Standings after Night Three 1. Scott McGrory / Franco Marvulli 172 points 2. Bruno Risi / Kurt Betschart 168 points Down One Laps 3. Robert Slippens / Danny Stam 175 points 4. Matthew Gilmore / Frank Vandenbroucke 121 points 5. Marco Villa / Giovanni Lombardi 118 points Down Two Laps 6. Aart Vierhouten / Andreas Beikirch 97 points Down Four Laps 7. Max van Heeswijk / Jimmi Madsen 82 points 8. Matthé Pronk / Jos Pronk 81 points Down Six Laps 9. Iljo Keisse / Wouter van Mechelen 103 points Down Seven Laps 10. Peter Schep / Steven Deneef 41 points 11. Gerd Dörich / Christian Grassmann 19 points Down Eight Laps 12. Francis de Jager / Jens Mouris 105 points 13. Stefan van Dijk / Franz Stocher 48 points Night Three Derny Competition 1. Matthew Gilmore 5 points 2. Robert Slippens 4 points 3. Bruno Risi 3 points 4. Matthé Pronk 2 points 5. Iljo Keisse 1 points 6. Max van Heeswijk 0 points SixDay Amsterdam Page For fuller results listings. (Source: Amsterdam Official Site)Amsterdam Official Site (Dutch)
You Gotta be Joking....
Posted Wed Oct 20 13:13:42 2004 (EDT in North America)
Sole Irish gold in jeopardy after horse fails dope test BY: Paul Hoskins IRISH sport suffered another huge blow to its pride last night when it emerged that Waterford Crystal, the horse Cian O'Connor rode to win Ireland's only gold medal at the Athens Olympics, failed a dope test during the Games. The Equestrian Federation of Ireland (EFI) said yesterday it had been informed by horse riding's international governing body that a sample taken from Waterford Crystal had "proved positive for prohibited substances" after the individual show jumping competition. O'Connor, who will request that the B sample taken in Athens also be tested, said he took responsibility for medication administered to his horse before the Games, but that he believed it had not been given performance-enhancing drugs. "I believe that I won this medal fair and square and that the horse has not been given anything that would make him jump better," he said. "I am utterly devastated that the A sample taken from my horse at the Games has tested positive. That notion amounts to cheating, and I am not a cheat. I plan to have the B sample tested as soon as possible and to proceed from there with the EFI." If Waterford Crystal's second sample is positive, O'Connor could be stripped of his gold medal, Ireland's first-ever in an equestrian event at the Olympics. It would be a crushing blow for sport and morale in Ireland, with O'Connor's success having eased the pain of the Michelle Smith scandal. The Irish swimmer won three gold medals at the 1996 Olympics, but later was found guilty of tampering with a urine sample during a drugs test and banned for four years. The Irish federation said O'Connor had informed them of treatment for a mild fetlock injury given to Waterford Crystal on 22 July. The vet had prescribed mild sedation to prevent the horse injuring himself further during hydrotherapy treatment. "I can categorically state that the medication administered by me was not a performance-enhancing substance, but was used after careful consideration, in the best interests of the horse's welfare," veterinary surgeon James Sheeran told the EFI. He also said that he could not understand how the medication could still have been present in the horse's system by the time samples were taken at the Games over a month later. EFI president Avril Doyle said she did not condone the use of prohibited substances in competition under any circumstances. However, she added: "The Federation stands behind Cian O'Connor in his bid to clarify the situation, and respects his right of due process." If the B-sample is positive, the person responsible must explain the horse's positive test within 10 days. Subsequently, FEI will compile a case file to be submitted to the federation's judicial committee for its decision. The person responsible then has 30 days to appeal any FEI decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. In a separate statement yesterday the International Federation for Equestrian Sport (FEI) said four out of 40 horses tested for drugs at the Athens Games had returned positive samples. FEI would not release or confirm the names of the horses whose A samples were positive. (Source: News Scotsman)News Scotsman Com
Malaysia Airlines Herald Sun Tour
>Posted Wed Oct 20 13:46:50 2004 (EDT in North America)
By: Michael Stevens
21oct04
SOUTH Australian teenager Mathew Rex led the charge of the young guns in yesterday's Bendigo kermesse
stage of the Malaysia Airlines Herald Sun Tour.
Pictures: Stage 8 | More pictures
Where to see the action tomorrow
But the status quo remained at the top of the leaderboard with Tasmanian Karl Menzies still in yellow,
albeit by only 4sec from his Bicycle Superstore teammate David McKenzie.
