Checking Everyone Out Z24-7
As the home team rider, Silvan Dillier (Switzerland) swings off the front of the breakaway, he looks at each of his five companions in turn. He had been chatting quite a bit with the second guy in line, Rui Oliveira (Portugal) for a number of kilometers. I do think he was trying to judge if Oliviera, along with Luc Wirtgen (Luxembourg), Tobias Foss (Norway), Simon Geschke (Germany) and Piotr Pekala (Poland) have the legs to take this break deep into the race. At this point they do have three minutes on the peloton, but they have 213 kilometers left to race. They haven't gotten to the start of the seven-lap circuit in and around Zurich yet. But as Dillier and Geschke both know, you have got to roll the dice and go in the break to have any chance of winning the day against the favorites of the men's peloton.