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Le Tour du Grand Montréal - 2.1
Canada, May 29-June 1, 2006
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Stage 3 - May 31: Petite Italie criterium, 50km
Bates wins in Little Italy and the directeurs battle before the start
By Kirsten Robbins
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Nurnberger's Australian national champion, Kate Bates won a sprint between her three break away companions in this evening's rain stricken criterium. Kim Anderson of T-Mobile and Chrissy Ruiter of Victory Brewing placed second and third respectively.
"In these conditions it is almost better to be in a breakaway," said Kate Bates. "Actually once it started raining hard our gap on the field grew and then became very consistent."
The women began stage three seeing fifty laps to go on the lap counter. The race was held just before sun down and the fans in Montreal crowded the streets to watch the event.
Early in the race there was a break that included T-Mobile threat Ina Teutenberg, Nurnberger's Trixi Worrack and TEAm Lipton's Kori Seehawfer. The break was brought back by a series of attacks from teams who wanted to bridge to it. There were a series of further attacks launched by T-Mobile keeping the peloton in single file for the first half of the race.
At the halfway point of the race, four riders took advantage of a lull in the action to make their way off of the front. The break was initiated by Victory Brewing rider Chrissy Ruiter and covered by T-Mobile's Kim Anderson, Nurnberger's Kate Bates and Nobili's Elodie Touffet. "I started the break because I thought I had nothing to lose," said Ruiter.
This break proved to be the winning move and the four riders worked well together to maintain their lead on the field all the way to the line. "Our first and for most priority for the team is to go for the leaders jersey," said Bates. "Our secondary goal is to go for a stage win. It is always great for the team morale to win a stage."
Helen Kelly of Elk Haus attempted to bridge to the break with seventeen laps remaining. She remained in between the break and the peloton for several laps before being brought back to the group.
The four riders began looking to each other to take the lead with two laps to go. "I attacked with one and half laps to go because I new Kate Bates would win if it came down to a sprint," said Ruiter. "We all regrouped just before the finish a Touffet attacked. Once we caught her it went straight into the sprint and we were all side by side going for the line."
Kate Bates proved her sprint by winning the drag race to the line. "I am pretty confident in my sprint but I am a bit of a scaredy cat when it comes to big bunch finish," said Bates. "I know there are not too many people who can come around me. I am also happy because it is the first time that I have won a UCI race with my Australian national champion jersey."
The general classification remained intact after stage three tonight. Webcor-Platinum's Christine Thornburn remains in the leader's jersey, eight seconds ahead of Nurnberger's Trixi Worrack. Tomorrow will decide the winner of the 2006 Grand Tour du Montreal in the final stage, Mont St. Hilaire's 115-kilometer road race.
Team New Zealand's Karl Moore dominates the race for team glory
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The organization of the 2006 Grand Tour du Montreal held a fiercely-contested criterium for the staff of all the professional women's teams before the evening's stage. The directeur sportifs, mechanics and soigneurs lined up in their team attire ranging from full kits and time trail helmets to t-shirts and running shoes. All staff members were to complete a 4-lap battle to the end on the stage-three criterium circuit.
It was the camaraderie between the national team of Canada and New Zealand that helped Karl Moore win the race. "We decided that to beat the other big teams we had to work together," said Moore. "Jacques Landry is a local boy and he worked together with Vincent Jourdain to help me win tonight."
The final lap came down to a small group sprint won by Moore. Justin Morse placed second but was almost nipped on the line by the one fierce female Carmen D'Aluisio of Webcor-Platinum placing third.
"I was gong to wait for the testosterone to settle down in the first two laps," said D'Aluisio. "Then make my winning move." D'Aluisio is the defending champion from 2005.
The field completely shattered from the gun. Staff members were trying to close the gaps before the final lap and resorted to questionable tactics like sling shooting off of their tired competitors.
Directeur sportif of T-Mobile, Bek Andrzej told Cyclingnews pre race that "everything tactically will be illegal in the race this afternoon accept maybe one rule that we must stop for a beer after the completion of every lap."
