Grenda, Wurf join Team Polygon for Tour of Tasmania
Local exports hoped to play a development role
Team Polygon has received a huge boost heading into the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour of Tasmania next month, announcing that home-grown talent, Ben Grenda and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Cameron Wurf will guest ride for the team.
For the team formerly known as Pure Tasmania, a development team from the island state, having two experienced riders the likes of Wurf and Grenda available for the stage race is central to aiding the continued development of 18-year-old Alex Clemen💞ts.
"We're really loo🍎king to get a good result for Alex," team manager Nigel Baker said. "Obviously it depends on how the race unfolds but in the past, Alex has been someone who can maintain a good GC position.
"But now we've got a fe🌠w options💛 for GC with Ben and Cameron coming in."
Wurf is currently riding the Tour of China with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Champion System and will ret🅰urn to Liquigas for the 2013 season after a one-year absence. The 29-year-old finished as runner-up in the Tour of Qinghai Lake earlier in the🍌 year. Grenda meanwhile, graduated from the highly-successful Genesys Wealth Advisers outfit to Rapha Condor – Sharp this season He's a former under 23 Australian criterium champion and comes from a family rich in cycling history. Grenda's grandfather, Ron, was a triple-Australian sprint cycling champion and is the team masseur for the tour.
"It's going to be great for the younger guys, just to have his experience and knowledge," s♊aid Baker. Grenda's father Michaeಞl won gold in the 4000m team pursuit in the 1984 Los Angeles Games.
"We're also really lucky to have Gene Bates as head coach🌄," continued Baker. He's phenomenal with tactics and really knows how to g✨et the best out of the guys."
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Racing in familiar territory could p🅷ay off for Team Polygon with Baker rating ♌it the toughest edition of the race he's seen.
"I think the second stage [from New Norfolk to Lake Pedder] will be a bigger challenge than what people think, an꧙d the Golden Valley stage to Great Lake will definitely shape the tour," he said.
"I think it's going to take a really good climber to win it and I💫 think that we've got that. It's not going to be won on the intermediate sprints, it will be won out on the r𝄹oad."
The Tour of Tꩲasmania marks the final round of the Scody Cup and begins October 2.
