Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

I can testify. The section claimed a pair of fives from Colomer, who wa s otherwise makin g a steely-eyed charge through the field a fter a lowly seventh-p lace showing on Saturday. Top Britain on the da y was Steve Colley, an d he didn't need section five to be sti ffened up an y more, as he had already clocked a maximum on Saturday. Two more fives there on Sunday did his confidence no good at all. " It just isn 't happening this yea r, is it? " sa id Colley. "You tell me what's wrong!" O ne p rob lem Colley ha s had is gettin g a regular strong team of minders. M e chanic an d traveli ng co m pa nio n Bruce Rushton was taken to the hospital as they drove to Poland last week , and vaca tio ni ng Brit Alan Morewood stepped in to fill his shoes . Then, in Italy, still min us Ru shton, Colley' s mind er John Shi rt Jr. had to fly hom e urgently to visit his mother who had been in the hospital for so me ti me. All th is was ch u rning in Colley's mind and not eve n the cal ming infl uence of Gas Gas gu ru Andreu Cod ina , who mor e than abl y acted as deputy, helped the struggling Co lley. Also st ruggling - not with his tea m which is one of the best - bu t wi th a sudden inex p licable lac k of fo rm, was Do u g ie Lam p kin . Th e youngs te r ha s been up and do wn the res ults like a yoyo this year, an d in Italy the string was on a downwa rd loop. "There's nothing to exp lain, rea lly, it was jus t a bad ride," said Lamp kin of his dismal 10th-p lace finish . It was in fa ct d ifficult to p inpo in t w ha t went wr ong for Lamp kin. His rides o n the se t-p ieces, n orma ll y his wea k point, wer e spot-o n, it was his form on the natural hazard s that let him down with the sixth and seven th hazards proving particularly expensive. Elsewhere in the points there we re little su rprises, except for an out-of-to uch Am os Bilbao languishing in 15th. Tommi Ahvala and Joan Pons resided more or less where they are expec ted to, while Ta ku m i Narita aga in fa il ed to s hi ne th is seaso n . To finis h so fa r Ca rnozzi in his factory 's home co untry was bad news for the Beta number one. Ma rcel Ju str ibo , th e co m pact Spaniard, used his indoor skills to good measure and although his rides on the natural terrain were not hing spectacular, he still di d enough to net seventh after a lacklus ter start to the season. But w ith Tarres and Colomer slugging it out, clear at the top of the table, the World Championship Series reach es its fever pitch with the seventh round which will be held in their home country of Spain, where a massive crowd is a certain ty. 0 Italian World Round San Gemini, Spa in Results: June 3-4 C H AM PIONSH IP: 1. Jordi Torre> (G-G ) 1+9+6= 16; 2 . Donato Mig lio IG-G ) 5-t-14TO ; 3. Bruno Camozzi ",,28 (Be1:) 5+ 14+9=28; 4. Ma rc:Colomer (M an) 11+12+9=32; 5. Joa n Pons (G-G) 9+12+18=39; 6. Tom mi Ahvala (Fan ) 6; 9 ... 16 +15=40; 7. Mar cel Justribo (Bet ) 10. 17+ 19=-1 8. Taku mi Nari ta (Bet) 23+1 4+9=46; 9. Steve Colley (G-G) 21+17+11=49; 10. Do ug Lampkin (Bet) 8+23 +21=51; 11. D iego Basis (Bd) 2O+17+2lP57; 12. Craham Jarvis (Sco) 24.17.17c58; 13. Kenichi Kuroyama (Bet ) 26+14+23z63; 14 . Ieen-Luc Nic to u (Bd :) 20+30+18=68; 15. Amos Bilbao (Be l) 21+33+17=71. WO RL D CHAMPIONSHIP T RIA LS SER IES POI NT ST AN DI NG S (Af trr 6 of 10 rou nds): 1. Jordi Tarres (105 / 3 wins ); 2. Ma rc Colomer (l04 /2) ; 3. To m mi Ahvala (BO/1); ~. Do ug Lampkin (68); 5. Donato Mig lio (65); 6. Joan Po ns (58); 7. Bruno Ca mozz i (54); 8. Steve Co lley (40); 9. Taku mi Narita (37); 10. Amos Bilbao (35); 11. G raha m Jarvis (32); 12. Diego Bosis (31); 13. Kenichi Kuroyama (25); 14. Marcel jusmbo (22); 15. (TIE) Gabriel Reyes/Jose Ben itez (7); 17 . Michae l Vuckevic (5) ; 18. Joa chim Hi nd ren (4); 19. Christop he Ca mozzi (3); 20. Iea n - Lu c N ict ou (2 ); 21 . (TIE) Daria Re Delle Gandine/Robert Crawford (1). Upcoming rounds: Round 7 - Spain, June 17- 18 Round 8 - France , June 24-25 43

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