Greig Leach

Ironically the weather has been miserable since the Tour arrived in France, particularly since it was nothing but sunshine in rainy old England. The riders have been hard pressed to keep warm and dry with the sudden changes from warm and somewhat dry to cold and wet, and then back again. With the peloton on the climb of the Cote de Gueberschwihr just riding tempo, it was easy for Chris Horner (Lampre-Merida) to get clear so he could safely pull on his rain coat a somewhat difficult task going up a mountain at forty kilometers an hour. Chris Horner is another of the senior statesmen of the peloton, only a few months younger than Jen Voigt (Trek Factory Racing). Horner has found the strength and determination to have fought back from a rather horrific training crash in the early part of the season.