Team Slipstream excelled at Saturday’s Univest Gran Prix with riders from the American continental team taking first and third in the race.
Farmersville native and 2006 Tour de France winner Floyd Landis was at the race with his family after riding the course in the recreational Cyclosportif ride earlier in the day.
Will Frischkorn, 26, sailed to a finish in the 107-mile race after more than three hours in the saddle. Frischkorn, of Charlottesville, Va., and 20 others completed the 60-mile road portion of the race, then did 13 circuits around the neighboring towns of Souderton and Telford. The peloton of about 170 other riders were stopped at the end of the road section after falling more than eight minutes behind the leaders.
Frischkorn and teammate Timmy Duggan, 24, went out early in the race and set a punishing pace. They had two other riders with them when they led into the circuits. Duggan went out while Frischkorn sat in a followed, then Frischkorn went out front - and stayed out - with five laps to go.
Frischkorn did not stay around Sunday to contest the criterium race in Doylestown. He left for Missouri, which begins Tuesday.
Landis, who remains in limbo awaiting the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency arbiter panel decision in his appeal of doping allegations, rode in the recreational ride held earlier in the day on the road portion of the course.
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, he rode off the course alone only to reappear in street clothes in Souderton. There he signed autographs for many of the hundreds of cyclists who participated in the recreational ride. Landis’ parents, Paul and Arlene also attended.
In the Inquirer interview, http://www.philly.com/inquirer/sports/20070909_Still_in_limbo__Landis_rides_in_Montco_event.html, Landis hints broadly that if he is unsuccessful in his appeal, he my take another approach.
“We’ve demonstrated on a hundred different levels why they’re going to have to find me innocent,” Landis said. “So they’ve got themselves a dilemma. Because I have no choice but to try to recoup the money I’ve lost and paid to lawyers. And it’s not going to be pretty.”
Several people have commented that the USADA case against Landis would not hold up in court. With a lawsuit, Landis would only have to show to a “preponderance of the evidence” - or more likely so than not so - that he did not dope in order to win his case.
Previously, only a continued appeal to the international Court of Arbitration of Sport had been expected.
