Canada Cup DH #1 - Mt. Tremblant

May 23, 2011

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Source: Canadian Cyclist

All Women
1 Lauren Rosser* (Can) BC Provincial Team 4:51.966
2 Miranda Miller (Can) Cycling BC 5:00.938
3 Vaea Verbeeck (Can) indépendant 5:08.189
4 Kristen Courtney (Can) Team AdrenalineRacer/ToWheels 5:17.996
5 Danice Uyesugi (Can) 5:18.174
6 Anne Laplante (Can) XPREZO - BORSAO 5:38.225
7 Jaime Hill (Can) Cycles Lambert 5:45.614
8 Alexandra Lacroix (Can) Lessard Bicycles 6:09.237
9 Genevieve Gagnon (Can) indépendant 6:13.502
10 Claudia Paquin (Can) indépendant 6:46.789
11 Audrée Vaillancourt (Can) indépendant 6:51.438
DNF Margaret Gregory (Can) Bikes, Jett MTB, Maxxis, Fluid Nutrition,Optics
DNS Katherine Short (Can) cove bikes/sombrio

All Men
1 Andrew Mitchell (Can) Dunbar 4:08.060
2 Dean Tennant (Can) Dunbar/Devinci/Elka 4:09.060
3 Yann Gauvin (Can) Lama Cycles 4:10.225
4 Matthew Beer (Can) Freeride MS 4:10.437
5 Hans Lambert (Can) team pivot cycles 4:11.977
6 Rob Fraser (Can) Primary SRAM/TREK 4:12.466
7 Jeffery Bryson (Can) brysonracingclan.com 4:14.101
8 Chris Del Bosco (Can) Cove bikes/Oakley 4:14.524
9 Kyle Sangers* (Can) PerformX/Devinci 4:15.528
10 Remi Gauvin* (Can) PerfromX/Devinci/TroyLee/Spank/ 4:15.752
11 Gavin Vaughan (USA) RM East/Sugarbush/Smith 4:16.631
12 Philippe Cyrenne Blanchard (Can) Rocky Mountain Bicycles Factory 4:18.267
13 Andy Thibodeau (Can) Gravité Sports / Vélo Chambly 4:18.837
14 Harold Woolnough (Can) Cove Bikes/ Loaded Precision 4:19.361
15 Sidney Slotegraaf (Can) Lapierre Canada 4:19.494
16 Ken Faubert (Can) Dunbar Cycles 4:21.249
17 Chris Barlin (Aus) Renegade cycle/trek bike 4:21.292
18 Riley Suhan* (Can) CyclingBC, Devinci 4:21.304
19 Mathieu Lagrange (Can) Rocky Mountain Bicycles/ProCycle 4:21.750
20 Max Horner* (Can) Cycling BC 4:22.484
21 Adam Morse (USA) RM East/Sugarbush/Smith 4:22.495
22 Bryden Rigets (Can) CCN, SuspensionWerx 4:22.513
23 Jordan Hodder* (Can) SPS/Freeride 4:22.853
24 Kyle Hickey (USA) indépendant 4:22.947
25 Matt Zdriluk (Can) primary/sram/trek 4:23.847
26 Harrison Duxbury-Sleep* (Can) BC Provincial Team 4:25.494
27 Nick Grimm* (Can) brysonracingclan.com 4:26.695
28 Matthew Woods (Can) Gearheads - Specialized 4:27.720
29 Julien Laramée (Can) Cycle Néron /Specialized 4:27.731
30 Charles-Alexandre Dubé (Can) On the edge Canada 4:28.025
31 Tyler Allison* (Can) Marzocchi/Go Pro 4:28.091
32 Franck Kirscher (Fra) Lama Cycles 4:28.361
33 Benoit Rioux (Can) XPREZO - BORSAO 4:28.533
34 Cody Ratte* (Can) Bryson Racing Clan 4:28.676
35 Simon Poirier Giroux (Can) Rocky Mountain Bicycles/ProCycle 4:29.466
36 Jonathan Allard (Can) XPREZO - BORSAO 4:30.167
37 Sheldon Smith* (Can) Freeride Mountain Sports 4:30.288
38 James Jeannet (Can) Transcend Orange 4:30.582
39 Olivier Laprade (Can) Opus/OGC 4:31.103
40 Vincent Tremblay (Can) Devinci 4:31.600
41 Alexandre Conlon (Can) indépendant 4:31.665
42 Benoit Labelle (Can) Lama Cycles 4:33.294
43 William Viens (Can) Sports aux Puces Longueuil 4:33.959
44 Samuel Vallée (Can) Lessard Bicycles 4:34.043
45 Forrest Riesco* (Can) Cycling BC 4:35.018
46 Adam Kral* (Can) Cycling BC 4:35.907
47 Marc Poirier (Can) Sports aux Puces St-Hubert 4:36.021
48 Kip Shortreed* (Can) Cycling BC 4:36.266
49 Guillaume Labrie* (Can) On the edge Canada 4:36.618
50 Félix-Antoine Lessard (Can) Cycle Néron /Specialized 4:37.184
