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Jun
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Portraits of the Exergy Tour

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A Collection of Images by Christopher See

Evelyn Stevens of the Specialized - lululemon womens cyclig team warming up before the prologue of the Exergy Tour. With valuable UCI points availble Stevens, Kristin Armstrong and Amber Neben all came to Boise to gather points to be used to gain a selection to the US Olympic team. The Exergy Tour offered a chance to defend the top five ranking of the United States in the UCI rankings. UCI points also determine how many riders each country is allowed to send to the Olympics in July. Stevens is the reigning US Time trial Champion. Exergy offered a chnce for the three top candidates for the US time trial prospects to race head to head.Amber Neben (Speialized - lululemon) came to the Exergy Tour as a candidate for the US Olympic squad for 2012. Earlier this season she won the time trial at the PanAm Games in Argentina. Neben was a member of the 2008 Olympic team In 2008 she became World Champion in the individual time trial in Verase Italy. Like teammate Evelyn Stevens and Exergy-Twenty 12 rider Kritian Armstrong, Neben came to Boise in search of UCI pionts to count toward a spot on the US Olympic team for London 2012. During the Exergy Tour Neben won the Stage 2 time trial in the rain at Kuna, Idaho. She also wore the race leaders jersey for two stages. Neben finished second overall behind teammate Stevens on the final day of the race.Clara Hughes (Specialized - lululemon) and Taylor Wiles (Exergy-Twenty 12) spent the day off the front during stage 4 of the Exergy Tour. Wiles had her sights set on points toward the Best Young Rider Jersey, while Hughes went out with the sole intent to make the race as hard as possible for teams with an ambition of removing the race leaders jersey from Amber Neben. With a Hughes up the road it fell to the other teams to chase the pair. Hughes and Wiles stayed clear for two trips wround the circuit. Wiles faltered under the pace set by Hughes. Team TIBCO/To the Top did much of the work of chasing and finally caught the hard-riding Hughes. As the field regrouped, Kristin McGrath of Exergy-Twenty12 put in an attack. Specialized - lululemon rider Evie Stevens promply countered with Caudia Häusler of (Orica -Greenedge) The pair made their move stick and Häusler led Stevens over the finish line in Boise. In the end Neben did surrender her leaders jersey; to Stevens.Evelyn Stevens is known for her time trial. She is the current US National Champion in the discipline. Stevens, a Colorado resident, left a job at Lehman Brothers in New York to become a profesional cyclist. Her first bike race was a 2007 cyclocross event. She won her first race in 2008. This season Stevens won the La Fleche Wallonne Féminine in Belgium, The New Zealand Women's Tour and Gracia-Orlova. At the Exergy Tour she won the Queen Of The Mountains Jersey. Her two up break with Claudia Häusler of Orica-GreenEdge late on the final stage in Boise made her the overall winner of the inagual Exergy Tour. Her performance at Exergy garnered Stevens an automatic selection to the 2012 Olympic Team.Ina Yoko Teutenberg (Specialized - lululemon) sprints home ahead to Leah Kirchmann (Optum KBS) in Idaho City. A stage that was expected to determine the outcome of the race, the day began in Crouch Idaho and proceeded 92 kilometers south to Idaho City. 1300 meters of climbing was expected to create some real gaps in the race general classification. It was th 20 kilometer descent to the finish that played the determining role. unable to create a select group by eithe rof the Queen Of The Mountian pionts a unified peloton stormed down th ewet downhill and made the final turn onto the 500 meter straight away up Main Street Idaho City. Teutenberg powered up to the line leading Kirchmann. TIBCO rider Megan Guarnier led the pack home for third. While the climbs did not create the selection as anticipated, 25 riders finished the day outside the time limit.na Yoko Teutenberg made many instant friends in Idaho. This young lady was one of the lucky ones to catch a podium bouquet tossed into the Idaho City crowd by the German sprinter. Idaho City boast a population of 500. All of them came out to witness Teutenberg's charge up their Main Street in an on and off drizzle. In Idaho City Teutenberg remained the Sprint Leader while Teammate Amber Neben continued in the Race Leaders Jersey.Cold rain greeted riders and spectators in Kuna Idaho