Standings after Night Two 1. Robert Slippens / Danny Stam 127 points 2. Scott McGrory / Franco Marvulli 122 points 3. Bruno Risi / Kurt Betschart 113 points Down One Lap 4. Matthew Gilmore / Frank Vandenbroucke 87 points 5. Marco Villa / Giovanni Lombardi 84 points 6. Aart Vierhouten / Andreas Beikirch 63 points 7. Max van Heeswijk / Jimmi Madsen 56 points Down Two Laps 8. Matthé Pronk / Jos Pronk 69 points Down Four Laps 9. Iljo Keisse / Wouter van Mechelen 57 points 10. Peter Schep / Steven Deneef 18 points 11. Gerd Dörich / Christian Grassmann 12 points Down Five Laps 12. Francis de Jager / Jens Mouris 60 points 13. Stefan van Dijk / Franz Stocher 18 points Night Two Derny Competition 1. Frank Vandenbroucke 5 points 2. Danny Stam 4 points 3. Jimmi Madsen 3 points 4. Kurt Betschart 2 points 5. Aart Vierhouten 1 points 6. Peter Schep 0 points SixDay Amsterdam Page For fuller results listings. (Source: Amsterdam Official Site)Amsterdam Official Site (Dutch)
Malaysia Airlines Herald Sun Tour
Posted Tue Oct 19 13:46:50 2004 (EDT in North America)
Stage 7 - 1 Jonas Ljungbald (Swe) Europcar - Pelaco 3.37.44 (42.66 km/h) 2 Ben Brooks (Aus) McGee - NSW Institute Of Sport 0.17 3 Glen Mitchell (Nzl) Active For Life 4 David McKenzie (Aus) Bicycle Superstore 5 Luke Roberts (Aus) Latrobe City 6 Kristian House (Gbr) Bendigo 7 Scott Guyton (Nzl) Bicycle Superstore 8 Timo Scholz (Ger) Malaysia Airlines 9 Ruber Marin (Col) Subaru 10 Rob Sharman (Gbr) Sungold Milk - Warrnambool all same time Overall after Stage 7:C Creswick-Daylesford - 154.8 km 1 Karl Menzies (Aus) Bicycle Superstore 15.59.33 2 David McKenzie (Aus) Bicycle Superstore 0.09 3 Jonas Ljungbald (Swe) Europcar - Pelaco 0.46 4 Luke Roberts (Aus) Latrobe City 0.50 5 Ben Brooks (Aus) McGee - NSW Institute Of Sport 1.26 6 Dominique Perras (Can) Active For Life 1.45 7 Glen Mitchell (Nzl) Active For Life 2.07 8 Scott Guyton (Nzl) Bicycle Superstore 2.29 9 Kristian House (Gbr) Bendigo2.32 10 Kieran Page (Gbr) Bendigo 2.34 The Stages: Thu 14 Oct - Stage 1 - Melbourne Criterium- 33.0 km (30 laps x 1.1 km) Fri 15 Oct - Stage 2 - Werribee Criterium - 36.0 km (30 laps x 1.2 km) Fri 15 Oct - Stage 3 - Werribee-You Yangs - 77.7 km Sat 16 Oct - Stage 4 - Portarlington Circuit - 117.0 km (10 x 11.7 km) Sun 17 Oct - Stage 5 - Geelong Kermesse - 77.0 km (35 x 2.2 km) Mon 18 Oct - Stage 6 - Colac Tour of the Otways - 178.7 km Tue 19 Oct - Stage 7 - Creswick-Daylesford- 154.8 km Wed 20 Oct - Stage 8 - Bendigo Kermesse - 69.0 km (30 x 2.3 km) Thu 21 Oct - Stage 9 - Nagambie-Mansfield - 151.8 km Fri 22 Oct - Stage 10 - Mansfield Criterium- 33.0 km (30 x 1.1 km) Fri 22 Oct - Stage 11 - Mansfield-Jamieson - 38.0 km Sat 23 Oct - Stage 12 - Warragul-Mt Baw Baw- 87.7 km Sun 24 Oct - Stage 13 - Traralgon Kermesse - 57.0 km (20 x 2.85 km) (Source: Cycle Racing)Cycle Racing Site (English)
Herald Sun Tour: Cooke Abandons
Posted Tue Oct 19 13:26:23 2004 (EDT in North America)
Michael Stevens 20oct04 BADEN Cooke sensationally withdrew from the Malaysia Airlines Herald Sun Tour today after ricking his lower back. Winner of three of the Tour's first five stages, the Tour de France sprint champion was in fifth place overnight, 64 seconds off the pace, and poised to challenge for the leader's yellow jersey. But a stabbing pain in his back forced the 26-year-old to withdraw halfway through the 155km seventh stage between Creswick and Daylesford, won by Sweden's Jonas Ljungblad. "I was following an attack and stood on a big gear and felt a pop in my lower back," Cooke, who won the Tour in 2002, said. "It was bizarre, I've never had it before. I could have kept hammering it, but it just felt so wrong because I had a sharp pain in the right hand side of my back. "So I sat back down and rode a little gear for a bit longer to see if it would go away, but I just had this stabbing pain; it felt terrible." Cooke was given a pain-killer by Tour doctor Simon Hillman and continued to ride but then decided to withdraw for fear of causing more serious injury. His withdrawal and the failure of Victorian Simon Gerrans to recover from Monday's gruelling stage has thrown the race wide open for the $10,000 winner's cheque. Ljungblad, 25, from Gothenburg and riding for Europcar/Pelaco was involved in an 18-rider breakaway which formed just before Trentham. He launched his winning move about 4km from the finish. In eighth place overnight at 1min 46sec behind, the Swede had a 17sec margin on his pursuers but kept sprinting to the line, wanting to make every second count. With bonuses he slashed a minute off his overall time and is now in third place, 46sec behind leader Karl Menzies. Ljungblad, winner of a stage in the Tour of Slovenia in May and with several top-five placings in major European events this season, said he wanted to get as much time as possible before the Tour hit the harder climbing