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Tour of Britain - 2.1
Great Britain, August 29-September 3, 2006
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Stage 5 - September 2: Rochester to Canterbury, 152.6km
No House party in Canterbury in go-slow show
By Gerry McManus in Canterbury
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Francesco Chicchi (QuickStep-Innergetic) won the final sprint into Canterbury on Saturday, September 2 after racing had finally started with less than 2km to go – much to the disappointment of Britain's Kristian House (Recycling.co.uk). The talented rider, originally a resident in the local town of Ashford in Kent, was expecting to race in front of friends and family on the way to Canterbury but the 27-year-old rider was left flat after they slowly cycled 152km to the finish.
The race left the start line in Rochester on time but due to a misunderstanding in directions the race took the wrong exit from a roundabout as they rode a parade lap through the town. Subsequently the race was stopped for around 25 minutes as the convoy and riders re-assembled. Fortunately the rain hadn't started at this point. After the race was officially started it became apparent that a number of teams were not prepared to race and the CSC team went to the front and rode "piano" between 18 and 22 mph.
The peloton wound its way through the Kent countryside at a fairly leisurely place and the mountains and sprint primes were ostensibly uncontested. It appeared the teams were not happy about the safety of the race and the go-slow was their protest to the race organisers. The rain that came down certainly didn't help persuade the riders to start racing as they donned rain capes.
When racing finally got going it was Ian Stannard (GB) that had the whole field lined out behind him as he hit the front with 500 metres to go. The big teams took control in the final 200m with Chicchi winning the gallop from Mark Cavendish (T-Mobile) and Aart Vierhouten (Skil-Shimano) finishing third. Points leader Russell Downing (Recycling.co.uk) came in fifth place and so Cavendish had finally wrestled the green jersey from his shoulders but the T-Mobile stagiaire only has a slender lead of two points going into the final London stage tomorrow.
Of course Martin Pedersen (CSC) retains the yellow jersey and the Dane decided to give the champagne spraying and post race interviews a miss. There was no change on leadership in the sprints or mountains competitions.
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House was livid at not being allowed to race. "No one wanted to race," said House: "I say no one but QuickStep didn't want to race and I guess T-Mobile didn't want to race. Whenever the smaller teams like us and the GB team attacked, they just brought us back and they abuse the hell out of you. I attacked through Dover after I was told over the radio that the race was on. My manager told me that all the other managers had said that they were going to race. I attacked and I got chased down by someone and one of the T-Mobile riders came over and just put me in the kerb just because they didn't want to race.
"Fair enough if they don't want to race but that's no reason why they should dictate it to the lesser riders like myself. I'm not a Pro-Tour rider or even a Continental professional. As far as they are concerned I am an amateur. I think it's outrageous. I can see their point and I know why they are doing it but the way they do it is out of order. We only started to race with 2km to go when the GB team took over from CSC on the front of the race. CSC were riding on the front just doing enough all day.
"Maybe this race could be a joke for them and it's not as big as other races they are doing," House continued: "For guys like me today has been the target of the last eight weeks training. Today was the stage for me but when you attack you get taken out of the race. This morning wasn't so bad really. OK so we had to stop and we were waiting around for about 25 minutes. It wasn't great and there was a mistake on the organisation but that doesn't mean that you have to sacrifice a whole day of racing."
Tomorrow the race goes from Greenwich into London over Tower Bridge and to Hampstead Heath finishing back in the city with 20 laps of a circuit based on The Mall in front of Buckingham Palace.
Photography
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Images by Gerry McManus/www.gerrymcmanus.co.uk
- The riders reach the village of Brenchley in Kent
- CSC on the front in the rain
- Current world champion Tom Boonen (QuickStep-Innergetic) leaves Rochester castle with Bert Roesems (Davitamon-Lotto)
- The race leaves from Rochester Castle
- QuickStep and CSC talk in the go slow race
- Kristian House (Recycling.co.uk) unhappy about racing tactics by the big teams
- Mark Cavendish (T-Mobile) now in the lead in the points competition
- Martin Pedersen (CSC) still in yellow
- Ian Stannard (GB) hits the front and lines 'em out!
