Taylor Phinney will race in his home state of Colorado for the first time since 2012 next week when the USA Pro Challenge rolls out of Steamboat Springs.
The 24-year-old American returned to racing with BMC last week at the Tour of Utah after missing more than 14 months of competition while recovering from a crash at the 2014 US championships. He finished third during the opening stage in Logan. Phinney’s last appearance in Colorado came at the 2012 race, when he won the final individual time trial.
Phinney will be part of a strong BMC roster that also includes Rohan Dennis, who won the opening stage of this year’s Tour de France and wore the maillot jaune for a day. Dennis will be backed in the mountains by Damiano Caruso and Brent Bookwalter, who was third overall in Utah and second on the final day.
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US champion Matthew Busche will return to racing for Trek after he was forced to abandon the Tour of Utah following a nasty high-speed downhill crash. While Frank Schleck will head from Utah to the Vuelta a Espana, Julian Arredondo joins the squad in Colorado, along with Laurent Didier and Jesse Sergent.
Roman Krueziger will lead Tinkoff-Saxo after finishing 17th overall at the Tour de France and most recently 13th at Classica San Sebastian. The Czech rider will have Eduard Beltran backing him up, along with Jesus Hernandez.
Utah overall winner Joe Dombrowski is also off to the Vuelta for Cannondale-Garmin, but the US-based team is adding Giro d’Italia stage winner Davide Formolo and Janier Acevedo to pick up the team banner in the mountains. The squad is also fielding Ted King in one of his last US races before he retires.
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