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2007 Tour Of Missouri
The 2007 Tour of Missouri is the inaugural edition of a professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Missouri that made its debut on September 11, 2007, with six days of racing. Run by same organizers as the Tour de Georgia and the Amgen Tour of California, the Tour of Missouri is being billed as the third highest profile domestic race in the United States. The Tour is part of the 2006–07 UCI America Tour and the inaugural 2007 USA Cycling Professional Tour. The Missouri terrain is not mountainous by California and Georgia standards but expect three of the six stages to be contested on relentless rolling hills. No title sponsor has been announced. The planned course: * Day 1: Kansas City, road race, out-and-back course starting and ending in the Plaza * Day 2: Clinton–Springfield, road race * Day 3: Branson, individual time trial * Day 4: Lebanon– Columbia, road race * Day 5: Jefferson City– St. Charles, road race * Day 6: St. Louis, circuit race Award Jerseys ...
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Tour Of Missouri
The Tour of Missouri was a professional road bicycle racing stage race in Missouri that started on September 11, 2007 with six days of racing. The organizers, who also run the Tour de Georgia and the Amgen Tour of California, billed it as the third highest profile race in the United States. The 2009 Tour of Missouri The 2009 Tour of Missouri was the third annual edition of a professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Missouri. It began on September 7, 2009 with seven days of racing. The Tour of Missouri is considered the second highest profile domes ... took place September 7–13, 2009 as part of 2008-2009 UCI America Tour and the 2009 USA Cycling Professional Tour. Missouri state officials intended to support the Tour for three years, with the intention of making it an annual event. However, the 2009 Tour was almost canceled when its funds were provisionally cut from the state's tourism budget. Funds were restored when breach-of-contract fees to teams threatened to ...
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Build A Bear
Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc. is an American retailer headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri that sells teddy bears and other stuffed animals and characters. Customers go through an interactive process in which the stuffed animal of their choice is assembled and tailored to their own preferences during their visit to the store. These preferences include numerous different stuffed animals, along with varying scents, sounds, and outfits. Build-A-Bear Workshop is the largest chain that operates in this style. The company's slogan was "Where Best Friends Are Made" from 1997–2013 when it was changed to "The Most Fun You'll Ever Make." As of April 2019, the company's president/CEO is Sharon Price John. History In the mid-1990s, Maxine Clark resigned as president of Payless ShoeSource and started a string of retail stores with interactive experiences similar to her childhood of various events held at department stores. She went to toy factories and children's retail stores looking f ...
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Darren Lill
Darren Lill (born 20 August 1982) is a South African professional racing cyclist. In 2011 he won the South African National Road Race Championships. Personal life He is married to fellow South African cyclist Candice Lill. Major results ;2006 : African Road Championships ::1st Road race ::5th Time trial : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships :4th Overall Giro del Capo ::1st Mountains classification ;2008 :5th Tour de Leelanau ;2009 :6th Overall Tour de Beauce ;2010 :5th Overall Tour of Utah :7th Overall Tour of the Gila ::1st Stage 5 ;2011 : National Road Championships ::1st Road race ::3rd Time trial :All-Africa Games ::2nd Time trial ::4th Road race :9th Overall Tour of South Africa ::1st Stage 6 ;2012 :1st Overall Tour of Rwanda ::1st Stages 3 & 7 :1st Mountains classification Volta ao Alentejo ;2014 :4th Road race Road racing, road race of road racer may refer to: * Road racing in motorsport * Road running on foot * Road bicycle racing * ''Road Race'', ini ...
