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Cholet-Pays de Loire was preceded by a large early-morning function for a few hundred invited press and dignitaries. Team manager Sean Yates was
interviewed for the audience and TV cameras at the team presentation on the
big stage, and took time afterwards to reflect on how far the team has come
in the past year.
"This was the first race we did last year," he remembered. "We were ushered
up and off this stage first team of all, quick as you like. We've moved back
three quarters of an hour this time and both Pascal and myself have been
interviewed, so I guess that's progress!"
The race itself, run off over one big lap of the rolling Loire country, was
dominated by French teams. The winner was the in-form Jens Voigt of Credit
Agricole. Linda McCartney's best finishers were Ciaran Power and Maurizio de
Pasquale, well adrift in the third group on the road.
Report by John Deering
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