51 Jonathan Lefrançois (Can) Cycle Neron/Specialized 4:37.201
52 Dylan Morley (Can) J&J cycles 4:37.247
53 Samuel Lagrange (Can) Rocky Mountain Bicycles/ProCycle 4:39.567
54 Brad Zdriluk* (Can) Adrenaline Racer/ To Wheels 4:39.620
55 Taylor Rowlands (Can) lapierre 4:39.625
56 Guillaume Laramée (Can) Cycle Néron /Specialized 4:40.388
57 Justin Macknish (Can) Lama Cycles 4:40.398
58 Philippe Ricard* (Can) indépendant 4:40.709
59 Francis Gagnon-Paquin (Can) Rocky Mountain Bicycles/ProCycle 4:41.027
60 Matt Nielsen (Can) indépendant 4:41.527
61 Jordan Lapointe* (Can) Sports aux Puces St-Hubert 4:41.548
62 Patrick Paré-Martin* (Can) indépendant 4:41.766
63 Guillaume Lafleur-Smith (Can) indépendant 4:41.925
64 Tyler Paksi (Can) Cyclepath Calgary/ Giant Canada 4:42.075
65 Olivier Bourdeau (Can) indépendant 4:42.203
66 Lachlan McKillop (Aus) Renegade cycle/trek 4:42.545
67 Dominic Toupin (Can) Rocky Mountain Bicycles/ 4:42.606
68 Maxime Fortin Faubert (Can) On the edge Canada 4:43.213
69 Michael Hermanovsky (Can) SILENT NORCO RACING 4:43.681
70 Nicolas Konow (Can) Dirt Camp 4:44.619
71 Louis Brochu Marier* (Can) Rocky Mountain Bicycles/ 4:45.240
72 Adam Finlayson (Can) primary/sram/trek 4:45.423
73 Vincent Poliseno (Can) Sports aux Puces St-Hubert 4:45.627
74 Hugo Rhéaume Lalumière (Can) indépendant 4:45.860
75 Colin Prévost-Lemire (Can) indépendant 4:46.831
76 Philippe Morin* (Can) le yéti 4:48.435
77 Justin Loiselle (Can) On the edge Canada 4:48.866
78 Anthony Evans (Can) Lavan Apparel 4:48.886
79 Jeff Faulds (Can) SILENT NORCO RACING 4:49.158
80 Lawrence Day* (Can) Dirt Camp 4:49.202
81 Dylan Forbes (Can) Freeride MS 4:49.713
82 Bas van Steenbergen* (Can) indépendant 4:50.844
83 Graeme Duff *(Can) Primary/Trek 4:51.832
84 Pierre-Luc Lalonde (Can) Cycle Néron LaPrairie-RMB 4:52.289
85 Terry Leimonis (Can) Cycle Solutions-Angry Johnnys Racing 4:54.780
86 James Frost (Can) Primary SRAM Trek Sweet Petes 4:55.246
87 Kevin Norris (Can) Cycle Solutions/Angry Johnnys Racing 4:55.705
88 David Fontaine* (Can) CCS/Dalbix 4:56.283
89 Vincent Lacombe* (Can) Passion Vélos TR 4:57.340
90 William Biname* (Can) Dirt Camp 4:58.079
91 Alex Beaupied* (Can) indépendant 5:02.803
92 Eric Tabah* (Can) IndianRacing.ca 5:05.094
93 Louis-Philippe Mclean* (Can) indépendant 5:05.434
94 Xavier Choquette-Corbeil* (Can) indépendant 5:05.600
95 Alexandre Carbonneau* (Can) indépendant 5:07.151
96 Billy Bezeau-Tremblay* (Can) Sports aux Puces St-Hubert 5:08.773
97 Vincent Ready (Can) Primay SRAM-Trek 5:14.447
98 Benoît Bessette* (Can) indépendant 5:19.091
99 James Samborski* (Can) Dirt Camp 5:19.301
100 Jordan Whicler *(Can) BMC Kamikaze 5:30.757
101 Tarek Ghaleb-Delbello* (Can) IndianRacing.ca 5:33.176
102 Samuel Lepage (Can) indépendant 5:33.414
103 Alexandre Vogel-Robert (Can) indépendant 5:40.763
104 Bretton Thurston* (Can) indépendant 5:52.733
DNF Alistair Pimlott (Can) SILENT NORCO RACING
DNF Steven Gauci (Can) Cycle Solutions
DNF Philippe Bergeron (Can) Cycle Performance
DNF Kyle Lockyer (Can) SILENT NORCO RACING
DNF Pierre-Olivier Girardot* (Can) indépendant
DNF Samuel Thibault (Can) Cycles Performance
DNF Cam Hilts* (Can) Oakley/Commencal
DNF Kristofer Evoy* (Can) Cycle Solutions
DNF Jordan Gosteli *(Can) Cycling BC
DNF Sky Gustin* (Can) Cycling BC
DNS Danny Frey* (Can) indépendant
DNS Tom Kakamousias (Can) SILENT NORCO RACING

