Argon
18's New American Pro Cycling Squad:
Giroscopic Sports Management presented
for the first time its pro women's
cycling team, expresscopy.com.
The
event took place in Portland, Oregon
where the head office of the title
sponsor, expresscopy.com, is located.
Owner, Lee Dietz, welcomed the team at
the Multnomah Athletic Club. The 2007
season is promising for Team
expresscopy.com who is one of the
strongest North American UCI licensed
women's cycling team. Giroscopic Sports
Management has recruited some of the
best riders in the world.
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The
elite squad, who is also aiming towards
the 2008 Beijing Olympics, is composed
of:
-Jessica
Phillips
(USA), Former US National Champion;
-Gina
Grain (BC),
Silver Medallist at the 2006 Track World
Champion;
-Anne
Samplonius
(Que.), Current National Criterium
Champion and former Silver Medallist in
the ITT World Championships;
-Meshy
Holt (NZ),
New Zealand National Team Member;
-Erinne
Willock (BC),
Canadian National Team Member;
-Audrey
Lemieux
(Que.), Canadian National Team Member.
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The development team consists of:
-Jennifer
Magur, Bronze
Medalist at the Empire State Games (US)
2003
-Joelle
Numainville
(Que.), Canadian National Development
Team Member
-Stephanie
Bourbeau
(Que.), Quebec Time Trial Provincial
Champion 2005 and 2006
-Jennifer
Stephenson
(Ont.), Silver medalist at the Aurora
UCI cyclo cross 2006
-Amanda
Shaw (Ont.),
Ontario's Champion of cyclo cross
2004-2005
-Alison
Testroete
(Alb.), Canadian National Development
Team Member
The
two divisions will be racing
simultaneously. With this impressive
undertaking, team manager, Scott Gerrie,
has deployed enormous resources to
support
the
two divisions who will be racing at the
same time in two different continents in
more than one hundred international
events. Among
them the Redlands Classic, Tour des
Flandres (Belgium), Sea Otter Classic,
La Fleche Wallonne, the Nature Valley
Grand Prix, the Montreal World Cup. The
season will be ending with the World
Championships in Germany.
The season has officially started with
the team's training camp in Tucson,
Arizona. The riders team will then take
part of
Valley of the Sun in Phoenix, Arizona,
on February 16th.
Argon
18 will provide the riders with the new
Gallium, Krypton and Mercury bikes. Also,
by May, the riders will be able to
perform on the brand new Element 114, a
carbon monoshell time trial bike.
 About Argon 18
With headquarters in Montreal since its
inception, Argon18 has made an enviable
position for itself in the cycling world.
All Argon18 bikes are conceived by
ex-Olympic racer Gervais Rioux and they
stand out for their unique designs that fuse
proven, traditional knowledge with the
latest technological breakthroughs from
fundamental research.
Available
in 23 countries, Argon18 bikes offer the
optimal blend of comfort, stiffness and
light weight. In 2006 Argon 18 became three
time triathlon World Champion
thanks to the talent of
Samantha McGlone (Ironman 70.3 World
Championship in Clearwater, Florida),
Torbjorn Sindballe and Bella Comerford (LD
Triathlon World Championship in Canberra
Australia).
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