Les championnats du monde sur route - 3 octobre 2010

Les championnats du monde sur route
3 octobre 2010 - Melbourne, Australie

L´équipe du Canada : Dominique Rollin, Christian Meier et Svein Tuft
photo : Rob Jones, The Canadian Cyclist

course sur route des hommes Élites, 257,2 km
1- Thor Hushovd, Norvège, 6h 21m 49
2- Matti Breschel, Danemark, même temps
3- Allan Davis, Australie, même temps
85- Svein Tuft, Canada, à 13m 53
99 coureurs ont complété l´épreuve
Dominique Rollin et Christian Meier n´ont pas terminé
Tous les résultats

Dominique Rollin chassant le peloton après s'être arrêté pour satisfaire un besoin naturel
photo : Rob Jones, The Canadian Cyclist

Lisez :
- Thor Hushovd gave Norway their first ever elite men's road title, The Canadian Cyclist

Dominique Rollin manifestement pas content de la tournure des événements
photo : Rob Jones, The Canadian Cyclist

Dom Rollin was out of the race on the first lap of the circuit after stopping with other riders for a 'nature break'. He was less than happy (to put it mildly) :

"A junior mistake as well as the race is really unorganized and I am paying the price for it. I saw a couple of guys stop for a pee break including [Germany's André] Greipel, so I stopped with them because it was the last moment we could [stop] before the race really gets on. I left maybe 100m behind [Greipel's] group - there are ten guys in front of me - and as I am leaving and trying to chase back on I realize there is no more caravan, which is unusual."

"I was like, 'where's the cars?'. So I panicked a little bit, but I managed to get back to whatever cars were left behind the field on the first climb, and they just did barrage [allowed no room for riders to move between the cars]. So they had stopped all the cars behind me. Which is something you never do, because I wasn't dropped and there was no reason. So there were two or three guys stuck in the middle of nowhere trying to chase by ourselves back onto the field, and that is when they split the field in two. So, my race is over because the commissaires are a bunch of amateurs that don't know a thing about cycling. And you can quote it like this. I don't care."

"So sometimes we suffer from their decisions, and sometimes their decisions don't make sense, like having the caravan following the breakaway for three laps. Normally if you are afraid of the breakaway coming back on the field you stop certain cars, but you don't stop the whole caravan."
The Canadian Cyclist

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