For most of you who care, this isn't news to you. For the rest of you, here you go: the Tour of Missouri begins in Kansas City tomorrow (Tuesday)! What's the Tour of Missouri? It's a professional bike race that will be similar (albeit 3x shorter) than the Tour de France. This year marks the first annual race in Missouri, which is only one of three of its kind in the United States.
Here's the really cool thing about this year's race. It's the final race for the potent Discovery Channel team, the one that featured Lance Armstrong, the one that had this year's Tour de France winner Alberto Contador and third-place finisher, American Levi Leipheimer. Armstrong's long-time teammate George Hincapie also will be racing.
Having a chance to see the start and finish of a cycling race, even if you're not a cyclist or pay much attention to the sport, is going to be a unique and thrilling experience. Besides the pageantry and excitement surrounding the event at the start, inevitably in a race such as this, there will be an exciting finish. Not to mention, it's starting and finishing at the Plaza.
Some more information can be found on the Tour of Missouri's Web site...here is the page on Kansas City. (There also was a two-page spread in the sports section of Sunday's Kansas City Star.)
This is a chance for the state of Missouri, beginning with us in Kansas City (although I don't claim to be from Missouri), to show off our area to the world.
I hope to see you there.
Matt Fulks
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