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Wachovia Cycling Series
USA, June 3-8, 2003
Wachovia Classic - June 5: Trenton, NJ, 146km - 14 laps of 10.5km
Dean dashes to Trenton win
CSC goes two for two at Wachovia Cycling Series
By Tim Maloney in Trenton, New Jersey
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CSC's Julian Dean sprinted to a brilliant win at the Wachovia Series Trenton race today while the Kiwi and his powerful CSC squad continued to dominate the second round of the three race series.
It's been a long road back for the talented 28 year old Dean, who won at Trenton while on USPS in 2001. After changing teams over the winter in 2001, Dean broke his leg in a training crash early in 2002 and today's breakthrough win was the welcome end of a long road back for the New Zealand sprinter. "It was a good effort by the team", Dean told Cyclingnews on the way to the podium. "They pulled back the breakaway at the end and I then took my responsibility and could reward them for their effort with a win. It's been a pretty dry spell, you know. I've been a quite while without a victory; a lot of top threes but now I've cracked a victory," said the delighted Dean.
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"I felt good all day today; I had good form and felt good on Tuesday (Dean was third at Wachovia-Lancaster)…I knew I was strong and was going to be good in the sprint." Dean played his cards perfectly in Trenton, as an aggressive Chris Horner led out of the last right hand corner onto State Street, but CSC positioned Dean perfectly on the wheel of big Lars Michaelsen for the win.
Dean's CSC teammate Geert Van Bondt told Cyclingnews, "We put our seven guys on the front and we thought we were very good today. After Tuesday, we also knew Julian was very good and now he's showed he's the best sprinter here." Van Bondt, a winner of Gent-Wevelgem explained CSC's strategy, saying, "This race is a matter of attacking, attacking and you have to either have someone in the break or with the last break, we had no one so to take the responsibility to chase them down."
With two out of two now at Wachovia Cycling Series and with team boss Bjarne Riis in town to show off his CSC powerhouse squad to the home office of Computer Services Corporation, Van Bondt was positive. "So far so good and since Sunday is the most important race, let's hope we can make it three for three."
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Navigator's Russian champ Oleg Grishkine, runner up today seemed perplexed by Dean's turn of speed in the last 200 meters. "I went first but he was really strong! He passed me easy. Maybe I don't have enough speed. I'm on the podium again so I can just try again next year."
Grishkine's teammate Henk Vogels told Cyclingnews, "I had bronchitis on the plane over here from Australia last week. I was hacking and coughing and just felt lousy the last two races. It's always hard here. I reckon that Trenton is even harder than Philly because you're always on the pedals; Philly's just one hill ten times. But our guy was second today so we're pretty happy and Julian Dean is just flying now. Sunday's the big one and two days rest can do me wonders."
Fast Freddy Rodriguez was positive even though he finished just off the podium. "Today was nice for me," the Vini Caldirola rider said. "One thing was that my legs felt really good today. Trenton is a race that's usually won by a fast man with a little luck and a good team. CSC did the job perfectly today. I was trying to play off CSC and just got caught in the wrong spot at the wrong time in the last 300 meters. There was a crash in the last 2km that my teammates got caught behind so had to fend for myself at the end, but all in all, I'm happy that my legs are good since this is only my second race since Georgia in April." With his fourth place today, Rodriguez showed he has the legs to capture his third USPRO title on Sunday.
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Rodriguez's main competition for the stars and stripes pro jersey could be from Chris Horner (Saturn), who animated the day's only escape with two and a half laps to go. "Tactically CSC rode a good race and they won today; they have an incredibly strong team. We had some communication gaps happening there with some of our guys and it may or many not have cost us the race. But my form is getting a little bit better; not fantastic. I'm doing it on experience now, just knowing where to be."
With the pace of today's race around 50km/hr, few breaks stood a chance, until two-and-a-half laps to go, when Massimiliano Mori (Formaggi Pinzolo Fiave' ) attacked through the feed zone in Cadwallader Park and was joined by six others, including Saeco's Astarloa, USPS powerhouse Benoit Joachim, Horner and Prime Alliance's Dave Clinger. Although the break got a 30 second gap with two laps to go, Navigator's newly crowned US TT champ Chris Baldwin wasn't working and this, combined with huge pulls by CSC's Andrea Tafi behind doomed the move to oblivion with a little more than one lap to go.