stages through the Strathbogie Ranges and Mt Baw Baw on Saturday. Gerrans, in sixth place overnight at 1min 44sec down, lost almost four minutes today to slump to 18th overall and out of winning calculations. Menzies, the 27-year-old burly Tasmanian who has not missed a break, leads his Bicycle Superstore teammate David McKenzie by only 9sec. Menzies paid tribute to another teammate, New Zealander Scott Guyton, for the pair maintaining their momentum. "Scotty did most of the driving," Menzies said. "Macca and myself still worked, but we had to leave a little bit in reserve for the coming days. "So Scotty just laid it all on the line for us because it was a matter of winning the GC (general classification)." Menzies said he could not match Ljungblad's attack on the last climb, and then was content to lead the sprint out, hoping McKenzie could get up for second. As it was, McKenzie finished fourth with New South Wales' Ben Brooks (McGee/NSW Institute of Sport) winning the bunch sprint from Kiwi, Glenn Mitchell (Active For Life). Brooks is now in fifth place overall at 1min 26sec in arrears, while Mitchell is seventh at 2.07. Splitting Ljungblad and Brooks is South Australian Luke Roberts, at 50sec behind, and he looms as the dark horse to challenge McKenzie and Menzies. The other big loser today was one-time Tour leader, Englishman Dean Downing, who lost almost 32 minutes to plummet to 43rd place overall at 32.27 behind. But his Bendigo teammates Kristian House and Kieran Page remain in the top 10 with House at 2.32 behind and Page a further 2sec back. Other withdrawals today included Cooke's Subaru teammate Mark Renshaw, who succumbed to a calf injury that has troubled him since the Tour started, and West Australian Henk Vogels with an ankle problem. (Source: Herald Sun News)Herald Sun News (English)
Men Only
Posted Tue Oct 19 12:15:42 2004 (EDT in North America)
Here's Russia's Dimitri Konyshev (Source: Six Day staff; Photo Courtesy: Cyclinfo Site (French))
Ladies Only
Posted Tue Oct 19 12:17:12 2004 (EDT in North America)
Here's Trackie Becky Quinn and Becky's Bio (Source: Six Day staff; Photo Courtesy: Cyclinfo Site (French))
Olympics: Sour Grapes?
Posted Tue Oct 19 12:04:32 2004 (EDT in North America)
Cyclist Newton wants rule changeBBC Site - (English)
By Sarah Holt British cyclist Chris Newton insists the Olympic rules need to be changed after he had to wait two months to receive his silver team pursuit medal. Only cyclists who compete in the final are awarded medals but Newton, who raced in the heats, appealed and finally received his medal on Monday. "Six riders can take part in a four-man team," Newton told BBC Sport. "I think the rules should be changed - they either present six medals there and then or only allow four riders." Team GB team-mate Bryan Steel and Newton had to wait until a special ceremony at Buckingham Palace on Monday to finally get their hands on the medals. But Newton admitted not being able to take part in the medal ceremony in Athens meant the sense of occasion had been lost. "I've not seen my medal at all since Athens," Newton revealed. "It's taken the shine off it now. I know what the result was and that was what was important to me. "But I got the team into the ride off for gold and silver so I do deserve a medal." The British Olympic Association successfully appealed to the International Olympic Committee after Newton and Steel were originally denied medals in Athens. Paul Manning, Bradley Wiggins, Rob Hayles and Steve Cummings rode in the final quartet beaten by Australia. Newton had earlier replaced Hayles while Steel stepped in for Wiggins. (Source: BBC)
Happy Birthday - Men
Posted Tue Oct 19 11:15:08 2004 (EDT in North America)
Raymond Impanis (1925) Belgium 3rd. 1956 Tour of Spain (1st. Angelo Conterno, Italy; 2nd. Jesus Lorono, Spain) 1st. 1954 Paris-Roubaix (2nd. Costante Ockers, Belgium 3rd. Marcel Ryckaert, Belgium) 1st. 1954 Tour of Flanders 1st. 1952 Ghent-Wevelgem 1st. 1953 Ghent-Wevelgem 1st. 1957 Fleche Wallonne Augustin Tamames (1944) Spain 1st. 1975 Vuelta à España (2nd, Domingo Perurena, Spain; 3rd. Miguel Maria Lasa, Spain) 2nd. 1970 Vuelta à España (1st, Luis Ocana, Spain) 3rd. 1972 Vuelta à España (1st, Jose Manuel Fuente, Spain 2nd. Miguel Maria Lasa, Spain) 1st 1970 Mountains Jersey Vuelta à España (Source: Six Day staff)
Happy Birthday - Women
Posted Tue Oct 19 11:09:22 2004 (EDT in North America)
Adrie VISSER (1983) Nederlands - 21 today 155th UCI Ranking (Source: Six Day staff)
Today's Menu
Posted Tue Oct 19 08:59:21 2004 (EDT in North America)
Tuesday, October 19 Main Events:
MEN:
Stage Races:
Stage 7 - Malaysia Airlines Herald Sun Tour - Australia - Cat. 2.3
Single Day races: None
Six Day Races:
Night 2 - Amsterdam
WOMEN:
Stage Races:None
Single Day races: None
(Source: UCI)
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