Bergen wins Canadian Criterium Championships

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The 2018 Canadian Road Championships continued on Sunday with the Criterium Challenge in Chicoutimi, Quebec. Rally Cycling took their fourth title of the week with Sara Bergen's win in the women's event.

Rally dominated the race, held over laps of a 1.6km circuit, sending off a series of attacks and chasing down moves by danger riders Leah Kirchmann (Team Sunweb) and Alison Jackson (Tibco-SVB). Bergen soloed off the front in the final 10 minutes of the race after an attack by Jackson was brought back, and came close to lapping the field. Kirchmann attacked the group to chase, but was marked by Bergen's teammate and new road-race champion Katherine Maine, who outsprinted Kirchmann for second.

"It's been a great week," said Bergen, "and I want to give a huge shoutout to all of my teammates. We were definitely eager to go for the win, and we respect that the other riders were strong, but we were confident in the legs we had. Alison came back from a go and Leah put in a dig, so I knew that was the time to go, after that came back. When you feel the worst, that's the time to go and I felt pretty terrible, so it was time to go!" 

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