*=U19

Source: Canadian Cyclist

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46 Comments

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carlosz (May 23, 2011 at 10:26)

Little disappointed with the lack of Canada cup coverage on the site.

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newfdh (May 23, 2011 at 10:43)

Same here

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Canadmos (May 23, 2011 at 10:45)

A lot of Eastern stuff is missed out on..

It is kind of odd that a Canadian website has more stuff on European races than here. Perhaps there just needs to be more people submitting content?

stefanb (May 23, 2011 at 10:57)

Or like a website dedicated to the Eastern scene? Trailburn.ca

germinois Plus (May 23, 2011 at 11:20)

All men categorie mean all senior elite and junior expert riders

IanHylands Mod Plus (May 23, 2011 at 12:05)

If there were someone covering the events and submitting photos and stories etc as suggested by Canadmos we would cover it. Most of our European coverage is sent to us by the event organizers or promoters, Canadian Cycling doesn't do that unfortunately.

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gnarbar (May 23, 2011 at 13:45)

@Ian sorry but I don't buy it, this is a major event on the circuit and deserves much better coverage, you guys need an agent located in the east to collate and submit content. This is lame sauce and IMHO a bit of an insult to the huge and long established racing, DH and XC scene out east. My 2c.

IanHylands Mod Plus (May 23, 2011 at 13:59)

Exactly, we need an agent located in the east, that would be the "someone covering the events and submitting photos and stories etc" that I suggested. Unfortunately so far we haven't had any volunteers, and a quick look through the photos on the site this morning didn't turn up anything from the event so far. So I agree that it's lame, but lame on the part of the bike community, not us. The majority of news coverage that we produce is user generated, we might post it, but the photos and videos and race reports come from Pinkbike users. We pay for select coverage of major international events, right now that's the World Cup circuit and a few larger freeride events, outside of that the budget is $0. So instead of complaining here you should complain to Cycling Canada for not promoting their events...

gnarbar (May 23, 2011 at 14:11)

Who's "complaining" ? I'm giving you feedback. Take it or leave it as far as that is concerned but leaving a big hole in your content and then turning that issue back on the riding community......whatever. But since Pinkbike became a commercially orientated profit driven "online magazine" with a gazillion new employees and experts and the accountability and expectations that come with it, instead of a site geared around grassroots user-generated content, you can expect more constructive criticism coming from the peanut gallery.

IanHylands Mod Plus (May 23, 2011 at 14:24)

"Lame Sauce" is feedback? Hardly, but it's nice to know what certain people think, thank you for expressing your opinion, and I do mean that quite sincerely. As for "commecially orientated profit driven"??? There is no profit, if there was it go straight to photographers etc so that we could have more exclusive content. We currently have 7 employees, and we work incredibly long hours, usually 7 days a week. Before you start making comments like the one above you should learn a little bit about what you're talking about. Pinkbike is a site that is geared around grassroots user-generated content, that's exactly what I said above, you got that part right, but for some reason you put an "instead" in front of your point. If and when Pinkbike does become a "commercially orientated profit driven" website I will be stoked as hopefully we'll all get paid a little more for the hours we put in and we'll also be able to provide you with more "local" content. That's the end of my discussion, please do some basic research and figure out the facts before you start spouting off. Also in the future if you have some long discussion you want to get into please do it by personal message, this is not the place for it.

