Hangover July 22, 2013

Test done

 It was an eventful weekend of racing, with special guests USADA showing up for the Lou Maltese Memorial Race. Let’s review what happened.

At the R&A Cycles New York Cycling Series Race, Chris Loehner of Bicycle Planet won the masters 40+ race. Jennifer Nordhem of Pink Rhino Racing won the women’s race. Results are here.

At Sunday’s CRCA Lou Maltese Memorial Race, Andreas Graf of the Rudy Project Racing Team won the 1/2/3 race and the Rudy Project Racing Team won the team championship. Anneliese Haines of BH/Comedy Central won the women’s 1/2/3 race. Blaine Hurty of Black Tie Sports/Spine won the cat 3 race. Emmanuel Nunez of Inteja won the cat 4 race. Galen Xing of CRCA junior development won the juniors race. Results are here.

I wasn’t able to locate any results for Saturday’s CRCA Club Race, so if you know who won, let the world know.

95 Comments

Romain Butyl

There were at least 5 riders DQed for joggers lane violations at the Maltese race. The rule is being enforced. The 5 riders were reported by the moto pacers, almost all of which are USA cycling officials.

Romain Butyl

There were at least 5 riders DQed for joggers lane violations at the Maltese race. I saw this personally as the official was reading out numbers to the person who was doing results. The rule is being enforced. The 5 riders were reported by the moto pacers, almost all of which are USA cycling officials.

Ernesto Rubber Hood

Could not one photographer catch any shots of the winning breakaway from the Pro 1/2?

And yes. USADA tested the top 3.

Nathan Cogset

Any news on how Matt Seaton is doing? I heard that the ambulance took him away bleeding from his head.

Samuel Cogset

Matt here. I was fine. It was Andrew McGee in my team who went down almost in sight of the line at Maltese, along with Cisco Liuzzi and an Asphalt Green guy. Latter two OK, tho Cisco’s rear wheel looked like a truck had gone over it. McGee totaled his helmet and collected a cut across his nose. Saw him in Cornell later Sunday am: mild concussion but he was up and about, and checked out after a scan found no real harm.

That was a crashy finale. Hope everyone else OK

Arnaud Plug

1st – Geron Williams (CRCA/Foundation)
2nd – Stephan Hoffman (CRCA/Rockstar)
3rd – Matt Seaton (Rapha Racing)
4th Steve Magyera (CRCA/Foundation)
Shortly behind this lead group was Abraham Soler (CRCA/Foundation) who finished fourth in the final standings. The top 10 were rounded out by ira Blumberg (CRCA/FGX racing), Ron Ferraz (CRCA/Foundation), Matthew Vandivort (CRCA/Sixcycle-RK&O), Jesse Walker (CRCA/Setanta) and Adam Alexander (CRCA/Foundation).

In the B field the winner was Alex Sanborn (CRCA/Foundation) followed by Armand Wilhelm (CRCA/Siggi’sNYVelocity) and Chris Peck (CRCA/Setanta). The top seven were rounded out by Charles Altchek (CRCA/Foundation), Todd Royal (CRCA/W&D Racing), Noah Gellner (CRCA/Foundation) and Jamisen Ogg (CRCA/Cause & Effect)

The C field completed a scratch race that was won by John Kim ahead of Nicholas Gray and Mike Richford.

In the Masters Field Pascal Sauvayre completed a massive ITT-like solo effort and finished alone. Eutimio Quintero finished second followed by David Chomowicz.

Totto Cogset

Maltese Cat 3 – The Montecci guys appeared to be writing their own rule book.

Watched sick Montecci guy pass a rec rider on the left, like Cavadish passing Peter Veelers. Rec rider should have held his line through that curve. Watched another Montecci guy launch bad ass Jens Voigt style solo attach up harlem hill riding 150 meters in the joggers lane. Epic! Another Montecci member doing sylvain chavanel proud, coming over Cat’s Paw, attaching off the front, swerving from joggers lane to the far right lane curb, back to joggers lane in an attempt to create a gap so he could launch his 1500 watt attack.

