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17th GP Cycliste de Beauce - 2.3
Canada, June 17-23, 2002
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Stage 6b - June 22: Saint-Georges criterium, 64 km
Mapei takes control
By Giana Roberge, Team Saturn
After 112 kilometers of very animated racing in stage 6a the results were, well, there just were not any because the riders were somehow diverted off course 500 meters from the line into a parking lot. Apparently the police and marshals patrolling the finishing area were attending to a potentially dangerous situation with a vehicle coming onto the course just two turns to the finish and about 700 meters to go. In the chaos the police and marshals inadvertently directed the front of the race onto a side street which was meant only for the deviation route for team vehicles. The riders then faced an unexpected left turn and came screaming into the back parking area behind a school and nearly into the wall of the building. The front of the peloton instinctively continued around the building and spilled out onto the front of the parking lot looking totally confused and a few even continued out of the lot 10 meters after the finish line and crossed the line backwards raising their arms in victory. Needless to say once the race organization realised what they had done they threw the stage out completely. It will definitely go down in most books as the most interesting finish ever in a bike race.
And on to more serious bike racing the second stage of the day was a 64 kilometer criterium in downtown St George which ran 32 laps on a 2 kilometer course with a about a 50 meter hill on one end of the long rectangular circuit. Many teams including Saturn planned on racing hard putting big pressure on Mapei to try to contain things and hopefully cracking off a nice breakaway of non GC contenders so everyone would be happy. But as it turned out after about 15 laps of serious aggression things settled down as it was apparent that Mapei was going to simply try to tempo the whole affair and was getting an unusual amount of cooperation from a couple other teams to do that.
The course was not that technical, thus lending to that kind of controlled tempo riding which was just fast enough so no one was able to escape for very long. As the last five laps started counting down, teams with sprinters began moving their men up and trying to control the front for the inevitable field sprint. No team was able to take control for more than a lap at a time though as the speed was too high and the road wide enough for easy encroachment from behind. And so most teams had only their sprinter and one lead-out man left winding it up through the last lap making it a real dog fight coming out of the last two turns 300 meters to go. Saturn's Jay Sweet had a good position coming into the last two turns behind Mercury's Gord Fraser . But 7-up/NutrFigs Charles Dionne was placed in a good position and was able to make a daring move to take the inside line in front of the train. Fraser and Sweet had to back off ever so slightly as Dionne dove in and swept across the road coming into the last turn. Fraser still managed to hold off the charging Dionne for the win with Sweet taking third.
Results
1 Gordon Fraser (Can) Mercury 1.25.02 2 Charles Dionne (Can) 7UP Nutra Fig 3 Jay Sweet (Aus) Saturn 4 Allan Davis (Aus) Mapei - Quick Step 5 Andrew Pinfold (Can) Atlas Cold-Ital Pasta CC 6 Vassili Davidenko (Rus) Navigators 7 Soren Petersen (Den) Saturn 8 Michal Precechtel (Cze) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 9 Andy Cappelle (Bel) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 10 David McKenzie (Aus) IteamNova.com 11 Damon Kluck (USA) Saturn 12 Danny Pate (USA) Prime Alliance 13 Mark Walters (Can) Navigators 14 Petr Bencik (Cze) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 15 Sasa Sviben (Slo) Nürnberger - Versicherung 16 Martin Gilbert (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 17 Dominique Rollin (Can) Sympatico - Jet Fuel Coffee 18 Holger Sievers (Ger) Nürnberger - Versicherung 19 Henk Vogels (Aus) Mercury 20 Michael Rogers (Aus) Mapei - Quick Step 21 Lubor