Tour Of Pennsylvania
by roadside on Jun 24, 2008 12:55 PM EDT
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PrintToday marks the start of the Tour of Pennsylvania, billed as a six day, 450 mile Tour de France-style under 25 race. The race begins in Philadelphia and ends in Pittsburgh on Sunday. The prize money is an impressive $150K, the largest in the world for a young riders race . The course will work its way along much of Route 30 which runs along what was the Forbes trail, the historic settlers route. The course will later hit the Allegheny mountains resulting in some tough stages.
VERSUS will have daily coverage at 6PM EST daily starting on the 25th. Coverage on Sunday begins at 5:30 PM.
The race features twenty teams of six riders,including eight international teams and twelve American teams The foreign teams are all National teams bringing their best riders. Host, Pennsylvania, will field both the Philadelphia-based Pennsylvania Lightening and the Pittsburgh based Pennsylvania Elite Velo development teams. More on the teams here - http://velonews.com/article/78666
With great teams, good sponsorship and Pittsburgh embracing it as part of their 250 year birthday celebration, this should be an exciting event.
The official tour website - http://www.tourofpa.com/
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Interesting race, and a good one to watch for up & comers
It’s amazing that in it’s first year, the organizers have managed a big purse and even better daily TV coverage. I wonder how they did that.
Anyway, looking at the rosters, KBS seems to be the team to beat with very strong talent, David Veilleux and sprinters Keven Lacombe and Jake Keough. And the one to watch for GC is US 2007 Junior Road Race Champion Ben King (who I think has been ill). Now VMG/Felt is also coming in with a very strong roster with Peter Stetina, Dan Holloway and Alex Howes.
Domestic riders that intrigue me include Cal Giant’s Max Jenkins, Team RACE’s Joel Dion-Poitras, Fiordifrutta ’s Phil Gaimon, and TIme’s Nick Frey.
I will be interested in seeing
how Keough, King and Howes go.
Interesting that Howes is allowed by his French team (VC La Pomme) to participate. Do you know if that’s common Lynn, kind of an understanding between European Directors and their US counterparts?
"Hey, hey, settle down boys and girls or Krusty will have to bring out his old friend Corporal Punishment again."
Happens often at the amateur levels, not sure if the understanding is between the rider and his European team or
between the 2 DS. The most often I’ve seen it is to let the rider race for his National team, I guess this is sort of the same thing,
At the pro levels, typically it has to be in the contract (which is why Rollin couldn’t race at Beauce, not in the contract).
Who were some of the other bigger names
to come up with VC La Pomme.
I know the name with Alex there but it has clicked like I know and have the name before.
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
di gregorio, dan martin are two
it’s one of the top – if not the top – amateur teams in france. they won the amateur coupe de france last year.
see earlier thread
http://www.podiumcafe.com/2008/6/16/552784/2008-tour-of-pennsylvania
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
Thanks for the heads up on VS coverage
I have set up the DVR. No my big problem I’ve been trying to ignore up until now as I have less than two weeks is to figure out how to get the recordings off the DVR on to a CD as that’s a whole lot of cycling fun I’d hate to lose!
Woo hoo on guest rider Alex! Good stuff! Happy to see him racing here in the states. Hope he’s loving it!
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
nikki, you've got mail
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
BTW the official site has good reports of the racing (which is what velonews is using)
http://tourofpa.com/websitepublisher/
and cyclingnews also has someone on site.
Quite disappointed that Velonews is not covering this race in person
they are putting out the race’s press releases. Come on, this is the chance to see the future of American cycling in person. Lame.
Have any of you watched the coverage they had on VS tonight?
Can I just say… John Eustice is really great at organizing and putting together and supporting races, but oh my god with the commentating. He talks about the guys like their fresh meat. Almost disturbing. Those of you that enjoyed all the laughs during Philly week are so going to love the next couple of days!
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
It wasn't as bad as his thing for Sevilla
but there were a couple comments where I was just like ewe….!
A glass of wine would probably not hurt! LOL!
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
Sorry...
I didn’t want you to have too much wine before watching. I thought if I shared it was both, the bottle would be 1/2 gone and you’d not have enough to get through the two stages. :-)
The comments on body parts made me fear for these poor kids safety. :-)
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
EUSTICE!
LOL
Eusticisms such as
On talent
“if you got it and you know it you will use it”
Some of his on prepping for the races were just as good.
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
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