for the 17 kilometer time trial. A straight forward out and back course with minimal elevation change favored the pure time trial riders. ABUS Nutrixxion made the trip over from Germany in quest of UCI points. The Exergy Tour was the last oppotunity for teams and riders to obtain points that play an important part in the determination of Olympic team spots. American Amber Neben posted the best time. She and Specialized - lululemon teammates Evelyne Stevens and Clara Hughes claimed the top three podium spots. At the end of the day the team controlled the top four positions on the overall as well.The long wet road is nearly at its end for Specialized - lululemon rider Ally Stacher. Finishing the course in 24:20, Stacher ended the day in forty sixth position overall 2:45 behind her race leading teammate Amber Neben. With Time Trial specialist Kristin Armstrong out of the race, the day became a intersquad contest between Naben, US Time Trial Champion Evelyn Stevens and Canadian National Champion Clara Hughes. All three are aiming to represent their home countries in the upcomong Olympics in London.These are the eyes of Exergy-Twenty 12 rider Andrea Dvorak. A climber, Dvorak finished in 24:06, 2:29 back of the winning time. Dvorak led the first charge up Pump Road as the peloton brought home Beth Newell after her long solo during stage one.Colorado resident Amanda Miller of Team TIBCO - To The Top rolls off the start house ramp. Miller has made trips to the World Championships in the previous two years. TIBCO rider Tara Whitten wore the race laeder jersey after the prologue.German rider Trixi Worrack waits out the count in the start house. Worrack is part of the Specialized - lululemon team that dominated the inagural Exergy Tour. a fifteen year veteren of the womens peloton, Worrack finished 8th in the time trial 42 seconds of the pace. She finished the five day event in 18th place overall.A bit of foreshadowing. THe stage two podium of the Exergy Tour is a Specialized - lululemon sweep. American Amber Neben occupied the top step. She is flanked by two NAtional Champions, American Eveyln Stevens and Canadain Clara Hughes. The three switched positoins three days later in Boise as Stevens won the overall and Hughes finished third. Neben and Stevens are chasing an spot on the US Olympic team. With her overall victory at the Exergy Tour and consistant stage placings Stevens secured an automatic selection to the team headed to London in July.An early solo break away by NOW and Novartis for MS rider Beth Newell is brought back by a charging pack on the Pump Road grade. Two passes up the one kilometer climb defined the race as Evelyn Stevens (Specialized - lululemon) claimed possession of the Colavite Queen of the Mountains jersey on day. Newell was named Exergy most aggresive rider for her long solo move onthe first circuit of the days course. The days second break powered by Exergy -Twenty 12's Taylor Wiles was captured on the second ascent of the Pump Road grade.Local team Exegy-Twenty 12 drew first blood on the roads in Nampa Idahpo with Theresa Cliff-Ryan. Cliff-Ryan beat out Ina Yoko Teutenberg (Specialized - lululemon) and Australian Rochelle Gillmore (Faren Honda) and Leah Kirchmann (Optum KBS). Cliff-Ryan's win took some of the sting out of the loss of Exergy-Twenty 12's team leader and Boise resident Kristin Armstorng. Armstrong fell in the prevous eventings prologue breaking her clavicle. Overall leadership of the race went to Specialized -lululemon sprinter Teutenberg after she won an intermediate sprint during the day.An early starter, this Colavita- ESPNw team member heads out bound on Capitol Boulavard in Boise Idaho. A short 3km out and back course introduced an exuburant crowd to the women in contention for the 100,000 dollar purse. It was the largest prize on offer in women's cycling.Part of an international field of 103 riders which started the Exergy Tour a Topsport-Vlaanderen-Ridley rider completes the return leg on Capitol Boulevard with the Historic Boise Depot in the background. Teams from Belgium, Australia, Taiwan and the Ukraine joined North American teams such as Boise based Exergy-Twenty 12. The prologue in Boise lead off 5 days of racing in central Idaho. The race covered 3150 mteres of climbing and 315 kilometers of scenic Idaho.Colorado based Alison Powers of NOW and Novartis for MS bears down on the final 100 meters of the prologue. Active all week duringthe race, Powers finished the prologue in 6th position and the five stage race in 5th place overall.

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