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And of two for Laurence Leboucher
Second of Roc d' Azur, behind vice world champion the Norwegian
Gunn Rita Dahle, Laurence Leboucher took away on Sunday, on the edges of Méditerrannée, the Cup of France MOUNTAIN BIKE. And it, for the second time. It is thus for the Cliff of Azure, the sixth and last stage
of the Cup of France MOUNTAIN BIKE, that number 1 French, Laurence Leboucher, signed his fifth podium (among which three victories) on her five participations in the test this season. Laurence Leboucher had to
face nevertheless hardly a redoubtable trio aligned from the Cliff 1997: Sandra Temporelli, champion of France, Italian Nadia de Negri, and Norwegian Gunn Rita Dahle, already victorious here in 1996. Things very
fast settled. From the first kilometres of a selective course, the alençonnaise champion met herself sucks it, with in its wheel the famous Norwegian, From then on, the data of the problem for Laurence Leboucher
were simple: " I had only a single possible tactics to hope to take it. It was absolutely necessary to me to décramponner Rita, in the ascent of the collar of Bougnon ".
But Here we are, the
Norwegian resisted to the attacks of the Norman, the front in making finally the difference in the descent, her ground of preference. A descent made even more precarious for Laurence Leboucher, after his efforts
granted in the ascent. " I was cooked, in the red " recognized by the arrival the one who today is nevertheless recognized as the value sure of the country French cross. On Sunday, the will and the
courage which characterize her will not have been enough for Laurence to counter Gunn Rhita Dahle who signed her second victory consecutive to the Cliff of Azure. But Laurence Leboucher was not less rewarded, by
the final victory in section of France.
Jean-Michel LEMAITRE
Results:
Cliff of Azure: 1 Rita Dahle Gunn. 2-Laurence Leboucher 3-Sandra Temporelli.
Final classification Cup of France: 1 Laurence Leboucher (770 pts). 2
- Nathalie Fiat (632 pts). 3-Sandra Temporelli (610 pts). 4-Marita Bach (606 pts). 5 - Danielle Claret (602 pts).
The biggest assembling Support in finale of the Cup(Cutting) of
France MOUNTAIN BIKE, the Cliff of Azure is also a big popular assembling. With 8500 participants, the Cliff became on Sunday the biggest world assembling of the mountain bike. What a road crossed since the creation
of the test, in 1984! This year there, they were seven avant-gardists to get themselves strong sensations. Today, the passionate persons of the MOUNTAIN BIKE find certainly in the magic of the Mediterranean coast of
which to quench a need of evasion and a research for freedom.
Le Maine Libre (21/10/97)
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