When the others sat up, Horner kept going and his arch-rival Clinger covered the move, but the red and white CSC train was just too much. It was a special delivery sprint for CSC, who put the right man Dean in the right place again. "I've won Trenton the last two times I've been here so maybe it is the perfect race for me," said Dean. "It has been a very rewarding week so far for CSC and we really want to show America what a great team we are."
Photography
Images by Jonathan Devich/www.wachoviacycling.com
- The group rolls through town on the first lap
- USPS comes to the front to help CSC with the chase
- Matt White (USPS) helps drive the chase
- Benoit Joachim (USPS) makes a jump for it
- Andrea Tafi (CSC) rode strongly all day in support of his teammates
- Chann McRae (Schroeder Iron) rides his last race in his national champion's jersey
- The CSC team works hard to bring back the break with 2 laps to go.
- A small group tries to sneak its way off the front with 3 to go
- Uros Murn (Formaggi Pinzolo) accelerates out of one of the tighter high-speed turns
- Eric Wholberg (Saturn) lays his bike over coming through turn 2
- Julian Dean (CSC) took the sprint today as "revenge" for his third place on Tuesday in Lancaster
- The podium (L-R): Oleg Grishkine (Navigators, 2nd), Julian Dean (CSC, 1st) and Victor Rapinski (Saturn, 3rd)
Image by Kristy Scrymgeour/Cyclingnews.com
- The podium (L-R): Oleg Grishkine (Navigators, 2nd), Julian Dean (CSC, 1st) and Victor Rapinski (Saturn, 3rd)
Images by CQUAD.com
- Fred Rodriguez's rig
- Freddy pinning his number
- Team Sierra Nevada Clif Bar going over today's plan for the race
- New Director of Schroeder Iron Frankie Andreu
- Sportsbook.com's Guillaume Nelessen and company
- Saturn's Trent Klasna
- Team Webcor signing in
- CSC's Julian Dean signs on the dotted line
- Prime Alliance's Jonathan Vaughters and US Postal's Christan VandeVelde
- Navigators Russian National Champion Oleg Grishkine
- Navigators Henk Vogels sporting the Bob Roll mutton chops look
- Vini Caldirola's Fred Rodriguez signing in
- A different type of paceline on the course
- Smile Chann ....please
- Today is the last day that Chann McCae will wear the Stars and Stripes
- New Jersey's own Kevin Monahan of 7up Maxxis
- Fred Rodriguez always looking relaxed before a race
- Marty Nothstein and Fred Rodriguez shake hands
- The field begins to line up
- Marty and Fred share a laugh minutes before the start
- Russian National Champion Oleg Grishkine
- Saturn's Trent Klasna
- Navigators Henk Vogels
- Can we start now?
- Waiting .......
- And waiting ...
- And finally they're off!
- Clear and sunny in Trenton
- A clean start
- First break of the race
- But they are chased down quickly
- Jonathan Vaughters in the middle of the pack
- Coming out of the feed zone area and back onto the main drag
- Sportsbook.com support van had some muddy problems, Hello Mavic, van change please!
- Bring it on, you big bad Postie!
- Naviagtors Marty Nothstein and Henk Vogels
- CSC's Jakob Piil leads Schroeder Iron Chann McRae
- CSC leads the peloton going into final laps
- Everyone is keeping a close eye on one another
- US Postal's Beniot Joachim turns and burns
- CSC leads the peloton into the final lap
- Bad luck! Crashing in the final lap
- Sprinting to the line with the moto offical blocking the view
- Fred Rodriguez turns it on to the finish line as his teammate thinks he has the win
- But Julian Dean takes the win for CSC!
