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22nd Tour de Beauce - 2.2
Canada, June 12-17, 2007
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Stage 4b - June 15: Centre-ville de St-George Critérium, 60 km
Navigators make it four in a row in Beauce
By Mark Zalewski, North American Editor in Saint-Georges, Québec
Grishkin pounces on field sprint for win
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Solo break, mountain summit, time trial and now field sprint... is there any other type of way to win a bike race? If there is, the Navigators Insurance team will likely find it here at the Tour de Beauce, as sprinter Oleg Grishkin dove inside of sprinter Dominque Rollin (Kodak Gallery) for the win in tonight's criterium in downtown Saint-Georges.
"I went a little bit early when there was a gap at the last corner, and I had like double speed and I passed [Rollin,]" Grishkin said. "It was hard and I didn't like it today! I was already done before the line but I was ahead - next time he'll get me."
"We had a good set-up with our trackie Cody O'Rielly leading it out," Rollin explained. "Unfortunately he went a bit left and I tried to go outside when I should have gone inside. Grishkin just went inside of me and that was it."
Earlier in the race a strong break away formed and gained almost a half-lap on the field with 20 laps to go. The break consisted of Quebecors Francois Praisien (Slipstream-Choipotle), Charles Dionne (Équipe du Quebec), Canadian Cameron Evans (Symmetrics), Australian Craig McCarney (Savings and Loans) and German Timo Honstein (Sparkasse).
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However, with 15 laps to go the Navigators were replaced at the front by Kodak Gallery, working to set up Rollin for the sprint. "Everyone was rolling through until the last five laps when guys started jumping, and I think that slowed us up," said Evans, who was wearing the red jersey as the best young rider. "If it weren't for that I think we would have stayed away. They caught us on the hill the last time up."
Evans has been very active the race, riding strong in a two-man break in yesterday's tough stage. "These Beauce roads... it's easier to ride ahead than back in the pack!" he said laughing.
Safely tucked at the rear of the Navigators train was race leader Ben Day, who claimed the yellow jersey this morning with a huge effort in the time trial. "How good has today been?" he asked. "We didn't necessarily play our cards right on the first day but we had the men there. We're leading the tour and we've won four stages now. The team is meshing really well together and it is an absolute honour to ride for them."
Day was appreciative of Kodak Gallery's effort to bring the break back, which also gave his team a rest. "They had interest in it to set-up Rollin, their sprinter - but hats off to them, they have ridden really well this week," he said. "They may have taken a bit of a flogging from us the last two days but they came out tonight really strong and brought the break back for their guy."
With two tough urban circuits to go, Day knows the race is far from over - but he trusts his teammates with his jersey. "I'm very confident with these guys around me," he said. "It's going to be hard but they are going to deliver me right to the finish."
Photography
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Images by Jerome Lessard
- Catherine Gastov from UCI speaks to some riders from Team Tecos Trek before the start of Stage 4b.
- Pierre Gagne from UCI gives some information to Team Tecos Trek's riders before the start of Stage 4b.
- Dirk Muller (Sparkasse) seems to look back, Cameron Evans (Symmetrics) was right behind.
- Charles Thibault (Eva-Devinci) seemed to have a good pace at beginning of the race.
- Dirk Muller (Sparkasse) is focused on the 35 laps remaining.
- Peter Ladd from Team Garneau-Crocs.
- Glen Chadwick (Navigator Insurance) white Jersey and winner of Stages 2 and 3.
- Cameron Evans (Symmetrics) is chassed by Dirk Muller (Sparkasse).
- Svein Tuft (Symmetrics) gets a lot of speed up the hill.
- Team Navigators Insurance has a really good week so far. Oleg Grishkin won stage 4b.
- Eric Boily (Eva-Devinci) works hard in the street of St-Georges.
- Ben Day (Navigators Insurance) kept his yellow jersey after the stage.
- Dominique Perras (Team Quebec) had a good day overall.
- Charles Dionne (Team Quebec), second from right, lead the race for quite a while.
- Charles Dionne (Team Quebec) and Cameron Evans (Symmetrics) are controling the race.
- Mathieu and Joel had the best seats in St-Georges to follow the action.
