Grass Valley exec to ride with Tour de France racers this month

Screen-Shot-2014-06-18-at-10.04.58-AMThe Tour de France is arguably cycling’s most prestigious competition.  As it turns out, Jonathan Morgan, president and chief executive of Applied Science in Grass Valley, will embed with pro cycling teams for the last six stages of the race culminating in the final celebration on the Champs-Élysées in Paris later this month, our magazine has learned.

“The opportunity to be embedded with a professional team as they compete during the greatest of all bike races is a historical experience. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to rub shoulders with the best cyclists in the world,” Morgan said in the Chasing Atlas blog. Chasing Atlas, a travel company, arranged the experience.

As a triathlete, Morgan finished 9 Iron Man’s including KONA and is also an Ultra Marathon runner, the Chasing Atlas blog reports. A former Alpine Racing Ski Coach in Canada, he has spent his life working with professional athletes. For him, the Tour de France is epic. “I am looking forward to asking Jens Voigt and Chris Horner how they have managed to stay competitive for so long,” says Morgan. “I would also love to meet Fabian Cancellara… and, the Green Jersey! Peter Sagan.”

Morgan, 60, writes on his own blog: “These three days of cycling in the Pyrenees include some of the most iconic climbs in the history of the Tour.” He adds: “Simply, it was the opportunity, with a small number of folks, in this case two other guys, to take part in a unique cycling adventure: to “embed” with the Cannondale Cycling Team during the last week of the Tour de France.”

(Photo: Chasing Atlas)

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