Rex, 19, riding for CGU Insurance, made the most of his opportunity when he found himself in a breakaway
group of six with 10 laps remaining in the 30-lap event around Bendigo's Lake Weeroona.
When more experienced rivals Eric Wohlberg, Christian Lademann and David Harrigan not prepared to work to
keep the peloton at bay it was left to Rex, Queenslander Mark Roland (Victorian State Home Loans) and
Victorian Richard England to force the pace.
The trio stretched its lead to 1min 14sec two laps from the finish and although McKenzie was urging his
teammates to rally, Rex still had a 50sec margin when he crossed the line ahead of Roland and England.
One of the youngest riders in the tour, Rex earned his spot by winning the opening round of the Tattersall's
Cup series in Werribee, and said he was now riding full time in pursuit of his cycling dream.
He has no illusions about his prospects for the remainder of the Tour. "Just survive," was his succinct
reply when asked how he expected to perform.
"It's been pretty hard," he said. "I didn't have much fun in the big hill stages."
England, 23, summed up the feeling of his breakaway trio when he said it was those without professional
contracts who were prepared to do all the work.
"It was hard doing a lead-out into the wind, and in the last 20m I went from first to third," he said.
"I am using the road to put miles into my legs for the track season, which is my speciality, and I'm
looking forward to that."
McKenzie, 30, who led the bunch sprint home in fourth place, said it didn't matter to him if his teammate
Menzies was still in front when the Tour hits Traralgon on Sunday.
"The name of the game is as long as someone with the Superstore jersey has the yellow on Sunday, I'll be
just as happy," McKenzie said.
"I've been riding long enough that there's no egos. Karl deserves every day he's had the yellow
(almost from the opening stage in Carlton). He's ridden above himself . . . he came in as a last-minute
replacement . . . that's awesome, we're stoked to see him doing so well.
"And he's just so casual about it. But with Karl and I, we've got to try to gap ourselves as much as we
can from guys like Luke (Roberts), Jonas (Ljungblad) and Ben Brooks.
"Maybe I'm overlooking a couple, but in my mind they're the three who are going to put more than a minute
into me up (Mt) Baw Baw.
"They might not; I might go with them, I don't know. You guys have seen me go up climbs before, I'm
either good or really bad.
"If I'm really bad, that's it, I won't win the Tour. If I'm really good, I know I can go with them, we'll
just have to wait and see."
McKenzie, who has won 11 stages of the Herald Sun Tour and last year's inaugural Tour of Queensland,
added that he was looking forward to the Mt Baw Baw "showdown".
"I'd rather Baw Baw than a gradual climb," he said. "I'd rather hit the bottom and know it's 110 per cent
for 6km, whereas anything can happen on that 10km climb at Apollo Bay.
"Saturday, it's every man for himself. I'd rather a showdown than tactics come into it."
Athens Olympic gold medallist Roberts (Latrobe City) remains poised to pounce in third place, 49sec off
the pace, with Ljungblad (Europcar/Pelaco), fourth at 51sec.
Brooks, riding for McGee/NSW Institute of Sport, is fifth, 1min 35sec behind.
