He

:02:24. > :02:30.did not say he did it. He thought about it. We can see the time gap

:02:31. > :02:34.going out. Is that the result of the peloton not wanting to catch so the

:02:35. > :02:39.back of? I think it is confidence. They have brought it back, they

:02:40. > :02:43.realise it can be done, it is a manageable amount, 12 kilometres to

:02:44. > :02:48.go. I watched this is a non-sprinter and think, it will be close, but

:02:49. > :02:51.they know their jobs. It is why they get paid a lot of money, they are

:02:52. > :03:04.professionals, they have a real feel for it

:03:05. > :03:08.and they know when to go to work. 18 seconds for these two, 12 kilometres

:03:09. > :03:11.to go, it will start behind soon. If they catch them to rarely you will

:03:12. > :03:13.get counterattacks and that is what the sprinters teams do not want.

:03:14. > :03:17.They want them all to arrive together on the line, catch them as

:03:18. > :03:19.late as the beer, three K to go, but there are still hanging out there.

:03:20. > :03:24.There is still a glimmer of a chance. I think what we are seeing

:03:25. > :03:30.is confidence. Sunweb with a wider forward. I cannot see who it is. We

:03:31. > :03:34.could not get close enough there. Sunweb and Katusha bringing the

:03:35. > :03:39.peloton bag. Trek-Segafredo just sitting there, they have the man at

:03:40. > :03:43.the front of the race, Jasper Stuyven. You could see in the

:03:44. > :03:46.chasing peloton that Trek-Segafredo have lots of riders towards the

:03:47. > :03:53.front. That would indicate that they would be a team without the pure

:03:54. > :03:57.sprinter that would go... There are possibly monitoring things, covering

:03:58. > :04:02.moves, making sure that nobody gets away, helping to disrupt the chase,

:04:03. > :04:05.raiding in the front, getting in the way. They are getting involved in

:04:06. > :04:10.this race and waiting to see if anything develops. As you were

:04:11. > :04:13.saying, I am not sure who the obvious sprinter would be if they

:04:14. > :04:18.were waiting for that. The man they were hoping to bring to London, John

:04:19. > :04:22.Degenkolb, not able to make it this weekend. His wife was expecting

:04:23. > :04:26.their second child at any minute so he reluctantly said, this is too

:04:27. > :04:32.important for me, I need to stay at home but he would be the back-up man

:04:33. > :04:36.when Jasper Stuyven and Matteo Trentin are inevitably, one would

:04:37. > :04:40.imagine, caught between this point and the finish. They would have to

:04:41. > :04:46.come up with something else. They do have Koen De Kort, who is strongly

:04:47. > :04:49.dead rider he does not get many opportunities. He is John

:04:50. > :04:54.Degenkolb's the dead man. That is a good shout. He may be up for having

:04:55. > :05:03.a go at the sprint. We saw Edvald Boasson Hagen have a go at the Tour

:05:04. > :05:05.de France because he was not pressed into the service of Mark Cavendish.

:05:06. > :05:08.He is a very strong rider. We may see that, chances for everybody.

:05:09. > :05:14.They have strong riders like Edward Theuns as well, who was second in

:05:15. > :05:16.the worst of Llantrisant, and Pedersen, the National Road race

:05:17. > :05:29.champion of Denmark in the line-up today. -- who was second in

:05:30. > :05:33.Flanders. As Chris pointed out, the tactic of Trek-Segafredo, being wall

:05:34. > :05:37.to wall across the front to disrupt the chase. It is working. It makes

:05:38. > :05:42.it difficult for other riders to move to the front and do a hard

:05:43. > :05:48.turn. They have to come the long were in those riders if they want to

:05:49. > :05:52.move on. What was that? You stay there, I am not coming through. I

:05:53. > :05:59.have been here for well, Pilling, it is time you got stuck in. 15 seconds

:06:00. > :06:03.inside of ten kilometres to go. It is really going to come down to the

:06:04. > :06:08.wire if they continue like this. Ramon Sinkeldam did a big turn on

:06:09. > :06:13.the front, the Sunweb rider, but he has nothing left to give. It will be

:06:14. > :06:19.the turn of the two riders from Katusha behind them. Some of the

:06:20. > :06:22.others might get involved now. It is down to 16 seconds. They have gone

:06:23. > :06:28.through Putney high Street, just about to go over the bridge where

:06:29. > :06:32.the boat race starts. We're getting closer to the finish, inside the

:06:33. > :06:37.last ten kilometres of the race. I find this very interesting that

:06:38. > :06:41.Sunweb have so many riders in the chasing group, inside the ten

:06:42. > :06:47.kilometres to go. They have not moved all the riders to the front.

:06:48. > :06:51.It seems like a risky move is mad dashes Michael Matthews is feeling

:06:52. > :06:55.OK and wants a chance of the victory. It is risky. Yes, but I

:06:56. > :07:00.have seen them do it time and time again. I am not sure how they have

:07:01. > :07:06.the courage to do so. The timing is there. We can see them bunching up.

:07:07. > :07:10.No one is being so stretched that they could not physically do it. I

:07:11. > :07:14.think they're waiting. The team directors in the race car can do the

:07:15. > :07:19.perfect calculations, but one thing they do not know, when they take a

:07:20. > :07:23.risk like this, is how the riders are feeling. They expect them to get

:07:24. > :07:28.tired, but the adrenaline lifts in the final moments of the race. Very

:07:29. > :07:34.interesting to see that a point the kilometres to go, it comes down very

:07:35. > :07:37.quickly. One of these things very experienced riders, certainly the

:07:38. > :07:42.likes of Trentin will do, they will ride hard, the peloton will get the

:07:43. > :07:46.gauge on what it would take to close the gap and they ride under power on

:07:47. > :07:50.purpose and they get to the last five kilometres, and they suddenly

:07:51. > :07:55.increase the speed. There is a lag between that information getting

:07:56. > :07:58.back to the peloton and they have managed to grab another five

:07:59. > :08:02.seconds. They could be playing mind games. We have not seen Lotto-Soudal

:08:03. > :08:08.told but we saw them lots in the Tour de France, doing of work on

:08:09. > :08:12.behalf of Andre Greipel. That has not happened today. Do you think

:08:13. > :08:17.they are saving it for the end, or maybe the main man is not feeling

:08:18. > :08:22.great? We had worked before that only two riders from Lotto-Soudal in

:08:23. > :08:26.the chasing group. There is not much they can do. I am surprised they

:08:27. > :08:32.have not come to the front. We have not seen them all day. The only two

:08:33. > :08:35.so they can do nothing but gamble. Greipel probably needs that one

:08:36. > :08:39.team-mate to be near him unless he needs to be moved up. I do not think

:08:40. > :08:48.we will see Lotto-Soudal choosing this town. 17 seconds and the

:08:49. > :08:55.kilometres are ticking down fast. -- chase this down. Even if the teams

:08:56. > :09:00.were going to let them dangle, it is a long piece of string they have

:09:01. > :09:04.given them. We would normally see them rotating through but not going

:09:05. > :09:08.flat out, rather than not being present at all. Sunweb starting to

:09:09. > :09:15.get themselves ready, ten riders back. They would be the obvious team

:09:16. > :09:23.to get stuck in. Making no inroads are tall at the moment. Something of

:09:24. > :09:29.a holding pattern despite the fact we're heading closer to the finish.

