An action-packed first 45 minutes around the league. An early Potters Bar goal gave Witham hope of promotion, but Jake Forster-Caskey ripped it way with two goals.

Right now, Coggeshall needs another goal against 10-man Grays to avoid a random league winner tiebreaker with Canvey Island.

Witham has moved up to third place, for whatever that is worth.

Pos	Team	GP	W	L	D	Pts
1	Coggeshall	44	27	9	8	89
2	Canvey Island	44	26	7	11	89
3	Witham	44	26	10	8	86
4	Grays	44	24	7	13	85
5	FC Romania	44	21	10	13	76

Summary: The peloton was torn apart across each passing of the cobble sectors. Halfway through, the third crossing out of six, only 31 cyclists remained in the lead group with seven morning breakaway riders still looking to stay clear.

The breakaway, however, was caught with 19kms to go on the penultimate time through the cobble section. Some of the favourites tried to use the confusion of the catch to launch a winning move.

Too many cyclists had the same idea and a favourites group of 21 cyclists were left in front with the final pass through the cobble section remaining.


Shoulders swaying, legs cramping. Fatigue was easy to spot. Had all the favourites played their cards too soon? Wait a second, a burst of speed at the front.


Somebody still has juice in their legs!

Marcus Diamond is powering forward with a constant tempo. He didn't attack earlier on and has the energy to burn. The only man that can follow is another rather surprise contender from Lotto U23, Stan Dewulf.


They hit the cobbles together for the final time, 5kms left. A gap of 16 seconds has opened up to everyone else behind.

Can the unlikely duo pull off the upset?


Diamond drops Dewulf, a much better sprinter, on the cobbles. But here comes an angry pack. Only 3.5kms to go. No time to look back.


Around a tricky bend, 2kms to go. There is still a tiny gap.


Diamond can't help himself, a peek back between the legs.


Under the banner. 1,000 meters away... Could it be?


Out of the saddle for one final kick!



Result: 1st - An unforgettable moment.

Summary: Boring sprint won by Michael Schwarzmann.

Result: 50th - A quiet stage from me. Saving my energy.

Summary: Let's jump right into the action. Breakaway rider and King of Mountains leader after Day 1, Quentin Valognes, gets caught by the remaining peloton with only 8kms to go. The climb to the finish awaits.


JLT Condor is calling the shots. Edward Laverack has Marcus Diamond on his wheel and they are challenging anybody to keep up. The favourites have to react.


They do. Laverack's bubble pops, leaving Diamond isolated. Michel Ries launches the first real attack with Javier Moreno, Eduard Prades and Josef Cerny in pursuit.


The cat and mouse games go nowhere. A slow and steady Diamond pedals back up to the front. Who will make the next move? 3.5kms to go.


Diamond's tank is running low with teammate Robbie Hucker by his side. Gone is the possibility of a stage win and the yellow jersey.


Result: 10th - A strong kick at the end nets a Top 10 finish. There was however a 54 second gap given up to the winner's group.

Summary: Down and back from Saint-Prosper to Saint-Prosper. Jan Barta was in a class of his own and decisively took the stage win and yellow jersey.


Result: 18th - Time trails aren't exactly my specialty, but I held my own. I finished 1'29" behind Barta. I also moved up to 9th overall, 2'23" behind Barta.

Summary: A very short (78.1kms) hilly stage. The tension was high right from the start. But it was always going to be group sprint up the final climb that would decided the victor.


Marcus Diamond made sure of this by pacing the peloton himself heading into the final kilometers. He was more content to prevent gaps than the stage win.


Result: 10th - Did what I needed to do to secure a Top 10 GC finish. I couldn't outsprint the top guys so I made sure nobody could slip away.

Summary: Wind them up and let them go. A sprinter's delight.


Result: 7th - Not the fastest, but a good sprint nonetheless.

Summary: A tricky circuit has the peloton cut to 27 cyclists with 12kms to go. Seventh in GC, Yonder Godoy, decides now is a good time to make his move.


