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Tour of Britain 09 - stage 1 · 12/09/09

After a hot stage 1 of the Tour of Britain we caught up with some of the Rapha Condor team to get their reaction to the stage:

Chris Newton

It was quite easy to start with, we [the bunch] let those two riders go and then brought it back together at the finish. We’d like to have got a man in that break but you saw what happened in the end, it got brought back. A good day for us to sit in the wheels, keep a bit of a lid on it, but we need to press on later in the week.
It’s always a bit strange the first day, you feel a bit jelly legged, this last week I’ve really backed off, I couldn’t really train any more, but now I’ve come round, I’m feeling good.

Tom Southam

It kind of panned out like I thought it would. The break went really quickly, they let it go so easily and then had the nerve to come round and ask us to start riding. No-one was interested in racing to start with, and those two guys went literally with no resistance and then as soon as we started trying to react you’ve got Pozzato up there complaining at everyone for riding too fast! It was all right in the end, we rode a little bit just to stay out of trouble and give us a place in the front and it wasn’t really that difficult.

Result

1 Sutton,Chris AUS Garmin-Slipstream 4h07’59”
2 Merlo,Michel ITA Barloworld st
3 Swift,Ben GBR Team Katusha st
4 Downing,Russell GBR Candi-TV-Marshalls Pasta st
5 Vanspeybrouck,Pieter BEL Topsport Vlaanderen st
6 Honig,Reinier NED Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team st
7 Reimer,Martin GER Cervelo Test Team st
8 Mondory,Lloyd FRA Ag2r La Mondiale st
9 Wilkinson,Ian GBR Team Halfords st
10 Mertens,Tim BEL Topsport Vlaanderen st

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