At the conclusion of the race I sought out the head official to report Montecci rider XYZ for the jogger lane / Voigt attack. Official tells me he needs corroboration, to which two other racers piped up, “Yes, rider XYZ attacked from the joggers lane”. I see this morning that rider XYZ finished in the money.

Great to see the blue shirts at our local races and to hear that drug tests are going on, but it would be nice to see them enforce our most basic rules.

And to the Montecci guys, a truly epic display of your manly pro prowess. Keep up the good work.

Dorian Swage

What’s this I hear? Is it true that “doping control” showed up @ the Team Invitational Lou Maltese race to do random testing? Anyone out there know about this or what happened? I know Lisbon did the P/1/2 race in the UNITED kit.

Piero Bartape

Promoters and officials like to talk about jogger’s lane rules, but there’s practically no enforcement. Same thing Saturday at R&A. A wonder wheel rider sprinter most of the way in the joggers lane for the second sprint jersey points. Guys consistently moved up in the rec lane, particularly on the final lap. Enforce the rule or quit going on and on about it.

Paolo Kevlar

So it was ok that Foundation lined up 10 guys in the A field despite the limit being just 8? I guess CRCA chose to ignore that information. It’s a dumb rule but why make it if you’re not going to enforce it. Sad that it gets waived for the President’s team but not others.

Totto Cogset

You’re an idiot. We had 8 guys on Saturday. In fact, we all stepped away from the start line to confirm we were not over. Stop your complaining and go find more teammates.

Schwaag

I would send Henry Francisco at Montecci a note about his riders:
Henry Francisco
Montecci Bicycles
Central Park Rec Lane
NY, NY 10000

Paolo Kevlar

I counted 10 on the line. I wasn’t the only one. But again you ass, I don’t care about the rule (it’s stupid) I care how CRCA applies its rules – inconsistently.

Totto Cogset

Sorry to disappoint you, Paolo, but you are wrong. We had a handful of guys in the Masters field. maybe that threw off your count.

Jelle Liner

I was going slow enough to see several photographers on both Saturday and Sunday.

Where are the pics?

Thomas Setscrew

Huge Thank you to Victor Chan for the phenomenal photography! It’s amazing how you are able to capture so much of the emotions and races as a whole and in such vivid detail!! Thanks Victor – please keep up the great work. We appreciate it immensely!!

Ermanno Seatmast

Race tends to fill up pretty quick on bikereg almost always guaranteed full for p123 field. Typically by now you have upwards of 60 registrants all I see is 14. Think Sundays testing may have some “taking a break “- we’ll see.

Gherardo Internal Routing

hot damn! no marte. no lisbon. no ???? no anybodys for that matter!! quick – now’s my chance, i’m signing up cuz now i can finally place in the top 15. by the way, what ever happened to roger aspholm? he was pre-registered for the maltese race this past sunday, but was a no-show. did he happen to know something was going down?

Wylie Brazeon

it’s impossible to race in Prospect Park and not test positive for THC, with all of the ambient weed in the air there.

me

Stalin, Marte, and the entire Somerville team? You guys don’t even have the skill to hide your racism.

Henry Francisco

If any of you see any Montecci cycling member braking any rule, you can report it to me. We all aware about the recreational lane’s rules and the outcome it may bring. We were pushed, blocked, even someone handle a big elbow to Kelvin at Harlem Hill to pass the recreational lane. I don’t want to think this is a biased pursued, but about 6 people were DQ for this reason, none of them ware a member of our team. If you have the number or name of the suspect, give it to me, we were only 4 guys racing on Sunday.

Tom

Henry, thanks for putting that out there. Its always a pleasure to race with you and there is no bias against your team, but one guy did repeatedly use the rec lane, not because he was pushed out but to advance through the field. I believe his number was 228. He was called out about it several times during the race, but still continued to do it. I understand that bumping or dangerous situations happen that may require a trip into the rec lane, but under no circumstance should a rider use it to move up in the field. Your team races hard and does well, lets just keep it in bounds and safe for all.

Mr. Marshal

All you wanna be “racers” crack me up . . . . Complaining because you were DQ’d in a CP race? Get real . . . .