:09:30. > :09:35.6.6 kilometres to go. The look of determination and concentration and

:09:36. > :09:40.intense effort on the fairest of -- on the face of Matteo Trentin

:09:41. > :09:46.Quick-Step. Katusha down to one on the front, leading the chase at the

:09:47. > :09:51.moment. I think that rider has just come out of the Tour de France.

:09:52. > :09:54.Katusha have done their part in the chase. It seems like Sunweb have to

:09:55. > :10:00.take the responsibility of the want this to come to a sprint. It will be

:10:01. > :10:04.close, but perhaps it is a risk not being at the front, chasing this

:10:05. > :10:08.town, but perhaps it is pure confidence. They have lots of riders

:10:09. > :10:14.and perhaps they know they have lots left in the legs to really quickly

:10:15. > :10:17.bring this back. I do not go about the confidence, but mine is wavering

:10:18. > :10:24.inside six kilometres to go. It is still 16 seconds. These two are not

:10:25. > :10:27.giving up. You mentioned the face of Trentin. He did not look like

:10:28. > :10:34.somebody who was absolutely flat-out. Maybe they are saving a

:10:35. > :10:38.little chat between them, deciding the final strategy. They could kill

:10:39. > :10:44.this opportunity for themselves if they start to play around to error.

:10:45. > :10:47.I do not think they will do that, there are very experienced. They

:10:48. > :10:51.will need to wait until the last 500 metres before they start to think

:10:52. > :10:56.about the victory. The interaction they had the shows they are on the

:10:57. > :11:00.same line, they will work together to the finish, they cannot afford to

:11:01. > :11:04.start playing cat and mouse. 15 seconds, coming down. They have to

:11:05. > :11:08.go for it because it is that or nothing from the point of view. They

:11:09. > :11:13.have worked well for a long time on the road. The races heading along

:11:14. > :11:17.the embankment, along the River Thames, into the centre of London.

:11:18. > :11:21.Sunweb throwing a wider towards the front, to help out. Some of the

:11:22. > :11:24.other teams in the last five kilometres will start to stretch

:11:25. > :11:29.their legs and begin to turn the screw and close in on these two at

:11:30. > :11:35.the front of the race. It will be close-run, it is a slender

:11:36. > :11:39.advantage, but the hanging on. Five kilometres to go is a nice of you

:11:40. > :11:44.smarter to get stuck in and start to chase. Interestingly they just sent

:11:45. > :11:48.on sole rider up the side to go to the front from Sunweb. That could be

:11:49. > :11:52.an indication that Michael Matthews wants the team to do a real lead out

:11:53. > :11:56.for him. They are gambling at this point. When they do come to the

:11:57. > :11:59.finishing straight, you have got to time your effort well. It is

:12:00. > :12:06.tempting to go early on a finish like this that look so inviting. You

:12:07. > :12:08.can see it in front of you, but it is further than you think and lives

:12:09. > :12:12.can be deceptive when you come through Admiralty Arch. A little

:12:13. > :12:17.look behind by Trentin. I am not sure if that will help his cause.

:12:18. > :12:23.They are holding at 15 seconds and it is not a lot of racing left, less

:12:24. > :12:28.than five minutes. Suddenly what was a slender margin is starting to

:12:29. > :12:31.become significant, considering the distance remaining. They are holding

:12:32. > :12:36.steadily as it creeps up and down. Is perhaps some problems with the

:12:37. > :12:43.GPS but it is certainly not going down. We saw a glimpse of the

:12:44. > :12:46.chasing group. Orica-Scott coming to the front as a team. That is the

:12:47. > :12:53.move. Teams are together. Sunweb are well positioned together. 3.7

:12:54. > :13:00.kilometres to go. They are going to have to come fast. Here comes Sky,

:13:01. > :13:04.fast up the outside. Sky late, we look -- we got a quick glance, but

:13:05. > :13:08.they did not seem to be just moving to the front, they looked like they

:13:09. > :13:12.were moving onto the front. We will be able to go back in a minute. The

:13:13. > :13:18.time is coming down as they are in the bike lane, which is civilised of

:13:19. > :13:22.them. Some people say the paint is much faster than the tarmac. That

:13:23. > :13:31.might be what they are thinking. Quite possibly. It is starting to

:13:32. > :13:36.come down. 12 seconds. Once they get to five seconds, that will be the

:13:37. > :13:40.sprint itself. These guys have really got seven seconds remaining

:13:41. > :13:46.to stay in front. It looks like the timing exercise has been done well

:13:47. > :13:49.in the peloton. Inside the last three kilometres. Trentin doing up

:13:50. > :13:54.the zip on his jersey in case they can hang on at the front. They are

:13:55. > :13:59.just chipping away. They have lost two seconds in the time it took me

:14:00. > :14:04.to come up with that sentence. It is going down and down, getting tighter

:14:05. > :14:08.and tighter and harder for a Jasper Stuyven and Matteo Trentin to stay

:14:09. > :14:11.away at the end of this. They have made it difficult for the peloton.

