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The sight of Chris Froome leading the peloton through sleepy Devon villages and rolling Exmoor hills was exactly what the OVO Energy Tour of Britain organizers would have dreamt about building up to this race.
This is Froome’s first Tour of Britain in nine years, since becoming a serial grand tour winner, and his presence this week has lent the event a certain stardust, even if the 33-year-old is not really at the races himself.
Both Froome and his Sky team-mate Geraint Thomas are well below par owing to their various endeavors earlier this summer. But their lack of form has allowed the spotlight to shine instead on some younger British talent.
On Monday it was the turn of Hugh Carthy, a skinny young thing from Preston who lives in Pamplona and wears a hooped earring, to grab center stage. Carthy (EF Education First–Drapac p/b Cannondale) lit up an enthralling second stage with an attack from the bunch inside the final 30km, just as the peloton prepared to hit the climb of Challacombe Hill.
At an eye-watering average gradient of 13 percent, and ramps of over 20 percent, the 1.3km ascent is steep enough to have been used as the venue for the national hill climb championships back in 1985, and it was always going to be key to the outcome of this stage.
Carthy, well over 6ft in height but weighing little more than 60kg, was up against it like a whippet as he set about trying to reel in the day’s five-man breakaway, whose advantage at that point was holding steady at around two minutes.