Tesar (Cze) Nürnberger - Versicherung 22 Florencio Ramos (Mex) Tecos - Turbo 23 François Parisien (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 24 Matt Decanio (USA) Prime Alliance 25 Arquimedes Lam (Mex) Tecos - Turbo 26 Mike Sayers (USA) Mercury 27 Christian Werner (Ger) Nürnberger - Versicherung 28 Thomas Liese (Ger) Nürnberger - Versicherung 29 Tim Johnson (USA) Saturn 30 Russell Stevenson (USA) Prime Alliance 31 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Mapei - Quick Step 32 Leonardo Zanotti (Ita) Mapei - Quick Step 33 Artour Babaitsev (Rus) Nürnberger - Versicherung 34 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Saturn 35 Phil Zajicek (USA) Mercury 36 Christian Poos (Lux) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 37 Jose Rujano (Ven) Tecos - Turbo 0.14 38 Cory Lange (Can) Québec 39 Ubaldo Mesa (Col) Tecos - Turbo 40 Martin Laciak (Cze) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 41 Tom Leaper (Aus) Navigators 42 Alexandre Chouffe (Fra) Oktos-Saint-Quentin 43 Johan Coenen (Bel) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 44 Jesus Zarate (Mex) Mercury 45 Doug Ziewacz (USA) 7UP Nutra Fig 46 Vincent Templier (Fra) Oktos-Saint-Quentin 47 Ariel De Cardenas (Can) Québec 0.19 48 Jean-Sébastien Maheu (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 49 Jose Isabel Garcia (Mex) Tecos - Turbo 50 Jean-François Racine (Can) Québec 51 Steven De Neef (Bel) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 52 Trent Wilson (Aus) IteamNova.com 0.22 53 Dominique Perras (Can) IteamNova.com 54 Corey Jay (Can) Les Espoirs de Laval 55 Yuriy Yuda (Kaz) Kazakhstan 56 Oleg Grishkine (Rus) Navigators 57 Bruno Langlois (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 58 Alexandre Lavallée (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 59 Denis Tupchenko (Kaz) Kazakhstan 60 Josh Hall (Can) Sympatico - Jet Fuel Coffee 61 Jeff Hansen (Can) Atlas Cold-Ital Pasta CC 62 Sergey Tretyakov (Kaz) Kazakhstan 63 Ross Hooker (Can) Atlas Cold-Ital Pasta CC 64 Ciaran Power (Irl) Navigators 65 Jean-François Laroche (Can) Sympatico - Jet Fuel Coffee 66 Johan Dekkers (Bel) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 67 Christian Lademann (Ger) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 68 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 69 Greg Henderson (NZl) 7UP Nutra Fig 70 Philippe Viau (Can) Sympatico - Jet Fuel Coffee 71 John Peters (USA) Prime Alliance 72 Chris Fisher (USA) Saturn 73 Christopher Baldwin (USA) Navigators 74 Svein Tuft (Can) Prime Alliance 75 Jose Manuel Garcia (Mex) Tecos - Turbo 76 John Lieswyn (USA) 7UP Nutra Fig 77 Werner Riebenbauer (Aut) Nürnberger - Versicherun 0.34 78 Siro Camponogara (Ita) Navigators 0.49 79 Cédric Sermet (Swi) Les Espoirs de Laval 0.53 80 Jaromir Friede (Cze) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 1.00 81 Sergey Lavrenenko (Kaz) Kazakhstan 1.05 82 Adham Sbeih (USA) Mercury 1.49 83 Charles Coyle (USA) 7UP Nutra Fig 1.54 84 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Mapei - Quick Step 2.49 85 Vladimir Bushanskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan 3.12 86 Scott Guyton (NZl) IteamNova.com 4.28 87 Martin St-Laurent (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 4.38 88 Alain Guimont (Can) Les Espoirs de Laval 12.35 DNF Stéphane Barthe (Fra) Oktos-Saint-Quentin DNF Arnaud Pretot (Fra) Oktos-Saint-Quentin General classification after stage 6b 1 Michael Rogers (Aus) Mapei - Quick Step 16.49.21 2 Matt Decanio (USA) Prime Alliance 0.36 3 Lubor Tesar (Cze) Nürnberger - Versicherung 0.42 4 Artour Babaitsev (Rus) Nürnberger - Versicherung 0.45 5 Danny Pate (USA) Prime Alliance 0.53 6 Thomas Liese (Ger) Nürnberger - Versicherung 1.02 7 Phil Zajicek (USA) Mercury 1.09 8 Christian Werner (Ger) Nürnberger - Versicherung 1.36 9 Christian Poos (Lux) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 1.45 10 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Saturn 2.21 11 Petr Bencik (Cze) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 2.29 12 Soren Petersen (Den) Saturn 2.46 13 Tim Johnson (USA) Saturn 2.47 14 Mark Walters (Can) Navigators 3.14 15 Jose Rujano (Ven) Tecos - Turbo 3.37 16 François Parisien (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 3.58 17 Martin Laciak (Cze) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 4.04 18 Arquimedes Lam (Mex) Tecos - Turbo 4.21 19 Leonardo Zanotti (Ita) Mapei - Quick Step 4.30 20 Damon Kluck (USA) Saturn 4.34 21 Russell Stevenson (USA) Prime Alliance 4.40 22 Allan Davis (Aus) Mapei - Quick Step 5.10 23 Ciaran Power (Irl) Navigators 5.55 24 Vincent Templier (Fra) Oktos-Saint-Quentin 6.17 25 Mike Sayers (USA) Mercury 6.32 26 Johan Coenen (Bel) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 6.45 27 Sergey Tretyakov (Kaz) Kazakhstan 6.55 28 David McKenzie (Aus) IteamNova.com 8.01 29 Dominique Perras (Can) IteamNova.com 9.01 30 Cory Lange (Can) Québec 9.52 31 Holger Sievers (Ger) Nürnberger - Versicherung 11.23 32 Florencio Ramos (Mex) Tecos - Turbo 11.51 33 Ubaldo Mesa (Col) Tecos - Turbo 12.02 34 Oleg Grishkine (Rus) Navigators 13.15 35 Gordon Fraser (Can) Mercury 14.06 36 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Mapei - Quick Step 16.09 37 Andy Cappelle (Bel) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 25.14 38 Tom Leaper (Aus) Navigators 27.28 39 Dominique Rollin (Can) Sympatico - Jet Fuel Coffe 27.58 40 Scott Guyton (NZl) IteamNova.com 28.31 41 Martin Gilbert (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 29.12 42 Jesus Zarate (Mex) Mercury 29.40 43 Bruno Langlois (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 30.04 44 Steven De Neef (Bel) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 30.26 45 Jean-François Laroche (Can) Sympatico - Jet Fuel 30.35 46 Charles Dionne (Can) 7UP Nutra Fig 30.50 47 John Lieswyn (USA) 7UP Nutra Fig 31.13 48 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Marlux - Ville de Charle 32.05 49 Michal Precechtel (Cze) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 32.13 50 Christopher Baldwin (USA) Navigators 33.14 51 Jay Sweet (Aus) Saturn 34.30 52 Alexandre Chouffe (Fra) Oktos-Saint-Quentin 34.39 53 Vladimir Bushanskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan 34.46 54 Martin St-Laurent (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 34.57 55 Vassili Davidenko (Rus) Navigators 35.06 56 Siro Camponogara (Ita) Navigators 35.08 57 Jose Manuel Garcia (Mex) Tecos - Turbo 35.13 58 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Mapei - Quick Step 35.54 59 Henk Vogels (Aus) Mercury 35.57 60 Adham Sbeih (USA) Mercury 36.39 61 Svein Tuft (Can) Prime Alliance 37.08 62 Jean-Sébastien Maheu (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 37.36 63 Doug Ziewacz (USA) 7UP Nutra Fig 37.40 64 Johan Dekkers (Bel) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 37.42 65 Cédric Sermet (Swi) Les Espoirs de Laval 37.43 66 Alexandre Lavallée (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 41.26 67 Christian Lademann (Ger) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 41.49 68 Greg Henderson (NZl) 7UP Nutra Fig 44.17 69 John Peters (USA) Prime Alliance 44.52 70 Sasa Sviben (Slo) Nürnberger - Versicherung 48.17 71 Chris Fisher (USA) Saturn 48.55 72 Werner Riebenbauer (Aut) Nürnberger - Versicherun 48.58 73 Sergey Lavrenenko (Kaz) Kazakhstan 48.59 74 Jean-François Racine (Can) Québec 51.20 75 Denis Tupchenko (Kaz) Kazakhstan 52.32 76 Yuriy Yuda (Kaz) Kazakhstan 52.34 77 Trent Wilson (Aus) IteamNova.com 54.37 78 Corey Jay (Can) Les Espoirs de Laval 58.27 79 Jeff Hansen (Can) Atlas Cold-Ital Pasta CC 1.03.32 80 Charles Coyle (USA) 7UP Nutra Fig 1.06.21 81 Andrew Pinfold (Can) Atlas Cold-Ital Pasta CC 1.06.40 82 Josh Hall (Can) Sympatico - Jet Fuel Coffee 1.06.53 83 Philippe Viau (Can) Sympatico - Jet Fuel Coffee 1.07.58 84 Ariel De Cardenas (Can) Québec 1.12.25 85 Jaromir Friede (Cze) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 1.17.52 86 Alain Guimont (Can) Les Espoirs de Laval 1.23.36 87 Ross Hooker (Can) Atlas Cold-Ital Pasta CC 1.31.22 88 Jose Isabel Garcia (Mex) Tecos - Turbo 1.57.29 Points classification 1 Lubor Tesar (Cze) Nürnberger - Versicherung 57 pts 2 Gordon Fraser (Can) Mercury 46 3 David McKenzie (Aus) IteamNova.com 37 4 Allan Davis (Aus) Mapei - Quick Step 36 5 Charles Dionne (Can) 7UP Nutra