- Happy fans enjoying the finish
- Dean cleaning up after the race with Lancaster winner Jakob Piil
- Points winner MROZ's Kazimierz Stafiej
- Third place, Saturn's Viktor Rapinski
- Second Place Navigators Oleg Grishkine shaking hands with Saturn's Viktor Rapinski
- Navigators Oleg Grishkine waves to the crowd
- Julian Dean Making his way to the podium
- I shouldn't have had that last fruit drink
- The 2003 Wachovia Trenton winners
- Grishkine, Dean and Rapinski
Results - 146 km
1 Julian Dean (NZl) Team CSC 2.55.49 (49.82 km/h) 2 Oleg Grishkine (Rus) Navigators Cycling Team 3 Viktor Rapinski (Blr) Saturn Cycling Team 4 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Sidermec 5 Lars Michaelsen (Den) Team CSC 6 Charles Dionne (Can) Saturn Cycling Team 7 Mariano Friedick (USA) Jelly Belly 8 Oscar Pineda (Gua) 7UP / Maxxis 9 Uros Murn (Slo) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiavé 10 Henk Vogels (Aus) Navigators Cycling Team 11 Gregory Henderson (NZl) 7UP / Maxxis 12 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Sidermec 13 Antonio Bucciero (Ita) Team Saeco 14 Antonio Cruz (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 15 Jackson Stewart (USA) Ofoto-Lombardi Sports 16 Chris Horner (USA) Saturn Cycling Team 17 Russell Hamby (USA) Ofoto-Lombardi Sports 18 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Team Saeco 19 Kevin Monahan (USA) 7UP / Maxxis 20 Nathan Russell (Aus) Colavita Bolla 21 John Lieswyn (USA) 7UP / Maxxis 22 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Mroz 23 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Flanders-IteamNova.com 24 Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiavé 25 Todd Littlehales (USA) Sierra Nevada-Clif Bar 26 Christopher Pic (USA) 7UP / Maxxis 27 Marco Gili (Ita) Sidermec 28 Jonathon Page (USA) Prime Alliance Cycling Team 29 Chann McRae (USA) Schroeder Iron Cycling Team 30 Mark McCormack (USA) Saturn Cycling Team 31 Michael Barry (Can) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 32 David Clinger (USA) Prime Alliance Cycling Team 33 Simon Kessler (RSA) Sportsbook.com 0.05 34 Kirk Albers (USA) Jelly Belly 35 Simone Masciarelli (Ita) Sidermec 36 Paul Martin (USA) West Virginia 37 Erik Saunders (USA) Ofoto-Lombardi Sports 38 Tristan Hoffman (Ned) Team CSC 39 Pietro Zucconi (Swi) Sidermec 40 Jacob Erker (Can) Schroeder Iron Cycling Team 41 Brent Dawson (Aus) Jelly Belly 42 Martin Wayne Nothstein (USA) Navigators Cycling Team 43 Cameron Hughes (Aus) Schroeder iron 44 Chris Wherry (USA) Navigators Cycling Team 45 Robbie Ventura (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 46 Andrew Crater (USA) Lemond Fitness-Blender 47 Christian Vandevelde (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 48 Trent Klasna (USA) Saturn Cycling Team 49 Keith Horowitz (USA) Ofoto 50 Jonathan Sundt (USA) Jittery Joe's Cycling Team 51 Brice Jones (USA) 7UP / Maxxis 0.16 52 Peter Lopinto (USA) Ofoto-Lombardi Sports 53 Kenny Labbe (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 54 Gustavo Artacho (Arg) Colavita Bolla 55 Andrea Tafi (Ita) Team CSC 56 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Saturn Cycling Team 57 Dominique Perras (Can) Flanders-IteamNova.com 58 Matt Dubberley (USA) Sierra Nevada-Clif Bar 59 Juan Fuentes Angullo (Spa) Team Saeco 0.24 60 John Kelly (USA) Webcor Cycling Team 61 David Wenger (USA) West Virginia Cycling Team 62 David Wyandt (USA) Webcor Cycling Team 63 Andrea Masciarelli (Ita) Sidermec 64 Chris Fisher (USA) Jelly Belly 65 Jeff Louder (USA) Navigators Cycling Team 66 Benoît Joachim (Lux) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 67 Domenico Gualdi (Ita) Formaggi Pinzolo Fiavé 68 Adam Livingston (USA) Schroeder Iron Cycling Team 69 Ivan Dominguez (Cub) Saturn Cycling Team 70 Jimmi Madsen (Den) Team CSC
Past Winners
2002 Gord Fraser (Can) Mercury 1.45.08 2001 Julian Dean (NZl) US Postal Service 2000 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Mapei-Quick Step 147.5 kms in 3.04.16 (47.00 km/h) 1999 George Hincapie (USA) US Postal 146.5 kms in 3.07.07 1998 Jan Svorada (Cze) Mapei-Bricobi 150.0 kms in 2.50.14 1999 Jay Sweet (Aus) ZVVZ-Giant-AIS
