South African Malcolm Lange wins Cape Argus Cycle Tour 2010
South African Malcolm Lange wins Cape Argus Cycle Tour 2010 ahead of South African champion Christoff van Heerden (second) followed by South African Daryl Impey (third) due to a brilliant team strategy.
Remember my picture of 32 km remaining yesterday?
Well, seems that was a good intuition as it’s here where the grand finale over 109 kms was decided today in the early morning hours: the decisive break of 12 riders moved clear of the large peloton just before the climb towards Chapman’s Peak Drive. . . and while these pictures are straight from my camera, they show the first batch that zoomed through… and those were the ones! I think the camera on the motor bike in the background is directed towards Lance Armstrong in red and black on position 6… but that’s just a guess (but I have the close-up too…). Proudly South African in any case… YEBO GO GO!
South African Malcolm Lange wins Cape Argus Cycle Tour 2010
When I perceived the faint vibration of the first helicopter this morning, I knew it was time to secure a place along Noordhoek Main Road to catch the first batch of the Cape Argus Cycle Tour 2010 racers – amongst them without any doubt Lance Armstrong, who won the Tour de France 7 times in a row and is definitely the center of (media) attraction in Cape Town right now – … and so it was!
Due to severe crosswinds they arrived later than in years before, but zoomed passed the early cheerers, supporters and fans who were having family-wise power breakfasts along the road and were definitely enjoying themselves…
Lance Armstrong on Twitter
While I was still down there taking pictures of the “new generation”, world cycling superstar Lance Armstrong was already on Twitter – so to speak straight after the race:
“Argus Cycle Tour done! What a cool ride/race. Congrats to @darylimpey on gettin’ 3rd. Wind was howling out there.”
It was a beautiful day for the world’s largest timed cycle race … and it was pretty windy, although luckily not as strong as back in 2009 when just about 50% of the field managed to finish.
Cape Argus Cycle Tour 2010 Leading Results
Here are the 109km leading results as published:
1 Malcolm Lange (SA) Team Medscheme 2hrs 39min 55sec
2 Christoff van Heerden (SA) MTN Energade
3 Daryl Impey (SA) Team Radioshack
4 Burry Stander (SA) Team Specialized
5 Rene Hasselbacher (Aut) Team sainfo.co.za
6 Dean Edwards (SA) House of Paint
7 Bjorn Glasner (Ger) Team Kuota
8 Johann Rabie (SA) Team Medscheme
9 Lance Armstrong (US) Team Radioshack
10 Nicholas White (SA) Team Medscheme all same time.
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