Team staff registered for the event included Nurnberger, T-Mobile, Victory Brewing, Webcor-Platinum, Nobili, Canadian National Team, New Zealand National Team, TEAm Lipton, and Argon 18-Champion System amongst others.
The various team's staff members spent the majority of the morning plotting the demise of their opponent teams. "I am in good shape for this race with my last hard training ride being in January," said Nurnberger directeur sportif Dennis Sanding while testing his machine before the evening's race.
TEAm Lipton directeur sportif Thomas Liese said jokingly that, "Anje will win today because he is Polish and he knows how to cheat." This may have been an accurate comment as Andrzej was spotted slinging off of Mike Tamayo, directeur of Victory Brewing, to pass him at the line. This action disrupted the race goals of the duo Tamayo and his British partner in crime David Mellar.
In the end all participating staff members were happy with their performances in the criterium. It provided their athletes and the fans in Montreal a comedic opening to the start of the 2006 Tour du Grand Montreal stage three criterium in Little Italy.
Photography
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- Hero of the week Rachel Heal crashed hard in stage 2 and is back racing a crit that will finish in the rain. Heal is 6th in G.C.
- Team Nobili
- Jeremiah of T-Mobile and Dennis from Nurnberger star in the team staff race
- The start of the race
- TEAm Lipton’s Grace Fleury and Marie-Caroline Cote drive the pack
- Sigrid Corneo drives around the outside of Liza Rachetto and Annette Beutler
- Alison Shanks of New Zealand
- Kori Seehafer and Ina Teutenberg cornering hard
- Edwige Pitel, Elodie Touffet and Judith Arndt cornering hard
- Riders go through a turn on to the home straight
- Alexandra Le Henaff
- Kim Anderson leads Kori Seehafer and Elodie Touffet
- Grace Fleury leads Lauren Franges and Ina Teutenberg and the peloton
- Judith Arndt Rachel Heal, Oenone Wood in the peloton in the rain
- Elk Haus No rider Helen Kelly riding in the rain
- Elodie Touffet leads the way for Katherine Bates, Kim Anderson and Christine Ruiter
- Katherine Bates eads Kim Anderson and Christine Ruiter
- The peloton with T-Mobile’s Judith Arndt, Nobili riders Olivia Gollan and Miho Oki as well as Team Nurnberger’s Oenone Wood and Trixi Worrack controlling the race to protect their breakaway riders.
- Katherine Bates (Nurnberger) wins the Little Italy crit in the rain
- Katherine Bates (Nurnberger)
- The top three
Results
1 Katherine Bates (Aus) Nurnberger Versicherung 1.12.51 2 Kimberly Anderson (USA) T-Mobile 3 Christina Ruiter (USA) Victory Brewing 4 Elodie Touffet (Fra) Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas 5 Alex Wrubleski (Can) Canadian national team 0.51 6 Oenone Wood (Aus) Nurnberger Versicherung 7 Rochelle Gilmore (Aus) Colorado Premier Training 8 Lisa Sweeney (Can) Colorado Premier Training 9 Kori Seehafer (USA) Lipton 10 Olivia Gollan (Aus) Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas 11 Nicky Wangsgard (USA) Colorado Premier Training 12 Annette Beutler (Swi) Elk Haus No (EHN) 13 Elisabeth Chevanne