Riders from Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela head to the Andes for these possibly imaginary mountains to battle the South American championships
After Botero, Pena, Mora, Baez, Salamanca and Capacho went away and were caught on the big first climb, Diniz, Soler, Orozco and Torres went away on the 2nd climb
After the descent below sea level, Soler went solo on the 3rd climb
When the main pack reach there, Serpa attacks
Rujano and Medina are quick to respond
Only Serpa reaches up to Soler though, already holding a minute and 40 advantage on the next chasers
Rujano and Medina have joined Torres.
Diniz, Orozco, Chacon and Suaza link up with that group
Going into the final descent, Soler and Serpa lead by 2 and a half minutes
Chacon and Rujano have left the rest behind
While Torres, Medina, Suaza, Diniz, Ardila, Orozco, Pedraza and Giraldo are a further 50 seconds down
Onto the final climb now, 8km up to the finish. Surprisingly, Soler has dropped Serpa
Serpa fights back up though and rejoins Soler - with Rujano dropping Chacon behind. Serpa then presses on further and drops Soler
There is no way that Jose Serpa will be caught. He wins the South American championships and becomes the new Colombian RR champion
Rujano caught and passed Soler to take 2nd. What matters for him though is that he is now the Venezuelan RR Champion
Chacon takes 4th place
Medina leads in the next group for 5th
Duarte leads in the next group. This group contains Nazaret, who retains his Brazilian RR title
1
José Serpa
AMERICAN SUZUKI
3h56'23
2
José Rujano
MAGENTA ALL-STARS
+ 2'14
3
Mauricio Soler
CARLSBERG
+ 2'54
4
José Chacon
CHAMPION
+ 3'49
5
Manuel Medina
BRITISH AIRWAYS - CYCLINGNEWS
+ 4'31
6
Jaime Suaza
NINTENDO - HONDA
s.t.
7
Walter Pedraza
SONY ERICSSON
s.t.
8
Mauricio Ardila
PHILIPS - HUMMEL
s.t.
9
Ivan Parra Pinto
AMERICAN SUZUKI
+ 4'51
10
Fabio Duarte
MAPEI
+ 6'03
11
Alexander Giraldo
ERSTE
+ 6'11
12
Wilmer Vasquez
NVIDIA
s.t.
13
Sergio Luis Henao Montoya
CARLSBERG
s.t.
14
Magno Nazaret
MAGENTA ALL-STARS
+ 6'25
15
Richard Ochoa Quintero
IRN BRU - RBS
+ 6'40
16
Rigoberto Úran
DOMINA VACANZE
+ 7'02
17
Alex Ardila Cano
CARLSBERG
+ 7'24
18
Alexis Rojas Diaz
IRN BRU - RBS
+ 8'07
19
Mauricio Ortega
FESTINA
+ 9'00
20
Julián Rodas
ERNST & YOUNG
s.t.
21
Paúl Torres
FED-EX
+ 9'18
22
Fabio Montenegro
LA/MSS/PEARL JAM
+ 9'34
23
Jackson Rodríguez
LA/MSS/PEARL JAM
s.t.
24
Alex Diniz
NVIDIA
s.t.
25
Fredy Piamonte
CHAMPION
s.t.
26
Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez
CHAMPION
s.t.
27
Fredy Excelino González Martínez
MAGENTA ALL-STARS
s.t.
28
Edwin Parra Bustamante
NIPPO CORPORATION
+ 10'33
29
Fredy Montaña
NINTENDO - HONDA
+ 11'00
30
Jairo Agudelo
NINTENDO - HONDA
+ 11'18
31
Edwin Orozco
ERNST & YOUNG
s.t.
32
Pedro Nicácio
MAGENTA ALL-STARS
s.t.
33
Luís Orán Castañeda
MAGENTA ALL-STARS
s.t.
34
Franklin Chacon
LA/MSS/PEARL JAM
s.t.
35
Víctor Hugo Orozco
NINTENDO - HONDA
+ 12'01
36
Remberto Jaramillo
DASANI - HINCAPIE SPORTSWEAR
+ 13'50
37
Gregorio Ladino
IRN BRU - RBS
+ 14'00
38
Juan Mora
NINTENDO - HONDA
+ 15'48
39
Stefano Barberi
FED-EX
+ 18'34
40
Aldrin Salamanca
CHAMPION
s.t.
41
Rubén Darío Laverde Velez
FESTINA
+ 18'49
42
Giovanny Báez
ERNST & YOUNG
+ 18'57
43
Carlos Maya
CHAMPION
s.t.
44
Victor Hugo Peña
FRANCE TELEVISIONS
+ 19'54
45
Santiago Botero
FED-EX
+ 20'27
46
Olmedo Capacho
IRN BRU - RBS
+ 21'56
47
Fidel Jeobani Chacon
ERNST & YOUNG
+ 32'36
48
Carlos Alberto Ospina
DASANI - HINCAPIE SPORTSWEAR
+ 51'09
49
Leonardo Duque
DOMINA VACANZE
+ 54'38
50
Murilo Fischer
DOMINA VACANZE
+ 1h16'37
51
Nilceu Santos
BRITISH AIRWAYS - CYCLINGNEWS
+ 1h19'33
52
Miguel Chacon
IRN BRU - RBS
+ 1h23'32
53
Juan Pablo Forero
ERSTE
+ 1h26'06
54
Juan Esteban Arango
ERNST & YOUNG
+ 1h30'58
55
Luciano Pagliarini
NINTENDO - HONDA
+ 1h37'55
TT
Rigoberto Uran is the winner of the South American TT Champs and the new Colombian TT champion
Botero and Agudelo take 2nd and 3rd in the Colombian champs - thats 3rd and 4th overall
2nd today and only 5 seconds behind Uran was Pedro Nicacio. He had no real competition for the Brazilian TT title
The Venezuelan TT title is harder to predict. And in finishing 10th best South American, Manuel Medina takes the Venezuelan title
Franklin Chacon trailed by 11 seconds, Jose Rujano by 18
Levi4life wrote:
How are US Nationals going to work this year? Especially with my team
Youve got 18 Americans in Slipstream, theyll be split into two teams of 9 - as there is less than 20 separate teams. The 2 riders from the B Team will also be riding separately.
Levi4life wrote:
And what about Haedo?
Argentina will have a separate, flat, national championships - since pretty much all of the leading Argentinians are sprinters
"We all know that wasn't the real footage of the Worlds anyway. That was just the staged footage to perpetuate the coverup that it was actually Vinokourov that won the race."