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19th GP Cycliste de Beauce - 2.3
Canada, June 15-20, 2004
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Stage 6 - June 20: Saint-Georges circuit race, 165 km
Brozyna Wins 19th Cycliste de Beauce
Colavita notches third stage win
By Mark Zalewski
Tomasz Brozyna and his Action-ATI team had a busy day today keeping an eye on the three riders within one minute of their team leader -- Nathan O'Neill (Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla), Scott Moninger (Health Net) and Radoslaw Romanik (Hoops CCC Polsat). Fortunately for Brozyna, second place O'Neil was still 41 seconds down, even after winning yesterday's individual time trial. Therefore, only a major slip-up on today's 143 km circuit race around Saint Georges would jeopardize Brozyna's yellow jersey.
The week of hard racing did take its toll on many teams. Four Colavita riders even abandoned during today's stage having sacrificed for O'Neill all week. "We had two guys with soreness and Tyler was our team worker, working feverishly all week long." said team director Chad Davis. "A number of guys were working hard all week long for Nathan." However, the reward for this team was soon to come. "We knew that Aaron was feeling good. He followed the right wheels and at five laps to go, we knew that was going to be the winning break."
The major break of seven riders, containing Gord Fraser (Health Net), Charles Dionne (Canadian National Team), Alexandre Nadeau (Volkswagen Trek), Ryan Mckenzie (Canadian National Team), David McKenzie (Navigators), Alexandre Lavallée (Volkswagen Trek) and Aaron Olson (Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla), was allowed to gain a time gap, but was reeled back in the end. Aaron Olson, who had attacked with 20 km to go, was able to hang on by fifteen seconds to take the biggest win of his career.
"One of my goals was to win a stage," Olson said. "I didn't think it was possible, because Mckenzie, Fraser and Dionne dropped me three times on the KOM. I just couldn't go with the surges up the climb." But the rider from California attacked before coming through the start/finish for the final lap, and was able to take a cushion with him for the final time up the climb.
Infighting between the other break members helped insure the win for Olson. "I think Fraser and Dionne were going after the best Canadian [classification]," Olson admitted.
Back in the peloton, the race leaders did not let each other out of their sights, and in the end Tomasz Brozyna (Action-ATI) claimed the final yellow jersey, ahead of Nathan O'Neil (Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla) and Scott Moninger (Health Net Maxxis).
How it unfolded
Alexandre Nadeau (Volkswagon Trek) and Ryan McKenzie (Canadian National Team) were the instigators of today's break of seven that started on the first lap. Ten more riders attempted to cross the gap, but were brought back. The original group of seven dropped Ryan Mckenzie and were down to just six.
The gap shot up to more than two minutes, with some in the break obviously working more than others. "Fraser was sitting on most of the day" explained Chad Davis. "Nadeau and Volkswagen did most of the work with Aaron."
Action-ATI sat on the front all day, making sure the gap remained large enough to dissuade any threatening attacks and small enough to not become a problem itself.
With less than four laps to go, Dionne, Fraser and David McKenzie dropped the other three up the KOM climb and gained a thirty second gap. This trio dangled for a while, eventually coming back to the other three. Then, bad luck struck Olson when is rear wheel flatted resulting in a lengthy chase to get back to the break. "[Aaron] had everything thrown at him but the kitchen sink," Chad Davis remarked. "I've never seen him ride better or stronger since I've known him!"
Then with 20 km to go, Olson made his move. Nadeau tried to follow, but his surge was too strong. Dionne and Fraser did not chase as the two were marking each other in the Best Canadian classification.
Olson gained thirty seconds on the final lap, and was able to hold the charging field. Twenty-seven riders, including Brozyna, O'Neil, Romanik and Moninger, finished together fifteen seconds behind Olson. Viktor Rapinski took the field sprint.
