Eddie Dunbar underway at Tour of Utah
Irish young guns Eddie Dunbar and Stephen Clancy are underway at the Tour of Utah, with plenty of climbs to negotiate before the race ends. Yesterday's stage 1 came down to a sprint finish with Kristofer Dahl of Silber Pro Cycling taking the honours, above.
Eddie Dunbar and Stephen Clancy got the Tour of Utah underway yesterday when Kristofer Dahl of Silber Pro Cycling was the surprise winner of the opening stage of 134km into Cedar City.
Dunbar came home safely in the bunch in 33rd place on the same time as the winner though Clancy had a tougher time and lost 14:49.
Dunbar’s Axeon Hagens Berman team put in a very strong showing with Colin Joyce finishing 2nd and perhaps leaving his final surge a little late and just coming up short for victory and the race lead.
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The team also hand Logan Owen fighting for the stage win and he would place 5th on a stage when the relatively modest climbing did not split the field to any significant extent.
Today’s stage features on categorised climb – the cat 2 of Boulder Mountain.
But coming as it does just before the halfway point of the 158km stage into Torrey it may be one for the sprinters again.
Utah stage 1 highlights
Team Ireland in France
Conor Hennebry of Team Ireland looking focused at the Kreiz Breizh Elites (UCI 2.2) stage race in France (Photo with thanks to Camille Le Saux – Be-Celt.com)
Team Ireland concluded their outing in the Kreiz Breizh Elites (UCI 2.2) stage race in France yesterday when Mark Downey was best of the national team on the day.
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He claimed 14th place on the final stage into Rostrenen with Matt Teggart the best of the Irish overall; claiming 14th place thanks to making the breakaway on the opening stage.
The popular French site Be-Celt.com spent some time in the Irish team car, producing the first video below. And Irish rider Mark Dowling shot on-board footage during the opener.
You can have a look at the videos below and also read our race report from yesterday by following this link.
Inside Irish team car, stage 1
On-board with Mark Dowling stage 1
Irish in RideLondon-Surrey
Tom Boonen of Etixx-QuickStep wins the RideLondon-Surrey on Sunday, with a number of Irish riders also taking part.
Here's the on-board footage from the RideLondon-Surrey Classic on Sunday, which was won from a group sprint by Tom Boonen (Etixx-QuickStep).
If you keep a close eye on the footage below you'll see Damien Shaw (An Post-Chainreaction) at the very start.
And fellow Irish international Matt Brammeier (Dimension Data) appears close to the end.
Shaw was 107th on the day and Brammeier 47th.
On-board footage
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