:14:12. > :14:17.It has made interesting viewing for us. It looks like it could be over

:14:18. > :14:24.for these two. The peloton but the timing right. They will come

:14:25. > :14:29.superfast with confidence. The big teams are together for the

:14:30. > :14:34.sprinters. In that no team has lined up on the front, it has been ones

:14:35. > :14:39.and twos from each team. This is the point where you would expect them to

:14:40. > :14:43.do it. They are whipping back and forwards. They will not be working

:14:44. > :14:48.on time gaps on the radio, they will be doing it visually. They can see

:14:49. > :14:54.this page in front of them and our motor bike. Just to kilometres to

:14:55. > :15:00.go. Orica-Scott have sent lots of riders to the front. -- two

:15:01. > :15:02.kilometres. The race is very much on Andy Pack is closing rapidly. You

:15:03. > :15:10.can see the gap. It is not big. Anne, There is still the chance we

:15:11. > :15:17.will have a sprint. I'm almost certain we will. One kilometre from

:15:18. > :15:22.me we have two successive left-hander bring them in sight of

:15:23. > :15:26.the finishing banner. They're just around the corner from us now. They

:15:27. > :15:29.will do a big U-turn along the river. They're heading into

:15:30. > :15:36.Westminster and they will have the houses of Parliament on their

:15:37. > :15:42.right-hand side shortly as the peloton start to turn the screw and

:15:43. > :15:51.start to open it up and get ready for a spectacular gallop on the

:15:52. > :15:59.Mall. All the big names will be gathering. Orica-Scott have a few

:16:00. > :16:05.people, Chris, who will they be working for the sprint? They have

:16:06. > :16:10.options. I'm interested to see whether we will see a sprint at all.

:16:11. > :16:17.With a minute to go. The breakaway group have been caught as they go

:16:18. > :16:25.into Whitehall. A K to go, that is remarkable. What a piece of

:16:26. > :16:39.brinkmanship that was. With Katusha coming to the front with the red.

:16:40. > :16:49.Kristoff is their main man. Aqua blue are up there. Bmc with three or

:16:50. > :16:54.four riders. Matthews has one man and they're not going to try for the

:16:55. > :16:58.sprint train. They're trying to find their way, getting themselves

:16:59. > :17:12.positioned before the final two bends. It is Docker making the left

:17:13. > :17:18.hand turn. They come through Admiralty arch and Mitch Docker with

:17:19. > :17:23.the lead. The sprint opens up. The rider from Bora has Bennett on his

:17:24. > :17:29.wheel. Matthews is further back. Drucker as well was eighth or tenth

:17:30. > :17:37.in line. It is a long sprint. Where is Greipel? Viviani tries to make a

:17:38. > :17:42.move. And Kristoff hits the front. Bennett against Kristoff. They come

:17:43. > :17:51.up to line and it was so, so close as they cross the line. But

:17:52. > :17:56.Alexander Kristoff may have got it. I think you're right and he needed

:17:57. > :18:06.that win. Such a disappointing Tour de France for him. If we have that

:18:07. > :18:11.confirmed he will be delighted. Looked like Cort was involved from

:18:12. > :18:18.Orica-Scott. The riders catching their breath. Here is the sprint,

:18:19. > :18:23.Bennett was in a good place here. He was, got a good lead and Kristoff

:18:24. > :18:27.also thought he was the man to follow. Went after him. Bennett

:18:28. > :18:37.could do nothing about it. Matthews didn't have it. Watch Cort chasing

:18:38. > :18:48.hard after Kristoff all the way to the line. In the end it was an

:18:49. > :18:52.excellent for Kristoff. A winner of two stages in the Tour de France.

:18:53. > :18:57.There he is in the red, had a clear line all the way to the finish. Had

:18:58. > :19:03.the strength and the power and celebrates the victory here in

:19:04. > :19:10.London. That was a great sprint by him. Matthews, surprised he wasn't

:19:11. > :19:13.slightly closer. He too was well positioned through the final bends.

:19:14. > :19:18.But just didn't have it. Probably had a lot of responsibilities after

:19:19. > :19:22.the Tour de France. There is Viviani. He started his effort a bit

:19:23. > :19:32.late and never got on terms with those at the front. Big win for

:19:33. > :19:35.Kristoff he would have been disappointed with the Tour de

:19:36. > :19:42.France. But he has come back with a bang. A convincing win. Matthews

:19:43. > :19:48.held on for third. A deserving win for Katusha. They took

:19:49. > :19:51.responsibility and believed in their sprinter and I think it was, it is

:19:52. > :19:56.always very rewarding and satisfying to see a team that takes up the

:19:57. > :20:01.responsibility to come away with the victory and he did prove that he was

:20:02. > :20:07.the strongest on the way. They timed it well, bringing in two breakaway

:20:08. > :20:13.riders, with Trentin and Stuyven, who did so well to hold off the

:20:14. > :20:16.peloton for as well as they did. The peloton always had the confidence

:20:17. > :20:21.that they would be able to bring them back and we had the sprint for

:20:22. > :20:32.the line on the Mall that we were expecting and we have had a very big

:20:33. > :20:38.name Winner Alexander Kristoff, the Norwegian, a great ride from Cort

:20:39. > :20:46.and Michael Matthews finishing third.

:20:47. > :21:06.Drucker having to settle for sixth. The win goes to Alexander Kristoff.

:21:07. > :21:10.A well timed sprint and a fantastic performance from the team. Mark,

:21:11. > :21:17.you're edge on the barriers, loving that sprint finish. If anybody knows

:21:18. > :21:22.thousand ride a finish, it is you. What did you think. There was some

:21:23. > :21:28.good lead outs. On a different circumstance, you can see the flags,

:21:29. > :21:34.the wind's blowing, it is a head wind finish. Bora left Bennett on

:21:35. > :21:39.the front too long. But Kristoff was a long way ahead there. That shows

:21:40. > :21:45.he had a fire in him to try and win and there was no one going to come

:21:46. > :21:50.close. Michael Matthews finishing third again. Didn't have the legs. I

:21:51. > :21:55.think he rode more than having his legs, he rode more on the movement

:21:56. > :22:00.and followed the wheels. He might be a bit dead after the Tour de France.

