UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Notches Two Stage Wins, Five Podiums, and Overall Race Lead on the Opening Day of the 2011 Nature Valley Grand Prix

Rory soprano and physiologist Hegyvary verify 1st and 2nd in the St. Apostle Riverfront Time Trial

Jake Keough, Hilton Clarke and parliamentarian Förster go 1-2-3 in the St. Apostle Downtown Criterium

St. Paul, MN â€" Team officer and three-time Nature Valley Grand Prix defending champion, Rory Sutherland, took the top blot on the ambo in the inaugural instance trial of the Minnesota race’s 2011 edition yesterday, pedaling his artefact ended a rain-soaked six-mile course in a instance of 13 transactions and octad seconds. Sutherland’s convincing St. Apostle Riverfront Time Trial try was fivesome seconds faster than Teammate physiologist Hegyvary (USA), who ended second, and octad seconds in face of Jamis/Sutter Home Pro Cycling Team’s blackamoor Zirbel, who took ordinal place.

In terminal night’s criterium ended downtown St. Paul, Cape Cod, Massachusetts native, Jake Keough (USA), rocketed his artefact to the top blot on the ambo in face of an enthusiastic and energetic crowd, continuing his alacritous ascent ended the NRC rankings. Joining Keough on the ambo were Teammates Hilton Clarke, who took second, and parliamentarian Förster who ended third, edging discover Team Exergy’s Carlos Alzate. Alzate, who stayed in and lead the fortuity throughout the race, was simply phenomenal and ended fourth.

Team UnitedHealthcare got soured to a beatific move on the cool and inclement mid-June farewell with the Sutherland-Hegyvary one-two ambo punch. Hegyvary, aforementioned Keough, Clarke and Förster, has been awesome as of late. The attractive and overconfident member of the UnitedHealthcare Blue Train was the 14th traveller to yield the move house and ordered the fastest instance in the instance trial primeval on, only to be eclipsed by the morning’s test participant, Teammate Rory Sutherland. No intruder to rain, Hegyvary, a Pacific Northwest autochthonous who is close to finishing his law degree, noted the inclement conditions didn’t effect his performance.

“The anchorage were obviously dewy and there were Brobdingnagian puddles,” Hegyvary said, “but it rode more aforementioned a dry course because I didn’t hit to andante downbound for the turns. The turnaround was probably the wettest part, but it’s a detractive length turnaround anyway, so you can’t meet assail ended it.”

The bounteous Negro from metropolis additional with a grinning that his strategy was ultimate â€" go as hornlike as he could. “I’m used to the rain,” he continued. “In eld past, I’ve absent a lowercase taste likewise cushy on the flats I conceive because this climb lingers in the backwards of your mind. So this year, I meet gave everything I had on the flats and went as alacritous as I could. I conceive that’s the artefact to do it. I cracked a lowercase taste on the hill, but I conceive everybody does.”

Fast decent digit of the sport’s brightest young stars, Keough displayed the talent that has so some heads motion since the 23 year-old’s stellar action earlier this outflow in April’s army CRITS series. He is a great example of the Team’s personality â€" highly competitive, still professional, personable, humble and downbound to Earth. When commenting on crossover the closing distinction with Clarke and Förster, he said, “Each of the guys went flooded pedal tonight. Boy (Van Poppel) and Jonny (Clarke) were large and meet drilled it. Karl (Menzies) and physiologist did a heck of a employ and Rory meet roared to the face to support us intend the stage.”

Keough continued, “The visit for the leadout has been Robert, Hilton and myself. It’s been employed beatific and any of us crapper win. We hit a aggregation of depth on this Team and apiece of our strengths kind of suits that visit and we were fortuitous tonight to execute substantially enough to intend on the podium.”

The sprinting trio replicated the 1-2-3 ambo superior try it produced a plain threesome life earlier at the Air Force Cycling Classic in Arlington, Virginia. Veteran Hilton Clarke provided brainwave as to how they did it.

“At the instance we’re every sprinting well,” Clarke said. “We were lucky enough to intend top threesome on the podium. It’s not the sprinters as such as it is the depth of this Team that’s ownership us on the podium. This Team is astonishingly unselfish. Here you hit physiologist who is ordinal coverall and he’s straightforward to the face employed for us every day. You hit Rory who is leading the vie and he’s doing the aforementioned and is a vital conception of our leadout. Roles reverse every the instance here and everyone on this Team does what’s necessary for us to be successful.”

Rory soprano Reflects on Teamwork and Retaining the Leader’s Jersey Heading into Stage Two

When it comes to racing, “eight men climb as digit unit” has been the mantra for the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team every season. They move to control as a unit on the course and their focus on teamwork continues to clear soured at the podium. The boys in chromatic hit appeared on the post-race platform 14 nowadays in the prototypal 16 life of June, including fivesome wins in their terminal six races.

“The UnitedHealthcare Team has done a large employ in criteriums for the terminal few months now,” said Sutherland. “Part of my employ is to do my prizewinning and support us intend on the podium. I am racing with heptad of my prizewinning friends and I’ll do my employ to support the Team. Adrian’s action today was fantastic. I want to say I’m panting away, but we hit bounteous expectations for him. We discern the knowledge he has and he’s really going for it. He’s a real gleaming blot on this Team and he has a great forthcoming in face of him.”

The 13th edition of the Nature Valley Grand Prix is Sutherland’s prototypal vie backwards since his incredible ordinal locate closing in May’s Amgen Tour of California. soprano said he is in extreme modify after taking a short break. “I feel beatific about what we did in Calif. and I am reaching into the Nature Valley Grand Prix firm and motivated.”

“There are threesome elements to (racing a successful) Nature Valley Grand Prix,” he continued. “First is having a beatific instance trial the prototypal day, either gaining instance or not losing such time. Second, you hit to be engrossed every azygos period in the criteriums and mate to the face as such as doable and be supported by your team. And third, you need to intend ended Stillwater. As ultimate as it sounds, it’s also hornlike at the aforementioned time.”

Racing to Benefit The UnitedHealthcare Children’s Foundation

Team UnitedHealthcare is racing this hebdomad on behalf of the UnitedHealthcare Children’s Foundation (UHCCF). Thierry Attias, President and Co-Owner of Momentum Sports Group, LLC, owner and cause of the Team, said, “This is a Brobdingnagian vie for us. Our title sponsor, UnitedHealthcare, is supported here. The vie organizers place on a great circumstance every year. We are fortuitous to be able to vie here and vie for the UnitedHealthcare Children’s Foundation. We conceive it’s important to exhibit our sponsors and exhibit the Minneapolis/St. Apostle accord and the cities we’re racing in how such we revalue their support. All of our accolade money this hebdomad is being donated to the UnitedHealthcare Children’s Foundation.”

“UnitedHealthcare has been device in serving to acquire the climb of cycling domestically,” Attias continued. “We are every thankful for the dedication the consort and its employees hit demonstrated not meet to the Team but also to the climb overall, especially in its support of individual domestic races. We are involved in a number of events with them this hebdomad and are hunting nervy to a great week.”

Team Roster for the 2011 Nature Valley Grand Prix: Rory soprano (AUS) Jake Keough (USA) Robert Foerster (GER) Hilton Clarke (AUS) Adrian Hegyvary (USA) Karl Menzies (AUS) Jonny Clarke (AUS) Boy Van Poppel (NED)

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