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Championships of Europe
Maryline Salvetat upset, Jean-Yves Pleasure delighted, Pontchâteau think about the Championships of France.
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"I tried several times. I tried in the last but one turn, I still tried in the last turn. I did what I could. I tried to attack twice in the last turn because I knew that I was not great with the sprint. The problem, it is that this year, the Dutchwomen, they run like guys!" Upset, Maryline Salvetat proposed the extreme speed of the group of head. "We remained grouped because there was no mud. Blow, the course was very travelling, and as they are much more powerful than us, here what arrived... The wind played much too. One well nevertheless smelled it on the return but the three in front were much stronger than us." In the final one, Maryline Salvetat tried to benefit from a fact of race to be extracted from the group. "Daphny Van Den Brand and Hanka Kupfernagel were not in good shape in the last lap, right before the sprint on the road, and then marked a downtime. I tried to go there but I was made begin again. Laurence tested in her turn but could not leave. Then Nadia returned. Laurence and me we are looked in the hope that Nadia can attack in her turn, but it was too right." The champion of France was finally classified 4th, it which had finished 3rd in Tabor in 2003 and 2nd in Vossem in 2004. With a medal of money and eight places in Signal 10 on the whole, the national trainer of the team of France Jean-Yves Plaisance posted a mine delighted at the end of the Championships of Europe, yesterday in Pontchteau. "I think that they are the best which was essential in each test, it commented with fair play. From there, that was a beautiful day, convivial and sporting. We obtained a medal, and it is already not so badly! It is not obvious in the international context. The cyclo-cross became a discipline of very high level. It could have benefited a little more, but the others can say as much of it. I think that each one is in its place. If our place is on the podium, one is on the podium, and if one must be right at side, eh well we are right at side... In the girls, it is true that we had this gap to have girls not enough fast with the sprint. They very tried without being able to make the difference in the last turn. After, the sprint was not obvious." Present numbers some on the circuit of Cot-Roz yesterday at the time of the Championships of Europe, the public recalled that Pontchâteau (Loire-Atlantique) was the capital of the cyclo-cross in France. It should be said that the Breton site buckled yesterday its prize list by offering the Championships of Europe after the Championships of France (1978 and 1999), the National Challenge (1985, 1994 and 2002), the World cup (1996, 1998 and 2001) and the Championships of the World (1989 and 2004). Announced among the candidates with the organization of a sleeve of the Challenge National 2006, the commune of Pontchteau could in fact of devoting itself exclusively to the reception of the Championships of France 2008, thirty years after the success of Jean-Yves Plaisance here again. A meeting must be held as of tomorrow to consider the future of the cyclo-cross with Pontchâteau. The town of the Sand-on-Sarthe could as for it receive the National Challenge in 2006. Belgium sat its supremacy at the time of Championships of Europe of Pontchâteau. In spite of the absence of the Elites, the country of Sven Nys and Bart Wellens conquered a medal of each color: gold with Niels Albert at the Hopes, the money with Jan Soetens at the Hopes and bronze with Dries Govaerts among Juniors. The team of Belgium thus precedes the Netherlands, gifted at the Ladies with Marianne Your first and Daphny Van Den Brand third, and Slovaquie, crowned among Juniors thanks to Robert Gavenda. The team of France posts all the same a sizeable assessment with a money medal obtained by Yannick Martinez among Juniors. This podium are added seven places in Signal 10: Aurlien Duval 4th and Thomas Collinet 9th at the Juniors, Maryline Salvetat 4th, Nadia Triquet 5th, Laurence Leboucher 6th and Severine Hansen 9th at the Ladies, and Clement Lhotellerie 10th at the Espoirs. Table of the medals : Respectively : Country, Gold, Money, Bronze, Total |
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Interview of Laurence Leboucher (UV Fresnoise) (3/12/2005) - www.velo101.com "I rarely forget opportunities. I will try something in Zeddam." Does Laurence, your victory with Fourmies, in the first stage of the National Challenge, have of you to satisfy? "Yes, that made a long time that I had not won any more. It does not upset ! I liked the circuit, it made beautiful, all was here together so that I give myself pleasure." Was the Championship of Europe on the other hand more difficult? "Right here, I thought that the Dutchwomen had been strongest. But makes some, I fell sick the following day from the race and that lasted all the week. I wonder whether I were not already in the hard one because of that the day before, the day of the race with Pontchâteau. But I think that Maryline Salvetat was nevertheless strong this day." You think that it had the legs for the podium? "Even for winning ! The only time where I could be out, it is when she attacked in the last turn. But that, it is an analysis which one makes afterwards, cold. I thus think that it undoubtedly passed beside something this day. The Dutchwomen never attacked. They awaited the sprint. One underwent but it is not they which made the race." Do you fear a scenario identical to the Championships of the World? "No because Hanka Kupfernagel will be better than with the Championships of Europe. Currently, it is not with the signal. And then there will be Mirjam Melchers, perhaps Sabine Spitz. It will be another race." Where will you position you on your side ? "One will not have that I would be in one day average as I was in Pontchâteau. When are sick for you... The evening, that burned me the bronchi, I thought that it was the fact of having running quickly. And the following day, I was sick. Thus that sought me already the D-day But you then do not return account the day-even. In Zeddam, I know that if I can, I will try something. I rarely forget opportunities." And on the National Challenge, do you aim the victory to the general classification? "Not, I do not aim anything the whole. The National Challenge rather constitutes for me a mode of preparation. I worked well to make the land one and I am now less nervous than than I was in Fourmies. In Fourmies I was in form. The Championship day before of Europe, I was well also forms some, the D-day less better but that it is the destiny. I am now in a phase of preparation. In November and December, it is necessary to remake the assets. You cannot be to 100 % on the Challenges, if not with World it will be hard." The World one, it is really the objective... "Yes Great, the National Challenge it is well, but for me it is rather the shirt rainbow and the Championship of France. It would make it possible to finish well my career in cyclo-cross, which will be completed in Zeddam, unless one has a jubilee at the house." How do you prepare your reconversion? "I am thinking about it already. This is why I am not either always to 100 %. I am less regular. Weeks ago when I can roll well, others where one has less of job. Inevitably, when have you full with job, be with tears off to you a little to involve itself. I prepare the professorship of sport to the INSEP. There are weeks when it is hard, others where it is more cool. It is not obvious, the more so as I will pass my writings two days after the World one." Will you always revolve around the bicycle? "Yes, because when you become teacher of sport following my course, you are affected near your federation, either in an area, or
at the national level. You are in fact Regional Technical Adviser. I will not be inevitably in the Countries of the Loire. You go where there is place." |
