Phinney skipping Burnaby four-day; Farrar to team with Christian Meier

Contrary to early reports, Taylor Phinney will not start the Burnaby4 four-day track race in British Columbia next month, an event spokesman told VeloNews Wednesday.

Garmin-Transitions sprinter Tyler Farrar, who originally had planned to team with Phinney at the Dec. 27-30 event, will now team with his Garmin teammate (and Canadian) Christian Meier, said spokesman Jeremy Storie.

“For us locally, while Taylor is a loss, Christian is a big gain as he is known locally and won the inaugural Burnaby six-day held six years ago,” said spokesman Jeremy Storie. “We have
also added (New Zealand’s) Jo Keisanowski as well as just signing (Trek-Livestrong’s) Justin Williams and a partner to be decided.

FILED UNDER: News / Track TAGS: Burnaby 4-day / Christian Meier / Taylor Phinney / Tyler Farrar

Steve Frothingham

VeloNews.com editor Steve Frothingham joined the gang in bike-crazy Boulder in early 2008. He is the former executive editor of the trade magazine Bicycle Retailer & Industry News. He also was a reporter and editor for The Associated Press, where he covered three presidential primaries in politics-crazy New Hampshire. His racing career began on a BMX track in 1980 and reached its zenith with several miserable road races as a category 2 in the early 90s. He subsequently retreated to cat. 3, where he has had a consistently mediocre (at best) record ever since, in road, mountain bike and cyclocross events. Follow him on Twitter at @steve_froth

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