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> Seems a little off but heard its a done deal, anyone else hear this?
August 19. 2006 3:11PM
Tyler Hamilton, Aimee Vasse win Mount Washington bike race
The Associated Press
Olympic gold medalist Tyler Hamilton, who's been suspended from
sanctioned races for the past two years, returned to the White
Mountains Saturday to win the only race he has been free to ride - the
7.6-mile Mount Washington Auto Road Bicycle Hillclimb.
Grosse Point, Mich.-native Aimee Vasse won for the women, coming in at
1:08:31 to place 22nd overall in a field of almost 600 riders.
Hamilton's time was 52:21. His suspension over a blood doping offense
ends Sept. 22, just in time for the World Cycling Championships on
Sept. 24.
For Hamilton, of Marblehead, Mass., the race was a time trial, for
Vasse a tactical contest.
"I went as hard as I could from the bottom of the hill," Hamilton said.
Riders faced wet conditions, with a sudden rainsquall at the start, wet
fog on the upper slopes, and a 20-mph wind.
Hamilton's closest pursuer was 51-year-old former world mountain bike
champion Ned Overend of Durango, Colo., who placed fourth here in 2005.
Overend finished in 54:41. Third place went to Ian Ayers, of Atlantic
Highlands, N.J., who was making his fifth, and best, appearance here.
