Columbia-Highroad announces Philly roster

Team Columbia-Highroad has released its roster for the 25th edition of the Philadelphia International Cycling Championship taking place in Pennsylvania on June 7. Team members preliminarily slated to take the start include Andre Greipel, Bernhard Eisel, Gert Dockx, Greg Henderson, Edvald Boasson Hagen, Marco Pinotti and Vicente Reynes.

The cyclists will complete ten laps of a 14.4-mile circuit through Philadelphia, which will include ten climbs up the 17 percent gradient Manayunk Wall. They will finish with three laps of Lemon Hill and Logan Circle, totalling 156 miles in one of the biggest single-day road race in the United States.