And more high tension stages are soon to come, with the riders flying to Nice late yesterday evening and today facing an almost equally fraught challenge – a 25 kilometre team time trial.
In Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA), the collateral ligament tensioning stage cannot be standardised for all patients and relies heavily on the surgeon's experience and perception.
Multiple short truss elements are used to model the sag effect of long cables; additionally, the simulation of multiple tensioning stages associated with long cables is performed by successively adjusting the unstressed lengths of the cables.
'The tension back stage on tour was unbelievable.
"There was a lot of tension on stage, with this extremely aggressive music being played by four very different people.
And in the final act, the snow effect creates moments of true beauty – and tension – on stage.
Sanders appeared to snap in South Carolina when his wife Jane tried to brush dandruff from his suit, urging her to stop and prompting visible tension on stage.
His soloist technique is stellar but involves a tricky mixture of facility and tension; his stage persona lacks any element of repose.
So, if you are going to get stabbed … " Chowdhry revels in creating an uncomfortable tension on stage: the biggest laughs tend to come as a release, from audiences unsure about whether they should be laughing at heavy accents and ethnic cliches.
The scene, which on paper is full of murky and powerful psychosexual tension, is staged, of course, with no whiff of sensuality.
