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(Above left) Slipping?: Despite his
A merican v ictory, Rei gning World
Champion Jordl Tarres has not been as
brilliant In years past. Consis tency - like
his thlrd-place result In Canada " Is
kee ping the Span iard In the tltle ch ase.
(A bove) Amos B ilbao of Spa in s cored h is
second flfth-place finish In a row in
Canada.
Briefl
(Left) England's Gra ha m Jarvis ta llied 29
points over the tw o-day event to fi ni s h
n inth overall .
Th e . · Io ng -t ime
. W o rl d '. C harn p i-:
cns hip contender
. finished 16t h: one '
W hen Doug Lamp kin and M a rc CoI;'me~
posi t io n shy . of
arriv~ on the Tuesday before t he even t , they . 'sc o'r ing
world
were greeted with f a lling s no w . The tow n of
c ha m'p i on s hi p
Alma is only 20 miles short of the 'arctic circle. .' point s. ·"1 hurt my"
Extreme ly hot w eather that hovered in t he ' wris ts last w ee khigh 80 s g reeted riders on .t he wee kend,
end ' in A meric a, "
thoug h: Mi nders were weig hed down by lots of N arita said. "T hey
can teen s full of water. Wi nner Colomer had . are' s till' bothering'
the best comme nt regarding the temperat ure:
me in Canada." It
" It is hot. Very hot. But I knew that it wou ld 'must be frustrating
not affect
I train hard."
' . for Narita, long the
. premier Japanese
The event was' ~1d on land owned by A lcan, . t r lal s ri d er. to
a hug e C anadian aluminu m man uf ac turing. .w ai ch as three o f
p lant . M any of th e secti ons w ere lai d out '. his younger coun-·
below the A1can darn, which thecornpany uses ., tr y me n
enjoy
to power lis nearby factory.
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. , gre'!ter success . .
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For the seco nd event in a row . ,Joan 'Pons -Last weekend ' s
wa s a' no-show, The ' Spaniard has 'signee on' , surprise fourth-place finisher Takahisa Fuji·.
with the ltaltari So viet Gas Gas team for the
naml didn 't fare .as we ll in -C anada , buUhe
rernaind er of the series after Ie'!vi ng ihe fact oyoung Honda rider' sWI managed to' break into
'ry Fantic team. Pons rode fort he Soviet squad . .the top 10. The defending .Japene se N'!tional
last
also, and will join ' Italian D.;g.,BosiS· . Champ ion sits seventh ' in the se rie s po int
on the te'!m . ·
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sta nd tnq s . On ly 'sixt h-placed K en lch l
Kuroyania -,last year' s Japllnese wonder kid
'And speakinq of Diego ·B osis . the IUlI;;'n ~s . : stands in his way as toP ~apanese . . ; . ' "
a no.show at the Canadien round. H'!ving fin:
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ished out of the point s at last wee kend 's Unit~ ", As winner .of d'!y ~e.' .Iordi .T a ...... rode at
ed States W orld Round, perheps Bo sis elect- ' the oock ,of the pack on d'!y two. ' The World .
ed to go 'home in order to save money.
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Ch"mpion rode slowly and deliberately; but hi~
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. lack of speed .forced him to hurry on .several
Several of the American rtders who competed . occassrons.: M ore than orice. the Spantard
atthe Rhode Island event elect ed to sit out the' .exlted the sections ,wlt h only seconds to spare
C",;adian World Round. CeOH Aaron. ',J. . .
beforethe alloted three mi~utes expi~d.
,K e m p k e s and John' Clark opted to ,try their
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luck tn.C aneda.i whlle R aymond :P e t e r s ; . Section one was stiff~ned up by pio,;,ot~rs '
' M att Moore and Lonny Hansted elected :' between days one arid tw o. Though most ridto head home.
.ers made it through okay on S aturday. each
and every rlder. received a S on S unday ' s
ope ning lep. . . ,
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Marc ,Col o mer drew the number-one start-.
ing 'posit ion on day one . T hough one' would '
,assume that the first 'spot 'iS good . it is actually ' D"y-one'';'';nne r Jordi 'Tarres beg,,~ day two '
the ioughest po sit ion to take . "You have to , 'on " low note. netling Ss the firSt three secbreak 'in the sections . and there are no riders
tlons 'and scoring more po int s than he had
to watch first ;". ColOme, 'said:
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' -thro uqho ut the entire lirst loop..In the third
trap. Tarres wa s backing up' when his rear
For the second event in' a roW. .Japanese vet wheel brok.e the bOundary ribbon. .
eran Takuml N ania failed
sco re points .
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"But I had many 55 because I was trying hard to clean them. I have short legs
and for me it is often clean or crash."
Former World Champion Tommi
Ahvala came next, and his sixth-place
showing was much more encouraging
than his 14th-place finish in America.
With a barely healed broken right hand,
the '91 champ struggled with pain late
in the day. A bad third loop score is all
that kept him from finishing higher.
"My ha nd h urt very much at the end
of Sunday," Ah vala sai d . "It w as hard to
ho ld o n when the pain-killers w ore of.
Still, it w as better th an last weekend in
Rhode Island."
Young Kenichi Ku royam a was the
bes t of th e four Japan ese riders, and finished only two poin ts behind Ahvala.
The Beta Rays rider w as consistent, but
not as good as th e rest.
"I a m n o t ha p py w ith m y r id e
today," Kuroyama said. " I d id not ride
very well."
Englishman Graham Jarvis w as elated to end day one in fourth aboard his
radical -looking Sc o r p a Easy, bu t h e
failed to im p ress o n day two and
d ro ed a ll the wa back to ei hth.
Aided by former World Champion Mal co lm Rathmell, Ja r v is s im p ly fell to
pieces as the event progressed.
Spaniard Marcel Ju stribo and Japanese Takahisa Fujinami rounded out the
top 10.
For the secon d event in a row,
defending N ationa l C ham p io n Geoff
Aaron was the best-p lacing American.
The Cosmopolitan Motors Beta ri der
was 17th overall, two positions shy of
earning a world championship point.
"lbe sections w ere big - much harder
than they w ere in Rhode Island, " h e
sai d . "I've learned a lot in these past two
weekends."
Jess Kempkes came next in 17th. Th e
flashy Nebraskan made it through only
five sections all w ee ken d long, attesting
to the d ifficult level of the event.
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Canadian World Round
A lma, Canada
Results: J une 1-2 (Round 5 of 10)
O VERALL: Marc Col ome r (Man) 40 points/ 22
deans; 2. Doug Umpkin (Bd) 48/23; 3. Jonli Tarres (GG ) 51 /20; 4. Bruno Camoul (G-G) 59/U ; 5. Am os
Bilbao (G-G) 65 /1 8; 6. Tommi Ah Yato (Fa n) 73/16; 7.
KenidU Kwoyama (Bd) 75/17; 8. Graha m Jarvis (Sco)
78/1 6; 9. Mar cel JU