STnightrider (May 23, 2011 at 15:42)

hey Ian, being at the event was a great experience although it was short because of a broken collar bone and internal bleeding in my thigh. but here is an idea that will resolve both of u argueing. Why not make a group on PB of riders and organizers that will cover these events?and have aa place where u can post pictures and stories in the forum. i know i have a lot of input. Also is there a canada cup forum? i know there is one for ontario. hope you consider my idea,Scott

IanHylands Mod Plus (May 23, 2011 at 16:20)

Thanks Scott, There isn't currently a place to create a Canada Cup forum, so we'll have to figure that part out first, the rest should be easy. I'm thinking probably in the DH/4X section. There are currently Canadian forums by region, but the Canada Cup series crosses regional boundaries. There is normally coverage of regional events on the site, and as LlamaCycles has said below he will be doing a post on the event. I think the biggest issue in this case is that in Canada it's a long weekend, and Tyler, even though he's out of the office, went out of his way to post the results as soon as he got them, but there wasn't any other content available at the time... It's fairly normal for us to post quick results and then update the post later with photos etc. and I fully expected there to be a bunch of people submitting content from this race today.

Hope you heal up quick!

cloverleaf Plus (May 23, 2011 at 16:24)

As Ian has already said, there's lots of European coverage because there are a good number of guys this side of the pond who either race and submit reports like I do, photographers who produce a report to showcase their images or organisers who are willing to pull some photo's and words together about what happened at their event to boost coverage. If people aren't willing to do that then it's difficult to get content - all too often riders promise to provide a report but never fulfil.

As an example, last year I raced over twenty five events and pulled together reports for virtually all of them - only a lack of pictures at one and work/travel commitments immediately after another stopped me having a 100% record. That's not paid either, before some get the wrong idea. It involves time spent speaking to photographers to arrange photos to be loaded asap after an event (themselves having to balance a job in the real world) and dragging full copies of results from the organisers. If people are desperate to see an event covered and are there themselves then why not try to sort out some pics and pull together a report yourself? Race reports aren't hard to put together but it's hard to get people, racers especially, to find the time to produce one for an event. Also, in Europe there are huge numbers of races going on, even in the UK there are two or sometimes three events going on every weekend from March to October with between 200 and 300 racers at each. That means more people interested in reading about them, more to write about and more people potentially able to do the writing.

FastTimes (May 23, 2011 at 16:27)

I'd be more than happy to cover anything in the east you need Ian. Anytime bud. Marc

IanHylands Mod Plus (May 23, 2011 at 16:46)

Thanks Marc! For stuff like this we don't need a zillion banger shots. I'm very happy to have podium shots as well as one or two decent shots of the winners in action and maybe a couple of random action and lifestyle shots. If there are some great shots in there all the better, but I don't expect photographers to give away stuff that they could be selling... Ideally we like to have the results up pretty quick, at least the top 5 or 10 in pro men and women, followed by a few photos and a brief report when available, perhaps some more supporting images after. Everyone feel free to let me know what they're doing and posting, and add me as a friend here if you haven't so that I'll see your stuff when you post it. A big part of my job is coordinating photos and reports from events, and as cloverleaf said above, there is a lot going on. And the stuff that gets submitted has a good chance of being posted, stuff that I have to search out and wait for ends up at the bottom usually...

racealot (May 23, 2011 at 18:53)

I think complaining or rather what I call back and forth open ended feedback is a little much from everybody. What needs to be addressed is there was a race, above are the results a race report with photos will follow at some point in the next day or so,we all know there will be an onslaught of them too. And a friendly reminder that Pinkbike is west coast based and this event happened out east, so there is the possibility of time/travel discrepancies. Not to mention that today is a holiday here, so the fact Ian took the time and due diligence to post something today should suffice enough until those photos and write-ups are presented, in this case contributed by Lama, along any other media resources that were in attendance. Be patient everybody, the digital world is efficient but there's also a tipping point for those working theirs butt off to be as real time as possible..

zeGG (May 23, 2011 at 20:08)

ask those guys, they may be willing to help with canadian coverage (sic) -> brysonracingclan.com

