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Favorites ready in Costa Rica
La Ruta de los Conquistadores is returning for its 17th edition starting on Wednesday. 225 riders from all over the world have travelled to race the gruelling multi-day stage race across Costa Rica. 80 of the riders are local; the rest are international. "It's not about making it to the finish line, it's about working with what you've got, giving it all your might and surviving the adversities that you might come upon along the way," said organizer Roman Urbina. "Lending a hand to ...
Race photos
- Start of stage 4
- Alejandro Oporta races his third edition... with one arm.
- Cory Wallace represents SleepMonsters.com and gets a piece of the action with the top pack.
- Mist in the jungles of Costa Rica
- Giant sponsored these carts to cross racers over railroad bridges.
- Dax Heikel, nothing will stop him.
- La Ruta winner Louise Kobin
- These carts transported racers across the railroad bridge if they weren't comfortable going on their own.
- Costa Rican Adriana Rojas finishes in second place.
- Adriana Rojas
- The carrying over the bridge wasn't made any easier by the rain.
- A rider negotiates the bridge over the Reventazón River.
- Deiber Esquivel leads 5kms away from the finish line
- Riders were dirty after the final stage.
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