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==Cycling: 1-2 RP punch takes Stage Two of Le Tour de Filipinas== | |||
*Source: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/255047/sports/othersports/cycling-1-2-rp-punch-takes-stage-two-of-le-tour-de-filipinas | |||
*By: JVP / AMD, GMA News | |||
*''April 15, 2012'' | |||
A grizzled veteran kept the Philippine flag flying high in the 2012 Le Tour de Filipinas as the local cyclists continued to tame the foreign opposition in Sunday’s Stage Two from Tuguegarao City to Cauayan City in Isabela province. | |||
Arnel Quirimit, the 2003 Tour Pilipinas champion, made it a back-to-back triumph for the hosts in the International Cycling Union (UCI, Union Cycliste Internationale) -sanctioned race. The 36-year-old Tem Go 21 assistant skipper punched in the fastest time of 33 minutes and 46 seconds in the 109-kilometer stage that started in Tuguegarao and finished in front of the Isabela State University campus. | |||
Mail and Mores’s Oscar Rendole won Stage One. | |||
Quirimit, the pride of Pozorubio, Pangasinan, got the better end of an eight-rider sprint finish that also saw Rustom Li, a young and extremely promising Filipino cyclist, rise to the occasion. | |||
Lim, riding under the LPGMA-American Vinyl banner, actually was at the front of the sprint, but yielded to the veteran Quirimit. Nevertheless, the 18-year-old bronze medalist in last year’s Asian Juniors Road Race Championships in Jakarta and a Philippine Sportswriters Association awardee for cycling, checked in with the same time as Quirimit and made it a 1-2 finish for the Filipinos. | |||
"I poured it all in the last 100 meters and I'm thankful that God gave me another chance to win a stage,'' said Quirimit, an Army staff sergeant, in Filipino. | |||
The Filipinos’ domination of the tight finish shoved Australian Alexander Malone of Plan B Racing Team, Timo Scholz of CCN Cycling Team to third on the podium. | |||
Also figuring in the sprint were 2009 Padyak Pinoy champion Joel Calderon of Mail & More and Australian Alexander Malone of Plan B Racing Team. | |||
Scholz, who has seen the best and the worst in racing in his numerous stints in Europe and Asia, however, stripped Rendole of the yellow jersey. But the 39-year-old German admitted he would just probably enjoy wearing the coveted jersey in Monday’s 104-km Stage Three to Bayombong, Nueva Viscaya. | |||
"I'm used to riding in hot weather but for a European like me, this is too hot,'' said Scholz, whose two-stage total of 6:18:18 gave him a slim 26-second advantage over Malone in the individual general classification. | |||
==Situation back to normal- PDRRMC== | ==Situation back to normal- PDRRMC== | ||
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R02&article=481334283506 | *Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R02&article=481334283506 | ||