It's unsuccessful. Here goes Gavin Mannion (3rd overall) and Johannes Schinnagel (5th overall). JLT Condor with Marcus Diamond has taken up the pace making responsibilities.


The final climb and the duo is staying clear. Diamond is running out of energy.


Schinnagel takes the win, but the man behind him, Gavin Mannion, is more excited. The American overtakes Jan Barta with a 34 second gap to win the GC on the last stage. Eduard Prades bridged the gap to finish third and move up a few spots in GC as well.


Barta can't believe it when he crosses the line. Tough way to lose a six-day tour.

Result: 7th - Gave everything I had and still lose a GC spot at the end of the day to Eduard Prades. I finish 10th overall (+2'28"), but third in the youth standings (+1'56").

Summary: Pure torture, then the racing picks up. Major favourite Piet Allegaert sets off on a long distance strike with 37kms left. There are still 12 morning breakaway riders a minute up the road and the remaining peloton doesn't seem to like this strong man move.


It goes nowhere. Now 10kms to go, Allegaert has been pacing a lot and is asking for some help. There are still numerous breakaway riders up the road. The leaders maintain a two-minute gap. This one is starting to slip away from the favourites.


Some pacing from Diamond cuts the gap and the Brit's energy. Pieter Vanspeybrouck and Frederik Backaert from team Wanty - Groupe Gobert say thank you very much and take off with 6.5kms to go. There is only one breakaway rider left to catch now, 30 seconds up the road.


Diamond has basically died. Reports in front say the winner will be decided in a sprint.


Everyone is caught in the final kilometers, making for a hectic sprint. The man who saved his energy, Andre Looij from Monkey Town, shows off his kick after surviving the cobbles. He played his cards right.

Result: 19th - Need oxygen...

Summary: Geraint Thomas wins back-to-back ITT titles.


Result: 31st - A dark and gloomy day. Not a fun ride. Nearly six minutes behind Geraint Thomas. Also, starting right before Chris Froome in the start house was demoralizing when he passed me 8kms into the stage.

Hopeful for a better showing in my first NC RR in three days.

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Summary: Marcus Diamond... the Team Sky destroyer.

With 27kms left, a tight bend catches Diamond off guard and he body checks Luke Rowe off his bike. It causes a nasty crash behind, whipping out nearly the whole peloton. It's absolute carnage. And yet, somehow Diamond stays upright on his bike and rides away.


What an awkward situation to be in. It doesn't seem right to ride away, but there are still three breakaway riders up the road gunning for a national title and Diamond is now in the mix to win his first national championship at only 19 years old.

Surrounded in a crowd of controversy. Diamond pushes on.


Simon Yates goes with Diamond and the duo catches the last two breakaway riders, Alex Dowsett and Daniel McLay, with 22.4kms to go. What's left of the 28-cyclist peloton is a minute in the rear view mirror. Unconfirmed reports say heavy favourite Mark Cavendish isn't in the group and was taken down in the crash.


The lead group of four is kind of working well together, but the angry peloton is closing in. The gap is 40 seconds with 14kms remaining. It is a slight downhill into the finish, however, which could hinder the catch.


Harry Tanfield from Team Wiggins bridges across the gap with 11.5kms to go. But, he looks exhausted when he reaches the tail end of the line.

The leaders have built up a minute gap again. But, no time to start playing games with each other. The peloton is still lurking.


Down to 10kms to go, it appears the peloton doesn't know what to do. Nobody wants to pace and the five leaders now have a gap of 1'45".

Diamond starts sizing up his competitors.

McLay is by far the better sprinter, but has been up front for a while. Yates has experience and is probably the most talented. Dowsett could ride away with his TT abilities if we let him. And Tanfield looks happy just to be along for the ride.


Yates starts to sit up and rest, Diamond does the same.

Let the games begin. 7kms to go, the gap to peloton sits at 1'50".


5kms to go. The peloton has given up, over two minutes back.

One of these five are going to Great Britain RR national champion.