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Luciano Pagliarini
Luciano André Pagliarini Mendonça (born April 18, 1978, in Arapongas, state of Paraná) is a retired Brazilian cyclist. A renowned sprinter, he has been regarded as one of Brazil's finest cyclists. Pagliarini has taken part in the road cycling race at 2004 Summer Olympics (from which he withdrew due to mechanical trouble) and the 2005 Tour de France (best position: 5th on stage 2, withdrawal on stage 9). Career 2007 Due to health problems, Pagliarini had a bad start in the 2007 season, until the Pan American Games in July, where he won the bronze medal. Ten days after the birth of his first daughter, he won the fifth stage of the Eneco Tour, being the first Brazilian to acquire a victory in the UCI ProTour, with this victory he rebuilt his morale and later won a stage in the Tour of Missouri. This excellent end of the season convinced his team, Saunier Duval to renew his contract. 2008 Pagliarini had a good season start placing third in the last stage of Tour of Qatar ...
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Steven Cozza
Steven Cozza (born March 3, 1985) is a professional road bicycle racer, who last rode for . Cozza helped his father co-found the Boy Scouts equality advocacy group Scouting for All when he was 12 years old, and was the focus of '' Scout's Honor'', a film that documented his time as a boy scout and his fight against the Boy Scouts of America's discriminatory policy against gays being allowed in the organization. Cozza broke his left collar bone in his first race of 2010 on stage 2 of the Tour of Qatar, requiring surgery as it was the third time he had broken it. Cozza announced that he would be taking a break from professional cycling in February 2012, in order to fully recover from colitis. he is a Realtor for Frank Howard Allen in Petaluma, California. Palmares Amateur ;2003 * USA Junior National Time Trial Championship, 3rd * Le Tour De L'Abitibi, 3rd overall, 1st time trial * Keizer der Juniores, Overall, 3rd * Grand Prix of The Nations Time Trial (Juniors), 4th * Trophe ...
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Levi Leipheimer
Levi Leipheimer (born October 24, 1973) is an American former professional road racing cyclist. He was twice US national champion, winning the time trial title in 1999 and the road race in 2007, and is an Olympic medalist. Leipheimer was born and raised in Butte, Montana and resides in Santa Rosa, California. He is the patron of the widely attended King Ridge GranFondo, a mass participation ride in Sonoma County. Leipheimer's major career accomplishments include winning the 2007, 2008 and 2009 editions of the Tour of California, the 2011 Tour de Suisse and the 2011 USA Pro Cycling Challenge. His Grand Tour results include 2nd in the 2008 Vuelta a España, and 4th in the 2009 Giro d'Italia. Leipheimer won the bronze medal in the time trial at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) announced in October 2012 that Leipheimer would be suspended for his involvement in doping while riding for Saturn, U.S. Postal Service, Rabobank, Gerolste ...
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Team Slipstream
A team is a group of individuals (human or non-human) working together to achieve their goal. As defined by Professor Leigh Thompson of the Kellogg School of Management, " team is a group of people who are interdependent with respect to information, resources, knowledge and skills and who seek to combine their efforts to achieve a common goal". A group does not necessarily constitute a team. Teams normally have members with complementary skills and generate synergy through a coordinated effort which allows each member to maximize their strengths and minimize their weaknesses. Naresh Jain (2009) claims: Team members need to learn how to help one another, help other team members realize their true potential, and create an environment that allows everyone to go beyond their limitations. While academic research on teams and teamwork has grown consistently and has shown a sharp increase over the past recent 40 years, the societal diffusion of teams and teamwork actually follo ...
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William Frishkorn
William Frischkorn (born June 10, 1981 in Charleston, West Virginia) is a former professional road bicycle racer Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common ..., who finished his career with UCI ProTour team . He retired from professional cycling in September 2009 to take up a non-racing role with the team. Major results ;1998 : 1st, US National Junior Championship (Road) ;1999 : 2nd, US National Junior Championship (Cyclo-cross) ;2000 : 3rd in Philadelphia : 3rd, Stage 1, Cascade Classic : 3rd, Stage 5, Cascade Classic ;2003 : 1st, Boulder-Roubaix : 2nd, Carter Lake Race : 3rd, U23 category, Tour of Flanders : 2nd, Tim Hortons Road National Championship : 3rd, US National U23 Championship (Road Time-trial) : 1st, Stage 3 and General Classification of the Tour de Delta ;2004 ...
