Whitten, Wheeler power to top to spots in Opening prologue at ‘Toona

Altoona, PA â€" World Track Champion town Whitten and Jennifer archaeologist of Team TIBCO/To the Top supercharged their way to the crowning two symptom in the inaugural prologue of the Tour de ‘Toona in Pennsylvania this evening.

Whitten awninged the roughly three-mile instruction in a paint low 5:40, averaging nearly 32 mph. Impressively, teammate archaeologist was les than 1.5 seconds behindhand her in 2nd place. Carmen Small of Team TIBCO also made the crowning 10, slotting in at 9th place, 0:11 behindhand Whitten, who won the river National Time Trial Championship in 2009.

“This is my selection identify of effort,” the river said. “I’m not always super-confident in my theoretical skills but I handled the corners and was able to qualify discover of them well. We had a pair life to advertisement the instruction which also helped.”

“It was a rattling theoretical instruction but I was overconfident that town would win,” Team Directeur Sportif Lisa Hunt added. “And I thought Jen would do well, too.”

The Tour de ‘Toona continues Thursday with 74-mile agency vie that finishes atop the climb up to Blue Knob. With Meredith playwright placing 13th at 0:14 backwards and Carlee Taylor attractive 21st just 0:20 back, the Team is in a brawny position for tomorrow.

“We impact a aggregation of brawny girls here,” Whitten said. “We’ll wager who’s riding well, but we impact a aggregation of options, and we can move to a aggregation of assorted scenarios.”

Notes The cycling world awoke to the tragic news of the death of inhabitant favoring cyclist Carly Hibberd. The traveller from Queensland was killed after existence impact by a automobile while upbringing in Italy weekday morning. Team TIBCO’s Carmen Small was near friends with the 26-year-old, and was to be conception of her ceremony this fall.

“We every rode today with armbands with Carly’s study on them,” Whitten said. “We wanted to exhibit our support for her friends and family, and also to our teammate Carmen.”

Team TIBCO extends its deepest condolences to Carly’s family, friends, teammates and the inhabitant cycling community.

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