Fig 36 6 Michael Rogers (Aus) Mapei - Quick Step 32 7 Matt Decanio (USA) Prime Alliance 29 8 Soren Petersen (Den) Saturn 27 9 Danny Pate (USA) Prime Alliance 23 10 Andy Cappelle (Bel) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 23 11 Petr Bencik (Cze) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 22 12 Jay Sweet (Aus) Saturn 19 13 Michal Precechtel (Cze) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 18 14 Artour Babaitsev (Rus) Nürnberger - Versicherung 18 15 Thomas Liese (Ger) Nürnberger - Versicherung 16 16 Ciaran Power (Irl) Navigators 15 17 Phil Zajicek (USA) Mercury 15 18 Christian Lademann (Ger) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 15 19 Jaromir Friede (Cze) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 15 20 Vassili Davidenko (Rus) Navigators 14 21 Christian Poos (Lux) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 11 22 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Saturn 11 23 Christian Werner (Ger) Nürnberger - Versicherung 11 24 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Mapei - Quick Step 11 25 Andrew Pinfold (Can) Atlas Cold-Ital Pasta CC 11 26 John Lieswyn (USA) 7UP Nutra Fig 10 27 Martin Laciak (Cze) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 9 28 Arquimedes Lam (Mex) Tecos - Turbo 8 29 Tom Leaper (Aus) Navigators 7 30 Alexandre Chouffe (Fra) Oktos-Saint-Quentin 7 31 Martin Gilbert (Can) Volkswagen - Trek 6 32 Leonardo Zanotti (Ita) Mapei - Quick Step 6 33 Chris Fisher (USA) Saturn 6 34 Damon Kluck (USA) Saturn 5 35 Mark Walters (Can) Navigators 5 36 Sergey Tretyakov (Kaz) Kazakhstan 5 37 Mike Sayers (USA) Mercury 4 38 Oleg Grishkine (Rus) Navigators 4 39 Tim Johnson (USA) Saturn 3 40 Svein Tuft (Can) Prime Alliance 3 41 Greg Henderson (NZl) 7UP Nutra Fig 3 42 Doug Ziewacz (USA) 7UP Nutra Fig 3 43 Johan Coenen (Bel) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 2 44 Russell Stevenson (USA) Prime Alliance 2 45 Jose Rujano (Ven) Tecos - Turbo 2 46 Sasa Sviben (Slo) Nürnberger - Versicherung 2 47 Josh Hall (Can) Sympatico - Jet Fuel Coffee 2 48 Corey Jay (Can) Les Espoirs de Laval 2 49 Christopher Baldwin (USA) Navigators 1 Mountains classification 1 Christopher Baldwin (USA) Navigators 35 pts 2 Jose Rujano (Ven) Tecos - Turbo 32 3 Johan Coenen (Bel) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 27 4 Stéphane Barthe (Fra) Oktos-Saint-Quentin 27 5 Andy Cappelle (Bel) Marlux - Ville de Charleroi 21 6 Doug Ziewacz (USA) 7UP Nutra Fig 20 7 Leonardo Zanotti (Ita) Mapei - Quick Step 18 8 Michael Rogers (Aus) Mapei - Quick Step 13 9 Matt Decanio (USA) Prime Alliance 13 10 Lubor Tesar (Cze) Nürnberger - Versicherung 10 11 Martin Laciak (Cze) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 10 12 Ubaldo Mesa (Col) Tecos - Turbo 10 13 Mark Walters (Can) Navigators 9 14 Christian Werner (Ger) Nürnberger - Versicherung 8 15 Arquimedes Lam (Mex) Tecos - Turbo 8 16 Phil Zajicek (USA) Mercury 7 17 Alan Iacuone (Aus) IteamNova.com 7 18 Tom Leaper (Aus) Navigators 7 19 Danny Pate (USA) Prime Alliance 6 20 Holger Sievers (Ger) Nürnberger - Versicherung 5 21 Petr Bencik (Cze) Wüstenrot - Zvvz 4 22 David McKenzie (Aus) IteamNova.com 3 23 Soren Petersen (Den) Saturn 3 24 Thomas Liese (Ger) Nürnberger - Versicherung 3 25 Alexandre Chouffe (Fra) Oktos-Saint-Quentin 3 26 Vincent Templier (Fra) Oktos-Saint-Quentin 3 27 Chris Fisher (USA) Saturn 3 28 Trent Wilson (Aus) IteamNova.com 3 29 Damon Kluck (USA) Saturn 2 30 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Mapei - Quick Step 2 31 John Lieswyn (USA) 7UP Nutra Fig 2 32 Dominique Perras (Can) IteamNova.com 1 33 Werner Riebenbauer (Aut) Nürnberger - Versicherun 1 Teams classification 1 Nürnberger Versicherung 50.29.23 2 Prime Alliance Cycling Team 3.23 3 Saturn Cycling Team 5.23 4 Mapei - Quick Step 8.23 5 Mercury Cycling Team 12.04 6 Tecos - Turbo 13.10 7 Navigators Cycling Team 13.17 8 Iteamnova.Com 23.02 9 Marlux - Ville De Charleroix 30.44 10 Wüstenrot - Zvvz 37.24 11 Volkswagen - Trek 57.57 12 Kazakhstan 1.24.12 13 Sympatico - Jet Fuel Coffee 1.31.55 14 7Up Nutra Fig 1.38.29 15 Équipe Québec 2.00.35 16 Les Espoirs De Laval 2.16.36 17 Atlas Cold / Ital Pasta C.C. 2.19.00