- Oleg Grishkin (Navigators Insurance) and Jesse Anthony (Kodak Gallery) ride hard in St-Georges.
- Dirk Muller (Sparkasse).
- Morten Christiansen (Farso Denmark) in the last corner.
- Charles Dionne (Team Quebec) did lead the breakaway for many laps and offered a great performance for his fans.
- Podium (L-R): Dominique Rollin (Kodak Gallery), Oleg Grishkin (Navigators Insurance) and Keven Lacombe (Volkswagen Trek).
- A second yellow jersey for Ben Day (Navigators Insurance) today.
Images by Mark Zalewski/Cyclingnews.com
- Kodak Gallery brings the break into sight.
- Cameron Evans (Symmetrics) , the best young rider, trys to motivate the breakaway.
- Mark Walters (Kodak Gallery) , former race leader, puts in a dig for teammate Dominque Rollin.
- Oleg Grishkin (Navigators Insurance) passes Dominque Rollin (Kodak Gallery) at 200 meters for the win.
Results
1 Oleg Grishkin (Rus) Navigators Insurance 1.24.10 (42.772 km/h) 2 Dominique Rollin (Can) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 3 Keven Lacombe (Can) Volkswagen Trek 4 David O'loughlin (Irl) Navigators Insurance 5 Martin Gilbert (Can) Québec 6 Cody O'rielly (USA) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 7 Ben Day (Aus) Navigators Insurance 8 David Pell (Aus) Savings And Loans Cycling Team 9 Juan Pablo Magallanes Arawda (Mex) Tecos Trek Vh 0.04 10 Charles Dionne (Can) Québec 11 Glen Alan Chadwick (NZl) Navigators Insurance 12 Philipp Mamos (Ger) Team Sparkasse 13 Danny Pate (USA) Team Slipstream 14 Ivor Bruin (Den) Farso Denmark Nat 15 Dominique Perras (Can) Québec 16 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Navigators Insurance 17 Tilo Schüler (Ger) Team Sparkasse 18 Svein Tuft (Can) Symmetrics 0.07 19 Jacob Erker (Can) Symmetrics 20 Andrew Randell (Can) Symmetrics 21 Mark Walters (Can) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 22 Joel Dion-Poitras (Can) Eva-Devinci 23 Jamie Sparling (Can) La_Z_Boy 24 Mathieu Roy (Can) Eva-Devinci 25 Timo Honstein (Ger) Team Sparkasse 26 Francois Parisien (Can) Team Slipstream 27 Gregorio Ladino Vega (Col) Tecos Trek Vh 28 Cameron Evans (Can) Symmetrics 29 Christian Meier (Can) Symmetrics 30 Hector Hugo Rangel (Mex) Tecos Trek Vh 31 John Fredy Parra Calada (Col) Tecos Trek Vh 0.14 32 Buck Milller (Can) Team R.A.C.E 0.16 33 Greg Reain (Can) Calyon-Litespeed 34 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Symmetrics 35 Fausto Esparza (Mex) Tecos Trek Vh 36 Ryan Mckenzie (Can) Volkswagen Trek 37 Heberth Gutierrez Garcia (Col) Tecos Trek Vh 38 Jeffrey Dirksen (Ned) Team R.A.C.E 39 Jean-Sebastien Perron (Can) Calyon-Litespeed 40 Soren Petersen (Den) Farso Denmark Nat 41 Will Routley (Can) Symmetrics 42 Ian Macgregor (USA) Team Slipstream 43 Jacob Nielsen (Den) Farso Denmark Nat 44 Benjamin Martel (Can) Garneau - Crocs 45 Derrick St-John (Can) Garneau - Crocs 46 Andreas Schillinger (Ger) Team Sparkasse 47 Alex Howes (USA) Team Slipstream 48 Stefan Parinussa (Ger) Team Sparkasse 49 Dirk Müller (Ger) Team Sparkasse 50 Craig Mccarney (Aus) Savings And Loans Cycling Team 51 Ben Raby (USA) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 52 Rob Britton (Can) La_Z_Boy 53 Éric Boily (Can) Eva-Devinci 54 