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TOTG_Stage5
Tour of the Gila Stage 5
Riders assemble for the 111 mile race
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Race Leader and King of the Mountain James Piccoli
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Team Medellin talks strategy
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UCI Men begin the Gila Monster (Stage 5)
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Zeya Pearson helps out announcer Dave Towle before the UCI Women start
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Elizabeth Lechuga is ready to race
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The UCI Women head out on their 65.9 mile race
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QOM Brodie Chapman wins the Gila Monster stage and overall championship
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Justine Barrow from Team HMS takes third in the final stage
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Australian Brodie Chapman meets some of the local folks
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Brodie poses for a teammate
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Stage 5 winners, L-R: Krista Doebel-Hickok (2nd), Brodie Chapman (1st), and Justine Barrow (3rd)
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Brodie Chapman (QOM and overall champion) and Chloe Dygert (Best Sprinter and Best Young Rider)
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Team Medellin's Cristhian Montoya Giraldo, KOM, wins the Gila Monster (Stage 5)
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Race Leader James Piccoli crosses the finish line as the overall champion
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Stage 5 winners, L-R: Alex Hoehn (2nd), Cristhian Montoya Giraldo (1st), and Tyler Stites (3rd)
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Medellin is victorious in team competition
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Overall winners Nickolas Zukowsky (Best Young Rider), Cristhian Montoya Giraldo (KOM), James Piccoli (Champion), and Michael Hernandez (Best Sprinter)
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