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George Hincapie
George Anthony Hincapie (born June 29, 1973) is an American former racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 1994 and 2012. Hincapie was a key domestique of Lance Armstrong. Hincapie was also a domestique for Alberto Contador in 2007 and for Cadel Evans in 2011, when both men won the Tour de France. He was the owner and general manager of UCI Professional Continental team until it folded at the end of the 2020 season. On October 10, 2012, Hincapie released a statement on his website acknowledging the use of performance-enhancing drugs and confirming that he had been approached by US federal investigators and USADA about his experiences with doping. Later that day a statement was released confirming his acceptance of a six-month ban from September 1, 2012, ending on March 1, 2013, along with a stripping of all race results between May 31, 2004, and July 31, 2006.http://d3epuodzu3wuis.cloudfront.net/2012-10-09+WB+to+Anders+re.+Hincapie+Sanction.pdf, George Hincapie noti ...
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Colavita / Sutter Home Presented By Cooking Light
Colavita is an Italian company best known for its olive oil. As of 2010, the brothers Enrico and Leonardo Colavita run the company, with Enrico serving as President and Leonardo as General Manager, and other members of the family serving in other management roles, including Leonardo's son Giovanni, who was President of Colavita USA. Their father started the packaging business in the 1930s; their family, and many other families in the town of Sant'Elia a Pianisi and the wider Province of Campobasso, had grown and pressed olive oil for generations. The company owns a packaging plant in Pomezia, which also packages olive oil under the brands Rachael Ray All-Italian Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Santa Sabina. Colavita USA was founded by John J. Profaci exclusively who, at the time, was a resident of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Profaci was introduced to Enrico Colavita in 1978 after Colavita came to the United States. Profaci, who had been in the olive oil business, agreed to go into busi ...
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Gregorio Ladino
Gregorio Ladino Vega (born January 18, 1973 in San Mateo, Boyacá) is a Colombian former professional road cyclist. Since 2011, he holds a Mexican citizenship. Major results ;1995 : 1st Young rider classification Vuelta a Colombia ;1997 : 1st Overall Vuelta a Costa Rica : 1st Stage 12 Vuelta a Colombia ;2001 : 1st Overall Vuelta a Costa Rica : 1st Overall Vuelta a Guatemala : 1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Colombia ;2002 : 2nd Overall Vuelta a Costa Rica ;2003 : 1st Overall Vuelta a la Independencia Nacional : 1st Stage 9 Vuelta a Chiriquí : 1st Stage 4 Vuelta a Costa Rica ;2005 : 2nd Overall Clásico Ciclístico Banfoandes ::1st Stage 3 : 8th Overall Tour of the Gila ;2006 : 1st Overall Vuelta Sonora : 1st Overall Vuelta a El Salvador : 2nd Overall UCI America Tour : 3rd Overall Clásico Ciclístico Banfoandes : 6th Overall Vuelta a Chihuahua : 7th Overall Vuelta Oaxaca : 7th Overall Tour de Beauce : 7th Univest Grand Prix ;2007 : 1st Mountains classification Vuelta a C ...
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James Meadley
James is a common English language surname and given name: * James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (other), various kings named James * Saint James (other) * James (musician) * James, brother of Jesus Places Canada * James Bay, a large body of water * James, Ontario United Kingdom * James College, a college of the University of York United States * James, Georgia, an unincorporated community * James, Iowa, an unincorporated community * James City, North Carolina * James City County, Virginia ** James City (Virginia Company) ** James City Shire * James City, Pennsylvania * St. James City, Florida Arts, entertainment, and media * ''James'' (2005 film), a Bollywood film * ''James'' (2008 film), an Irish short film * ''James'' (2022 film), an Indian Kannada-language film * James the Red Engine, a character in ''Tho ...
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