Baaaaa haaaa haaaaa.

Thomas Brakepad

Mr. Marshal, you do realize that there is literally nothing more interesting going on these days than CP DQ’s right? If you have a better topic perhaps you should tell Andy/Dan so they can write an article about it. Then we can make fun of you for suggestion such a topic.

Cyclist

This is a big issue. It sounds like from recent emails from Charlie “I” that NYYC is getting upset and considering shutting down racing in the parks. I could also so the number of crashes and riders being carried off in stretchers becoming a reason for permits not to be issued.

Luchino Internal Routing

Yes! That’s the rub not the cheating. Some dick riding in the rec lane getting us shut down. It could easily happen by buzzing the wrong person during a race. I am surprised we get to race at all. Call these jerks out.

Thomas Chainsuck

who was the fourth guy they tested? supposedly they took the top 3 finishers + some random 4th guy who placed in the top 10

Eporesis

Podium got tested. It has three steps. Anyone thinking a 4th guy got tested has failed the random intelligence test.

Ilias Rim

besides which….WHO THE HELL CARES?! You’ll know if he did anything wrong, if not…who the hell cares?! This is one reason I don’t like this program. John Doe doesn’t need his name attached to testing on the internet for perspective employers, etc…

Tom Chainsuck

OK now would be a good time to “come clean” and get ahead of the french senate report on 1998 TDF doping. I didn’t dope in 1998 or ever!
Yours truly,
locale Cat3 club racer

Vieri Ergopower

If the NYSBRA website is to be believed they waited until AFTER the podium to reveal USADA’s presence.
That’s not how it should work, I hope there were chaperones with the finishers from the minute they crossed the line.
Leave it to the CRCA to bungle this

Ken Harris

USADA dictated the procedures, not CRCA, and they generally know what they’re doing, testing being generally what they do.

Dorian Swage

i don’t believe CRCA Bungled anything. and yes, there were chaperones immediately after the podium to escort those being tested. And, according to a chaperone, without mentioning names, they DID pick a 4th random guy from the top 10 to be tested. as to slamming a saline bag in the randles shitter after the race, although I dont doubt it, i cant attest to the veracity of that

Ken Harris

There were three chaperones, three riders, three USADA officials, three cups divided into six flasks, and one hotel room. Any forth “rider” and “chaperone” doing something in the Rambles involving “bad touch” or bikini-area or producing samples was not part of official USADA activity.

Froomestrong

As much as I question the legitamacy of the Somerville team I would guess they are racing in NJ in this weekend’s garden State Cup event, seeing as their newly imported Dominican riders are the current State Champions.

Kyllian Seatpost

Sommerville sports does great things for this sport and their clothing looks great. No relation to the Somerville NJ bike team.

Froomestrong

Not quite. Their ability to have a local shop team that is on par with the biggest Domestic Elite teams and nearly at the level of pro teams is why they raise eyebrows. They’ve taken top 3 at just abotu every race they enter. At the NJ state road race they started attacking the breakaway at 45mi from the finish on a 93 degree day. The winner from their team won by minutes solo. They are good competition. I’m not accusing them nor do I think they’ve done anything. But I do think that if USADA happens to be around tehse guys are worth looking into.

But at your point of dark skinned and latino = suspicious. I think we need to recognize that more recently suspected dopers on the local scene have fit that description. So it is a stereotype in the making right now. There was Lisban in 2010, Sanchez at Fort Lee this past year who lapped the 1/2 field solo and then attacked the field and in this case the Somerville guys who podium everything and have even managed to make Rafi, one of the fastest riders in NJ look like a schlub. So it is questionable.

hater69

You’re forgetting the mediocre old white guy who got popped for EPO. If you pay attention nationally that’s a much more popular stereotype. Not that I think the other guys are above suspicion. But I think it has more to do with consistently good performances rather then someones nationality.

whoever

Hey Froomie, you are not just stereotyping people, you are profiling them. What are you, a cycling cop? Are you going to stop and test every rider who fits your description? But as Hater69 (who hates 69 anyway?) rightly remarks, your statistics are weak. Who knows how many may take this or that who are never tested and caught? But then, as the NRA of cycling might say, the best defense against an EPO-carrying “mediocre old white guy” may be a Spanish-speaking, whatever skinned EPO-carrying rider. Just ride and enjoy it.

