Saturday racing in Central Park, best summed up by CRCA’s Mike Green: “AXA, nyvelocity and Houlihan-Lokey clinched the team titles in today’s Team Cup Finale. Despite Ricky Lowe of Die Hard taking the win in the bonus points Team Cup Finale, AXA clinched the A Team Cup lead as Dan Zmolik took second. With the win, Ricky got himself into contention for the Jim Boyd Award. Dan holds the lead with 69 points over Ricky’s 55. Next week’s race determines the winner. With Harry Zernike and Ryan McGarrity taking second and third, nyvelocity was able to hold off Foundation from gaining ground in the B Cup despite Brian Case’s victory. Fabienne Gerard continues her very strong riding by winning the Women’s race. Fabienne’s 7th place finish at GMSR against pro competition could be the best performance by a CRCA woman this season. Zach Gladney won the C race.” Individual results here, team cup standings, Jim Boyd standings.
At the moist Nancy Morgenstern Memorial Road Race at Bear on Sunday, Jeff Buckles of Richmond (VA) Pro Cycling took first in the Men’s Pro/1/2/3s, followed by GS Mengoni USA’s Jorge Perez and Rafael Meran. Dan Zmolik (Axa Equitable) took fifth, with David Taylor (CRCA/Fuoriclasse Racing-Discover Chiropractic) in ninth and Chris Leong (CRCA/BH Garneau) in tenth. Kristen Gohr (Stage 5 Cycling) took the Women’s 1/2/3s. Second was Amanda Watson (River City Women’s Racing), with Fabienne Gerard (CRCA/Fuoriclasse Racing-Discover Chiropractic) in third place.
In the Men’s 4A’s (Under 40), Colby Delbene (Pawling Cycle and Sport) won, followed by Nicholas VanWinkle and Benjamin Cornish(CRCA/Nyvelocity). In the 4Bs(40+), David Anthony soloed to first, followed by teammate Warren St. John and Shawn Erickson (Tenafly Bicycle Workshop) in third.
Edward Angeli (TargetTraining) won the Men’s Masters 40+. Local Karl Gustafsfon (CRCA/Axis) was third. Pascal Sauvayre (CRCA/BH Garneau) also soloed to win the Men’s Masters 50+. Mike McCarthy (NYPS+ Masters/Cycle Smith) took the Men’s Masters 60+. Amy Miner (Onion City Racing) won the Women’s 3/4s, with local Laura Lee Vo (CRCA/Fuoriclasse Racing-Discover Chiropractic) in third. In the Men’s 5A, Michael Tanzi (Team Bikeway) won; Michael Kirby (Target Training) took the 5Bs. Full results are here. (Correction: Sauvayre rode in with George Suter to take 5th overall in the Masters and 1st in the 50+. Suter finished 4th in the 40+.)
From Pennsylvania, Univest Grand Prix results from Souderton on Saturday are here, Sunday results from the Univest Crit are here. Nittany Lion Cross Trexlertown results are here. From New Jersey, here are the Blueberry Bicicletta Road Race results.
Seems our boy Joe was selling doping products via an internet “pharmacy” and a considerable number of professional and elite-amateur athletes purchased these products. Joe, being Joe, saved this “client list” and turned it over to the authorities in a bid to lessen his prison term. (Joe Papp was convicted of selling drugs and faces 6-8 years.) So the USADA sanctions are “non-analytical”, meaning Papp provided USADA with evidence the accused athletes purchased the substances, but the athletes never tested positive. However, I think we can all agree that if you bought the stuff, you probably used it.
Unfortunately, some of our friends have probably been caught up in this mess. Some will fight it, some will just plead guilty, all will suffer far more than any of us did by racing against these poor guys that made very bad choices, whatever their reasons.
When the names come out, a legion of d-bags will post anonymous attacks. But if you know any of the riders, think about the person and what he (or she?) is going thru. Then ask yourself if you’ve ever taken a shortcut in life, perhaps in a situation even more serious than a bike race.
To the guys in the cross-hairs: Consider the outcomes of David Millar and Floyd Landis. The truth will set you free.
Everyone who doped, I really hope, is an adult. You do something stupid and there are consequences that come with your stupidity. They deserve all the VERBAL attacks, anonymous or not. If that’s all they get, they should consider themselves lucky. It’s funny how you call the attackers d-bags but paint the guilty dopers as victims.