- Francesco Chicchi (QuickStep) receives his trophies for winning stage 5
- Mark Cavendish (T Mobile) on the presentation podium to recieve the green jersey
- Mark Cavendish (T Mobile) gets the green jersey
- Mark Cavendish (T Mobile) gets the green jersey
- Fans waited up to two hours to see their heroes
- Pedersen still in yellow
- Schleck wins the KOM prime
Images by Larry Hickmott / British Cycling
- Working up a hill
- Staying up front as CSC continues to control the pace
- Tom Boonen (QuickStep) takes a rest while the race gets re-organised
- CSC still on the front on the climbs
- The bunch in one of kents villages
- Chicchi wins the stage
Images by Richard O'Brien
- The podium consisted of Andy Schleck (CSC), Martin Pedersen (CSC), Mark Cavendish (T-Mobile) and Johan van Sommeran (Davitamon Lotto)
- Paul Manning (Landbouwkrediet) and Russell Downing (DFL) found time to catch up during the delay.
- Ben Greenwood (Recycling) talks to his team manager John Herety to see what the team tactics are.
- Brian Holm (T-Mobile) and John Herety (Recycling) talk team tactics during the stage.
Results
1 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) QuickStep-Innergetic 4.24.42 2 Mark Cavendish (GBr) T-Mobile 3 Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Skil-Shimano 4 James Vanlandschoot (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 5 Russell Downing (GBr) DFL-Cycling News-Litespeed 6 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 7 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Unibet.com 8 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 9 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Skil-Shimano 10 Iljo Keisse (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport 11 Enrico Degano (Ita) Barloworld 12 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 13 Roger Hammond (GBr) Great Britain 0.03 14 Nico Mattan (Bel) Davitamon Lotto 0.05 15 Kenny Lisabeth (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport 16 Hugo Sabido (Por) Barloworld 17 Luis Pasamontes (Spa) Unibet.com 18 Mirko Allegrini (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 19 Michael Morkov (Den) Denmark 20 Michael Rogers (Aus) T-Mobile 21 Luke Roberts (Aus) CSC 22 Nick Nuyens (Bel) QuickStep-Innergetic 23 Martin Pedersen (Den) CSC 24 Cameron Jennings (Aus) DFL-Cycling News-Litespeed 25 Andy Cappelle (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 26 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) QuickStep-Innergetic 27 Erwin Thijs (Bel) Unibet.com 28 Ben Swift (GBr) Great Britain 0.10 29 Dean Downing (GBr) DFL-Cycling News-Litespeed 0.12 30 Christian Vandevelde (USA) CSC 0.14 31 Matteo Priamo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 0.17 32 Andre Steensen (Den) Denmark 33 Evan Oliphant (GBr) Recycling.co.uk 34 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Great Britain 35 Andy Schleck (Lux) CSC 36 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Phonak iShares 37 Karsten Kroon (Ned) CSC 38 Kristan House (GBr) Recycling.co.uk 0.22 39 Rene Weissinger (Ger) Skil-Shimano 40 Simon Clarke (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 0.25 41 Rob Partridge (GBr) Recycling.co.uk 42 Ryan Cox (RSA) Barloworld 43 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile 44 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) QuickStep-Innergetic 45 Igor Astarloa (Spa) Barloworld 46 Mads Christensen (Den) Barloworld 47 Frederik Veuchulen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport 48 Ben Greenwood (GBr) Recycling.co.uk 49 Koen Barbe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport 50 James Meadley (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 51 Axel Merckx (Bel) Phonak iShares 52 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) QuickStep-Innergetic 53 Alex Coutts (GBr) DFL-Cycling News-Litespeed 54 Edward Clancy (GBr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 55 Ian Stannard (GBr) Great Britain 56 Alex Rasmussen (Den) Denmark 57 Frederik Willems (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport 58 Mathew Lloyd (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 