Brunel (Fra) Pruneaux d'Agen-Bianchi Aliverti Kookai 14 Judith Arndt (Ger) T-Mobile 15 Trixi Worrack (Ger) Nurnberger Versicherung 16 Sigrid Corneo (Ita) Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas 17 Amy Moore (Can) T-Mobile 18 Christine Thorburn (USA) Webcor-Platinum 19 Katie Mactier (Aus) Argon 18 -Champion system 20 Lang Meng (Chn) Giant pro cycling 21 Edwige Pitel (Fra) Pruneaux d'Agen-Bianchi Aliverti Kookai 22 Liza Rachetto (USA) Lipton 23 Emilie Roy (Can) Équipe du Québec 24 Betina Hold (Can) Webcor-Platinum 25 Gussepina Grassi (Mex) Mexican national team 26 Miho Oki (Jpn) Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas 27 Audrey Lemieux (Can) Équipe du Québec 28 Joëlle Numainville (Can) Biovail 29 Jennifer Stephenson (Can) Biovail 30 Leigh Hobson (Can) Victory Brewing 31 Lauren Franges (USA) Victory Brewing 32 Helen Kelly (Aus) Elk Haus No (EHN) 33 Gina Grain (Can) Giant pro cycling 34 Anne Samplonius (Can) Biovail 35 Kimberly Bruckner Baldwin (USA) T-Mobile 36 Moriah Macgregor (Can) Canadian national team 37 Joanie Caron (Can) Équipe du Québec 38 Toni Bradshaw (NZl) Pruneaux d'Agen-Bianchi Aliverti Kookai 39 Amanda Shaw (Can) Biovail 40 Rachel Heal (GBr) Victory Brewing 41 Milena Pirola (Ita) Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas 42 Marie-Pier Bédard (Can) Équipe du Québec 43 Alexandra Le Henaff (Fra) Pruneaux d'Agen-Bianchi Aliverti Kookai 44 Megan Elliott (USA) Argon 18 -Champion system 45 Heather Lamson (Can) Canadian national team 46 Katharine Carroll (USA) Victory Brewing 47 Alison Testroete (Can) Canadian national team 48 Karin Ruso (Aut) Elk Haus No (EHN) 49 Karol-Ann Canuel (Can) Équipe du Québec 50 Felicia Gomez (Can) Webcor-Platinum 51 Kristin Armstrong (USA) Lipton 52 Élisa Gagnon (Can) Équipe du Québec 53 Anke Wichmann (Ger) Nurnberger Versicherung 54 Tina Liebig (Ger) Nurnberger Versicherung 55 Katheryn Curi (USA) Webcor-Platinum 56 Grace Fleury (USA) Lipton 57 Min Gao (Chn) Giant pro cycling 58 Jessica Phillips (USA) Argon 18 -Champion system 59 Patricia Schwager (Swi) Elk Haus No (EHN) 60 Marisa Asplund (USA) Colorado Premier Training 61 Meredith Miller (USA) Lipton 62 Stephanie Bourbeau (Can) Biovail 63 Marina Duvnjak (NZl) New Zealand national team 64 Christina Becker (Ger) T-Mobile 65 Yunmei Wu (Chn) Giant pro cycling 66 Claudia Hecht (Ger) Nurnberger Versicherung 67 Erinne Willock (Can) Webcor-Platinum 68 Johanna Buick (NZl) New Zealand national team 69 Hiroko Shimada (Jpn) Argon 18 -Champion system 70 Marta Vilajosana Andreu (Spa) Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini C 71 Leah Guloien (Can) BC Coastal 72 Alison Shanks (NZl) New Zealand national team 73 Barbara Zimich (Can) BC Coastal 74 Lnna Teutenberg (Ger) T-Mobile 75 Anna Tratnyek (Can) Canadian national team 76 Marie-Caroline Côté (Can) Cascades 77 Michelle Beltran (USA) Argon 18 -Champion system DNF Amy Mosen (NZl) New Zealand national team DNF Yanxia Jiang (Chn) Giant pro cycling DNF Xiangyin Ruan (Chn) Giant pro cycling DNF Tamara Boyd (NZl) Pruneaux d'Agen-Bianchi Aliverti Kookai DNF Berenice Castro (Mex) Mexican national team DNF Anna Garnette (Can) Biovail DNF