:22:01. > :22:05.You get dead legs and you can deal with the climbs and the distance

:22:06. > :22:09.better, but the actual punch, the kick against the Tour de France

:22:10. > :22:15.riders is difference. Here you need that sharpness. Sam's had to go

:22:16. > :22:21.early. Which normally with 250 it would work, but it is into a head

:22:22. > :22:27.wind. As you can see, Nielsen has a good run, but Matthews used the slip

:22:28. > :22:35.stream of the others. That is good after a busy week after getting the

:22:36. > :22:41.green jersey in the Tour de France. Sepp up there in fourth. You have

:22:42. > :22:46.two guys in fourth and fifth there is something gone wrong. Kristoff,

:22:47. > :22:51.perhaps disappointed with the Tour. But it meant a lot to him. Yeah, he

:22:52. > :22:57.let out a yell when he crossed the line. You don't do that unless it

:22:58. > :23:01.means something. Katusha committed throughout the day to ride and

:23:02. > :23:06.showed they had faith in him and that gives you an extra buzz and a

:23:07. > :23:09.motivation to deliver. When your team's committed to you. It is nice

:23:10. > :23:19.to see it paid off. Here he is now with Tim. Huge krachations -

:23:20. > :23:24.congratulations, the peloton timed it well. Was that the tactics. We

:23:25. > :23:29.didn't come from the free. From the Tour we had one week rest and we

:23:30. > :23:35.didn't train too much. I had a great party at home a few days ago and

:23:36. > :23:43.usually I race well after a party. So maybe that is the tactic. A

:23:44. > :23:52.disappointing Tour, but your must be thrilled to win here. ? Yes I got a

:23:53. > :23:59.bronze medal in the Olympics, I was struggling in the climbs, but we

:24:00. > :24:03.managed to chase back, my team members, it was proving hard to come

:24:04. > :24:08.back. And at the end we did not get much help from other teams, some

:24:09. > :24:13.helped us a bit. Yeah, at the end we timed it perfect. But there was a

:24:14. > :24:18.bit on the edge. In the sprint I felt good and Michael delivered me

:24:19. > :24:26.well. So yeah I was happy to see I could hold behind me. That is it,

:24:27. > :24:32.talk us through that sprint. It was a narrow corner and it stretches

:24:33. > :24:37.out. It was no problem going through. On the Bora wheel of

:24:38. > :24:43.Bennett, I waited for him to start. Because it was a bit windy and I

:24:44. > :24:48.knew it would be hard. With 200 to go I managed to hold them. That is

:24:49. > :24:53.always a great feeling to see you're first. It is a long time since the

:24:54. > :25:03.last time I win in Frankfurt. So sit was a nice feeling to win. Well

:25:04. > :25:12.done. Thank you. Kristoff winning. We will see him on the podium

:25:13. > :25:15.shortly. Collecting his winner's prize. Mark he has been able to

:25:16. > :25:21.carry some form into this. Perhaps that is the way to do it. I guess

:25:22. > :25:27.so, when you have an easy week, your body tries to get everything it can

:25:28. > :25:35.back in and sometimes you eat more carbohydrate. We are used to losing

:25:36. > :25:41.weight and you let yourself go and the body gets the sugars and

:25:42. > :25:46.carbohydrate in. I'm not a nutritionist, but that is how I see

:25:47. > :25:51.it. Dave Millar, straight off the bike. Well done. Excellent job.

:25:52. > :25:55.Chris from commently. We are going to look at the closing stages that

:25:56. > :26:02.break was away and we wondered if it would stay. Yes I think we saw a lot

:26:03. > :26:06.of confidence with about 15, 20ks out. I don't know how they do it.

:26:07. > :26:14.They get a feel for the distance and can see the break and Wen to work.

:26:15. > :26:22.But Katusha buried themselves and did it a man at a time. Killing

:26:23. > :26:29.themselveses to keep it in touch. It was quite something to match. That

:26:30. > :26:36.Mac away made it. And -- that break away made it. It It is the first

:26:37. > :26:41.time I have seen the finish. I have been in the motorbike. Katusha were

:26:42. > :26:46.all in. I think every other team read that and they know Kristoff was

:26:47. > :26:53.desperate to win. They used that as their tactic. Orica-Scott held off

:26:54. > :26:58.and Greipel only had two riders left with. Even Sunweb are doing well.

:26:59. > :27:03.But it is scattered. It was surprising, but everyone was so

:27:04. > :27:07.pinned on the run-in. As you said, the teams were breaking apart and

:27:08. > :27:14.was hard and there was a lot of wind. Yes the wind, you don't see it

:27:15. > :27:21.on the TV, but it was howling and that allowed the breakaway to go

:27:22. > :27:26.further. Ben Swift was racing well. Michael Matthews, even he was spent

:27:27. > :27:32.too much energy early op. You either go for the sprint or you try and

:27:33. > :27:39.cover the moves mid race. They paid the price I think. Fantastic to see

:27:40. > :27:46.the sprint finish. A head wind and it can play such a part in a sprint

:27:47. > :27:52.finish? Yes it is the difference of 100 metres, if it is a block head

:27:53. > :27:58.wind you can go a hundred, if it is a tail wind it is a hundred metres

:27:59. > :28:03.difference. Although it is slightly downhill, it is heavy tarmac and you

:28:04. > :28:11.don't want to go and kick in a head wind, because you will stick to the

:28:12. > :28:15.road. We saw that in Sam Bennett in a different day he would have been

:28:16. > :28:19.in a perfect position. They sit in the team bus and man two goes here

:28:20. > :28:25.and the lead man goes here. It is stock standard of not thinking about

:28:26. > :28:29.how to adapt to a situation. And they did that. You see I think out

:28:30. > :28:34.of everyone Matthews did that the best and used the other wheels. He

:28:35. > :28:38.knew he would be pushing to it train and win against the pure sprinters.

:28:39. > :28:45.So he used the wheels to move up and that is how he was going to win. We

:28:46. > :28:51.still have Michael Matthews in the finish, finishing third again. He

:28:52. > :28:54.has been talking to Tim. The four man coming in, the green jersey at

:28:55. > :28:59.the Tour, what were your thoughts coming into the race? I had a lot of

:29:00. > :29:03.confidence. But unfortunately the legs weren't as good as I would have

:29:04. > :29:09.liked. I thought I did everything right to be good here. But I guess

:29:10. > :29:15.after the Tour, you have good and bad days. I was suffering from the

:29:16. > :29:17.start. My goal was to try and attack on the climb and make the

:29:18. > :29:23.difference. But I couldn't even do that. I had to try and just survive

:29:24. > :29:28.to the finish and see what sort of sprint I had left. Talk us through

:29:29. > :29:33.that last third of the race, it seems like a long slog? I wouldn't

:29:34. > :29:42.mind the climbs to be closer to the finish. But yeah, unfortunately it

:29:43. > :29:47.is the way it is. After a hard Tour I have to be happy with third. Plans

:29:48. > :29:52.for the rest of the season? I'm looking forward to a rest after

:29:53. > :30:02.this. I kept focussed with training until today and yeah I will go to

:30:03. > :30:03.Como and have a rest and go to altitude to prepare for the second

