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The Team for The Country Garden Cup 12th Tour of Hainan, UCI 2.HC

Serghei Tvetcov | Taylor Shelden | Jacob Rathe | Ulises Castillo | Michael Sheehan | Jordan Cheyne

DS Matt Rice outlines the day’s course ahead of Stage 1 at Tour of Hainan

Serghei Tvetcov was in an early crash, but finished strong and is doing OK

Serghei Tvetcov and Jordan Cheyne at the start of Stage 1

photo | Zhou (QLE)

Ulises Castillo hit out solo but was caught with 4 km to go.  El Hueso still finished top 20

photo | Zhou (QLE)

photo | Zhou (QLE)

Jordan Cheyne rolls across the Stage 1 finish in Wanning, Hainan

photo | Zhou (QLE)

Jordan Cheyne, at the finish of Stage 2… “I did get the Most Aggressive Rider jersey, right?”

Gordo owning the jumbotron (and viewers worldwide)

The Team roll to the start of Stage 3

photo | Zhou (QLE)

DS Matt Rice delivers details of the day’s stage and outlines various scenarios and how The Team can react, where he wind is coming from, and where an attack might succeed

photo | Zhou (QLE)

Two different reactions to Stage 3, Jordan Cheyne and Ulises Castillo

photo | Zhou (QLE)

photo | Zhou (QLE)

Michael Sheehan was part of the early break on Stage 3

photo | Zhou (QLE)

Jordan Cheyne driving the two-man break on Stage 2

photo | Zhou (QLE)

photo | Zhou (QLE)

photo | Zhou (QLE)

photo | Zhou (QLE)

photo | Zhou (QLE)

photo | Zhou (QLE)

photo | Zhou (QLE)

photo | Zhou (QLE)

photo | Zhou (QLE)

photo | Zhou (QLE)

 

Keegan Swirbul | Michael Sheehan | Ulises Castillo | Taylor Shelden | Serghei Tvetcov

 

Taylor Shelden awarded Most Aggressive Rider on Stage 6, still showing signs of the battle.

 

DS Matt Rice goes over Stage 6 with The Team

Michael Sheehan looks back on his 38th floor room in Suzhou

Most stages were wet start-to-finish and the racing was unrelenting.  Keegan Swirbul fought hard for The Team throughout.

Soigneur Suzanne Sonye kept The Team in working order and kept spirits optimistic, with the added benefit of heaps of racing experience

 

Find racing images from Tour of Taihu Lake at Cycling 4 U!