Tour of Utah Stage 4 Photo Gallery
by Jen See on Aug 23, 2009 11:49 PM EDT
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Alex Howes rides the early break with Ben Jacques-Maynes and Jeremy Vennell of Team Bissell.
Howes attacked solo from the break and won the Queen Stage of this year's Tour of Utah.
I so totally surfed myself into a stupor today. Really, I could write a stage story for the Tour of Utah, but it would hardly make much sense. Instead, I will direct you to the far more intelligible Podium Insight, where you will find a thorough race report and a pair of vastly entertaining interviews with stage winner and U.S. U23 National Champion Alex Howes. So look at the photos here. Then, go there and read the stories. Or, vice-versa. Whatever works best for you. Choose your own adventure.
Photo Gallery, Below the fold.
A group of eight riders escaped early in the stage.
Jeremy Vennell of Team Bissell rides the early break.
Rock Racing did the hard work of chasing in an effort to defend Francisco Mancebo's race lead.
Crowds line the climb to the finish at Snowbird Resort.
U23 U.S. National Champion Alex Howes wins the Queen Stage of this year's Tour of Utah.
I think he's happy, don't you?
Jeff Louder of BMC, wearing the Red Jersey of Best Utah Rider, defended his third place in the general classification.
Darren Lill of Team Type 1 conceded the Mountains jersey to Howes, but remained second in the general classification.
Top three stage finishers: Burke Swindlehurst, Alex Howes, and Francisco Mancebo.
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How about those orange
cycling shoes. They look cool ;)
Some people are born to be spectators, some people are born to make a spectacle and some are born to be mere fans.
Alex Howes' Jersey
So why is he wearing a Vitamin Water jersey during the ride (like when he crossed the finish line) but a Felt Jersey on the podium?
The vitamin water jersey is for best young rider, he wears it while racing.
The Felt jersey he’s wearing on the podium is the team jersey and it is a great place to plug your sponsor. He’ll be awarded best young rider jersey again while wearing the Felt jersey and also do the same when he gets the best climber’s jersey. How does he decide what jersey to wear when he’s got three to decide from? That’s the question.
The first cyclist to stand up to him. And he did it in silence.
The technical guide race for a race specifies which jersey takes precedence
the order was:
1- overall/yellow
2- kom/polka dot
3-sprint/green
4-best young rider/blue
5-utah/red
this is the typical order at races
I think you are required to wear the "higher" value leader jeresy
and Mountains trumps Best young. He only held mountains after this stage. So for Saturday it was easy. Best young. Sunday it was ots. G will have Sundays Crit coverage up later this am.
by Christopher See on Aug 24, 2009 9:53 AM EDT up reply actions
no probs :-)
you do good stuff! btw, you should add a linky to the snowbird article to the howes interviews. cuz those were awesome.
heh
just noticed the cropping took the young fan out of the louder shot. hmm, may need to get busy with the resize on that one, because the fan is key to that photo.
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