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The Commerce Bank Reading Classic on June 5, 2008 will be the second stop of the Commerce Bank Triple Crown of Cycling series, featuring nearly 200 of the sport’s top professional athletes competing for the leader’s jersey. The event includes an elite amateur men’s race, a professional women’s race, and the featured international pro men’s race. As in previous years, the demanding 75-mile course is sure to push the international men’s peloton to its limit over the 11 laps on a challenging 7.6-mile circuit that connects downtown Reading with Mt. Penn.
The Commerce Bank Reading Classic has become the city’s largest single-day sporting event
CITY GEARS UP FOR 2008 COMMERCE BANK READING CLASSIC
Opportunities Are Growing for Community & Family Involvement
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. Read the whole story
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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