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SUBWAY® Pro Cycling Team in hunt for sprint jersey at Tour de Korea

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Monday 18 April 2011, 2:55PM

By enthuse

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Paul Odlin hopes to go one place high in this years Le Race
Paul Odlin hopes to go one place high in this years Le Race Credit: www.subwaycycling.co.nz

The SUBWAY® Pro Cycling Team is focused on the sprint classification at the Tour de Korea that enters its fourth day of racing today.

After three days of racing which included two stages of over 200 kilometres, SUBWAY® Pro Cycling’s Paul Odlin lies second equal, just three points off the leader in the sprint competition.

SUBWAY® Pro Cycling’s General Manger Hayden Godfrey said the team was working “unbelievably well as a tight unit,” with a focus now on the sprint classification and a top 10 general classification result for Odlin.

“It’s been hard racing but the guys are all going well and are now totally committed to helping Paul pick up sprint points.”

Odlin has made several key breaks in the racing so far, and yesterday received a prefect lead out from his team mates out to win stage three’s only sprint points of the day.

There has been a fair amount of climbing and fast descents in the racing to date, with Odlin especially enjoying the downhill sections.

“My down hilling has improved and I’m finding the lack of Europeans means that it’s easy to get to the front,” Odlin said.

“We start each day hunting for breaks to get in the mix for the sprint points.”


Today’s stage four is a shorter 137 kilometres that features only one hill climb and starts in Gunsan and finishes in Dandjin.

Godfrey expects riders will enjoy the shorter distance but says the racing will be faster.

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Notes:
• The Subway Pro Cycling Team was New Zealand’s first professional cycling team, established six years ago.
• It has been registered as a UCI Continental team since early 2009 with a successful track record of racing in New Zealand, Asia and the United States.
• The tour ends in Kwangwhamoon on Sunday the 24th.
• The tour is raced over 10 days and 1,335 kilometres and features national teams from Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Korea and Uzbekistan and various UCI Continental teams including last year’s winning team, Jelly Belly, from the United States.
• The SUBWAY® Pro Cycling Team for the Tour is; Nick Lovegrove, Matt Gorter, Jason Allen, Westley Gough, Sam Horgan and Paul Oldin. It will be managed by Graeme Miller.
www.subwaycycling.co.nz