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2000 Tour de Burg Race Report--Stage 2

Saturday, 7-01-00

Dominating the final sprint was all it took for Italian Joel Maynario to emerge victorious from the 2nd stage of 2000 tour de burg. Despite winning both of the timed sections this afternoon Jerome Vimpty could only watch as the Italian showed his power and pulled free of the pack for the 1 minute sprint bonus. During today's first time check it was another Italian, Mike Compraro, who instigated the action early. After a brief stint with the peloton, Vimpty and Maynario pulled away and summitted Hankey mtn well in the lead. As the rest of the pack spread out on the steep climb, Norweigan Chris Scott and the cosmonaut Micki Buchness ensued chase. It was the Norweigan keeping himself in position to capitalize on the downhill and finishing in third place well behind the leaders. Although Maynario had a sizeable lead heading into the final 4 miles of downhill, it wasn't enough to hold off the silky Vimpty who, despite crashing, reeled in the Italian. Coming into the finish, the Italian's technical skills (which are far from top form) failed him, he crashed allowing the Frenchman to sneak by and grab the first time check by 4 seconds. The second time check in today's stage featured an off camber singletrack climb to the top of the long downhill in to braley's pond. The peloton started this singletrack climb in the order of today's first time check. This gave Vimpty the pole allowing him and Maynario to again escape the peloton and start the downhill minutes ahead. Maynario's plan of shadowing the leader backfired here as he again stacked it up atop the technical downhill creating a small gap which the Frenchman opened up to 50 seconds by the finish. The German descent specialist James Von Keehner attacked the small chase group as they neared the top of the climb, breaking free and coming into the finish in 3rd place. The final sprint, which was thrown in at the last second, allowed the Italian to capitalize on a steep grade and his technical frustrations to pick up the minute bonus. Other riders showed promise today with strong climbing and downhilling but the gap between the leaders continues to grow. Temperatures are heating up and stage 3 will truly show which riders are in form as they attack the hor de categorie Reddish knob. The general classification will surely see some changes tomorrow with a huge time check and 2 sprint bonus opportunities. Grumblings of scandal and doping riddled the tour today; originating in the drug tent when a former team clean strongman retied his alliance to the green squad. Then it was Jenkini, riding for Shenandoah Bicycle company who brought out the rantings of corruption and time shaving by tour officials. Look for tomorrow's report detailing the inevitable carnage of the 3rd stage of the 2000 tour de burg.

Stage 2

1. Joel Maynard @ 3:45:00, 2. Jerome Vimpty @ :06, 3. James Von Keehner @ 5:11, 4. Chris Scott @ 5:17, 5. Mike Compraro @ 7:38, 6. Micki Buchness @ 8:20, 7. Tim Richardson (SBC) @ 11:14, 8. Miguel Carpellini @ 11:27, 9. Tomi Brothers @ 13:45, 10. (1) Susa Haysus @ 14:37, 11. Jimi Stone @ 15:48, 12. Christi Lhentholo @ 19:15, 13. Mark Myralce @ 25:37, 14. Nikolai Danielski @ 25:38, 15. Ryan Ketchum @ 27:25 16. Sami Fournier @ 30:00, 17. April @ 30:00

General Classification:

1. Jerome Vimpty-- 4:10:21, 2. Joel Maynario @ :32, 3. Chris Scott @ 7:57, 4. James Von Keehner @ 8:18, 5. Micki Buchness @ 11:55, 6. Shen Bi Co @ 15:34, 7. Miguel Carpellini @ 15:36, 8. Susa Haysus @ 23:18, 9. Christi Lhentholo @ 26:05, 10. Nikolai Danielski @ 34:51, 11. Mark Myracle @ 35:42 12, Sami Fournier @ 44:32