At 08:13 AM 09/08/2008 -0400, Edward Albert wrote:
>Many or you, especially those outside of North America, may have already
>noted that the son of Mike Barry (Michael Barry/Canada), of Mariposa,
>Bicycle Specialties, Le Cirque award and refinisher of many of our bikes
>fame, took an incredibly credible 9th place in the Olympic road race.
>Hats off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now I wished I'd stayed up all night to watch the whole race, not just the beginning. Canada only had a 3-man team and were not among the favourites, but look who finished behind Mike:
Rank Athlete Country Time 1 Samuel Sanchez Spain 6:23:49 2 Davide Rebellin Italy 6:23:49 3 Fabian Cancellara Switzerland 6:23:49 4 Alexander Kolobnev Russia 6:23:49 5 Andy Schleck Luxembourg 6:23:49 6 Michael Rogers Australia 6:23:49 7 Santiago Botero Colombia 6:24:01 8 Mario Aerts Belgium 6:24:01 9 Michael Barry Canada 6:24:05 10 Robert Gesink Netherlands 6:24:07 11 Levi Leipheimer United States 6:24:09 12 Chris Anker Soerensen Denmark 6:24:11 13 Alejandro Valverde Spain 6:24:11 14 Jerome Pineau France 6:24:11 15 Cadel Evans Australia 6:24:11 16 Przemyslaw Niemiec Poland 6:24:11 17 Christian Vande Velde United States 6:24:19 18 Paolo Bettini Italy 6:24:24 19 Vladimir Karpets Russia 6:24:59 20 Murilo Fischer Brazil 6:26:17 21 Fabian Wegmann Germany 6:26:17 22 Erik Hoffmann Namibia 6:26:17 23 Christian Pfannberger Austria 6:26:17 24 Gustav Larsson Sweden 6:26:17 25 Nicki Soerensen Denmark 6:26:17 26 Radoslav Rogina Croatia 6:26:17 27 John Augustyn South Africa 6:26:17 28 Nuno Ribeiro Portugal 6:26:17 29 Ignatas Konovalovas Lithuania 6:26:17 30 Jackson Jesus Rodriguez Ortiz Venezuela 6:26:17 31 Matthew Lloyd Australia 6:26:17 32 Kurt Asle Arvesen Norway 6:26:17 33 Kanstantsin Siutsou Belarus 6:26:17 34 Remi Pauriol France 6:26:17 35 Tadej Valjavec Slovenia 6:26:17 36 Yaroslav Popovych Ukraine 6:26:17 37 Simon Gerrans Australia 6:26:17 38 Thomas Lovkvist Sweden 6:26:25 39 Thomas Rohregger Austria 6:26:25 40 George Hincapie United States 6:26:25 41 Jose Serpa Colombia 6:26:27 42 Johan Vansummeren Belgium 6:26:27 43 Frank Schleck Luxembourg 6:26:27 44 Andrey Mizurov Kazakhstan 6:26:27 45 Roman Kreuziger Czech Republic 6:26:35 46 Kim Kirchen Luxembourg 6:26:40 47 Moises Aldape Chavez Mexico 6:28:08 48 Rein Taaramae Estonia 6:30:49 49 Carlos Sastre Spain 6:31:06 50 Franco Pellizotti Italy 6:31:06 51 Sergey Lagutin Uzbekistan 6:31:06 52 Hossein Askari Iran 6:34:22 53 Ruslan Pidgornyy Ukraine 6:34:22 54 Julian Dean New Zealand 6:34:26 55 Jacek Tadeusz Morajko Poland 6:34:26 56 Ryder Hesjedal Canada 6:34:26 57 Matija Kvasina Croatia 6:34:26 58 Marcus Ljungqvist Sweden 6:34:26 59 Svein Tuft Canada 6:34:26 60 Denis Menshov Russia 6:34:26
John Betmanis
Woodstock, Ontario
Canada