Jesse Athony (USA) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 0.26 55 Rene Ahrenkiel (Den) Farso Denmark Nat 0.28 56 Ryan Beliveau (Can) Calyon-Litespeed 57 Dan Timmerman (USA) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 58 Morten Christiansen (Den) Farso Denmark Nat 59 Connor Trevor (Can) La_Z_Boy 0.30 60 Adam Thuss (Can) Team R.A.C.E 0.32 61 Matt Guse (Can) Calyon-Litespeed 62 William Goodfellow (Can) Volkswagen Trek 0.34 63 Peter Mueller (Aus) Savings And Loans Cycling Team 0.41 64 Jean-François Racine (Can) Garneau - Crocs 0.47 65 Pascal Bussières (Can) Québec 0.53 66 Phil Cortes (Can) Calyon-Litespeed 67 Dave Vukets (Can) Tean Spin 12 0.57 68 Mark Pozniak (Can) Team R.A.C.E 1.06 69 Lars Wackernagel (Ger) Team Sparkasse 1.39 70 Ciarán Power (Irl) Navigators Insurance 3.18 71 André Tremblay (Can) Volkswagen Trek 3.29 72 Peter Morse (Can) Tean Spin 12 4.16 73 Mike Dietrich (USA) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 4.21 74 Mark Batty (Can) Team R.A.C.E 4.54 75 Jamie Lamb (Can) Garneau - Crocs 5.07 76 Charlie Bryer (Can) Tean Spin 12 7.49 77 Charles Thibault (Can) Eva-Devinci 9.48 DNF Peter Ladd (Aus) Garneau - Crocs Points 1 Oleg Grishkin (Rus) Navigators Insurance 15 pts 2 Dominique Rollin (Can) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 14 3 Keven Lacombe (Can) Volkswagen Trek 13 4 David O'loughlin (Irl) Navigators Insurance 12 5 Martin Gilbert (Can) Québec 11 6 Cody O'rielly (USA) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 10 7 Ben Day (Aus) Navigators Insurance 9 8 David Pell (Aus) Savings And Loans Cycling Team 8 9 Juan Pablo Magallanes Arawda (Mex) Tecos Trek Vh 7 10 Charles Dionne (Can) Québec 6 11 Glen Alan Chadwick (NZl) Navigators Insurance 5 12 Philipp Mamos (Ger) Team Sparkasse 4 13 Danny Pate (USA) Team Slipstream 3 14 Ivor Bruin (Den) Farso Denmark Nat 2 15 Dominique Perras (Can) Québec 1 Teams 1 Navigators Insurance 4.12.30 2 Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 0.07 3 Québec 0.08 4 Team Sparkasse 0.15 5 Tecos Trek Vh 0.18 6 Symmetrics 0.21 7 Team Slipstream 0.27 8 Eva-Devinci 0.30 9 Farso Denmark Nat 0.36 10 Volkswagen Trek 0.50 11 La_Z_Boy 0.53 12 Savings And Loans Cycling Team 0.57 13 Calyon-Litespeed 1.00 14 Team R.A.C.E 1.04 15 Garneau - Crocs 1.19 16 Tean Spin 12 13.02 General Classification after Stage 4b 1 Ben Day (Aus) Navigators Insurance 15.05.55 2 Svein Tuft (Can) Symmetrics 0.40 3 Danny Pate (USA) Team Slipstream 1.08 4 Gregorio Ladino Vega (Col) Tecos Trek Vh 1.32 5 David O'loughlin (Irl) Navigators Insurance 6 Dominique Rollin (Can) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 2.43 7 Jacob Erker (Can) Symmetrics 2.51 8 Dominique Perras (Can) Québec 2.59 9 Philipp Mamos (Ger) Team Sparkasse 3.18 10 Juan Pablo Magallanes Arawda (Mex) Tecos Trek Vh 3.24 11 Mark Walters (Can) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 4.21 12 Soren Petersen (Den) Farso Denmark Nat 7.59 13 Glen Alan Chadwick (NZl) Navigators Insurance 8.40 14 Francois Parisien (Can) Team Slipstream 9.22 15 Craig Mccarney (Aus) Savings And Loans Cycling Team 9.25 16 Hector Hugo Rangel (Mex) Tecos Trek Vh 11.27 17 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Symmetrics 