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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Champion System will make its racing debut in the United States this week when then 26th annual 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:SRAM Tour of the Gila begins on Wednesday.

Americans Chris Butler and Craig Lewis headline the team's five-m💜an𒉰 roster.

General Manager Ed Beamon said the mount✃ainous, five-day race in New Mexico is an ideal event to launch the first Asian pro continental team's American campaign.

"We won't h𝕴ave a full squad because of our international schedule, but I think we're sending a very good group of guys with the goal of trying to win the overall," Beamon said. "I know there will be some good, strong American teams there. But Craig is really starting to come into form and Chris and Australian Cameron Wurf are both ready to tackle the climbs. So we feel pretty confident we'll be able to challenge."

Joining Butler, Lewis and Wurf on Champion System's roster is former Malaysian national road champion✱ Adiq Othman and past Chinese national road champion XU Gang. Othman's five top 10 finishes this yea♑r include a pair of third place performances at the Tour de Taiwan last month.

The SRAM Tour of the Gila features mountain-top finishes on Wedne♈sday's opening stage and Sunday's final stage and a 26.6 kilometre individual time trial with two categorized climbs on Stage 3. Champion System Assistant Director Chris Wherry, a two-time winner (199꧙9, 2002) of the Tour of the Gila himself, will direct the team.

Lewis has not competed at ꦗGila before, but said he is familiar𒉰 with some of the climbs after doing a few training camps in the area.

"It's been five or six years since I've last been there, but I remember the climbs and how the roads are," he said. "So I'm pretty comf⛎ortable with it even though I've never done the race. The altitude is kind of an unknown for everybody. And there aren't that many races at high elevations. But I'll be coming from Colorado. The courses are tough for the U.S. for sure, so that kind of suits me."

Champion System SRAM Tour of the Gila roster: Chris Butler, XU Gang, Craig Lewis, Adiq Othman, Cameron Wurf.