Tour of Qinghai Lake kicking off Sunday
The Tour of Qinghai Lake begins Sunday in China with a circuit race taking riders seven laps around a 17.24 kilometre course.
The 13-day stage race will be contested by 22 teams with most of them being Continental squads, racing over nine mountain stages with most of the elevations averaging at about 3,000 metres. Lampre-Merida will begin with only six riders down from seven, due to Rui Costa’s brother, Mario having visa issues. They will look instead to their two Chinese riders Gang Xu, captain of the squad, and Chun Kai Feng. The US Airgas-Safeway received a late invitation to the event but team leader Chris Horner is not in China. Other notable squads include Synergy Baku, and RTS-Santic which features Colombian Mario Rojas.
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MTN-Qhubeka finish prologue one second down in Tour of Austria
The African team started their team time trial in the middle of the pack during the opening prologue at the Tour of Austria Saturday. Finishing with an average of 56 kph, they would have to wait nervously for the six world tour teams to finish to see if their time would hold.
“From the start we all went full gas and not once did we lose speed,” Johann van Zyl said, one of the eight riders on the squad. “It is such a pity that we lost by less than a second, but this builds moral for the coming days.”
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