Greig Leach

You can glean a lot of information from the bib numbers on the backs of these jersey. The bib number that ends in a one is the team's leader. The first bib number, the number 1, goes to the defending champion of a particular race (assuming they are there to defend their title the next year). The same is true for the number eleven except that they were second the prior year, and the twenty-one would have been third. Clearly it is looking like the race is going to come down to the same three women again this year. The question remains, what order will they be in on the final podium. Then there are the jersey that the bib numbers are on. Number one is on the Rainbow jersey of the UCI Road World Champion, and the number eleven is on the magenta jersey of the Women's World Tour points leader. Only Katarzyn Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM) is wearing her own team kit. Annemiek Van Vleutin (Movistar) is in the Rainbow bands, and Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime) is who is leading in the WWT points race. Clearly some very gifted riders are of the front of the peloton on the Col d'Aspin.