Today was the final stage of the inaugural USA Pro Cycling Challenge. Oscar Sevilla was with a break when the race entered downtown Denver. They stayed away for several laps but were gobbled by the peloton. Daniel Oss of Liquigas won the sprint.
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2011 UPCC Stage 5
Today’s race started in Steamboat Springs with an early break. That didn’t last but the later one with Basso, Andy Schleck, TenDam and Peterson stayed away most of the day until the climb just before Breckenridge. They were caught and it was another sprint win for Viviani.
2011 UPCC Stage 4 Steamboat Springs
Today saw one breakaway on the road from Avon to Steamboat Springs. The small group was caught by the peloton easily and the race ended in a sprint finish in Steamboat Springs. It wasn’t possible to shoot along the course and make it to the finish. Thousands of people lined […]
2011 UPCC Stage 3 Vail Time Trial
After a two hour transfer from Aspen, today’s race took place in Vail, Colorado. The time trial followed a large part of the 1987 Coors Classic Time Trial. It was ten miles long and finished at nearly 10,000′. Hundreds of fans lined the route, especially the last couple of miles […]
Pro Cycling Challenge 2011 Stage 2
George Hincapie won today’s stage from Gunnison to Aspen over Cottonwood Pass and Independence Pass. We were predicting a Colombian would win and George’s parents are from Colombia, so he qualifies. The yellow jersey is now on the back of Tejay Van Garderen of HTC-Highroad. Cottonwood Pass was a pretty […]
Pro Cycling Challenge 2011 Stage 1
Stage 1 started today in Salida, Colorado at the base of the Rockies. The race headed west over Monarch Pass and pretty much stayed together all day. After descending into the town of Crested Butte, the peloton finally broke apart. The temperature today was in the 80s which is pretty […]
2011 UPCC Prologue
The first prologue in the first USA Pro Cycling Challenge was won by German rider, Patrick Gretsch in 8 minutes, 27 seconds. The average speed was 58k per hour. Fans lined the route and took off from work to watch the race. Second was Christian Vandevelde and third was Brent […]
First Press Conference
The top three Tour de France winners are expecting to be upstaged by Colombian Sergio Henao to upstage everyone in the mountains. Colombians are known to be great climbers. The altitude in Bogota is around 8,000′ and the mountains go up from there. When governor Hickenlooper spoke about Coloradoans being […]
Tom Danielson
Tom Danielson seems to be the new revelation in cycling this year. I first saw him in a little known race in 2002, the Estes Park Cycling Challenge. There was a time trial that started in Estes Park and went up into Rocky Mountain National Park. Tom was smoking! He […]
Franck Schleck in Colorado
Franck Schleck just finishing a training ride near the team hotel in Colorado Springs. The team has been training in Breckenridge and are now in the Springs. He said the altitude isn’t bothering him but they haven’t been to the really high mountains yet.
