Bananorama

The Banana Tours is how the guys on Symmetrics refer to the races in south and central America. Last year, in the chase for UCI Americas Tour points, the team started slotting in a few of them. This year it looks like they've become Banana Tour Specialists. Earlier in the season Svein Tuft won the tour of Cuba and just yesterday Eric Wohlberg won the opening stage of the Vuelta El Salvador, in second was Andrew Randell. Today Randell won stage two... and the team's chase for UCI pts is looking pretty good.

Especially considering the whopping 100 pts earned at the US Open Championships by Tuft (1st) and Andrew Pinfold (5th). In these first two stages in ES the team has added another 36 pts to its current 201.

Last year the team won the first four stages in El Salvador. Given the run in stage one and two so far this year we should expect more of the same.

As of April 27 from the UCI, Svein Tuft is 2nd in the America's Tour indivdual standings, Symmetrics sits 3rd in the team's standings and Canada is 6th. Of Canada's 259 pts. 201 of them have been earned by riders from Symmetrics. You could call them the defacto Canadian National Team?

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