Can King rule USPro road race?

Cervelo Test Team's Ted King.

Cervelo Test Team's Ted King. (Image credit: Gregor Brown)

Ted King goes into the USPro Championships road race on Sunday as a lone gun, competing without team-mates against a tide of Garmin-Slipstream riders and other domestic opposition. However the 26-year-old American believes that despite the numerical disadvantage he can pull off a fairly-tale win in the national championship in Greenville, North Carolina.

Daniel Benson

Daniel Benson was the Editor in Chief at Cyclingnews.com between 2008 and 2022. Based in the UK, he joined the Cyclingnews team in 2008 as the site's first UK-based Managing Editor. In that time, he reported on over a dozen editions of the Tour de France, several World Championships, the Tour Down Under, Spring Classics, and the London 2012 Olympic Games. With the help of the excellent editorial team, he ran the coverage on Cyclingnews and has interviewed leading figures in the sport including UCI Presidents and Tour de France winners.