Another image highlighting teams in this year’s race. Two teams on show here and I was taken with their respective colours, hence the title of the picture! The team at the front, is Bahrain McLaren, who picked up the pace and set a target for Jumbo Visma just behind them.

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Stage 17 the Queen stage this year, takes 168km between Grenoble and the newly-built cycling route to the summit of the Col de la Loze. This first image shows the peloton heading towards the mountains, which to my eye, looked like a frontier that was big and very blue. Simply stunning…

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Stage 16 reached its climax with a phenomenal break by Lennard Kämna, who burst through, leaving Carapaz behind, to take a terrific win. Fantastic stage today and it’s the Queen stage next, how much better can this be?

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The Ecuadorian rider Richard Carapaz made the next explosive break; he is a firecracker of a rider! He is the current champion of the Giro d’Italia and his class and strength on this climb burst through.

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This break in Stage 16 shown here, began with Guillaume Martin of Team Cofidis, at 25.5km, along with his team-mate Nicolas Edet. Martin is riding high in the General Classification and his strength is no flash in the pan, but the bold move was short-lived being pulled back at 20km.

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Stage 16 saw several attacks throughout, this one saw Quentin Pacher ride with determination on the ascent to the last climb of the day. He maintained a healthy gap on the peloton, until he was later reeled in.

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Another team in the race is Education First, (born out of Garmin). They wear a fantastic pink and navy strip, which I love, as you can always spot them easily. This second image shows a nice moment between team-mates, Rigoberto Uran from Colombia and Hugh John Carthy from Lancashire in the UK, riding and chatting together.

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Stage 16 saw the race resume after its second rest day and 100% all clear COVID-19 test results. It looks like the race will go to Paris, but first there is the matter of more mountain stages… no small matter. At this point the man in Polka Dots is Benoit Cosnefroy, but things may change.

This first scene shows a long train of riders heading for the mountains in the region of Chartreuse, the trees were appropriately, a most beautiful shade of yellow-green…

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