Greig Leach

With this painting, I have now painted at least one rider on every of the 22 teams in the Tour this year. Astana Qazaqstan has had a very quiet race, but today their leader Alexey Lutsenko decided he had had enough of riding in the shadows. On the wasy up the first big climb of the day the Col d'Aspin, both he and Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ) went off the front of the early break away. They built up a sizable advantage over the peloton, but there was a chance to fight for the Miallot Jaune behind. The speed of the infighting in the peloton meant that these two were reeled back in on the next climb of the day.