20k TT (later)

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As the evening wore on the riders continued to climb past our position.  It seems rather unfair to make the riders perform into the evening after a morning's hard racing. How do they arrange their meals?

 I'm not particularly proud of these shots but have included them for interest.

 A cool breeze was getting up in the last half hour which may have affected the rider's times.

The last few riders were hidden against the glare of the headlights from the following cars as I tried to find them in the viewfinder screen. Quite a number of my later images are simply not sharp enough to publish here once they are cropped.

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Don't I need lights?

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Towards the end it was getting too dark to take reasonable pictures with the Lumix TZ7. This camera is far from ideal in poor light. All of these images have been adjusted in PhotoFiltre to make them more acceptable. 

The lonely yellow jersey was the last to find his way around the TT course with the help of the following car's headlights.

From consulting the Tour website I think this must have been Jakob Fuglsang. (meaning Birdsong in English) Note how the Danish wimples have lifted in the breeze. This can't have helped the last riders on the long leg towards the Old Bridge. Before this it felt dead calm. Fuglsang won his third Post Danmark Rundt in a row. [Post Tour of Denmark] The results list is in a PDF linked to below.


http://www.postdanmarkrundt.dk/docs/elementer/20100808-1457-52.pdf

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20k TT The real thing.

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Just a selection of shots taken of the riders as they passed our vantage point. I cannot possibly identify anyone so don't ask.

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