Results
1 Aaron Olson (USA) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 3.53.30 2 Viktor Rapinski (Blr) Navigators Insurance 0.15 3 Andrew Pinfold (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 4 Plamen Stoyanov (Bul) Hoop CCC Polsat 5 Dominique Perras (Can) Canadian National Team 6 Dan Bowman (USA) TIAA-CREF-5280 7 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Capec 8 Assan Bazaev (Kaz) Capec 9 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 10 Timo Scholz (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 11 Lauke Ronny (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 12 Radoslaw Romanik (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 13 Brice Jones (USA) Health Net 14 Charles Dionne (Can) Canadian National Team 15 Thomas Liese (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 16 Mike Jones (USA) Health Net 17 Ciaran Power (Irl) Navigators Insurance 18 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 19 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Action-ATI 20 Scott Moninger (USA) Health Net 21 Alexandre Nadeau (Can) Volkswagen Trek 22 Nathan O'neil (Aus) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 23 Will Routley (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 24 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 25 Karirat Baigudinov (Kaz) Capec 26 Svein Tuft (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 27 Alexandre Lavallée (Can) Volkswagen Trek 28 Jeff Louder (USA) Navigators Insurance 29 David Mckensie (Aus) Navigators Insurance 30 Andrey Medyannokov, (Kaz) Capec 0.49 31 Gordon Fraser (Can) Health Net 1.05 32 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Action-ATI 2.00 33 Daniel Olszewski (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 2.20 34 Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) Action-ATI 2.33 35 Jaroslaw Zarebski (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 36 Cameron Evans (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 37 Mark Walters (Can) Navigators Insurance 38 Andrew Randell (Can) Canadian National Team 4.41 39 Sheldon Deeny (USA) TIAA-CREF-5280 6.18 40 Alexander Dymovskikh, (Kaz) Capec 41 Bakhtiyar Mamyrov (Kaz) Capec 42 Martin St-Laurent (Can) Volkswagen Trek 43 Colby Pearce (USA) TIAA-CREF-5280 44 Siro Camponogara (Ita) Navigators Insurance 45 Dennis Kraft (Ger) Action-ATI 46 Chris Isaac (Can) Ital Pasta 47 Joe Giuliano (Can) Ital Pasta 48 Greg Henderson (NZl) Health Net 49 Greg Roth (Can) Ital Pasta 50 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Action-ATI 51 Daniel Maggiacomo (Can) Ital Pasta 14.15 52 Jay Maclaren (Can) Ital Pasta 31.15 DNF Hayden Godfrey (NZl) Health Net DNF Vassili Davidenko (Rus) Navigators Insurance DNF Eugene Wacker (Kgz) Action-ATI DNF Thorsten Rund (Ger) Winfix Arnolds DNF Todd Herriott (USA) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla DNF Ivan Dominguez (Cub) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla DNF Gustavo Artacho (Arg) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla DNF Tyler Wren (USA) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla DNF Ryan Mckenzie (Can) Canadian National Team DNF Eric Wohlberg (Can) Canadian National Team DNF Dustin MacBurnie (Can) Espoirs de Laval-Selec.Atlantique DNF Kevin Noiles (Can) Espoirs de Laval-Selec.Atlantique DNF Kevin Lacombe (Can) Volkswagen Trek DNF Jean-Sébastien Maheu (Can) Volkswagen Trek DNF Thorben Wiedtz (Can) Team Ontario DNF Mark Pozniak (Can) Team Ontario DNF Ryan Roth (Can) Team Ontario DNF Dave Mustaikis (Can) Team Québec DNF Dylan Sebel (Can) Symmetrics Cycling DNS Bruno Langlois (Can) Volkswagen Trek DNS Cory Jay (Can) Canadian National Team Points 1 Aaron Olson (USA) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 15 pts 2 Viktor Rapinski (Blr) Navigators Insurance 14 3 Andrew Pinfold (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 13 4 Plamen Stoyanov (Bul) Hoop CCC Polsat 12 5 Dominique Perras (Can) Canadian National Team 11 6 Dan Bowman (USA) TIAA-CREF-5280 10 7 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Capec 9 8 Assan Bazaev (Kaz) Capec 8 