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The Commerce Bank Lehigh Valley Classic is an all-new kick-off event for the Triple Crown Series in 2008. The June 3 event will feature three races including a short criterium race for elite amateur men and a similar race for elite women – both to be held in downtown Allentown – and the international men’s professional road race of approximately 90 miles, which will be conducted on a longer circuit route through the city. The course will have its main staging area and start/finish line on Hamilton Street in downtown Allentown.
COURSE PREVIEW: COMMERCE BANK LEHIGH VALLEY CLASSIC
Expect sprinters to make their mark
PHILADELPHIA – May 7, 2008 - Starting at 1 p.m. on June 3rd, 25 of the world’s premier professional cycling teams will wage a 12-lap, 85-mile battle on the winding roads of Pennsylvania’s third largest city. At stake in this Allentown showdown is victory in the Lehigh Valley Classic, opening leg of the Commerce Bank Triple Crown of Cycling.
The stage for round No. 1 is a new-for-2008 course that traces a rectangular path from downtown Allentown, across the Lehigh River, and up the scenic and rolling Lehigh Parkway before returning downtown via West Hamilton Street. While by no means a climber’s course, this 7.1-mile circuit will test riders with a steady stream of punchy, leg-sapping rollers. But barring the unforeseen, the endgame will likely belong to the sprinters. Read the whole story
| PRO CYCLING TOUR SELECTS LEHIGH VALLEY AS INTERNATIONAL BICYCLE RACE SITE |
| (01/31/2008) |
‘Lehigh Valley Classic’ Tapped As First Leg of 2008 Commerce Bank Triple Crown Norristown, PA (January 31, 2008) - Pro Cycling Tour, LLC, organizers of the Commerce Bank Triple Crown of Cycling, announced today that the Lehigh Valley will host the first leg of the 2008 three-event international professional cycling series to take place on June 3rd , 5th and 8th . The 24th annual Philadelphia International Cycling Championship will continue to anchor what became an all-Pennsylvania series in 2006. Allentown will replace Lancaster as the kick-off event on June 3rd at 2pm, with Reading hosting the second leg, for the third consecutive year on June 5th . Read the entire article |
COURSE PREVIEW: COMMERCE BANK LEHIGH VALLEY CLASSIC
Expect sprinters to make their mark
PHILADELPHIA – May 7, 2008 - Starting at 1 p.m. on June 3rd, 25 of the world’s premier professional cycling teams will wage a 12-lap, 85-mile battle on the winding roads of Pennsylvania’s third largest city. At stake in this Allentown showdown is victory in the Lehigh Valley Classic, opening leg of the Commerce Bank Triple Crown of Cycling.
The stage for round No. 1 is a new-for-2008 course that traces a rectangular path from downtown Allentown, across the Lehigh River, and up the scenic and rolling Lehigh Parkway before returning downtown via West Hamilton Street. While by no means a climber’s course, this 7.1-mile circuit will test riders with a steady stream of punchy, leg-sapping rollers. But barring the unforeseen, the endgame will likely belong to the sprinters. Read the whole story
April 23, 2008: Norristown, PA… Seven riders, including a pair of talented brothers from Fairfax Station, Virginia, have qualified to ride in the Junior Pro Cycling Tour Grand Prix, a special event to be held in conjunction with Commerce Bank Philadelphia International Championship on June 8.
Siblings Justin and Stephan Koelbl each earned coveted Junior PCT Grand Prix start spots, after posting top seven finishes at the first of four qualifying races, the Daniel Harwi Memorial Lower Providence Spring Classic Criterium, held in Lower Providence on April 20. Read the whole story
PROFESSIONAL MEN’S TEAMS NAMED FOR
COMMERCE BANK TRIPLE CROWN OF CYCLING
Pro Tour Teams Top List as America’s Biggest One Day Race Nears
PHILADELPHIA - April 17, 2008 - Organizers of the Commerce Bank Triple Crown of Cycling have announced the 25 professional men’s teams that will wage a three-race battle on the hardscrabble streets of southeastern Pennsylvania in early June. To the victors will go the lion’s share of a $93,500 prize purse that includes a $10,000 bonus for the overall series winner.
Battling for the cash will be a deep field that includes three teams slated to start July’s Tour de France, the Danish-based CSC formation and American powerhouses Team High Road and Slipstream Sports. But this is not necessarily a harbinger of a one-sided affair. Home-grown teams such at Toyota-United, Health Net and Pennsylvania’s own Rite Aid squad will surely do their best to topple the big boys. Read the whole story
READING, Pa. (March 19, 2008) – Officials are again gearing up for what has become the city’s largest single-day, free, sporting event, the Commerce Bank Reading Classic, this year on Thursday, June 5th. This world-class professional cycling race is the second leg of the Commerce Bank Triple Crown of Cycling series and features nearly 200 of the sport’s professional athletes competing for the leader’s jersey. As in previous years, the demanding 75-mile race is sure to push the international peloton to its limit over the course of 11 laps on a challenging 7.6-mile circuit that connects downtown with Mt. Penn.
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