Gherardo Internal Routing

who’s profiling or being racist??? roger aspholm was mentioned earlier in this string as being suspect after his “no-show” despite being pre-regged for Maltese. he’s about as white as you can get.

Hamza Helmet

If you look around nationally, many guys who have been popped were middle class white guys… not to say other non-white middle class men are not on the sauce. I think there were some PelotonEast racers/members who were popped in the past (that dude who won Nationals from NC)….

coolidge

Fort Lee field was filled with ill old man unable to chase or Match Sanchez. Now, most of the drug related cases are involved white people, before all the DA fussed, Latino were accused of doping while DA was a cult figure. Has anybody question Brian Breach Power? Even Murphy sudden developing? Margarite?, DR.Loehner? if anybody wants to be seriuous about it, let’ s do the doping test more often t o any cat.
http://www.usada.org/sanctions/

Gherardo Internal Routing

those people you call out by name are SUPER strong racers. but as strong as they are, none of them can seem to crack the unusual show of dominance or shake a stick @ the Latinos who are dominating everything out there. not normal.

Craptastic

The mudslinging is getting pretty gross. The patrol came to town and did their job. If anybody has a founded accusation, they should contact the authorities. Otherwise quit the accusations and let them do their job. Accusing others on an internet forum isn’t going to benefit anybody. If the testing continues (and it should), cheats will get caught.

off topic, but I love the boccia and sailing sanctions on the usada list.

Froomestrong

I don’t think anyone here is directly accusing anyone of anythign. I think people are just noticing odd occurances and voicing them. Things that don’t fit the norm or trends that are popping up. People have the right to have their suspicions about others.

Froomestrong

I saw on a WADA website or related fedweration site that someone, womewhere in Archery was given a ban. What on earth would benefit you in archery? Perhaps eating too many carrots to improve eye site?

Craptastic

Unless the suspicions have merit they shouldn’t be irresponsibly thrown out in a public venue. Winning races isn’t really grounds for a public accusation, and as we saw this weekend, if you continue to win races you will get tested, thereby weeding out any cheaters. Support the testing system and let it do its job.

Also, if you look at how hard some of those guys train, their results aren’t really suspicious.

E-gene

Being falsely accused of doping hurts. It was done to me here years ago when I was sort-of good, and it felt really bad– especially since it was a time when I was racing against Joe Papp’s team, and occasionally winning against them. I felt great inside because of my accomplishments, but the accusations replaced those feelings with a sort of emptiness.
Please don’t do that to these guys.

Jarne Downtube

PleeeeeeZze. If you’re getting accused, & ya ain’t doin it, take it as a compliment. You got nothing to be ashamed of & nothing to worry about if you’re clean. And as an added bonus, all the while, everyone thinks you’re strong. No harm no foul there.

Your name:

Hydrochlorothiazide, Chlorothiazide, Triamterene and Labetalol

I assume those are all to calm nerves.

Gherardo Internal Routing

hmmmm – okay, point taken. guess we can agree to disagree on this one. I’m not one of the ones who are being named / accused. I guess my results are not good enough. But if i could eek out a few podium placings while staying clean and that causes the masses to accuse me of something, well, i would see that as a compliment knowing that I’m beating those who are or may be cheating.

Noe Liner

You should trying pulling back a bow 72 times and you would see where dope that increases your strength and stamina would come in handy. Especially if you are shooting a bow without training wheels on it.

The Truth

If you look at sports as a whole, in practically every event, brown people eventually dominate. Cycling is not immune to this. You’re just lucky it’s more expensive than a pair of basketball sneakers..

Just because you’re constantly getting your ass handed to you doesn’t give you the right to profile.

Cyclist

Normal Humans who have a work ethic take critisism personally whether true or false. Its the person who is guilty and has no conscience that would take it as a compliment, I know its ironic, but its human nature

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