Greig Leach

It was a bit of a surprise to me that there was a rider competing under the flag of the Vatican City. Even more so that Rien Schuurhuis (Vatican City) was in the group chasing the break away a minute ahead of the peloton with another 239 kilometers to race. He and his companions, Muradjan Halmuratov (Uzbekistan) and Ognjen Ilic (Serbia) were just about a minute and a half behind the lead group as they all started up the climb of Mount Keira. However, this was Schuurhuis' moment to shine, he soon dropped off the group and slid on back to the peloton on this long tough climb. Honestly, I don't know what happened to him after this moment. I did just check just check procyclingstats.com, and all three of these guys did not finish the race, but I have no idea when they climbed off their bikes.