:30:04. > :30:15.half. Thanks. A lovely break for Michael Matthews

:30:16. > :30:20.coming up. Interesting two-year him say that he felt the hour of racing

:30:21. > :30:23.after the last climb is tough. It makes a difference? He is such a

:30:24. > :30:28.good climber in his own right never mind amongst the sprinters. He likes

:30:29. > :30:34.it as hard as possible. When we saw the rays split on the last two

:30:35. > :30:38.Hills, he was on the front group but he would have been made up if it had

:30:39. > :30:43.stayed as a small group and heated sprint from this. It was always

:30:44. > :30:47.going to be a 60 minute running. It changes the race. Coming out of the

:30:48. > :30:53.Tour de France, I wonder if it has caught up with him. He fought hard

:30:54. > :30:56.to get the green jersey. He has had lots of responsibility since. He was

:30:57. > :31:01.well positioned coming into the sprint but he did not have the

:31:02. > :31:05.likes. If this race was 300 kilometres, ye would still be the

:31:06. > :31:09.same after 300 kilometres. The Tour de France does something to you. You

:31:10. > :31:13.get this incredible endurance but your body is limiting itself, it

:31:14. > :31:19.will not let you damage it like it can. The peak for the sprinters is

:31:20. > :31:25.not close to what it can be when the press. They can do it after a or 300

:31:26. > :31:30.kilometres. There we are. Brian Cookson is on the podium. We will go

:31:31. > :31:34.through the formalities with Simon Brotherton.

:31:35. > :31:38.I saw Brian Cookson at lunchtime recovering after his 100 mile ride

:31:39. > :31:43.in the sportive today. Michael Matthews, third today. The green

:31:44. > :31:48.jersey winner in the Tour de France this year. Three times he has won

:31:49. > :31:54.stages in the Tour de France. He won twice in this year's race. One of

:31:55. > :32:00.the star names leading into the weekend. Representing the team of

:32:01. > :32:04.Orica-Scott, Magnus Cort Neilson. He come up with a really good ride,

:32:05. > :32:10.with a good lead out training in front of him, the 24-year-old Ben.

:32:11. > :32:14.He won a couple of stages of the Vuelta a Espana, the grand Tour in

:32:15. > :32:22.Spain, last year. He was second in the could of Denmark, his home Tour

:32:23. > :32:32.as well. He was not far behind today's's winner either. And now,

:32:33. > :32:36.the winner. From Katusha Alpecin, Alexander Kristoff. Alexander

:32:37. > :32:42.Kristoff, he was on the podium five years ago at the Olympic Games

:32:43. > :32:47.having claimed the bronze medal. The race was won by Alexander Vinogradov

:32:48. > :32:53.ahead of Rigoberto Uran. Today, he is on the top of the podium. The

:32:54. > :32:58.Norwegian has a superb sprint. He has some big victories in his

:32:59. > :33:02.career, Milan-San Remo, the Tour of Flanders as well. A couple of stages

:33:03. > :33:08.in the Tour de France as well, but they were three years ago. As he set

:33:09. > :33:14.himself, he had not won any races for well this year, so smiles all

:33:15. > :33:24.around. They lose the podium, Alexander Kristoff winning this

:33:25. > :33:27.year's Prudential RideLondon London-Surrey Classic. That is the

:33:28. > :33:33.formalities done. He looks pleased to be on the top step of the podium.

:33:34. > :33:36.If you have joined us, that is the climax of the Classic. We have seen

:33:37. > :33:41.Alexander Kristoff take the top step on the podium but they have been out

:33:42. > :33:46.for several hours, 183 kilometres this race, so we will look back at

:33:47. > :33:51.how it developed. You were right amongst it, David. Let's look at how

:33:52. > :34:02.the race unfolded. This race is very fast leaving London, an big roads.

:34:03. > :34:05.It took a while for this group to go. It was more by chance. Most of

:34:06. > :34:07.the peloton was happy with this group of five. They have already

:34:08. > :34:12.lost two riders, the AG2R rider was lost on the first climb. He did not

:34:13. > :34:17.have the likes. The peloton sat up and took it easy. Normally that

:34:18. > :34:22.would last for about 90 minutes. Elia Viviani had a problem with his

:34:23. > :34:26.shoe and got it fixed. I am not sure what that was about, it was not a

:34:27. > :34:31.crash. That is some skill, changing your shoes while still on the bike.

:34:32. > :34:36.He did it easily as well. Not the first time he has done that. That

:34:37. > :34:41.was the highlight of the first few kilometres. On the first climb, the

:34:42. > :34:50.group of five became three. Sprinting for points, the Lotto

:34:51. > :34:56.jumble rider. -- Lotto NL-Jumbo. They wanted to make the race as hard

:34:57. > :35:00.as possible. Pete Kennaugh goes. You can see attack. Matt Teale Trentin

:35:01. > :35:07.goes. He saw it coming. Ben Sweat goes as well but he could not hang

:35:08. > :35:11.on. Michael Matthews went, and it is interesting how this move developed.

:35:12. > :35:16.Regardless of what race you were in or where you were in the overall

:35:17. > :35:20.picture, this was the territory that those guys performed on. You just

:35:21. > :35:24.said that something was going to happen and then Pete Kennaugh went.

:35:25. > :35:29.You can see the body language of the riders, how aggressive it was. This

:35:30. > :35:33.is it -- this is exactly Arjen Robben attack last year. There are

:35:34. > :35:38.so few places in the race will you can make it hard. You have to choose

:35:39. > :35:43.carefully and nearly perfectly. That is what Team Sky did but they could

:35:44. > :35:46.not follow it through. Did they have so much confidence that Viviani was

:35:47. > :35:50.going well that they wanted to make the race harder to get rid of the

:35:51. > :35:56.other top sprinters, or did they have little faith in Viviani and

:35:57. > :35:59.they wanted to go with a different option? We will have to get that

:36:00. > :36:02.answered post race. I could not tell if they were trying to reduce the

:36:03. > :36:09.amount of work they did and setup breaks. This is where Daryl Impey is

:36:10. > :36:16.lost with about 20 kilometres to go. Jasper Stuyven ridged across on Box

:36:17. > :36:20.Hill. He looked imperious. He did it with such ease. The chase did not

:36:21. > :36:24.stand a chance. More teams the weaponry at the front and that is

:36:25. > :36:30.what happened in the end, they did not stand a chance. This is the

:36:31. > :36:34.finish, coming under Admiralty Arch. Over the line, and Alexander

:36:35. > :36:38.Kristoff, so strong into the headwind. You can see Viviani on the

:36:39. > :36:43.outside, Sam Bennett, we talked about him being in the mix, but it

:36:44. > :36:48.was Kristoff you had the strength at the end. You see how quickly guys

:36:49. > :36:52.were sitting down in the sprint, people sitting down sprinting. You

:36:53. > :36:56.do not see it with the first few until the end but when people are

:36:57. > :37:05.sitting down it means it has been a hard race. It is a fight to the

:37:06. > :37:08.line, resilience. Not often that happens, especially in a flat race.

