![]() It was one of those days where I seemed to be concentrating on everything but the race,” he said. “My bracket on which my Garmin - which tells me the time and distance and speed and everything - came off, so I was riding blind for a bit, and my bike seemed to be clicking, too. ![]() ![]() That year he finished 124th, 16 minutes down, but 11 years on and with his eye firmly on the GC ball, Thomas said despite various technological distractions, he was satisfied with his performance on the stage and the climb itself. Thomas was one of the few riders present that knew the climb from the previous ascent in the Giro, riding it in 2012 when he was using the Italian Grand Tour as a build-up for racing on the track in the London Olympics - where he took gold in the team pursuit. ![]() But it was more about staying in control, we all felt pretty good, and we had numbers, so it was good.” “I did ask what the time gap was because it would have been nice to have flicked him and brought the time down so he kept the jersey. “We were just staying in a good position, and we were suddenly on the front, and it was - let’s just keep going and see what happens. We are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.Īrouse Yourself, why do You sleep, O Lord?Īnd forget our affliction and our oppression?įor our soul has sunk down into the dust Īnd redeem us for the sake of Your lovingkindness.“I wasn’t that bothered if we rode or not, we were just staying in a good position,” Thomas explained. Yet You have crushed us in a place of jackalsīut for Your sake we are killed all day long You cause us to turn back from the adversary Īnd those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves.Ī scoffing and a derision to those around us.īecause of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles,īecause of the presence of the enemy and the avenger.Īll this has come upon us, but we have not forgotten You,Īnd we have not dealt falsely with Your covenant.Īnd our steps have not deviated from Your way, Yet You have rejected us and brought us to dishonor, Thus she became a byword among women, and they executed judgments on her. They uncovered her nakedness they took her sons and her daughters, but they slew her with the sword. Therefore, I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted. She did not forsake her harlotries from the time in Egypt for in her youth men had lain with her, and they handled her virgin bosom and poured out their lust on her. She bestowed her harlotries on them, all of whom were the choicest men of Assyria and with all whom she lusted after, with all their idols she defiled herself. “Oholah played the harlot while she was Mine and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians, her neighbors, who were clothed in purple, governors and officials, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses. And as for their names, Samaria is Oholah and Jerusalem is Oholibah. And they became Mine, and they bore sons and daughters. Their names were Oholah the elder and Oholibah her sister. They played the harlot in their youth there their breasts were pressed and there their virgin bosom was handled. The word of the Lord came to me again, saying, “Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother and they played the harlot in Egypt.
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