9 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 7 10 Timo Scholz (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 6 11 Lauke Ronny (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 5 21 Alexandre Nadeau (Can) Volkswagen Trek 5 12 Radoslaw Romanik (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 4 14 Charles Dionne (Can) Canadian National Team 4 13 Brice Jones (USA) Health Net 3 29 David Mckensie (Aus) Navigators Insurance 3 27 Alexandre Lavallée (Can) Volkswagen Trek 2 15 Thomas Liese (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 1 Final general classification 1 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Action-ATI 22.31.23 2 Nathan O'neil (Aus) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 0.41 3 Scott Moninger (USA) Health Net 0.47 4 Radoslaw Romanik (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 1.01 5 Viktor Rapinski (Blr) Navigators Insurance 1.39 6 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Capec 1.59 7 Thomas Liese (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 2.48 8 Timo Scholz (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 3.02 9 Mike Jones (USA) Health Net 3.07 10 Ciaran Power (Irl) Navigators Insurance 3.18 11 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 3.19 12 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 3.29 13 Dominique Perras (Can) Canadian National Team 3.57 14 Jeff Louder (USA) Navigators Insurance 4.44 15 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Action-ATI 4.53 16 Karirat Baigudinov (Kaz) Capec 11.00 17 Charles Dionne (Can) Canadian National Team 12.07 18 Assan Bazaev (Kaz) Capec 12.37 19 Alexandre Nadeau (Can) Volkswagen Trek 13.53 20 Plamen Stoyanov (Bul) Hoop CCC Polsat 14.10 21 Mark Walters (Can) Navigators Insurance 17.35 22 Will Routley (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 17.56 23 Dan Bowman (USA) TIAA-CREF-5280 18.14 24 Gordon Fraser (Can) Health Net 22.58 25 Jaroslaw Zarebski (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 23.49 26 Aaron Olson (USA) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 24.07 27 Brice Jones (USA) Health Net 27.00 28 Joe Giuliano (Can) Ital Pasta 27.04 29 Daniel Olszewski (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 27.45 30 Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) Action-ATI 28.47 31 Svein Tuft (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 28.54 32 Alexander Dymovskikh, (Kaz) Capec 29.04 33 Andrew Pinfold (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 30.19 34 Martin St-Laurent (Can) Volkswagen Trek 31.04 35 Cameron Evans (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 31.55 36 Andrey Medyannokov, (Kaz) Capec 32.14 37 Chris Isaac (Can) Ital Pasta 32.32 38 Bakhtiyar Mamyrov (Kaz) Capec 33.11 39 Andrew Randell (Can) Canadian National Team 33.13 40 David Mckensie (Aus) Navigators Insurance 36.00 41 Lauke Ronny (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 36.20 42 Dennis Kraft (Ger) Action-ATI 37.04 43 Colby Pearce (USA) TIAA-CREF-5280 37.55 44 Siro Camponogara (Ita) Navigators Insurance 38.15 45 Sheldon Deeny (USA) TIAA-CREF-5280 42.15 46 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Action-ATI 43.21 47 Greg Roth (Can) Ital Pasta 44.49 48 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 46.59 49 Greg Henderson (NZl) Health Net 47.39 50 Alexandre Lavallée (Can) Volkswagen Trek 49.16 51 Jay Maclaren (Can) Ital Pasta 1.11.32 52 Daniel Maggiacomo (Can) Ital Pasta 1.21.14 Points classification 1 Viktor Rapinski (Blr) Navigators Insurance 61 pts 2 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Action-ATI 57 3 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Capec 54 4 Radoslaw Romanik (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 42 5 Nathan O'neil (Aus) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 41 6 Mark Walters (Can) Navigators Insurance 40 7 Scott Moninger (USA) Health Net 39 8 Charles Dionne (Can) Canadian National Team 35 9 Plamen Stoyanov (Bul) Hoop CCC Polsat 34 10 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Action-ATI 32 11 Aaron Olson (USA) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 32 12 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 27 13 Timo Scholz (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 23 14 Karirat Baigudinov (Kaz) Capec 23 15 Ciaran Power (Irl) Navigators Insurance 22 16 Dominique Perras (Can) Canadian National Team 19 17 Thomas Liese (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 19 18 Brice Jones (USA) Health Net 19 19 Mike Jones (USA) Health Net 17 20 Jaroslaw Zarebski (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 17 21 Dan Bowman (USA) TIAA-CREF-5280 16 22 Svein Tuft (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 16 23 Andrew Randell (Can) Canadian National Team 14 24 Gordon Fraser (Can) Health Net 14 25 Cameron Evans (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 13 26 Andrew Pinfold (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 13 27 Assan Bazaev (Kaz) Capec 12 28 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 12 29 Joe Giuliano (Can) Ital Pasta 11 30 Jeff Louder (USA) Navigators Insurance 9 31 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 7 32 Will Routley (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 6 33 Dennis Kraft (Ger) Action-ATI 6 34 Greg Henderson (NZl) Health Net 6 35 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Action-ATI 6 36 Alexandre Nadeau (Can) Volkswagen Trek 5 37 Chris Isaac (Can) Ital Pasta 5 38 Lauke Ronny (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 5 39 David Mckensie (Aus) Navigators Insurance 3 40 Alexandre Lavallée (Can) Volkswagen Trek 2 41 Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) Action-ATI 1 Mountains classification 1 Jeff Louder (USA) Navigators Insurance 43 pts 2 Nathan O'neil (Aus) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 35 3 Radoslaw Romanik (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 34 4 Charles Dionne (Can) Canadian National Team 33 5 Mark Walters (Can) Navigators Insurance 33 6 Tomasz Brozyna (Pol) Action-ATI 31 7 Bartosz Huzarski (Pol) Action-ATI 30 8 Vassili Davidenko (Rus) Navigators Insurance 23 9 Svein Tuft (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 23 10 Bruno Langlois (Can) Volkswagen Trek 17 11 Mike Jones (USA) Health Net 17 12 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 15 13 Scott Moninger (USA) Health Net 14 14 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Capec 14 15 Alexandre Nadeau (Can) Volkswagen Trek 14 16 Gordon Fraser (Can) Health Net 14 17 Bakhtiyar Mamyrov (Kaz) Capec 14 18 Plamen Stoyanov (Bul) Hoop CCC Polsat 13 19 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Canadian National Team 12 20 Todd Herriott (USA) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 11 21 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 9 22 Jaroslaw Zarebski (Pol) Hoop CCC Polsat 9 23 Aaron Olson (USA) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 8 24 David Mckensie (Aus) Navigators Insurance 8 25 Kazimierz Stafiej (Pol) Action-ATI 7 26 Dustin MacBurnie (Can) Espoirs de Laval-Selec.Atlantique 6 27 Timo Scholz (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 6 28 Martin St-Laurent (Can) Volkswagen Trek 6 29 Chris Isaac (Can) Ital Pasta 6 30 Karirat Baigudinov (Kaz) Capec 5 31 Gustavo Artacho (Arg) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 4 32 Thomas Liese (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 4 33 Ciaran Power (Irl) Navigators Insurance 4 34 Dominique Perras (Can) Canadian National Team 4 35 Piotr Chmielewski (Pol) Action-ATI 4 36 Siro Camponogara (Ita) Navigators Insurance 4 37 Alexandre Lavallée (Can) Volkswagen Trek 4 38 Viktor Rapinski (Blr) Navigators Insurance 3 39 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) Winfix Arnolds 3 40 Dennis Kraft (Ger) Action-ATI 2 41 Tyler Wren (USA) Colavita Olive Oil p/b Bolla 1 Teams classification 1 Hoop CCC Polsat 67.29.35 2 Navigators Insurance 8.24 3 Action ATI 16.53 4 Health Net Maxxis 23.39 5 Capec 30.22 6 Winfix Arnolds 34.54 7 Canadian National Team 38.10 8 Volkswagen Trek 1.07.27 9 Symmetrics Cycling 1.11.13 10 TIA-CREF/5280 Magazine 1.36.41 11 Ital Pasta 1.46.08
