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Arden Arindaeng

Thursday, October 9, 2014

Chapter 5. Race 4: Team Sprint. Olympian Deogracias Asuncion at UCI's 2014 Masters Track Cycling World Championships

Race Day # 6. October 9, 2014 Thursday, 7 days after arriving. Team Sprint. His last race of the event.

The Team Sprint team was formed yesterday with Robert Cronin from NorCal as the first man, Alphonso Whaley from Texas as the second man, and Deo as the 3rd man. Here's a photo at the starting line taken by Rebecca Pelegrin.



Team was called "Texie Cali USA"! It was just unfortunate Robert Pelegrin was injured from the crash he endured during his Match Sprint the other day. We were set to form a team with Robert Cronin in their age group but instead we moved down to 45-54 age group because of Alphonso's age. Down aging was allowed! Despite getting sick, Deo was not looking forward to for the 3rd man sprint especially after having symptoms of flu a couple of days ago.



Out of 10 teams, Texie Cali USA still finished a respectable 6th place, just 0.2 seconds behind 5th place finishers, missing the qualification seeding. We just wished that we weren't sick.

Coach/Manager Arden Arindaeng

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