LIVE Broadcast of Tour de France Stage 19 – All Cycling Fans FREE
Friday, July 22, 2011 * 6 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. MT
Megaplex 12 at The Gateway - Theatre 3
165 South Rio Grande Street, Salt Lake City
The most legendary climb of the famous Tour de France showcases 21 switchbacks up the steep face of l’Alpe d’Huez. It will be the final mountain stage of this year’s race. Organizers of the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah invite cycling fans to watch this epic day of racing on Friday, July 22, at Megaplex Theatres at the Gateway in Salt Lake City. The stage will be shown live via satellite broadcast, so get up early for the 6 a.m. (Mountain Time) start. Admission and parking is free.
Billed as “une fête de la petit dejeuner”, or a breakfast party, the event will be hosted at Megaplex 12 at The Gateway, located at 165 South Rio Grande Street in Salt Lake City. The live broadcast will be shown in Theatre 3, which seats more than 300 people. Special prizes will be given away throughout the morning from various Tour of Utah sponsors and partners. And pro cyclist Tyler Wren of the Jamis/Sutter Home Pro Team will be on hand to meet race fans.
This event is being hosted by organizers of the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah to promote the sport of cycling and the upcoming Tour of Utah stage race, August 9-14, 2011. Of significance is that five ProTeams competing at the Tour de France will be racing in this year’s Tour of Utah (Team RadioShack, Team BMC, HTC-Highroad, Garmin-Slipstream, and Liquigas-Cannondale). On the live broadcast next Friday, race fans will see these teams, and all the top pros, complete Stage 19 of the Tour de France, an epic 109-kilometer race from Modane Valfréjus in the French Alps. It includes successive climbs of the Col du Télégraphe and the Galibier, en route to a mountain-top finish at l’Alpe d’Huez.
Deemed "America's Toughest Stage RaceTM," the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah, is a six-day, professional cycling event covering 409 total miles of racing through some of Utah's most beautiful and challenging terrain. Now in its seventh year, the 2011 Tour of Utah is a UCI 2.1-sanctioned stage race for the best pro cyclists in the world. The event is owned and operated by the Utah Cycling Partnership. Host Venues for 2011 include Utah Olympic Park in Park City, Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Ogden, Provo, Salt Lake City and Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort. The Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah continues to be free to all spectators, making professional cycling one of the most unique pro sports in the world today. Official information will be posted at www.tourofutah.com, with updates on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
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