59 Ross Sander (GBr) Great Britain 0.33 60 Christopher Newton (GBr) Recycling.co.uk 0.45 61 Bert Roesems (Bel) Davitamon Lotto 62 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile 63 Patrick McCarty (USA) Phonak iShares 64 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Davitamon Lotto 65 Paul Manning (GBr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 66 Andrew Tennant (GBr) Great Britain 67 Jonathon Clarke (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 68 Shaun Higgerson (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 69 Leon Van Bon (Ned) Davitamon Lotto 70 Nick Gates (Aus) Davitamon Lotto 71 Robin Sharman (GBr) Recycling.co.uk 72 Tom Boonen (Bel) QuickStep-Innergetic 1.05 73 Jakob Piil (Den) CSC 74 Tom Barras (GBr) DFL-Cycling News-Litespeed 1.24 75 Casper Jorgensen (Den) Denmark 2.18 DNF Robert Hunter (RSA) Phonak iShares DNF Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Unibet.com DNS Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil-Shimano Sprints Sprint Prime: Tenterden 1 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Davitamon Lotto 5 pts 2 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) QuickStep-Innergetic 3 3 Iljo Keisse (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport 2 4 Karsten Kroon (Ned) CSC 1 Sprint Prime: Dover 1 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 5 pts 2 Iljo Keisse (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport 3 3 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Unibet.com 2 4 Luis Pasamontes (Spa) Unibet.com 1 Sprint Prime: Densole 1 Iljo Keisse (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport 5 pts 2 Mirko Allegrini (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 3 3 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Skil-Shimano 2 4 Michael Rogers (Aus) T-Mobile 1 Mountains KOM Cat 3: Paddock Wood 1 Bert Roesems (Bel) Davitamon Lotto 4 pts 2 Andy Schleck (Lux) CSC 3 3 Ben Greenwood (GBr) Recycling.co.uk 2 4 Jakob Piil (Den) CSC 1 KOM Cat 3: Goudhurst 1 Andy Schleck (Lux) CSC 4 pts 2 Bert Roesems (Bel) Davitamon Lotto 3 3 Christian Vandevelde (USA) CSC 2 4 Luis Pasamontes (Spa) Unibet.com 1 KOM Cat 2: Blackhouse Hill 1 Andy Schleck (Lux) CSC 6 pts 2 Ben Greenwood (GBr) Recycling.co.uk 5 3 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Davitamon Lotto 4 KOM Cat 2: Crete Road 1 Andy Schleck (Lux) CSC 6 pts 2 Luke Roberts (Aus) CSC 5 3 Jakob Piil (Den) CSC 4 4 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) QuickStep-Innergetic 3 5 Martin Pedersen (Den) CSC 2 6 Christian Vandevelde (USA) CSC 1 Teams 1 Skil-Shimano 13.14.06 2 Unibet.com 0.05 3 QuickStep-Innergetic 0.10 4 DFL-Cycling News-Litespeed 0.17 5 Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 0.22 6 CSC 0.24 7 T-Mobile 0.30 8 Barloworld 9 Chocolade Jacques-Topsport 10 Great Britain 11 Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 12 Denmark 0.47 13 Recycling.co.uk 1.04 14 South Australia.com-AIS 1.15 15 Phonak iShares 1.27 16 Davitamon Lotto 1.35 General classification after stage 5 1 Martin Pedersen (Den) CSC 19.50.43 2 Luis Pasamontes (Spa) Unibet.com 0.51 3 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) QuickStep-Innergetic 2.11 4 Michael Rogers (Aus) T-Mobile 2.46 5 Nick Nuyens (Bel) QuickStep-Innergetic 2.47 6 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Phonak iShares 3.07 7 Iljo Keisse (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport 3.12 8 Andy Schleck (Lux) CSC 3.14 9 Russell Downing (GBr) DFL-Cycling News-Litespeed 3.16 10 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Skil-Shimano 3.19 11 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 3.25 12 Mirko Allegrini (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 3.27 13 Hugo Sabido (Por) Barloworld 3.34 14 Andy Cappelle (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 3.35 15 Erwin Thijs (Bel) Unibet.com 16 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 3.42 17 Karsten Kroon (Ned) CSC 3.45 18 Kristan House (GBr) Recycling.co.uk 3.48 19 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile 3.55 20 Roger Hammond (GBr) Great