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Tour du Pays de Vaud Victory!

May 31st, 2008 Posted in Connie

Taylor won the Individual time trial at the Pays du Vaud - a race in the region around Lausanne Switzerland.  He called this morning after the first stage of the day, while resting for the second stage.  He’d previewed the course 3x by car and was unsure if the TT bike was the right choice as there were several gravel stretches.  Davis convinced him that he should go all out and give it a shot.  It worked, he won by 12″ and moved up to 6th overall with one stage remaining.  Italian Moreno Moser is leading the race.  Last year, Taylor had a break through race here and finished a close 5th in the ITT.  It was that race that let him know that maybe just maybe he could medal in the ITT at worlds - which he eventually won.  Today’s race found him performing for the NBC crew that came in to film him for their Olympic profile.  Can’t wait to see the coverage of him in the white rainbow striped jersey!  It will air pre-race in Beijing - maybe even same day (August 15).

 

Moyenne : 43.89 km/h 

Pos. N° Code UCI Nom Code 1ère année Maillot d’Or Temps Ecart 

1 75USA19900627 PHINNEY Taylor USA 00:12:10.4 

2 42GBR19900310 ROWE Luke GBR 00:12:23.2 12.8 

3 51ITA19901225 MOSER Moreno ITA 00:12:32.1 21.7 

4 43GBR19900729 ROWSELL Erick GBR 00:12:36.2 25.8 

5 111FRA19900913 BALDASSARE Romain HSA 00:12:46.7 36.3 

6 122FRA19901030 KORETZKY Clement PRO 00:12:56.0 45.6 

7 194SUI19900723 ERDIN Peter AG M 00:12:58.4 48.0 

8 6SUI19900926 IMHOF Claudio SUI M 00:12:59.7 49.3 

9 83MDA19900625 MOCAN Alexandr CMC M 00:13:01.2 50.8 

10 61NED19900312 ASSELMAN Jesper NED 00:13:04.0 53.6 

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