Maybe if the dopers returned all the prizes they won and then they went about getting all the results they affected fixed, then they might get some sympathy.
I take fish oil. My farts really smell. Am I doping, or am I a dope?
until we get smell-o-vision via the internet, we won’t know.
if papp gets a reduced sentence, this all seems bass-ackward to me – snitches usually have to give info on a BIGGER fish or help the authorities make a consiracy case, etc., not just round up the bunch of losers they enabled. since it sounds like papp himself was running his own little dope show, maybe there’s nowhere else to go, aside from any doc’s or pharmacists who were complicit in this. in that case, i have no sympathy for dopers and it’s nice to see them outed, but it seems pretty messed up for the dealer to get leniency for ratting out the lowly junkies. he was a drug-dealer – that should be a much higher priority than cheaters in D3/amateur cycling.
http://joepapp.com/index.php?page=joebio
from Papp’s website, can’t wait:
Joe’s Biography
Newly updated biography coming soon!
prohibition is, and always will be, a moronic, failed, counterproductive and ultimately disastrous strategy with worse consequences than the alternative. it’s the war on common sense.
I would welcome opium dens in the city
I took Endurox Excel.
Sorry for being such a dope.
Jonathan Chodroff has admitted to buying and using erythropoietin (EPO) in early 2007 and has been given a two-year sanction by USADA. The American, who rode for Jelly Belly in 2010, purchased the doping product online through a store run by Joe Papp before turning professional in 2009. He has fully confessed and has urged other riders who may be under investigation by USADA to do the same.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/chodroff-admits-to-epo-purchase-and-use
Dag very Sad Papp will be taking everbody down just for less time in jail.Who’s next to come clean ?
Chodroff and Papp are jerk offs
http://www.crca.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010FallBear1.htm
Looks like Kissena swept the Lanterne Rouge podium. Chapeau boys, chapeau!
Shocking that Kissena would come in last. A club of cat 4’s with absolutely no class.
http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/09/news/sources-anti-doping-authorities-preparing-cases-against-up-to-two-dozen-domestic-racers_140460
I want to see who’s on Papp’s list!
Cat 4s on kissena have a lot more class then the cat 2 idiots.
OH THAT’S RICH
WHO ARE THE CAT 2 IDIOTS? FRICKEN KISSENA EXCITABLES
Not sure why and what would have been a better way but I am venting. I am one of the old Cat4 farts racing at Bear yesterday in the 4 B field.
We passed the young Cat4 punks just after the first lap.
The 4A field was neutralized but they were pedaling a long.
However, as we approached the start of the third lap, right before the last U -turn by the start area, an official’s car came up to the front of the pack and forced us to neutralize bc the 4A field was coming to pass us.
The entire field has to stop and wait for 10-15 min(minimum) to let the Cat4 A field pass.
Given that both 4A and 4B had already shed a ton of dead weight, I don’t thik it would have been a issue to let the race carry on. That 10 -15 min would have been enough gap for the 4Bs to make the descent and start the climb.
Nothing to take away from the winners (at all) but I don’t think that was fair or the right thing for teh officials to have done.
The funny thing is that individually your great but as a whole you make something ugly.
There’s no excuse for being a cat 4…
Thats part of being a cat 4, having your field neutralized. Upgrade if it doesn’t suit you.
That said, I’ve never understood neutralizing a field to let another field unlap themselves. If field A was fast enough to catch and pass field B, they should stay there. Slow down field B if they catch field A. Speeds will go up and down but field A has shown they are fast enough to ride ahead of B.
I do not think ‘funny’ means what you think it means.
Neutralizing is the power and orgainzation of the promoter/officials…
too many fields…if you have so many riders then raise the entry fees!
supply and demand, i stayed at a holiday inn…
field limits exist to keep the race safe and organized, its not a charity ride! next year, the bear race will not conflict with another big race in the same region (univest).
there will not be multiple fields of the same category on the course, entry fees will increase for financial shortfalls, and prizes with increase in order to draw quality fields….think $50-70 for all but Juniors which should stay at $20.
