May 24/99 11:54 am - Atlantic Classic, Report From Italy, Mazur Wins
Posted by Editor on 05/24/99
Atlantic Cup Classic, Massachusetts
(courtesy Doug Pogue)
Stage 5 - Somerville MA
| 1 | Monahan, Kevin | Breakaway Courier Systems | 1:15:03 |
| 2 | Paul Martin | Navigators Cycling Team | |
| 3 | Gerlach, Chad | Merlin/Hind | -1 lap |
| 4 | Ventura, Robbie | Saturn | |
| 5 | Dionne, Charles | Team Degree/Radio Energie | |
| 6 | Page, Jonathan | Wheelworks/Cannondale | |
| 7 | McCormack, Mark | Saturn | |
| 8 | Sanchez, Ray | Team Extreme | |
| 9 | Frey, John | Northampton CC | |
| 10 | Beauchamp, Sylvain | Shaklee | |
| 12 | Harris, John | ItalPasta | |
| 13 | Giuliano, Giusseppi | Jet Fuel Coffee | |
| 17 | Walters, Mark | Navigators Cycling Team | all s.t. |
Stage 6, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
| Place | RACER NAME | TEAM | Time |
| 1 | McCormack, Mark | Saturn | 1:18:26 |
| 2 | Ventura, Robbie | Saturn | |
| 3 | Dionne, Charles | Team Degree Radio Energie | |
| 4 | Page, Jonathan | Wheelworks/Cannondale | |
| 5 | Beauchamp, Sylvain | Shaklee | |
| 6 | Mercer, Scott | Navigators Cycling Team | |
| 7 | Monahan, Kevin | Breakaway Courier Systems | |
| 8 | Sanchez, Ray | Team Extreme | |
| 9 | Willard, Shawn | Breakaway Courier Systems | |
| 10 | Browne, Zack | NCVC/Metropolis | |
| 11 | Cojan, Yannick | Kissena Cycling Club | |
| 13 | Neuman, George | ItalPasta | |
| 14 | Giuliano, Giusseppi | Jet Fuel Coffee | |
| 19 | Varghese, Antoine | Kissena Cycling Club | |
| 22 | Lukascewicz, Czeslaw | Kissena Cycling Club | |
| 29 | Walters, Mark | Navigators Cycling Team | all s.t. |
| Final Overall Standings | |||
| Place | RACER NAME | TEAM | Ttl Points |
| 1 | Monahan, Kevin | Breakaway Courier Systems | 126 |
| 2 | Beauchamp, Sylvain | Shaklee | 119 |
| 3 | McCormack, Mark | Saturn | 112 |
| 4 | Ventura, Robbie | Saturn | 105 |
| 5 | Page, Jonathan | Wheelworks/Cannondale | 103 |
| 6 | Gerlach, Chad | Merlin/Hind | 98 |
| 7 | Dionne, Charles | Team Degree Radio Energie | 80 |
| 8 | Sanchez, Ray | Team Extreme | 70 |
| 9 | Littlehales, Todd | Navigators Cycling Team | 57 |
| 10 | Giuliano, Giusseppi | Jet Fuel Coffee | 55 |
| 11 | Walters, Mark | Navigators Cycling Team | 50 |
| 12 | Varghese, Antoine | Kissena Cycling Club | 41 |
| 13 | Neuman, George | ItalPasta | 41 |
| 23 | Randell, Andrew | Jet Fuel Coffee | 20 |
| 30 | Cojan, Yannick | Kissena Cycling Club | 13 |
| 34 | Pinsonneault, Jean Chas | Team Degree Radio Energie | 11 |
| 36 | Lukascewicz, Czeslaw | Kissena Cycling Club | 9 |
| 50 | Wedge, Peter | Team Degree Radio Energie | 4 |
Report From Italy
No Reda-Baggioni wins this week I'm afraid. At the Tropheo Matteoti, in Marcialla (near Florence) our best placed rider, Mirko Biondi finished 4th, Eliseo Dal Re 12th, and myself 14th. It was a beautiful day -sunny and 30 degrees, and a great course -156km of continuously undulating terrain with four major climbs. Sammuele Vecchi of the Italifine Podenzano team won the race (he won a race in the area on Saturday as well). I felt great all race, and was able to finish well despite working quite a bit for my teammates during the event.
Today's editorial:
I've been in Italy for 4 months now, and have been racing for 3 months. It is a point in the season when those who were really meant to be bike racers continue to improve and excel, and those have wrecked their liver, or don't have the mental or physical capacity to handle the European workload will start to fade. Many riders here have begun this degression, and it worries me. Italian bike racers have been uniquely bike racers since high school, and have no work skills, or practical education to fall back on. This dependance on sport creates an extreme pressure to succeed....a pressure that often leads riders into the trap of using harmful substances in the hope of gaining a competitive edge. It is terrible to see previously healthy athletes plagued by illness and injury as their connective tissues and immune systems are beaten down by so-called performance enhancing substances
As non-Europeans, we have the benefit of a more holistic development - helped by the fact that teams and events are a little less professional, and take the sport less seriously. Sport is more or less a hobby, until one finishes school and proves that they have the talent to pursue the activity as a legitimate international career. Though this may not be the best way to harvest the great athletic potential of our country, I believe that it has helped tremendously to allow people to benefit from bicycle racing, rather than be consumed by it. Recent moves towards a more European system, particularly in the Quebec and Ontario in road racing, and in western Canada for Mountain Bike racing, will bring with it all of the positive and negative aspects that such changes entail -but lets not forget the benefits of our current system.
Paul Kelly.
Hartford Downtown Crit, CT
(courtesy Doug Pogue)
1 PETER MAZUR - DUNDAS ONT - KISSENA
2 TIM UNKERT - TOLLAND CT - EUROTEK
3 GREOFF HAMILTON - MARBLEHEAD MA - CCB
4 PETER BAKER - BROOKFIELD CT - CHRONOS
5 DANIEL MAGGIACOMO - HAMILTON, ONTARIO - JET FUEL COFFEE
6 NOAH ELBERS - EAST ALSTEAD NH - NECSA ESPOIRE
7 REID VAN RENESSE - BROOKLYN NY - CENTURY ROAD
8 MATT HANSEN - KING CITY, ONTARIO - JET FUEL COFFEE
9 PAUL REGO - OAKVILLE, ON - SAECO CANADA
10 KEVIN MOLLOY - LISBON CT - CAPITAL VELO CLUB
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