Stage 8 - Bendigo Kermesse - 69.0 km
Place Rider UCI ID Sponsor Time
1 Matthew Rex AUS19850214 CGU INSURANCE 1:30:31
2 Mark Roland AUS19780112 VICTORIAN STATE HOME LOANS 1:30:31
3 Richard England AUS19810709 MITCHELL BUILDING SUPPLIES 1:30:31
4 David McKenzie AUS19740806 BICYCLE SUPERSTORE 1:31:21
5 Damian Forster AUS19730502 UNO CLOTHING 1:31:21
6 Luke Roberts AUS19770125 LATROBE CITY 1:31:21
7 Karl Menzies AUS19770617 BICYCLE SUPERSTORE 1:31:21
8 Dean Downing GBR19750124 BENDIGO 1:31:21
9 Jonas Ljungbald SWE19790115 EUROPCAR - PELACO 1:31:21
10 Artur Krzeszowiec POL19720720 EUROPCAR - PELACO 1:31:21
11 Jonathan Cantwell AUS19820108 HALF MILE CREEK 1:31:21
12 Timo Scholz GER19720630 MALAYSIA AIRLINES 1:31:21
13 Thomas Gronqvist SWE19751002 EUROPCAR - PELACO 1:31:21
14 Ben Brooks AUS19790321 McGEE - NSW INSTITUTE OF SPORT 1:31:21
15 Glen Mitchell NZL19721019 ACTIVE FOR LIFE 1:31:21
16 David Tanner AUS19840930 McGEE - NSW INSTITUTE OF SPORT 1:31:21
17 Joel Pearson AUS19830321 PROVINCIAL VICTORIA 1:31:21
18 Paul Healion IRL19780603 SUNGOLD MILK - WARRNAMBOOL 1:31:21
19 Andrew Graham AUS19711230 UNO CLOTHING 1:31:21
20 Rhys Pollock AUS19800314 UNO CLOTHING 1:31:21
21 Steven De Decker BEL19820428 HALF MILE CREEK 1:31:24
22 George Vallins AUS19730413 UNO CLOTHING 1:31:24
23 Matthew Lloyd AUS19830524 MITCHELL BUILDING SUPPLIES 1:31:24
24 Matthew Goold AUS19730221 ACTIVE FOR LIFE 1:31:24
25 Chrisophe Le Mevel FRA19800911 PROVINCIAL VICTORIA 1:31:24
Overall after Stage 8
Place Rider Sponsor Time Deficit
1 Karl Menzies BICYCLE SUPERSTORE 17:30:45 0:00:00
2 David McKenzie BICYCLE SUPERSTORE 17:30:49 0:00:04
3 Luke Roberts LATROBE CITY 17:31:34 0:00:49
4 Jonas Ljungbald EUROPCAR - PELACO 17:31:36 0:00:51
5 Ben Brooks McGEENSW INSTITUTE OF SPORT 17:32:20 0:01:35
6 Dominique Perras ACTIVE FOR LIFE 17:32:42 0:01:57
7 Glen Mitchell ACTIVE FOR LIFE 17:33:00 0:02:15
8 Scott Guyton BICYCLE SUPERSTORE 17:33:16 0:02:31
9 Kieran Page BENDIGO 17:33:26 0:02:41
10 Kristian House BENDIGO 17:33:29 0:02:44
11 Timo Scholz MALAYSIA AIRLINES 17:33:34 0:02:49
12 Rob Sharman SUNGOLD MILK - WARRNAMBOOL 17:33:43 0:02:58
13 Matthew Goold ACTIVE FOR LIFE 17:33:46 0:03:01
14 David Tanner McGEE - NSW INSTITUTE OF SPORT 17:33:46 0:03:01
15 Benoit Poilvet PROVINCIAL VICTORIA 17:33:54 0:03:09
16 Domenic Gatto VICTORIAN STATE HOME LOANS 17:33:55 0:03:10
17 Rhys Pollock UNO CLOTHING 17:35:19 0:04:34
18 Richard England MITCHELL BUILDING SUPPLIES 17:35:23 0:04:38
19 Simon Gerrans JAYCO 17:35:36 0:04:51
20 Mark Roland VICTORIAN STATE HOME LOANS 17:36:25 0:05:40
21 Eric Wohlberg ACTIVE FOR LIFE 17:36:34 0:05:49
22 Jonathan Cantwell HALF MILE CREEK 17:36:43 0:05:58
23 Corey Sweet LATROBE CITY 17:36:47 0:06:02
24 Mateusz Mroz EUROPCAR - PELACO 17:37:06 0:06:21
25 Tomas Buchacek LATROBE CITY 17:37:10 0:06:25
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: Herald Sun)
Herald Sun Site (English)
Hamilton's Gold: Russians Appeal
Posted Wed Oct 20 12:19:15 2004 (EDT in North America)
Russia have appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport against American cyclist Tyler Hamilton's Olympic gold. Hamilton was allowed to keep his time-trial gold from Athens despite testing positive for a blood transfusion. The International Olympic Committee argued the B sample, or second test, had been destroyed by deep-freezing. But Russia Olympic Committee told the CAS Hamilton should be stripped of his medal, which should go to Russian Vyacheslav Ekimov who finished second. The appeal from the Russian body said: "The ROC insists on the disqualification of Hamilton." Hamilton was told he had given a positive A, or first, test for a blood transfusion at the Olympics in Athens on 18 August. But the IOC halted its investigation when his back-up specimen was mistakenly frozen. IOC rules state an athlete is only guilty when both samples come back positive. Hamilton is the first cyclist to have tested positive for blood doping - when athletes inject blood from another person in order to increase red blood cells and improve stamina. And he later failed another test after winning a time trial in the Tour of Spain on 11 September. The 33-year-old has maintained he is "100%" innocent of the charges but, if found guilty, could be banned for two years, effectively ending his career. (Source: BBC)BBC Site - (English)
