Newsgroup: it.sport.ciclismo
Titolo: L'inferno del nord miete 70 vittime

http://www.cyclingnews.com/road.php?id=road/2006/apr06/novilondrenthe06/novilondrenthe062
Stage 2 - April 8: Hoogeveen - Hoogeveen, 128.4 km
Local girl takes over the lead
By Kristy Scrymgeour
After an epic day on the bike for the women, it was Loes Markerink 
(@Work Cycling Team) who took the victory, sprinting out of a lead group 
of 17 riders in the town of Hoogeveen. Markerink's win puts her in the 
leader's jersey going into the third and final stage.
Only two kilometers into the neutral zone of the race, the rain started 
to fall setting the scene for what was to come. The rain, the strong 
wind, the cold and the cobbles, not to mention the extremely narrow 
roads would make this race one to remember. A couple of kilometers 
later, wearer of the yellow jersey, Ina Yoko Teutenberg (T-Mobile) 
crashed on a cobbled roundabout, the neutral section not yet over.
It was only 10km later the riders reached the first KOM of the day. A 
steep 500m climb up a man-made garbage hill. By the top Annette Beutler 
(Elk Haus) and Linda Villumsen (Buitenpoort-Flexpoint) had a gap on the 
field and a small group of five riders were edging away from the rest of 
the bunch. By the bottom of the descent a group of ten riders had formed 
a solid breakaway. Also in the group were Trixi Worrack and Eva Lutz 
(Nurnberger), Sarah Duster (Univega), Debbie Mansveld (Vlaanderen), and 
Roxanne Knetemann (AA Drink).
At the 20km mark the break had 45 seconds on a chase group of two 
riders, Angela Brodtka (AA Drink) and Janildes Fernandes Silva (Michela 
Fanini), with the bunch at a minute. Christine Becker (T-Mobile) 
attacked out of the bunch to bridge to the chase group and eventually 
the front group was ten riders with a growing lead on the field.
A tough cobbled section split the whole bunch along the way but the 
smaller groups got back together save another group of seven riders who 
eventually caught the front group after 50km of racing. In this group 
was eventual race winner Markerink.
 From here riders still had 80km to race including two more times up the 
garbage hill. This time from the other side which is steeper and as 
narrow as a goat track. A couple of girls were forced to walk up parts 
of the hill. The last time over the hill came only 10km from the finish. 
Again it was Villumsen who forced the pace and had a gap at the top with 
only Kirsten Wild able to hold her wheel. The pair rode away together 
increasing their lead. The rest of the break chased the pair were caught 
with not long to go before the finish. More attacks went but at the 
finish it was a bunch sprint with Markerink taking the win over Duster 
and Becker, the main peloton finishing over eight minutes down.
Markerink has four seconds on Duster going into tomorrow's stage.
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