City of Glenelg Criterium Championships, December 26, 1997Glenelg is a beach suburb of Adelaide. This is a traditional race which is held on a tight circuit just to the north of the main shopping area.Blustery conditions in this morning's City of Glenelg criterium saw 5 riders lap the field to take line honours. An early break by Gan's Stuart O'Grady was reeled in leaving Pt Adelaide's Matt Donnon behind to chase on his own. When O'Grady was caught at 3 laps to got Central Districts Corey Sweet counter attacked immediately opening up a 50m break only to be caught by GAN's work horse Patrick Jonker with 1 lap to go. The head wind sprint was lead out by Big Mats sprint specialist Jay Sweet and proved too much for Stuart O'Grady to counter. Open Men - 42 km 1. Jay Sweet (Aus) BigMat 2. Stuart O'Grady (Aus) GAN 3. Patrick Jonker (Aus) Rabobank 4. Corey Sweet (Aus) Central Districts CC 5. Matt Donnan (Aus) Port Adelaide CC Open Women's Race Centrals Districts Cycling Club riders claimed first and second in today's woman's criterium. Versatile Australian Scratch Race Champion Chelsey Zucker easily won the finishing sprint while Australian Road Champion Symeko Johinke cleaned up all the prime sprints and claiming second overall. Club mate and Junior world representative Joanne Robinson held off World Junior Champion Alana Burns for third place.
1. Chelsey Zucker (Central Districts) 2. Symeko Johinke (Central Districts) 3. Joanne Robinson (Adelaide Cycling Club) 4. Alana Burns (Kilkenny Cycling Club) Zingem, Belgium, Cyclo Cross, Cat A Championship of East-Flanders, December 25, 19971. Mario De Clercq (Bel) Palmans - champion of East-Flanders 2. Peter Van den Abeele (Bel) Proflex 3. B. Rondelez (Bel) elite 4. Andy Daelemans (Bel) elite 5. T. Pijnaert (Bel) elite Laszlo BodrogiTo lazy to look back into the records, I asked in response to a reader request about the whereabouts of Laszlo Bodrogi, the Espoirs TT 2nd place finisher at the Worlds.Well it was really a ploy to get my mate in Switzerland, Theo Muller to write and wish me a happy new year. Anyway he told me that for the period from September to December 1997, he is a stagiaire with the FESTINA team. In the last official UCI Ranking list (October 31th), he is listed as a member of Festina. Theo does not think he has been contracted for 1998 Festina's effort. SpinergyNo officials from the company have contacted me yet but two people "with influence" have said they are to be banned. Rumours still. |