Chloe Dygert-Owen´s stage win Friday at the Colorado Classic was a surprising result, considering the day´s main obstacle was a category 1 climb that topped out at more than 2,800 metres of elevation. But no one was more surprised than the Sho-Air Twenty20 rider herself, who has returned from injury with an intimidating show of power. `Definitely not,` was Dygert-Owen´s concise response to Cyclingnews´ post-stage question as to whether she was confident in her ability to perform coming into the stage. Asked to rank the climb from 1 to 10 compared with other climbs she´s faced, Dygert-Owen was once again to the point. `For me, anything that goes up is a 10,` she said.ADVERTISEMENT Brodie Chapman, the Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank rider who Dygert-Owen caught on the climb and then passed on the way back down the hill to the finish in Avon, had trouble swallowing Dygert-Owen´s modesty. `Your legs say differently, apparently,` said Chapman, who was seated next to Dygert-Owen in the post-stage press conference. Chapman initiated the attacks on the climb through Beavercreek up Bachelor´s Gulch, bringing along Israeli road champion Omer Shapira (Canyon-SRAM) as the pair distanced themselves from a select chase group containing most of the favourites.
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