August 3, 2008 (Bromont, Que.) - A light rain continues in Bromont as the Elite Men's XC World Cup race with 67 riders on the start line will begin shortly. Leading the charge for Canada is Geoff Kabush (Maxxis) who placed 2nd at MSA and hopes to improve on that result. The men will complete 6 laps of the 4.6km course - preview.
Lap 1
At the start it's Todd Wells (USA) GT Bicycles jumping to the lead with Kabush in 2nd, Cédric Ravanel (Fra) Team Lapierre International in 3rd, and Julien Absalon (Fra) Orbea in 4th - the rain has let up and the sun is poking through.
Lap 2
As the riders come through to start lap 2 it's Lukas Flückiger (Sui) Athleticum MTB Team in the lead with Absalon in 2nd and José Antonio Hermida Ramos (Esp) Multivan/Merida in 3rd. Top Canadian is Seamus McGrath (Fuji) in 7th.
Lap 3
Absalon has taken over the lead and has 1:05 on Hermida and Flückiger in 2nd and 3rd. McGrath has moved up to 6th.
Lap 4
Absalon continues to lead with a 1:05 gap on Flückiger in 2nd followed by Hermida in 3rd at 1:46 with Adam Craig (USA) Giant Mountain Bike Team in 4th at 2:06 and Kabush is in 7th - we haven't seen McGrath yet and may have missed him coming through - Mathieu Toulouse (Can) Team Maxxis is in 24th. Raphael Gagne (Can) Rocky Mountain in 39th has crashed apparently he had a flat tire and was riding with Francis Morin (Can) Specialized.
Lap 5
Starting the 5th lap with one more to go after this it's Absalon with a 1:38 lead over Flückiger in 2nd with Craig now in 3rd at 2:53, Hermida in 4th at 3:50 and Kabush is now in 5th at 3:53 - and McGrath is in 13th at 6:52. Matthew Hadley (Can) Xprezo is 19th and Toulouse is 25th.
Lap 6 Final
Absalon has a 2:12 lead on the final lap over Flückiger in 2nd and Craig in 3rd at 3:55 with Kabush now in 4th at 4:33. The men are finishing in a light rain which came back.
Absalon wins...
Overall standings pdf here.
Results
1. Julien Absalon (Fra) Orbea 2:16:24
2. Lukas Flückiger (Sui) Athleticum MTB Team 2:14
3. Adam Craig (USA) Giant Mountain Bike Team 3:46
4. Geoff Kabush (Can) Team Maxxis 5:07
5. José Antonio Hermida Ramos (Esp) Multivan Merida Biking 6:07
6. Martin Gujan (Sui) Athleticum MTB Team 7:17
7. Jiri Friedl (Cze) Merida Biking Team 7:23
8. Jaroslav Kulhavy (Cze) 7:56
9. Liam Killeen (Gbr) Specialized Factory Racing 8:01
10. Todd Wells (USA) GT Bicycles 8:39
11. Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski (USA) Subaru-Gary Fisher 8:55
12. Hannes Metzler (Aut) Giant Mountain Bike Team 10:33
13. Cédric Ravanel (Fra) Team Lapierre International 11:27
14. Derek Zandstra (Can) 3 Rocks Racing 11:45
15. Seamus Mcgrath (Can) Fuji 13:45
16. Christoph Soukup (Aut) 15:23
17. Jeremiah Bishop (USA) Trek-VW 16:34
18. Karl Markt (Aut) 16:49
19. Carl Decker (USA) Giant Mountain Bike Team 17:05
20. Mathieu Toulouse (Can) Team Maxxis 18:17
21. Michael Broderick (USA) 18:52
22. Matthew Hadley (Can) Xprezo 20:04
23. Cristobal Silva Ibaceta (Chi) 21:13
24. Burry Stander (RSA) GT Bicycles 21:21
1 Lap Behind
25. Connor Mcconvey (Irl)
26. Eric Batty (Can) Trek Store Toronto
27. Ola Kjören (Nor)
28. Daniel Sessford (Can)
29. Martin Fanger (Swi)
30. Maxime Marotte (Fra) BH-SR/Suntour
31. Matous Ulman (Cze)
32. Barry Wicks (USA) Kona
33. Kris Sneddon (Can) Kona
34. Samuel Schultz (USA) Subaru-Gary Fisher
35. Craig Richey (Can)
36. Jan Skarnitzl (Cze)
2 Laps Behind
37. Freddy Betremieux (Fra) BH-SR/Suntour
38. Raphael Gagne (Can) Rocky Mountain
39. Gareth Montgomerie (Gbr)
40. Calle Friberg (Swe)
41. Francis Morin (Can) Specialized
42. Andrew Watson (Can)
43. Bas Peters (Ned)
44 .Nicola Rohrbach (Sui) Central Ghost Pro Team
45. Spencer Paxson (USA)
46. Tad Elliot (USA)
47. Kenji Takeya (Jpn)
48. Frank Schotman (Ned)
49. Andrew Freye (USA)
3 Laps Behind
50. Leni Trudel (Can)
51. Troy Wells (USA)
52. Cody Peterson (USA)
53. Pierre Lebreton (Fra) BH-SR/Suntour
54. Martin Loo (Est) Merida Biking Team
55. Ethan Gilmour (USA)
56. Anders Hovdenes (Nor) Team Etto Hoydahl
57. Timothy Madgwick (Nzl)
58. Ryan Atkins (Can)
DNF Robin Seymour (Irl)
DNF Max Plaxton (Can) Rocky Mountain
DNF John Gray (Nzl)
DNF Julien Fillion (Can)
DNF Josef Kamler (Cze) Ceska Sporitelna MTB
DNF Kyle Douglas (Can)
DNF Mitchell Peterson (USA)
DNF Pablo Voigt Rodriguez (Mex)
DNS Kashi Leuchs (Nzl) Cannondale-Vredestein
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Julien Absalon (Fra) Orbea wins...
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Final podium (l-r): Kabush 4th, Flückiger 2nd, Absalon 1st, Craig 3rd, Hermida 5th.
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Geoff Kabush (Can) Team Maxxis
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Seamus McGrath (Can) Fuji
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Julien Absalon (Fra) Orbea
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Matt Hadley (Can) Xprezo
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Kabush (l) and Ravanel at the start.
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Men's start - Wells (GT) leading with Kabush 2nd in on the far left, McGrath in Canadian kit far right, Toulouse (Maxxis) at the top.
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Course profile...
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Course map...
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