Top teams head west to the Amgen Tour of California Women's Race
Fourteen teams will travel to the west coast of the US to take part in the Amgen Tour of California Women's Race (UCI 2.1), a three-day stage race held from May 8-10, with a selected group of riders also invited to participate in the following Women's Individual Time Trial (UCI 1.1) at Big Bear Lake on May 15.
The fourteen teams that will participate in the stage race include Ale-Cipollini, BMW p/b The Happy Tooth, Colaivta Bianchi p/b Fine Cooking, Itaú Shimano Ladies Power Team, Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies, Pearl Izumi - Sports Tours International, Pepper Palace Pro Cycling p/b The Happy Tooth, Team Tibco - SVB, Twenty 16 p/b SHO-AIR, UnitedHealthcare, Velocio - SRAM, Xirayas de San Luis, and Canadian and Mexican national teams.
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The women’s stage race will start on Friday, May 8 with 120km from South Lake Tahoe to Heavenly Mountain Resort and has 5,300 feet of elevation gain. Stage 2 held on Saturday, May 9 will host an 80km race in the same location and has 3,300 feet of elevation gain. The race will conclude on Sunday, May 10 with a 55km circuit race in Sacramento.
Race organisers invited 23 women to compete in the 24.2km Women's Individual Time Trial. Double world champion and Olympic gold medallist, Kristin Armstrong recently announced that she has come out of retirement and will participate in the event for Twenty16 p/b Sho-Air, a race that she has won on two previous occasions (2011 and 2012). Current world champion Lisa Brennauer (Velocio-SRAM) will start. Evelyn Stevens (Boels-Dolmans) will also be on the starting ramp. She won the time trial in 2013. Last year's winner Alison Powers has retired from professional bike racing.
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