:37:09. > :37:13.Let's look back at who has won the race in the last five years, since

:37:14. > :37:17.it began. Kristoff has now joined this list. Arnaud Demarg, back in

:37:18. > :37:35.2013. Tom Boonen winning in similar style

:37:36. > :37:39.to Alexander Kristoff today, a big strong sprinter. Yes, if the race is

:37:40. > :37:45.played out like it was, it makes it into a sort of Classic sprint. It is

:37:46. > :37:50.not a flat outright race, although the course might look like that on

:37:51. > :37:55.paper. The middle section, small roads, up, down, left, right, if a

:37:56. > :38:02.team like Sky attacks, it makes it more of a Classic than a sprinters'

:38:03. > :38:05.race. It is hard to win the race there, but it is the part where you

:38:06. > :38:08.definitely lose the race. It dictates how you will feel for the

:38:09. > :38:14.final sprint on the Mall. Let's hear from somebody else in the race

:38:15. > :38:18.today, he was out in the breakaway for some time. Matt Teale Trentin

:38:19. > :38:22.has won the sprint jersey as a result.

:38:23. > :38:27.Congratulations, the sprint winner here. How do you feel? Good and bad.

:38:28. > :38:33.It was a good consolation prize because we tried really hard to win

:38:34. > :38:37.the race. One kilometre too short. The peloton either timed it to

:38:38. > :38:42.perfection or got a little bit lucky. They cut during the last

:38:43. > :38:46.kilometre, talk us through it. Without Daryl Impey dropping from us

:38:47. > :38:50.on the Wimbledon climb, we would probably make it to the finish. That

:38:51. > :38:55.time it was all or nothing, so we kept a good pace on the climb. It is

:38:56. > :39:01.what it is, that is cycling. We hope it will be better next time. How

:39:02. > :39:05.hard is it been out at the front of the race day? It is pretty hard. The

:39:06. > :39:11.breakaway was never so big. In the beginning it was only me and Daryl

:39:12. > :39:17.Impey. Then Jasper Stuyven came across. We rode strongly to London.

:39:18. > :39:20.Just a little bit too short. Massive congratulations anyway for winning

:39:21. > :39:26.the sprints. Well done. Thank you very much. So, that was Matt Teale

:39:27. > :39:32.Trentin, a long day in the saddle. But he got the sprint jersey as a

:39:33. > :39:38.reward. I do not know if it is a reward. It is a consolation prize.

:39:39. > :39:42.-- that was Matt Teale Trentin. It was a sprint that could have suited

:39:43. > :39:47.him. He will wonder why he did not wait. I am always amazed when you

:39:48. > :39:51.see a breakaway like that and the peloton chasing them down. It is

:39:52. > :39:56.almost as though they can judge it to perfection, when they make the

:39:57. > :40:02.catch. They almost waited until one kilometre to go. They did. It is not

:40:03. > :40:07.always the case. We have seen it in this race, sometimes they do not get

:40:08. > :40:11.it right, but 99% of the time they do. What we cannot see on

:40:12. > :40:15.television, we cannot feel. They can feel how hard they're trying, see

:40:16. > :40:21.the distance and thing, we have got that. Watching on television, it is

:40:22. > :40:25.always amazing. You have been in a chasing peloton looking for a sprint

:40:26. > :40:29.finish in many races. How much communication is there between the

:40:30. > :40:34.teams and riders? It depends on the teams going for it. For us, already

:40:35. > :40:41.years, we have not had much help in the sprint. When you set your plan

:40:42. > :40:46.at the beginning of the race, you make it like, no other team will

:40:47. > :40:50.help, then if they do help, it is a bonus. There are teams that are

:40:51. > :40:56.notorious for not riding. Orica-Scott, for instance, they

:40:57. > :41:00.always have a massive lead out at the end but never really control it.

:41:01. > :41:03.They have a great team, probably the best team in the final for the lead

:41:04. > :41:09.out, but you need to put that kind of pressure on sprinter to win. I

:41:10. > :41:15.thrive on guys that have ridden on the front for 200 kilometres for me.

:41:16. > :41:19.I have to try and that. Most teams will ride, but you cannot count on

:41:20. > :41:22.everybody. You have just got to hope that people are going to commit. It

:41:23. > :41:28.is often about organising the chase and your team. That is something you

:41:29. > :41:33.have done many times, David, your work road captain for Mark Cavendish

:41:34. > :41:36.when he won the world championship. There are different situations. Some

:41:37. > :41:41.teams were bluffing today. They could see how desperately to

:41:42. > :41:47.shareware. Trek-Segafredo seemed in control. It was always about 30

:41:48. > :41:52.seconds. When you have that many riders, they can always throw more,

:41:53. > :41:55.the peloton, the problem. They are holding back as long as possible to

:41:56. > :42:00.throw riders at the problem. They can end up with having to put more

:42:01. > :42:04.people on because they have left it too late. Instead of riding one

:42:05. > :42:08.person conservatively all day, they have to put the yard to bring it

:42:09. > :42:12.back because they have left it late because they have been bluffing.

:42:13. > :42:16.People always forget, although the time gap is static for so long, what

:42:17. > :42:21.happens is the breakaway is always slowing down, the peloton is always

:42:22. > :42:25.speeding up. It look static and in the final phase, it goes down. The

:42:26. > :42:29.peloton is riding at 70 kilometres per hour. Sometimes it sticks

:42:30. > :42:48.because the peloton is riding at the pace of

:42:49. > :42:52.the front know when they have to start juicing. If the front groups

:42:53. > :42:55.was, the Pelican slows to keep it at that. They maybe stop a toilet break

:42:56. > :42:58.and start again to keep it that bad so they can leave it to that moment

:42:59. > :43:01.when they have to start. It gives them a target. We have seen the

:43:02. > :43:03.winner of the sprint jersey, the overall winner, this is the King of

:43:04. > :43:05.the Mountains. Congratulations, how does it feel?

