1. Since when was the person who holds up the chalk board giving breakaways time gap information a hot chick? She seems to wear a slightly worried face, as though she may topple off that back at any time.
2. Some slightly odd leadouts occurred over the first week when rival teams pitted their trains against each other. At times there were three lines of riders in different teams competing to set the pace – is this the ultimate in half-wheeling?
3. At last someone makes the joke that Edvald Boasson-Hagen’s name sounds a little bit like the mysterious Higgs Boson particle that scientists at CERN in Switzerland have been trying to find. Congratulations to Ned Boulting on the ITV podcast for that gag.
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