The 20th edition of the International Tour de \u2019Toona began Monday with Sheetz\u2019s Time Trial wins by Nathan O\u2019Neill and Lyne Bessette, making them the first to wear the men\u2019s Waste Management and women\u2019s Hershey Foods yellow leader jerseys.
\nBessette, the Canadian Olympics hopeful, who races for Quark Cycling Team, beat fellow Canadian Olympian Susan Palmer-Komar by 15 seconds. Bessette is the defending women\u2019s champion, and her Quark Team trails Team Rona by just two seconds in the team standings. Rona\u2019s Genevieve Jensen, the 2001 winner, finished fourth.
\nO\u2019Neill, of Colavita Olive oil, was able to out-pace the rest of the field by 15 seconds. While he took the individual overall lead, the former Australian National Time Trial Champion, was one of seven Colavita cyclists to place in the top 15, giving them the overall team lead as well.
\nAmerican Olympian team member Danny Pate, of Health Net presented, finished 10th.
\nA constant rain forced the racers to take a cautious approach to the 3.5 mile course which begins in the city of Altoona and climbs to the historic Horseshoe Curve.
\n\u201cIt was raining very hard, but you don\u2019t think about it,\u201d said Magali LeFloch of Quark Cycling Team. \u201cI have a secret,\u201d she said as she pulled a piece of plastic out from under her jersey. \u201cThat way I don\u2019t feel the wind.\u201d
\nOver $95,000 in prize money will be awarded over the course of the seven-day event, which is North America\u2019s largest stage-race. The event awards prizes equally among both men and women. The International Tour de ;Toona continues today with the Crown America\/Cambria CVB Johnstown Circuit Road Race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The 20th edition of the International Tour de \u2019Toona began Monday with Sheetz\u2019s Time Trial wins by Nathan O\u2019Neill and Lyne Bessette, making them the first to wear the men\u2019s Waste Management and women\u2019s Hershey Foods yellow leader jerseys. Bessette, the Canadian Olympics hopeful, who races for Quark Cycling Team, beat fellow Canadian Olympian Susan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}