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De Crescenzo and Garrison trade UCI Gravel Championships for traditional ‘taste of gravel’

De Crescenzo and Garrison trade UCI Gravel Championships for traditional ‘taste of gravel’


Two US riders making debuts at Big Sugar Gravel are Lauren De Crescenzo (Cinch Rise) and 2021 U23 time trial champion Michael Garrison (Hagens Berman Axeon). They made late calls to add the event to their schedules, both having competed at the inaugural UCI Gravel World Championships and both having to find a way to reach Bentonville, Arkansas, tucked in the middle of the US in the Ozark mountains. 

Gravel has become a bread-and-butter discipline for De Crescenzo in the past two years, making a splash at Unbound Gravel in 2021 and taking back-to-back ‘world titles’ at Gravel Worlds in Nebraska. Garrison, however, makes his debut in the pro field for a US gravel race on Saturday. 

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