Diamond positions himself between McLay (pink) and Yates (black) with 3.5kms to go. Tanfield is content to pace the group, what a nice lad. He is happy with a Top 5 at this point.


Tanfield starts the sprint with 2kms to go.

Who makes the first move out of his slipstream?


Nobody wants to make the first move! 1,000 meters left...


McLay makes his move around a fading Tanfield, and Yates launches from the back. Diamond could get squeezed in if he isn't careful.


Yep, as expected Diamond's large frame gets boxed for a moment and ruins his momentum. Yates storms to the lead. Can anybody catch him?


No... Simon Yates wins the sprint for a national championship ahead of McLay, Dowsett, Diamond and Tanfield.


Result: DQ - Sprinting for fourth place meant nothing.

After the race I was dragged off to meet the race organizers, they promptly disqualified me for causing the crash with 27kms to go. I get it, yet Yates attacked right after the crash and gets rewarded with a national title? Doesn't really seem fair, if you ask me.

Summary: A large crowd turns out to see the short prologue. Hundredths of a second are needed to decide a winner with 25 cyclists finishing within one second of first place. Dutchman Steven Lammertink nicked everybody.

Result: 93rd - Not very comfortable with prologues yet, but at least they don't cost me much time. I finish six seconds back.

Summary: A long day in the saddle gets settled in a close sprint.

78 out of the 140 cyclists finish in the front group after a crash in the back of the pack with 16kms to go. Two cyclists had to withdraw.

Result: 11th - I just followed the wheel of my Danish teammate August Jensen and nearly got a Top 10 result. Jensen took ninth.

Summary: As expected, it comes down to the final climb. 18kms of pure torture. Keep up or be dropped.


Marcus Diamond either doesn't like the pace being set or is having a really bad day. He is off the back with 8kms to go. Hanging on his coat tails is the yellow jersey holder Vyacheslav Kuznetsov.


Up front, a three-horse race is won by the new American sensation Brandon McNulty. The 21-year-old USA NC RR champ edges out Jack Haig and Tao Geoghegan Hart.

The next group is two and a half minutes down the road...

Here they come, and would you like at that. Somebody played us as a fool and was just pacing himself.


Result: 13th - The tempo was too high from the start of the climb, so I backed off and slow picked people off as they cracked. I'm happy with the result. Always a tense time to purposefully let the front of the pack ride away from you and hope you'll see them again. I lost 2'59" on McNulty and moved up to 13th in GC — 21 seconds outside of the Top 10.

Summary: The Brit overthrows the American. Tao Geoghegan Hart dominates for the stage win and moves into yellow, ahead of Jack Haig with Brandon McNulty dropping to third overall with a poor ride today.


Marcus Diamond also had a day to forget, but at least the view was nice.


Result: 87th - Not my specialty. I got passed by Ben King with 2kms left in the stage. I was already a minute back at the time check. The end result had me losing 3'28" to Hart and fall to 19th in the GC, +6'29".

Summary: Let's wrap this tour up with a boring bunch sprint. Wait, hold on. The Michelton-Scott train with Luka Mezgec and Mihkel Raim have opened a gap at the front. Marcus Diamond is with them as well.


After controlling a large breakaway and a couple days of climbs, the sprint trains have fluffed this finish. Michelton-Scott has pulled a fast one on everyone except an alert Marcus Diamond.


A shocking win for Luka Mezgec.


Michelton-Scott makes it a double, as Mihkel Raim barely holds off Diamond and the angry peloton.

Result: 3rd - Didn't expect that. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Luka hit another gear and I reacted out of instincts. I was surprised when nobody jumped on my wheel. But, we went with it and it worked, somehow. I also got a 13-second gap to the peloton for my efforts, which moved me up one spot to finish 18th in GC.

Summary: Sunny, nice day for a bunch sprint.


Photo finish belongs to Sisr Frantisek by a couple inches over JLT Condor's August Jensen.