12.12 18 Timo Honstein (Ger) Team Sparkasse 12.19 19 Charles Dionne (Can) Québec 14.16 20 Cameron Evans (Can) Symmetrics 15.15 21 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Navigators Insurance 15.25 22 Christian Meier (Can) Symmetrics 16.57 23 John Fredy Parra Calada (Col) Tecos Trek Vh 17.57 24 Jacob Nielsen (Den) Farso Denmark Nat 18.39 25 Greg Reain (Can) Calyon-Litespeed 19.29 26 Connor Trevor (Can) La_Z_Boy 19.49 27 David Pell (Aus) Savings And Loans Cycling Team 19.59 28 Dirk Müller (Ger) Team Sparkasse 20.04 29 Ivor Bruin (Den) Farso Denmark Nat 20.56 30 Andreas Schillinger (Ger) Team Sparkasse 21.27 31 Mathieu Roy (Can) Eva-Devinci 21.44 32 Andrew Randell (Can) Symmetrics 21.54 33 Lars Wackernagel (Ger) Team Sparkasse 21.57 34 Will Routley (Can) Symmetrics 22.11 35 Ben Raby (USA) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 22.22 36 Rob Britton (Can) La_Z_Boy 22.43 37 Jamie Sparling (Can) La_Z_Boy 22.59 38 Heberth Gutierrez Garcia (Col) Tecos Trek Vh 23.19 39 Fausto Esparza (Mex) Tecos Trek Vh 23.22 40 Ian Macgregor (USA) Team Slipstream 24.00 41 Joel Dion-Poitras (Can) Eva-Devinci 24.10 42 Éric Boily (Can) Eva-Devinci 26.13 43 William Goodfellow (Can) Volkswagen Trek 26.38 44 Stefan Parinussa (Ger) Team Sparkasse 27.15 45 Martin Gilbert (Can) Québec 27.48 46 Peter Mueller (Aus) Savings And Loans Cycling Team 29.06 47 Keven Lacombe (Can) Volkswagen Trek 29.30 48 Dan Timmerman (USA) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 29.40 49 Ciarán Power (Irl) Navigators Insurance 32.26 50 Oleg Grishkin (Rus) Navigators Insurance 34.59 51 Derrick St-John (Can) Garneau - Crocs 39.52 52 Benjamin Martel (Can) Garneau - Crocs 41.17 53 Pascal Bussières (Can) Québec 43.09 54 Buck Milller (Can) Team R.A.C.E 43.24 55 Tilo Schüler (Ger) Team Sparkasse 43.32 56 Alex Howes (USA) Team Slipstream 45.05 57 Cody O'rielly (USA) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 45.13 58 Jean-Sebastien Perron (Can) Calyon-Litespeed 46.35 59 Matt Guse (Can) Calyon-Litespeed 48.57 60 Jean-François Racine (Can) Garneau - Crocs 49.15 61 Phil Cortes (Can) Calyon-Litespeed 49.55 62 Ryan Mckenzie (Can) Volkswagen Trek 51.36 63 Morten Christiansen (Den) Farso Denmark Nat 52.03 64 Adam Thuss (Can) Team R.A.C.E 52.10 65 Mark Pozniak (Can) Team R.A.C.E 53.07 66 Dave Vukets (Can) Tean Spin 12 53.24 67 Mark Batty (Can) Team R.A.C.E 55.21 68 Jamie Lamb (Can) Garneau - Crocs 55.41 69 Jesse Athony (USA) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 56.09 70 Mike Dietrich (USA) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 1.00.32 71 Rene Ahrenkiel (Den) Farso Denmark Nat 1.05.53 72 Ryan Beliveau (Can) Calyon-Litespeed 1.07.49 73 Peter Morse (Can) Tean Spin 12 1.15.55 74 Jeffrey Dirksen (Ned) Team R.A.C.E 1.25.50 75 André Tremblay (Can) Volkswagen Trek 1.27.07 Points classification 1 Ben Day (Aus) Navigators Insurance 51 pts 2 Glen Alan Chadwick (NZl) Navigators Insurance 49 3 Dominique Rollin (Can) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 46 4 David O'loughlin (Irl) Navigators Insurance 43 5 Francois Parisien (Can) Team Slipstream 39 6 Danny Pate (USA) Team Slipstream 34 7 Svein Tuft (Can) Symmetrics 29 8 Juan Pablo Magallanes Arawda (Mex) Tecos Trek Vh 26 9 Charles Dionne (Can) Québec 25 10 Gregorio Ladino Vega (Col) Tecos Trek Vh 24 11 Jacob Erker (Can) Symmetrics 22 12 Hector Hugo Rangel (Mex) Tecos Trek Vh 20 13 Philipp Mamos (Ger) Team Sparkasse 18 14 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Navigators Insurance 17 15 Oleg Grishkin (Rus) Navigators Insurance 16 16 Timo Honstein (Ger) Team Sparkasse 16 17 Mark Walters (Can) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 15 18 Dominique Perras (Can) Québec 14 19 David Pell (Aus) Savings And Loans Cycling Team 13 20 Keven Lacombe (Can) Volkswagen Trek 13 21 Cameron Evans (Can) Symmetrics 12 22 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Symmetrics 11 23 Martin Gilbert (Can) Québec 11 24 Greg Reain (Can) Calyon-Litespeed 10 25 Cody O'rielly (USA) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 10 26 Morten Christiansen (Den) Farso Denmark Nat 9 27 Ryan Mckenzie (Can) Volkswagen Trek 4 28 Christian Meier (Can) Symmetrics 4 29 Soren Petersen (Den) Farso Denmark Nat 4 30 Craig Mccarney (Aus) Savings And Loans Cycling Team 3 31 Ciarán Power (Irl) Navigators Insurance 3 32 John Fredy Parra Calada (Col) Tecos Trek Vh 2 33 Ivor Bruin (Den) Farso Denmark Nat 2 34 Jacob Nielsen (Den) Farso Denmark Nat 2 35 Stefan Parinussa (Ger) Team Sparkasse 2 36 Andreas Schillinger (Ger) Team Sparkasse 2 37 Dirk Müller (Ger) Team Sparkasse 2 Mountains classification 1 Gregorio Ladino Vega (Col) Tecos Trek Vh 51 pts 2 Glen Alan Chadwick (NZl) Navigators Insurance 35 3 Ben Day (Aus) Navigators Insurance 35 4 Francois Parisien (Can) Team Slipstream 27 5 Dirk Müller (Ger) Team Sparkasse 27 6 Cameron Evans (Can) Symmetrics 21 7 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Navigators Insurance 20 8 Dominique Perras (Can) Québec 16 9 Andreas Schillinger (Ger) Team Sparkasse 12 10 Charles Dionne (Can) Québec 9 11 Svein Tuft (Can) Symmetrics 9 12 Philipp Mamos (Ger) Team Sparkasse 8 13 Danny Pate (USA) Team Slipstream 8 14 Mark Walters (Can) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 7 15 David O'loughlin (Irl) Navigators Insurance 7 16 Timo Honstein (Ger) Team Sparkasse 6 17 Hector Hugo Rangel (Mex) Tecos Trek Vh 6 18 Juan Pablo Magallanes Arawda (Mex) Tecos Trek Vh 4 19 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Symmetrics 4 20 Jacob Erker (Can) Symmetrics 4 21 Ben Raby (USA) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 3 22 Ryan Mckenzie (Can) Volkswagen Trek 3 23 Éric Boily (Can) Eva-Devinci 2 24 Ian Macgregor (USA) Team Slipstream 2 25 Dominique Rollin (Can) Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 1 26 Morten Christiansen (Den) Farso Denmark Nat 1 27 Ciarán Power (Irl) Navigators Insurance 1 Teams classification 1 Navigators Insurance 45.22.18 2 Symmetrics 5.27 3 Tecos Trek Vh 11.56 4 Kodak Gallery Pro Cycling Team 24.44 5 Team Slipstream 29.43 6 Team Sparkasse 30.42 7 Québec 35.41 8 Farso Denmark Nat 37.51 9 Savings And Loans Cycling Team 53.57 10 La_Z_Boy 1.00.58 11 Eva-Devinci 1.07.34 12 Volkswagen Trek 1.43.14 13 Calyon-Litespeed 1.47.39 14 Garneau - Crocs 2.05.41 15 Team R.A.C.E 2.16.13 16 Tean Spin 12 3.26.18
