| Dominique Perras 2002 Tour de Langkawi |
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| Dominique Perras 2002 Tour de Langkawi |
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The first important race of the season for Dominique with his new team iTeamNova.com was the Tour de Langkawi in Malaysia, February 1-10. He had the best result of the team, being 18th at the general. He had mechanical problems during the 7th stage. Without that, he would probably have finished among the top ten.
We followed him day by day, and the Canadian team. 151 started, 128 finished the race.
Stage #10, February 10
Graeme Brown of Ceramiche Panaria won the stage doing 75.6 km in 1h41'50" (44,44 km/h). Herman Dario Mu�oz of Columbia-Selle Italia won the 1 312 km Tour in 30h 03'31, average speed of 43.70 km/h.
| name | team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | last stage |
diff stage |
general | diff gen. |
|
| Mark Ernsting |
Canada |
93 |
81 |
119 |
143 |
dns | |||||||||
| Josh Hall |
Canada |
89 |
132 |
136 |
87 |
56 |
45 |
40 |
65 |
103 |
53 |
none |
95 |
52'13 |
|
| Ryder Hesjedal |
Canada |
21 |
68 |
32 |
34 |
19 |
25 |
39 |
30 |
17 |
43 |
none |
13 |
7'40 |
|
| Geoff Kabush |
Canada |
95 |
100 |
45 |
38 |
119 |
117 |
dns | |||||||
| Dominique Perras |
iTeamNOVA |
61 |
106 |
94 |
12 |
24 |
69 |
79 |
64 |
25 |
22 |
none |
18 |
13'42 |
|
| Andrew Pinfold |
Canada |
97 |
74 |
139 |
140 |
dnf | |||||||||
| Glen Rendall |
Canada |
132 |
80 |
146 |
139 |
90 |
65 |
136 |
47 |
133 |
115 |
1'33 |
128 |
1h36'54 |
|
| Eric Wohlberg |
Canada |
3 |
64 |
70 |
56 |
63 |
88 |
37 |
51 |
62 |
37 |
none |
38 |
30'46 |
Stage 6 ended with crashes. Dominique told The Canadian Cyclist's Rob Jones : "It was difficult - very fast. From the gun, there was a lot of stop and go with many attacks in the first 80 kilometres. My legs are sore from the previous two days (he was in the break both days), so it made it hard." Eric Wohlberg echoed Perras' sentiments: "We (Team Canada) had a tough day. We were trying to get something going, and were getting into the breaks but nothing was sticking."
Dominique told Rob Jones at the end of stage 5 : "We knew Alexia (Alluminio, the team of two-time winner Paolo Lanfranchi) was mad after missing the break yesterday. They were pushing in the KoM sprint, and some of us were going across at the front. The climb continued for another K or so after the KoM line, and when we looked around we saw that we had a gap. The group went really hard at first. Everyone was pulling through and we were going 60K per hour. There were enough people there that once we got going it really opened up."
Ryder Hesjedal, of the Canadian Team, had problems : In the confusion of the break, no one in the Team Canada cars realized that he was up the road; thus he couldn't get a feed for quite a while until Perras' team gave him a couple of bottles. Then, he rear flatted, while Canada was back servicing other riders. "I was sitting at the back getting a feed when it happened. I just kept riding on the rim, coasting, looking back and looking back. Finally Mavic got up to me and serviced me".
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