Britain 4.13 21 James Vanlandschoot (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 4.20 22 Luke Roberts (Aus) CSC 4.21 23 Michael Morkov (Den) Denmark 4.39 24 Ian Stannard (GBr) Great Britain 5.35 25 Ryan Cox (RSA) Barloworld 8.13 26 Mark Cavendish (GBr) T-Mobile 16.08 27 Jakob Piil (Den) CSC 16.19 28 Simon Clarke (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 18.28 29 Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Skil-Shimano 21.31 30 Kenny Lisabeth (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport 21.43 31 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) QuickStep-Innergetic 22.06 32 Tom Boonen (Bel) QuickStep-Innergetic 22.46 33 Andrew Tennant (GBr) Great Britain 23.09 34 Leon Van Bon (Ned) Davitamon Lotto 26.18 35 Frederik Willems (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport 26.30 36 Cameron Jennings (Aus) DFL-Cycling News-Litespeed 26.35 37 Paul Manning (GBr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 26.58 38 Rob Partridge (GBr) Recycling.co.uk 27.13 39 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Davitamon Lotto 27.17 40 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Great Britain 27.18 41 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) QuickStep-Innergetic 30.41 42 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) QuickStep-Innergetic 31.20 43 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Unibet.com 31.31 44 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 31.32 45 Enrico Degano (Ita) Barloworld 31.42 46 Dean Downing (GBr) DFL-Cycling News-Litespeed 31.44 47 Nico Mattan (Bel) Davitamon Lotto 31.47 48 Andre Steensen (Den) Denmark 31.49 49 Christian Vandevelde (USA) CSC 31.56 50 Alex Rasmussen (Den) Denmark 31.57 51 Koen Barbe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport 52 Evan Oliphant (GBr) Recycling.co.uk 31.59 53 Frederik Veuchulen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport 32.07 54 Igor Astarloa (Spa) Barloworld 55 Ben Greenwood (GBr) Recycling.co.uk 56 James Meadley (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 57 Axel Merckx (Bel) Phonak iShares 58 Mads Christensen (Den) Barloworld 59 Alex Coutts (GBr) DFL-Cycling News-Litespeed 60 Mathew Lloyd (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 61 Bert Roesems (Bel) Davitamon Lotto 32.17 62 Nick Gates (Aus) Davitamon Lotto 32.27 63 Patrick McCarty (USA) Phonak iShares 64 Robin Sharman (GBr) Recycling.co.uk 65 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile 66 Shaun Higgerson (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 32.44 67 Ben Swift (GBr) Great Britain 33.22 68 Tom Barras (GBr) DFL-Cycling News-Litespeed 33.23 69 Matteo Priamo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 33.38 70 Edward Clancy (GBr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 33.40 71 Casper Jorgensen (Den) Denmark 34.24 72 Jonathon Clarke (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 34.49 73 Ross Sander (GBr) Great Britain 35.10 74 Christopher Newton (GBr) Recycling.co.uk 37.41 75 Rene Weissinger (Ger) Skil-Shimano 38.37 Points classification 1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) T-Mobile 49 pts 2 Russell Downing (GBr) DFL-Cycling News-Litespeed 47 3 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) QuickStep-Innergetic 44 4 James Vanlandschoot (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 35 5 Martin Pedersen (Den) CSC 27 6 Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Skil-Shimano 27 7 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) QuickStep-Innergetic 26 8 Roger Hammond (GBr) Great Britain 24 9 Iljo Keisse (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport 22 10 Enrico Degano (Ita) Barloworld 17 11 Alex Rasmussen (Den) Denmark 16 12 Frederik Willems (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport 15 13 Luis Pasamontes (Spa) Unibet.com 14 14 Michael Rogers (Aus) T-Mobile 14 15 Nick Nuyens (Bel) QuickStep-Innergetic 14 16 Paul Manning (GBr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 13 17 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Skil-Shimano 12 18 