Result: 54th - Legs didn't feel the best after the little break. I tried to get in the breakaway, but failed. So, I got stuck doing work at the front of the peloton to bring the breakaway back, which we did with 20kms to go. Gave our guys a shot to win, and Jensen nearly did.

Date	Race	Winner
1-Jul	Danish Championships	Jakob Fuglsang
1-Jul	Swiss Championships	Kilian Frankiny
1-Jul	Kazakh Championships	Alexey Lutsenko
1-Jul	Canadian Championships	Guillaume Boivin
1-Jul	Norwegian Championships	E. Boasson Hagen
1-Jul	USA Championships	Brandon McNulty
1-Jul	Russian Championships	Vyacheslav Kuznetsov
1-Jul	Portuguese Championships	André Cardoso
1-Jul	Polish Championships	�ukasz Wiśniowski
1-Jul	Czech Championships	Zdenek Stybar
1-Jul	Ukrainian Championships	Mark Padun
1-Jul	Great Britain Championships	Simon Yates
1-Jul	Irish Championships	Sam Bennett
1-Jul	Slovenian Championships	Simon Spilak
1-Jul	Italian Championships	Moreno Moser
1-Jul	Slovak Championships	Peter Sagan
1-Jul	French Championships	Thomas Boudat
1-Jul	Austrian Championships	Marco Haller
1-Jul	Spanish Championships	Gorka Izagirre
1-Jul	Belgian Championships	Edward Theuns
1-Jul	Champions Olympiques	Ziga Groselj
1-Jul	German Championships	Marcel Kittel
1-Jul	Dutch Championships	Sam Oomen
4-Jul	Sibiu Cycling Tour	Tao Geoghegan Hart
6-Jul	GP Internacional Torres Vedras	Michel Ries
7-Jul	Tour de France	Egan Arley Bernal
7-Jul	Int. Österreich Rundfahrt	Niklas Eg
8-Jul	White Spot / Delta Road Race	Michael Schwarzmann
15-Jul	Tour of Qinghai Lake	Søren Kragh Andersen
25-Jul	Grand Prix Cerami	Wouter Wippert
25-Jul	Prueba Villafranca	Carlos Betancur
26-Jul	La Tour Alsace	Gavin Mannion
27-Jul	VOO-Tour de Wallonie	Michał Kwiatkowski
29-Jul	GP Kranj	Frantisek Sisr
31-Jul	CdG Memorial Ricardo Otxoa	Mikel Aristi
31-Jul	RideLondon-Surrey Classic	Hugo Hofstetter
1-Aug	PostNord Danmark Rundt
1-Aug	Volta a Portugal
4-Aug	Hansa Bygg Kalmar Road Race	Marcus Diamond In
4-Aug	Tour de Pologne
4-Aug	Clasica Ciclista San Sebastian
5-Aug	La Poly Normande
6-Aug	The Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah
7-Aug	Vuelta a Burgos
9-Aug	Czech Cycling Tour
11-Aug	KOGA Slag om Norg
13-Aug	BinckBank Tour
15-Aug	Tour du Limousin
16-Aug	Arctic Race of Norway
16-Aug	Colorado Pro Classic
19-Aug	EuroEyes Cyclassics Hamburg
21-Aug	Baltic Chain Tour	Marcus Diamond In
21-Aug	GP Stad Zottegem
22-Aug	Arnhem-Veenendaal Classic
23-Aug	Deutschland Tour
25-Aug	Vuelta a España
25-Aug	Omloop Mandel-Leie-Schelde
25-Aug	Bretagne Classic-Ouest France
26-Aug	Ronde van Midden Nederland
26-Aug	Croatia-Slovenia
29-Aug	Druivenkoers - Overijse

Colombian climbers are taking over the Tour. Youngster Egan Arley Bernal upsets defending champion Miguel Angel Lopez with the help of super teammate Chris Froome. Team Sky takes two spots on the podium, and four inside the Top 10.

Peter Sagan wins four stages and regains the green jersey after finishing second in the points competition in 2018.

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