:43:06. > :43:08.Really good. It was a hard day out there. It was a nice day, it was a

:43:09. > :43:11.nice course and nice legs. It is good. What was the tactic today? We

:43:12. > :43:16.did not have so many guys at the start. We wanted to do an aggressive

:43:17. > :43:20.race, be at the front all day so we did not have to work. From the start

:43:21. > :43:25.I got in the breakaway. It was a good grip, but unfortunately two

:43:26. > :43:30.fell away pretty fast. We had to keep going. We knew that the peloton

:43:31. > :43:36.would speed up. Luckily, I got enough points to win this

:43:37. > :43:39.competition. Alex takes all my Shanaka finish. A quick word on your

:43:40. > :43:43.team-mate. You must be pretty pleased for the whole team? From

:43:44. > :43:47.what I hear we did a good performance. I did not see the last

:43:48. > :43:51.half of the race. I did what I could when I was in the peloton, I did

:43:52. > :43:56.some pulling, but I eventually fell off. From what I hear it was a nice

:43:57. > :44:01.team performance. To win this race is massive, it is a World Tour race.

:44:02. > :44:06.We can be nothing but satisfied. Many congratulations.

:44:07. > :44:09.Thank you. King of the Mountains, Katusha desired -- delighted to see

:44:10. > :44:13.Alexander Kristoff winning the race in London. It will be interesting to

:44:14. > :44:18.see what he thinks of the world championship course. That is in

:44:19. > :44:24.Bergen. Rochelle Gilmore has joined us. That is coming up in Norway in

:44:25. > :44:28.September. It could suit Kristoff. Yes, and today will give him

:44:29. > :44:32.confidence. He will take lots of confidence from victory in this

:44:33. > :44:36.World Tour race. It was a well-deserved win because his team

:44:37. > :44:39.took responsibility. They had confidence in him. It is satisfying

:44:40. > :44:44.to see when a team takes it up and do the majority of the chase. The

:44:45. > :44:50.team's sprinter is able to pull it off and it was a satisfying victory.

:44:51. > :44:54.The World Championships was perhaps one of the goals for you, to go to

:44:55. > :44:56.Bergen. Do you think it could be a course to suit you? You're not

:44:57. > :45:07.writing it off yet? It is not a course where it doesn't

:45:08. > :45:15.matter your weight. It is not such a hill that a climber will win, like

:45:16. > :45:21.Chris Froome will win. Like the Olympics here, I know I can do it.

:45:22. > :45:30.But I have got to change my body shape and strip a few kilos off. I

:45:31. > :45:35.have to get fit fist first. I know Britain has some great guys bike Ben

:45:36. > :45:41.Swift that, course is suited to him. It has a little climb. That doesn't

:45:42. > :45:46.make it great. But you know we can be one of the dominant teams in the

:45:47. > :46:00.World Championships. You mentioned Ben Swift. Here he is. I think when

:46:01. > :46:06.I sat down at the he start of year, I split my year into three and I

:46:07. > :46:11.enable myself to go well for longer periods of time in the surrounding

:46:12. > :46:17.races. I think the world's with Britain we have a, the possibility

:46:18. > :46:21.to have a strong team. Every World Championships we have somebody that

:46:22. > :46:27.could target. This year the course lends itself to a lot of guys in

:46:28. > :46:31.Britain, so we can go with a good chance with an open team. I don't

:46:32. > :46:36.think we need to sit on the front and dictate the race and we can go

:46:37. > :46:42.and try and race and have won and by having fun and racing our bikes, we

:46:43. > :46:49.get the best results. We have a lot of guys that can race like that. The

:46:50. > :46:55.World Road Championships in Norway in September. That is the next

:46:56. > :47:03.cycling on the BBC. Rochelle you will be us with. For the women's

:47:04. > :47:10.race may it suit Lizzie? Yes we have heard a lot from the teams. It is

:47:11. > :47:17.not a pure sprinters' course, but a sprinter could possibly get around.

:47:18. > :47:23.So people like Lizzie, she has come into good form and the fact she

:47:24. > :47:26.didn't ride here yesterday means she is targeting the World Championship

:47:27. > :47:32.and doing our build up and I think she has a very good, she has a great

:47:33. > :47:35.sprint and can be with the best of the climbers and stronger riders. I

:47:36. > :47:44.think she would be one of the favourites. Then there is a long

:47:45. > :47:49.list of women who could win. Eleanor Barker is keen to tackle the time

:47:50. > :47:53.trial. Yes it is great that she has this opportunity in the middle of

:47:54. > :47:57.the Olympic cycle to focus on the the road and the individual time

:47:58. > :48:02.trials. Even if she is not in the top three, it will be interesting to

:48:03. > :48:11.see where she is at to see what she is capable of. We are interested to

:48:12. > :48:16.see how she will go. An interesting course as Mark says, it might suit a

:48:17. > :48:22.strong sprinter. Do you have your eye on anybody. I don't, it is still

:48:23. > :48:28.some way away and you have to see how people come out from the Tour de

:48:29. > :48:37.France. Kristoff was disappointing in the Tour. But a course like that

:48:38. > :48:44.is good fun. There is a climb. Those things make it hard enough that you

:48:45. > :48:50.are not sure. That makes for an exciting race. And what makes I

:48:51. > :48:55.difference, in the Tour de France you have nine riders per team, the

:48:56. > :49:02.worlds is different and you have to qualify. Some teams have nine

:49:03. > :49:17.riders. Some teams, maybe some guys with say Peter Sagan, he is the best

:49:18. > :49:23.in the world, but this is a different ball game in terms of

:49:24. > :49:29.tactics. It could be a cures for him. I have seen him win the last

:49:30. > :49:35.world title on the right of him. I didn't know! As I was saying those

:49:36. > :49:39.words, I was feeling the pain. You have made your peace with him since

:49:40. > :49:46.after the Tour. But it is the type of course that would suit Peter.

:49:47. > :49:50.Every course suits Peter Sagan, that is the problem the rest of cycling

:49:51. > :49:59.has. I would like to see a straight up sprint between you. Now last

:50:00. > :50:05.night. We saw the classic. It also came to a sprint in the Classique.