Too many carbon bikes/wheels/powermeters/tubulars to say we can’t afford double the entry fees…
P12: 7 laps, $4000 prizemoney, $70 entry, team limit of 6.
3: 6 laps, $1500,
4: 4 laps, $750
5: 3 laps, medals
w123: 5 laps, $2000
w4: 3 laps, $500
juniors: 3 laps, medals
Masters:40+, 50+, 60+ combined fields/scored separately showed this works. Medals…
Juniors/W4/cat5 will be combined fields, scored separately
3/4s, same
W1,2,3: scored separately
P1,2: scored separately
Make it so No.1
Warp factor 10, Mr. Scott
Master aren’t going to race for medals. Certainly not for double the entry fee.
Who cares about what you wrote.You probably ride for kissena. So you suck.
turns out that kurt was soft and sitting on and carl wasn’t matching pulls w the guy from target that won. they still both lost. also, how does lattanzzi get 4th in vermont and crumble at bear? i’ll tell you how- he thinks he is going to roger the ride. maybe next time.
I was driving the official car for the 4B race. At the end of first lap, the 4B’s caught and passed the 4A’s, who were made to stop for 3 minutes by the side of the road. Less than a lap later, the A’s had caught up again. The official made the call to neutralize the B’s and give the A’s a few minutes head start in the hope of avoiding any further contact between the fields. In the end it worked out well. I don’t see how it had any effect on the outcome of the race.
the most ri gd dam dickulous ting I ‘ave eva read on this site……
no effect..no effect…..why I oughta……neutralize your brain and genitalia……not that wouldntt make a difference!
The promoter has no say in field neutralization. It’s up to the officials to do that.
Neutralizing the field did affect the race. Stopping on the side of the road after putting in a hard effort is going to throw anyone off. Especially the old farts in the 4B field.
Next time they should allow more than two minutes between the start of the two fields.
so it affected the race by “throwing off” the entire field – that’s the best you can ask for. deal.
It is quite possible that starting the two fields 4 minutes apart wasn’t a great plan to begin with.
In other news my buddy Harry, while surging for the line, shouted at his teammate Warren that he was “gonna get you mutherfucker!!!”
Warren did not in fact get gotten, and came in 2nd, just in front of Harry, who took 3rd.
For that bit of sailer talk AA relegated his 3rd to 8th.
Ah Alan ya big bear, you’re really just a delicate flower aren’t cha?
how about 5 strong guys got away with one to go and the TT guy who was the strongest and initiated the move, won – strange. lattanzzi threw down the first move and put his team in the drivers seat. Aggressive riding by WW team as usual, it’s a freakin race, chastising a guy for actually racing , double strange.
I dislike potty mouthed folks. Want to talk that way, keep it in private among your other potty mouthed friends. Harry should have ridden up to Warren whispered his message of man love in his ear. I don’t care about PDA, but loud potty mouths are obnoxious. He should be happy AA didn’t relegate him to last place.
Since when did the Christian Coalition take over bike racing?
read the rulebook, dumbass. and think about how you would feel if harriman state park decided not to permit the excitable cat 4 world championships next year because some administrator objected to idiots cursing in front of spectators.
maybe the guy just screamed “i’m gonna git you sucka!” and somehow it was mis-heard by the race officials?
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1154/is_v72/ai_3244880/
Stopping the old guys in halfway through a race could lead to worse things than cramp – which was the main issue we had to deal with after standing in teh rain for 10 minutes – could have had us keeling over on the spot.
Going on some pretty good rides here in los angeles finally.
locked into a good group ride this week and someone mentioned that the Papp list has a good number of Masters riders on it – not just domest. pro-riders.
Hey Dan, my Vuelta predictions seem to be coming to fruition(Nibali). I’ll go on the limb to predict Tommy D. climbs better than Schleck on Sat.
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fantastic post by johan. the legion of d-bags, however, is a necessary part of the kabuki theater. shame, peer obloquy, and ostracism are our community’s punishments for the crime/rule violation (take your choice), and a deterrant to others – especially when testing is rare. self-policing, as it were.
as you make your bed, so you must lie upon it.
…that I object to. It’s loosing by inches because some punk took illegal products. Short cuts are; fast wheels, light bike, oxygen tent etc.. Drugs unless made legal and are readily available to all who want to use is cheating.