Tour Of Utah Team Presentation

by Clydesdale on Aug 8, 2011 11:26 AM EDT

The Tour Of Utah kicked off last night with the official team presentations. The event was held in Park City at the foot of the hill containing the Olympic Village and Tuesday's opening prologue that runs the course of the Bob Sled run. A Nice open plaza in the shopping district saw the majority of riders introduced to a decent sized and enthusiastic crowd. There were some missing riders as a few riders are still making their way here from various races around the world. Most were missing due to The Tour Of Elk Grove which did not finish until within a few hours of the presentation.

Teams Pictures on the Jump

Bissell Pro Cycling (USA)

BMC Racing Team (USA) - Still missing a few riders from Tour of Poland

Endura Racing (GBR)

Gobernacion de Antioquia - Indeportes Antioquia (COL)

HTC-Highroad (USA)

Jamis/Sutter Home Pro Cycling (USA) - Waiting on Riders from Tour Of Elk Grove (Tyler Wren, Nick Frey, Andy Guptill, James Driscoll)

Kelly Benefit Strategies - OptumHealth (USA)

Liquigas-Cannondale (ITA)

PureBlack Racing (NZL)

RealCyclist.com Pro Cycling (USA)

Team Garmin-Cervalo (USA) - Nice round of applause for Tom Danielson as highest placed American rider in Tour De France

Team RadioShack (USA)

Team SpiderTech powered by C10 (CAN)

Team Type 1 - Sanofi (USA)

UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling (USA) More victims of Elk Grove

Full Set from Team Presentation

Today is the Official Press Conference:

Professional athletes expected to participate:

- Levi Leipheimer, Team RadioShack, defending champion
- Peter Stetina, Garmin-Cervelo, U23 Time Trial Champion
- Francisco Mancebo, RealCyclist.com, 2009 Tour of Utah Champion and 2010 runner up
- Tejay van Garderen, HTC-Highroad, top American cyclist who was at Tour de France
- Jeff Louder, Team BMC, 2008 Tour of Utah champion and native of Utah
- Glen Chadwick, PureBlack Racing, from New Zealand
- Aleksandr Efimkin, Team Type 1, G.C. winner 2011 Tour of Turkey; and Vladimir Efimkin, twin brother
- Marcel Wyss, GEOX-TMC, from Switzerland
- Chase Pinkham, Bissell ProCycling, from Salt Lake City

Updated Official Start list is expected to be finalized by 4pm local time today. (Mountain Time)

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Great info, pics & interesting variety of team clothing choices

cause I’m weird like that

by Schmat on Aug 8, 2011 11:56 AM EDT reply actions

Interesting side note

I saw Team Type1 checking into the hotel and they were in their uniforms yet they show up to this all casual, Strange.

by Clydesdale on Aug 8, 2011 12:13 PM EDT up reply actions

hmm that is odd

btw, glad I’m not only one interested in what the boys are wearing

by Schmat on Aug 8, 2011 3:29 PM EDT up reply actions

Oh fashion is a big thing here :)

"First you have to be cool, after you are cool then you can be strong" -- Davide Appollonio

by Albertina on Aug 8, 2011 7:23 PM EDT up reply actions

Men

"On paper, your team is awesome." -- Pigeons on my WVDS team, and life in general.

by tedvdw on Aug 9, 2011 1:19 AM EDT up reply actions

sthat iamtedking for L-C...

first race post Frac’d Clav?

by swells on Aug 8, 2011 12:07 PM EDT reply actions

Yes it is

by Clydesdale on Aug 8, 2011 12:11 PM EDT up reply actions

So glad

by Schmat on Aug 8, 2011 3:29 PM EDT up reply actions

Radio Shack must have been rushed to get there

it looks like the pulled the clone on the right out of the incubator before he was fully cooked,.

by Logy on Aug 8, 2011 12:10 PM EDT reply actions

they are almost all the same height...

Except for levi. Creepy

Get off my fucking lawn!

by mr. rogers on Aug 8, 2011 2:43 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions

noticed that too

odd.

"Ants don’t worry, they operate like a fantastic team, they accept obstacles and deal with them in a positive manner, they don’t complain and remain positive. An ant doesn’t work on emotion, is proactive and always chooses the ant role."

by ant1 on Aug 8, 2011 3:45 PM EDT up reply actions