Happy Birthday - Men
Posted Wed Oct 20 02:55:45 2004 (EDT in North America)
Octave Lapize (1887) France -Died on July 14, 1917. 1st. 1910 Tour de France (2nd. Francois Faber, Luxembourg; 3rd. Gustave Garrigou, France) 1st. 1909 Paris-Roubaix 1st. 1910 Paris-Roubaix 1st. 1911 Paris-Roubaix 1st. 1911 Paris-Tours Marcel Dupont (1917) Belgium 5th. 1948 Worlds (1st. Alberic Schotte, Belgium; 2nd. Apo Lazarides, France) Bernardo Capo (1919) Spain 3rd. 1948 Vuelta (1st. Bernardo Ruiz, Spain; 2nd. Emilio Rodriguez, Spain). Kleber Piot (1920) France - Died January 5, 1990 3rd 1945 Paris-Roubaix Lucien Van Impe (1946) Belgium Tour de France - 1 Win, 1 Second and 3 Third places. 6 Mountains Jerseys - Tour de France (Equalling Federico Bahamontes) 2 Mountains Jerseys - Giro d'Italia. (Source: Six Day staff)
Italian Doping Suspensions
Posted Wed Oct 20 02:39:15 2004 (EDT in North America)
The Disciplinary Committee of the FCI (Italian Cycling Federation), handed out the following suspensions last Friday: Andriy Pryshchepa (Under 23) 2 Months Alessandro Pasta (Sportsman 2) 4 Months Danilo Sbaraglia (Master 1) 4 Months Manuel Quiriconi (Under 23) 2 Years Sebastiano Leone (Master 2) 8 Months - (From last July 14) (Source: la Gazzetta dello Sport)la Gazzetta (Italian)
Ladies Only
Posted Wed Oct 20 02:24:41 2004 (EDT in North America)
Here's Carmen Richardson Cyclo Crossing it..... (Source: Six Day staff; Photo Courtesy: Cyclinfo Site (French))
Men Only
Posted Wed Oct 20 02:05:59 2004 (EDT in North America)
Here's Italy's Paolo Bettini, New UCI World Cup Numero Uno And here's Italy's Damiano Cunego, New UCI Rankings Numero Uno Cunego's Eighteen wins in 2004: Giro di Lombardia (CdM) GP Nobili Rubinetterie Classifica finale Due Giorni Marchigiana Due Giorni Marchigiana: GP Fred Mengoni Criterium degli Assi / Memorial Casartelli: prova scratch Criterium Marco Pantani Trofeo Meregalli Criterium di Broni Classifica finale Giro d'Italia 18a tappa Giro d'Italia: Bormio 2000 16a tappa Giro d'Italia: Falzes 7a tappa Giro d'Italia: Montevergine di Mercagliano 2a tappa Giro d'Italia: Pontremoli GP Industria e Artigianato Giro dell'Appennino Classifica finale Giro del Trentino 2a tappa Giro del Trentino: Roncone 1a tappa Giro del Trentino: Marcena di Rumo (Source: Six Day staff; Photo Courtesy: la Gazzetta (Italian))
Happy Birthday - Women
Posted Wed Oct 20 01:22:11 2004 (EDT in North America)
None Today. Sorry (Source: Six Day staff)
Dominique Arnould hangs up his wheels
Posted Wed Oct 20 01:06:57 2004 (EDT in North America)
Dominique Arnould, World Champion cyclo-crosser in 1993, announced last Sunday that he was retiring. On January 1, 2005 he will become one of the four directors of Bouygues Télécom. At 38 years of age he feels that it is time to end his racing career and look to the future. His main responsibility with Bouygues Télécom will be to oversee the recruitment of young riders. To go with his World Championship jersey, Dominique also has seven French Champion's jerseys. (Source: L'Equipe)L'Equipe (French)
Today's Menu
Posted Wed Oct 20 00:54:51 2004 (EDT in North America)
Wednesday, October 20 Main Events:
MEN:
Stage Races:
Stage 8 - Malaysia Airlines Herald Sun Tour - Australia - Cat. 2.3
Single Day races: None
Six Day Races:
Night 3 - Amsterdam
WOMEN:
Stage Races:None
Single Day races: None
(Source: UCI)
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