2010 Tour Down Under - Interesting Results

The first major cycling tour event of 2010 had some interesting results. The six stage professional cycling tour finished in sunny Adelaide City, Australia on Sunday January 24th. All of the major international teams were present in some form posting results from this first major tour event providing an interesting early look at team dynamics.

George Hincapie in his breakaway debut from his 2009 team, Team Columbia, is now is a top rider for Team BMC. George finished a respectable 12th position in the general classification (GC) after the sixth and final stage on Sunday only 29 seconds back from Andrei Greipel, the winner of the Tour Down Under and ironically a member of Team Columbia. Cadel Evans, a prominent Australian rider for Team BMC, finished even higher in the standings at 6th overall in the gc only 21 seconds back. Cadel was one of the top contenders for the Tour Down Under, however did not have the stage win he needed to take the gc in his home country.

Team RadioShack with Lance Armstrong and long standing teammate Popvych finished a full minute and 3 seconds back in 25th place in the GC. With no major crashes or other problems, I am sure Lance and Johan view this result as a reasonable result given that riders are just finding their legs this early in the season.

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Team OS Scores First Cycle-Cross Win of the Season

The new series for the ’09-10 cyclo-cross season, Cross the Way, holds races at four different courses around Middle Tennessee. Team OS has been well represented at all of the races so far with only two more contests remaining in January. CX3 ‘crosser Ed Jaramillo raced the whole series with one exception and last week scored the first ‘cross win ever for Team OS. Ed’s 5th place on Sunday moved him to the lead in the 8-race battle.

Roadie Aaron Braswell was enticed to try cyclo-cross for the first time on Sunday. We expect Ed’s vocal enthusiasm about racing ‘cross was all it took to make Aaron jump in the CX4 fray. As Ed has long said, “It’s the most intense 90 mins you’ll ever spend on a bike.”

Congratulations to Ed on his first Team OS ‘cross win and good luck with the rest of the season to all the Team OS ‘crossers Aaron, Steve McAuley and Mike Taglio.

SoCal Road Scene Is "Year Round"

While much of the country’s road bike racing scene winds down, the Southern California crowd continues to race through the winter months. OS-sponsored team RedFix5 began the 2009-10 SoCal Time Trial series in October with high placings even taking an early series lead.

TT specialists Craig Mannino and Greyson Tipping rode the 2-day race of truth season openers contending the Masters 30+ and Cat 4 groups. Greyson claimed 4th & 6th while Craig took the series lead with 2nd & 4th. Great start, men--keep it going through 2010!

Great Weather, Cross The Way Cross Still Tough

The Cross_the_Way cyclo-cross series kicked in Springfield, TN at Travis Rice Park. Team OS racers Steve McAuley and Ed Jaramillo were happy about good weather compared to last week's mud slog (see story below), but the course was almost exclusively grass with a couple of climbs and lots of twists and turns: it required constant power with very little time for rest.

The two-day event marks the second race of the cross season for the duo and they both picked up podium finishes. On Saturday, Steve placed 2nd in the Masters 45+. Ed doubled up placing 4th in the Masters 35+ and 6th in the CX3's. Ed returned Sunday to take second in CX3.

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