The Olympics come to SW15: the Men's Cycling Road Race in Priory Lane
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The Olympics come to SW15: the Men's Cycling Road Race in Priory Lane
Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 28 Jul 2012
This is the main bunch on the homeward leg, more than 5 hours after they passed this way on their way out of London http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3056310. There's a gallant Team GB rider (I'm pretty sure it's Wiggins) making the pace, with three German riders and one of his own team-mates tucked in behind him. But a breakaway group of about 30 riders (none of them British) had gone through about a minute before (it seemed far longer) - and the chase was in vain. I think it's clear from the photo that marshalling along this stretch was not all it should be for an international road race - the road is narrow enough in any case, and yet there are feet in the roadway on both sides. I have since heard it said that when they saw the Priory wall on the outward leg, a number of riders hopped off their bikes 'pour faire pipi', in true continental road-race fashion.
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