U.S. to send Tour de France-tested team to road cycling world championships
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The U.S. will send a strong contingent of Tour de France-tested riders to the road cycling world championships next month.
The U.S. will send a strong contingent of Tour de France-tested riders to the road cycling world championships next month.
The seven-man squad announced Monday includes Neilson Powless, who currently wears the Tour's polka dot jersey as the king of the mountains, and Matteo Jorgenson, who a day earlier nearly won the stage to the summit finish at Puy de Dome.
The Tour had a rest day Monday before resuming Tuesday with a hilly stage from Vulcania to Issoire.
Powless and Jorgenson will be joined by fellow Tour riders Lawson Craddock and U.S. road race champion Quinn Simmons, who recently withdrew from the race after a crash on Stage 5 left him with lingering injuries. The other riders on the American team are Magnus Sheffield, Sean Quinn and Brandon McNulty, the reigning U.S. time trial champion.
Sheffield will contest the road race and time trial and McNulty only the time trial, while the rest will compete in the road race.
The road world championships have been combined with the championships from the other Olympic cycling disciplines, and all will take place over a 10-day stretch beginning Aug. 3 in Scotland. The men's race is scheduled for Aug. 6, beginning in Edinburgh and ending in Glasgow, while the women's road race is Aug. 13 with a start in Balloch and the finish in Glasgow.
The women's time trial is Aug. 10, with the men's time trial the following day.
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