:50:06. > :50:14.Here is how it unfolded. Rivera working her way to the front. They

:50:15. > :50:18.splash their way along The Strand. Here is the key turning point and

:50:19. > :50:33.somebody's shot up the inside and stole an march. That was a handy

:50:34. > :50:42.nufr. Y manoeuvre. Was it the sprinter le Pisto. They're taking

:50:43. > :50:50.control of this. But Kirsten Wield on the outside. We have got all the

:50:51. > :50:57.big names up here. Bronzini is there. The world champion is on her

:50:58. > :51:16.wheel. They go back into Trafalgar Square. Warwick's done a good job.

:51:17. > :51:21.Next in line they're about to go through Admiralty Arch. They're

:51:22. > :51:26.looking behind, because I think they're looking to see where Hannah

:51:27. > :51:33.Barnes is. She is at least half a dozen riders back. Vos is up there.

:51:34. > :51:41.Wield is there. This is going to be a close thing. Here is the world

:51:42. > :51:50.champion. The world champion is in a good spot. Coryn Rivera is fighting

:51:51. > :51:57.to get on her wheel. Rivera is in third. Here they come. Coryn Rivera

:51:58. > :52:02.hits the front. It is going to be close. But Coryn Rivera takes it on

:52:03. > :52:07.the line. She timed that effort superbly. That was the first time we

:52:08. > :52:15.had seen Coryn Rivera hit the front. That is what she is paid to do. She

:52:16. > :52:20.timed it to perfection to take it on the line in a close sprint. Elated.

:52:21. > :52:25.It is crazy, it is raining, not the best conditions. But when there is a

:52:26. > :52:30.goal in front of you you have got to get after it. It was a crazy finish.

:52:31. > :52:41.A lot of elbows and everything. But you have to keep fighting. Bill

:52:42. > :52:47.smiles there. -- big smiles. A big win in a tough night. Yes a very

:52:48. > :52:51.technical race given the race and the hot dog corners made it

:52:52. > :52:55.technical. Coryn Rivera wasn't seen in the whole race that, means she

:52:56. > :53:01.had a lot of confidence in her team. They say her success is due to the

:53:02. > :53:05.strength of her team and specifically van Dijk, she stayed

:53:06. > :53:10.very relaxed during the race. Another big victory. She won the

:53:11. > :53:15.Tour of Flanders and she has stepped up and I could see just from her

:53:16. > :53:19.post race interview she is more comfortable with the winning. That

:53:20. > :53:23.is expected of her and she is more relaxed. When she won Tour of

:53:24. > :53:28.Flanders she couldn't believe it. Since then she has won some big

:53:29. > :53:34.races. We will see a lot of Coryn Rivera. What did you think of the

:53:35. > :53:41.finish? It was good. You saw it, she is a clever little bike rider and

:53:42. > :53:45.she is patient and bides her time. They were going early and Coryn's

:53:46. > :53:51.there using the wheels and moving the wheels and not afraid to stay

:53:52. > :53:57.sat down and wind her sprint up. And hit at the right time. And it paid

:53:58. > :54:02.off. We have seen two great races here and we have seen thousands upon

:54:03. > :54:11.thousands of people enjoying riding their bikes around London and the

:54:12. > :54:15.two big races, 146 and 100 miles and thousands of people completing that.

:54:16. > :54:21.Some still just finishing. We have talked to many of the people, all

:54:22. > :54:26.with their own stories, rying for different reasons and causes one you

:54:27. > :54:31.may remember, some guys doing it with their dad. They did the fixing

:54:32. > :54:37.dad ride and they have turned it into the fixing challenge. Tim

:54:38. > :54:43.caught up with them. My God. How you doing. That was awesome. The worst

:54:44. > :54:48.bit was the last two miles. They kept saying, we are nearly there.

:54:49. > :54:57.What is nearly there? What you have got here is yours. Very well earned.

:54:58. > :55:05.That is fan Tace tick. Tastic. -- fantastic. These guys, dream team,

:55:06. > :55:12.absolutely fantastic guys. I couldn't have done it without them.

:55:13. > :55:15.Fixing dad, fibbing challenge, a-- fixing challenge. I want to get

:55:16. > :55:19.involved next year. Well done. Lovely day. Incredible day,

:55:20. > :55:25.organisation and everything, spirit there was amazing. He has done

:55:26. > :55:31.fantastic. Thank you for that. Nothing to do with me. You are a

:55:32. > :55:41.credit to yourselves and the fixing challenge has been a huge success.

:55:42. > :55:48.Well done. Hang on we have some family here as well. I'm proud of

:55:49. > :55:52.you. Big hugs at the end. It is like the marathon when you see people

:55:53. > :55:58.finishing and the effort they have put in and the training and all are

:55:59. > :56:03.riding for special causes. You were out reeding in that, it was a great

:56:04. > :56:08.atmosphere. Yes so inspiring to hear the stories. For me, it was special

:56:09. > :56:12.to see after the men's race they allowed the people to continue and

:56:13. > :56:16.finish, because they were wearing the medals that are given for

:56:17. > :56:21.finishing with a lot of pride and personally it was a real challenge

:56:22. > :56:24.for me and I have hung my medal up in my hotel and I'm very proud of

:56:25. > :56:28.it. It is a lovely experience to be out there and I have done it each

:56:29. > :56:36.year and each year I love it as much as the first year. So it is, it is

:56:37. > :56:44.one thing you need to put on your calendar is the free cycle the

:56:45. > :56:50.Surrey 100. The ballot opens on 7th August. If you go to the web-site.

:56:51. > :56:55.This is a result of the legacy of the Olympics and another one is next

:56:56. > :57:11.month, the world athletics is coming to London. London. Are you ready? Mo

:57:12. > :57:23.Farah wins the gold. It is going to be skippers. Usain Bolt. I'm ready.

:57:24. > :57:28.So Friday 4th August, mark that in your calendars also coming up the

:57:29. > :57:33.heroes of super-Saturday, cast your minds back the that night in 2012 in

:57:34. > :57:39.the athletics. That is tonight and triathlon highlights.

:57:40. > :57:49.Last word to you Chris on this wonderful weekend of cycling. I

:57:50. > :57:54.think what I enjoy most is I don't enjoy the races, but watching people

:57:55. > :58:01.having their owned a venture and seeing people -- owned a venture and

:58:02. > :58:06.enjoying riding. We have enjoyed it. Mark hope to see you back on the

:58:07. > :58:12.bike soon. We have had a wonderful weekend and we have even had some

:58:13. > :58:14.sunshine. I hope you enjoyed it and we will see you next time. Bye for

:58:15. > :59:07.now. 70 years after

:59:08. > :59:08.the partition of India, discover how their families were

:59:09. > :59:13.torn apart.