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)