Kami Tremblay (USA) Colorado Premier Training DNF Christina Briante (Can) BC Coastal DNF Julie Bellerose (Can) Ann Arbor Velo club DNF Wendy Caldwell (USA) Ann Arbor Velo club DNF Laura Johnson (USA) Ann Arbor Velo club DNF Dawn Lovejoy (USA) Ann Arbor Velo club DNF Christen King (USA) Argon 18 -Champion system DNF Amanda Cox (Can) Cascades DNS Dale Tye (NZl) New Zealand national team Teams 1 Nurnberger Versicherung 3.40.15 2 Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas 3 T-Mobile 4 Victory Brewing 5 Colorado Premier Training 0.51 6 Les Pruneaux d'Agen/Bianchi Aliverti Kookai mixed 7 Lipton 8 Canadian National Team 9 Équipe du Québec 10 Biovail 11 Webcor-Platinum 12 Elk Haus No 13 Giant pro cycling 14 Argon 18 -Champion system 15 New Zealand National Team General classification after stage 3 1 Christine Thorburn (USA) Webcor-Platinum 4.40.33 2 Trixi Worrack (Ger) Nurnberger Versicherung 0.08 3 Kori Seehafer (USA) Lipton 0.09 4 Kristin Armstrong (USA) Lipton 0.12 5 Judith Arndt (Ger) T-Mobile 0.18 6 Rachel Heal (GBr) Victory Brewing 0.25 7 Alex Wrubleski (Can) Canadian national team 0.29 8 Edwige Pitel (Fra) Pruneaux d'Agen-Bianchi Aliverti Kookai 9 Anne Samplonius (Can) Biovail 0.32 10 Kimberly Bruckner Baldwin (USA) T-Mobile 0.33 11 Oenone Wood (Aus) Nurnberger Versicherung 0.35 12 Olivia Gollan (Aus) Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas 0.42 13 Erinne Willock (Can) Webcor-Platinum 1.00 14 Annette Beutler (Swi) Elk Haus No (EHN) 1.06 15 Elisabeth Chevanne Brunel (Fra) Pruneaux d'Agen-Bianchi Aliverti Kookai 1.55 16 Kimberly Anderson (USA) T-Mobile 2.55 17 Elodie Touffet (Fra) Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas 3.24 18 Katherine Bates (Aus) Nurnberger Versicherung 3.26 19 Felicia Gomez (Can) Webcor-Platinum 3.32 20 Leigh Hobson (Can) Victory Brewing 3.35 21 Lauren Franges (USA) Victory Brewing 3.39 22 Meredith Miller (USA) Lipton 3.40 23 Marisa Asplund (USA) Colorado Premier Training 3.53 24 Amy Moore (Can) T-Mobile 3.56 25 Katie Mactier (Aus) Argon 18 -Champion system 3.59 26 Liza Rachetto (USA) Lipton 4.02 27 Jennifer Stephenson (Can) Biovail 4.07 28 Toni Bradshaw (NZl) Pruneaux d'Agen-Bianchi Aliverti Kookai 4.08 29 Gussepina Grassi (Mex) Mexican national team 4.29 30 Sigrid Corneo (Ita) Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas 31 Marta Vilajosana Andreu (Spa) Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini C 32 Tina Liebig (Ger) Nurnberger Versicherung 4.31 33 Amanda Shaw (Can) Biovail 4.33 34 Min Gao (Chn) Giant pro cycling 4.42 35 Miho Oki (Jpn) Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas 4.46 36 Patricia Schwager (Swi) Elk Haus No (EHN) 4.51 37 Alexandra Le Henaff (Fra) Pruneaux d'Agen-Bianchi Aliverti Kookai 4.56 38 Lang Meng (Chn) Giant pro cycling 5.11 39 Johanna Buick (NZl) New Zealand national team 5.15 40 Betina Hold (Can) Webcor-Platinum 5.30 41 Jessica Phillips (USA) Argon 18 -Champion system 42 Marina Duvnjak (NZl) New Zealand national team 6.18 43 Helen Kelly (Aus) Elk Haus No (EHN) 6.19 44 Heather Lamson (Can) Canadian national team 9.30 45 Christina Ruiter (USA) Victory Brewing 10.08 46 Grace Fleury (USA) Lipton 10.50 47 Alison Shanks (NZl) New Zealand national team 11.02 48 Katheryn Curi (USA) Webcor-Platinum 11.10 49 Katharine Carroll (USA) Victory Brewing 11.12 50 Nicky Wangsgard (USA) Colorado Premier Training 11.30 51 Joanie Caron (Can) Équipe du Québec 52 Lisa Sweeney (Can) Colorado Premier Training 11.32 53 Claudia Hecht (Ger) Nurnberger Versicherung 11.39 54 Alison Testroete (Can) Canadian national team 11.42 55 Audrey Lemieux (Can) Équipe du Québec 11.46 56 Karol-Ann Canuel (Can) Équipe du Québec 11.49 57 Rochelle Gilmore (Aus) Colorado Premier Training 11.50 58 Hiroko Shimada (Jpn) Argon 18 -Champion system 11.56 59 Anke Wichmann (Ger) Nurnberger Versicherung 12.03 60 Gina Grain (Can) Giant pro cycling 12.07 61 Leah Guloien (Can) BC Coastal 12.24 62 Yunmei Wu (Chn) Giant pro cycling 12.26 63 Lnna Teutenberg (Ger) T-Mobile 12.45 64 Karin Ruso (Aut) Elk Haus No (EHN) 13.08 65 Christina Becker (Ger) T-Mobile 16.38 66 Megan Elliott (USA) Argon 18 -Champion system 17.56 67 Michelle Beltran (USA) Argon 18 -Champion system 22.27 68 Moriah Macgregor (Can) Canadian national team 24.08 69 Anna Tratnyek (Can) Canadian national team 24.23 70 Stephanie Bourbeau (Can) Biovail 24.29 71 Élisa Gagnon (Can) Équipe du Québec 24.59 72 Milena Pirola (Ita) Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas 25.58 73 Marie-Caroline Côté (Can) Cascades 30.40 74 Barbara Zimich (Can) BC Coastal 30.45 75 Marie-Pier Bédard (Can) Équipe du Québec 30.48 76 Emilie Roy (Can) Équipe du Québec 32.28 77 Joëlle Numainville (Can) Biovail 32.50 Points classification 1 Olivia Gollan (Aus) Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas 15 pts 2 Trixi Worrack (Ger) Nurnberger Versicherung 14 3 Judith Arndt (Ger) T-Mobile 13 4 Christine Thorburn (USA) Webcor-Platinum 12 5 Katherine Bates (Aus) Nurnberger Versicherung 10 6 Kori Seehafer (USA) Lipton 10 7 Annette Beutler (Swi) Elk Haus No (EHN) 9 8 Edwige Pitel (Fra) Pruneaux d'Agen-Bianchi Aliverti Kookai 7 9 Kimberly Anderson (USA) T-Mobile 7 10 Kristin Armstrong (USA) Lipton 5 11 Anne Samplonius (Can) Biovail 5 12 Christina Ruiter (USA) Victory Brewing 5 13 Elisabeth Chevanne Brunel (Fra) Pruneaux d'Agen-Bianchi Aliverti Kookai 4 14 Elodie Touffet (Fra) Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas 3 15 Rachel Heal (GBr) Victory Brewing 1 16 Alex Wrubleski (Can) Canadian national team 1 17 Oenone Wood (Aus) Nurnberger Versicherung 1 Sprints classification 1 Trixi Worrack (Ger) Nurnberger Versicherung 17 pts 2 Elodie Touffet (Fra) Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas 13 3 Judith Arndt (Ger) T-Mobile 12 4 Olivia Gollan (Aus) Nobili Rubinetterie Menikini Cogeas 10 5 Katherine Bates (Aus) Nurnberger Versicherung 10 6 Rochelle Gilmore (Aus) Colorado Premier Training 8 7 Christina Ruiter (USA) Victory Brewing 8 8 Kimberly Anderson (USA) T-Mobile 8 9 Annette Beutler (Swi) Elk Haus No (EHN) 3 10 Gina Grain (Can) Giant pro cycling 3 11 Lnna Teutenberg (Ger) T-Mobile 3 12 Christine Thorburn (USA) Webcor-Platinum 2 13 Edwige Pitel (Fra) Pruneaux d'Agen-Bianchi Aliverti Kookai 1 14 Alex Wrubleski (Can) Canadian national team 1 15 Kori Seehafer (USA) Lipton 1
