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 A great city, and a great race
The amount of media coverage has been incredible – pages of newspaper coverage every day, and hours (literally!) of TV, sometimes live. Every racer is being treated like a celebrity (I think some are considering moving here!) |
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 Some world-class Colombian teams
SAFETY TREK NATIVOS and BOSI show that they can keep up with the world's best. |
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 FINLAND wins by over an hour.
In spite of penalty, SAFETY TREK NATIVOS hangs on to second, with SOLE just six minutes behind for third. |
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 Colombia's SAFETY TREK NATIVOS wins today's stage, but FINLAND still takes first place
NATIVOS arrived about 17 minutes before FINLAND – not quite enough to steal the win. |
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 Sweden's HALTI drops out
"It was getting ridiculous"," says Mikael. "I feel really bad. It is the first time that I am the one to quit a race." |
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 Lots of fun in the city!
What a fun route - after their long trek down the hillside, they continued down by cable car and then caught the metro into town. |
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 Finally... the big go-kart descent!
INDER (COL) shows their experience on the go-karts, zooming into CP1 a full 2 minutes ahead of the next team. |
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 No penalty for FINLAND, who lead by 37 minutes
but second-place NATIVOS may be receiving one for an orienteering error. |
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 Another murderous ascent to finish the day
This time the big ascent of the day was on bike, roads winding incessantly uphill, to rise a 1000 m above the city. |
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 What a ride!
Most racers seemed to enjoy the rappel, a sheer 13 story drop down an office tower right downtown. |
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 A fast start to Day 2
After starting with a short and fast skate, teams headed to Cerro Nutibara for a beautiful but slippery ride up and then down, the first of many hills that they would face today. |
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 Finland arrives first again on day 2...
but penalties to some leading teams may totally upset rankings. |
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