Tucson Bike Classic

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Tucson Bike Classic

In the 36th, Tucson Bike Classic announced that the U.S. domestic stage race will move 1 week before the calendar and will be held in southern Arizona from 2024-2-23-25.

The organizers of the early spring event for professionals and amateurs said the date of the 2nd month is "for a better arrangement of the national race calendar". On the first weekend of May 3, athletes can take part in the Belgian Waffle Ride Arizona held for the 140th edition from Cave Creek, 2 miles north of Tucson. The other area race is the valley of the Sun Stage Race, which will be the weekend before TBS 2024/2/16-18.

Details of the 3-day race in Tucson were not announced. In 2023, both Pistol Hill's prologue and the Oro Valley Circuit race will use the new course, while Saturday's traditional road course offered a 20.5-mile (33km) circuit in Green Valley. At last year's Tucson Bicycle Classic, Tyler Stites (Project Echelon Racing) won the men's professional title and Kira Payer (Cardinal Classic Cycling) won the women's professional overall title.

Bwr Arizona will be part of the 2024 Tripel Crown of Gravel, a cycling monument to be hosted, and will serve as a lead-off event. This is followed by Bwr Utah in Cedar City on 4/6 and Bwr California in San Marcos on 4/28. This season takes place in a point-based omnium format, with Bwr Kansas and Bwr Mexico remaining on schedule to determine the overall winner.

For the third season of the American Critical Cup eight events will return, a series of independent and well-established one-day races for men and women across the United States. Starting with the Blue Dome Criterion, which is part of St. Francis Tarsataf in Oklahoma at 6-7, the lineup will replicate the 2023 schedule and grace the series finale with the Gateway Cup in Missouri at 9-1.

The ACC has incorporated a total of 10 events over the past two years, with last year's Southern Swing including the Athens Orthopaedic Clinic Twilight in Georgia and the Sunny King Criterion in Alabama in May. The final schedule will be confirmed by the organizers in the coming months.

Danny Summerhill (American cycling group) and Paola Muñoz (Miami Knights) won the 2023 ACC individual title. Alfredo Rodriguez (Miami Knights) was 2nd overall in the professional men's race, but failed to overtake Summer Hill, who won 3 Acc races and entered the top 5. In the women's overall, the Miami Knights were one-two and Andrea Shil was runner-up.

Summer Hill also won the women's Sprint classification, while Kimberly Lucy of DNA Pro cycling sweep DNA of the series by winning the men's team competition, the ENTIRE sprint classification and the double winner with the American cycling group took the women's team competition, L39ION in Los Angeles took the women's team competition. We won the dominant victory in the first round.

The Maryland Cycling Classic presented by UnitedHealthcare will return in 2024-9-1 as the 3rd professional Series men's race. Distinguished as the highest ranked UCI race in the U.S., this 1-day event is contested between Sparks and Baltimore, Maryland, and covers 121 miles (196km).

6 world tour teams participated in the field of 16 teams and produced 6 of the top 5 riders, including race winner Matthias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) of Denmark. USA's Neilson Paures (EF Education-EasyPost) took second place, while Canada's Hugo Hore (Israel Premiatech) took third place, ahead of Australia's Lucas Hamilton (Jaco Arula).

"It was a great setting. I wanted to win this year, but I'm happy with the podium," said Paules, who was in the 2022 race at 3rd place. "It was fun to interact with American fans," he said. I felt really proud to have the opportunity here and loved the whole way around the course. "

Organizers estimated that the 2023 edition attracted an audience of 80,000 and focused on face-to-face viewing in downtown Baltimore, Maryland, for the race's end. In an enhanced live broadcast using a helicopter shooting crew, organizers said it was close to 800,000 viewers on Maryland Public Television for regional US television, coordinated through GCN+ for an international feed.

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