Well, i won't go into the gory details, but that was pretty cool!
Here you go, some photos you may or may not have been close enough to take
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Hal in the thirds ... then Malcom Elliot shows the youg'uns how its done in the E/1/2s
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A Barloworld team talk, while Geraint Thomas gets briefed. Had a chat with him later on, he was a really nice guy.
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Yes, we were that close!
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Making use of the company mobile while warming up ... Alex Dowsett demonstartes the art of using rollers
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Roger Hammond and Barloworld Stagiare Ben Swift
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Cav literally gets told how to ride the prologue, was a 'heated discussion, seemed to work mind!
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Mo and Linus Gerdemann, then Linus proceeds to grope Cav!
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Cav warms down quickly before Alan Peiper told him to get to the podium! While Servais Knaven and Linus Gerdemann collect their thoughts. One of the other T-Mobile riders jokingly siad to me 'he beats me by five seconds and now ill have to wotk my ass off for him tomorow now!'
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Mo and national champs runner up Dan Lloyd (top bloke by the way), while Cav takes the podium.