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) QuickStep-Innergetic 12 19 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Phonak iShares 11 20 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Great Britain 11 21 Andy Schleck (Lux) CSC 10 22 Cameron Jennings (Aus) DFL-Cycling News-Litespeed 10 23 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 9 24 Rob Partridge (GBr) Recycling.co.uk 9 25 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Unibet.com 9 26 Kenny Lisabeth (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport 8 27 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Davitamon Lotto 8 28 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 8 29 Mirko Allegrini (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 7 30 Rene Weissinger (Ger) Skil-Shimano 7 31 Kristan House (GBr) Recycling.co.uk 6 32 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 5 33 Karsten Kroon (Ned) CSC 4 34 Erwin Thijs (Bel) Unibet.com 3 35 Luke Roberts (Aus) CSC 3 36 Hugo Sabido (Por) Barloworld 2 37 Dean Downing (GBr) DFL-Cycling News-Litespeed 2 38 Nico Mattan (Bel) Davitamon Lotto 2 39 Ross Sander (GBr) Great Britain 2 Sprints classification 1 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Davitamon Lotto 30 pts 2 Martin Pedersen (Den) CSC 18 3 Iljo Keisse (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport 13 4 Luis Pasamontes (Spa) Unibet.com 8 5 Nick Nuyens (Bel) QuickStep-Innergetic 7 6 Luke Roberts (Aus) CSC 7 7 Frederik Willems (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-Topsport 7 8 Michael Rogers (Aus) T-Mobile 6 9 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 6 10 Bert Roesems (Bel) Davitamon Lotto 6 11 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) QuickStep-Innergetic 3 12 Mirko Allegrini (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 3 13 Rob Partridge (GBr) Recycling.co.uk 3 14 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) QuickStep-Innergetic 3 15 Paul Manning (GBr) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 3 16 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) QuickStep-Innergetic 3 17 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Skil-Shimano 2 18 Hugo Sabido (Por) Barloworld 2 19 Cameron Jennings (Aus) DFL-Cycling News-Litespeed 2 20 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Unibet.com 2 21 Karsten Kroon (Ned) CSC 2 22 Christian Vandevelde (USA) CSC 1 Mountains classification 1 Andy Schleck (Lux) CSC 50 pts 2 Bert Roesems (Bel) Davitamon Lotto 31 3 Ben Greenwood (GBr) Recycling.co.uk 31 4 Martin Pedersen (Den) CSC 25 5 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Davitamon Lotto 23 6 Luke Roberts (Aus) CSC 11 7 Luis Pasamontes (Spa) Unibet.com 10 8 Jakob Piil (Den) CSC 10 9 James Vanlandschoot (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 8 10 Christian Vandevelde (USA) CSC 8 11 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) QuickStep-Innergetic 7 12 Nick Nuyens (Bel) QuickStep-Innergetic 6 13 Karsten Kroon (Ned) CSC 6 14 Hugo Sabido (Por) Barloworld 5 15 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) QuickStep-Innergetic 4 16 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 4 17 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) QuickStep-Innergetic 4 18 Cameron Jennings (Aus) DFL-Cycling News-Litespeed 3 19 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile 3 20 Michael Rogers (Aus) T-Mobile 2 21 Mark Cavendish (GBr) T-Mobile 2 22 Axel Merckx (Bel) Phonak iShares 2 23 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Phonak iShares 1 24 Ryan Cox (RSA) Barloworld 1 25 Rob Partridge (GBr) Recycling.co.uk 1 26 Ben Swift (GBr) Great Britain 1 Teams classification 1 CSC 59.39.12 2 Unibet.com 1.00 3 QuickStep-Innergetic 14.49 4 T-Mobile 16.07 5 Great Britain 19.04 6 Skil-Shimano 21.23 7 Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 27.35 8 Barloworld 36.27 9 Phonak iShares 36.44 10 Chocolade Jacques-Topsport 44.37 11 DFL-Cycling News-Litespeed 54.37 12 Recycling.co.uk 55.59 13 Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 59.57 14 Denmark 1.01.22 15 South Australia.com-AIS 1.13.03 16 Davitamon Lotto 1.14.36