IanHylands Mod Plus (May 23, 2011 at 20:29)

Thanks everyone, this may be a starting point. I know we reached out to almost everyone we knew of that might have had photos of the race and none of the photographers we contacted went to the event. We managed to get the results from Canadian Cyclist, but even they didn't have any photos, which truly amazes me. We've had hundreds of DH photos posted today on the site (592 at this point) but not one from the Canada Cup. I can only assume that there really weren't any photographers there. I'm looking forward to seeing what shows up tomorrow though, I won't be around to post anything as I'm flying to the East Coast for the US Open, but Brule should be back in the office tomorrow sometime.

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mountguitars (May 23, 2011 at 11:54)

wow, there was a race happening in the east coast. no pics or videos or even a little story of some sort? just results? maybe you guys can add in the pictures and the story later. at least we knew there was something happening in canada.

IanHylands Mod Plus (May 23, 2011 at 12:06)

See my comment above, until we're sent images and a race report etc we can't run coverage of the event...

gnarbar (May 23, 2011 at 13:46) (Below Threshold) show comment

lame sauce

LamaCycles Plus (May 23, 2011 at 14:50)

We are working on a race report with pictures and all that for tomorrow...

IanHylands Mod Plus (May 23, 2011 at 14:53)

Excellent, thank you very much! We always try to publish as many local and national reports as possible...

LamaCycles Plus (May 23, 2011 at 14:57)

no worries, it is always difficult to get everything together in a short time period so the news is still up to date... One thing is for sure, we are working on it.

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stacykohut (May 23, 2011 at 15:07)

tons of coverage of the pro grt, euro races etc etc...........weak coverage of the candian scene. wake up p.b. ......just sayin'.

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krazeegurl (May 23, 2011 at 21:34)

I was at this event all weekend. I have some pictures of some racers and some podium shots as well. I am currently in NY, USA heading to the US Open but I will try and get them posted ASAP for those to see. (I didn't take pictures of everyone, but I got some riders).

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darryl24 Plus (May 23, 2011 at 19:45)

Pinkbike has gone worldwide. Most people don't care whats happening in the grassroots BC races (except for us in BC). Used to have tons of Canadian DH racing coverage. but there comes a time when you have to go with what pays the bills.

Nice work Drew, Dean, Lauren, Miranda, Riley, and Max. BC killing it on the National scene. sorry if I missed more of the BC rippers.

brule Mod Plus (May 24, 2011 at 11:30)

The problem is finding folks like yourself that are able to create content at events. Since we work all week and then are expected to cover all events all over the world on the weekends, it's tough to pull it all together. We got this info from the good folks at Canadian Cyclist and even they were not able to get pics from the event.

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dhpig (May 25, 2011 at 5:50)

I understand that Pinkbike has limited resources and cannot cover all events but that is a lame excuse; this is a Canada Cup hosted in Pinkbike’s own Country and deserves a bit of an effort. Instead of hoping for someone to offer up pictures and coverage, why doesn’t Pinkbike be more proactive and seek out volunteers and photographers prior to the competition?? I hate it when Websites and Companies get some global traction and then they forsake their domestic audience.

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alexlag (May 23, 2011 at 16:05)

So you people really think Pinkbike has people that gets to fly to Europe to take pictures and report on races but they don't send someone to cover the East Canadian races? Right...

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Evelyn (May 23, 2011 at 17:48)

Well done Drew and Dean!! Local Victoria boys have it!

GordonShread (May 23, 2011 at 19:09)

Yeah Victoria rippers!

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bikervince101 (May 24, 2011 at 17:37)

Here's the video of Vincent Allard http://majorcycles.com/2011/05/24/video-race-day-coupe-canada-1/

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xwave123 (May 23, 2011 at 12:23)

check out www.privateermtb.com for some coverage and a few photos with a full gallery to come.

bikervince101 (May 23, 2011 at 14:33)

You guys should be the "agent located in the east," that PB need for the race coverage.

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andrewgrant (May 24, 2011 at 11:35)

WOOO way to go Lauren! But I'm with everyone else, crappy coverage of the event. Hopefully something will get worked out soon

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stacykohut (May 23, 2011 at 15:09)

and hey ian, why is the 'comment section' not the place for comments?

tstep3 (May 23, 2011 at 16:16)

he said its not the place for discussion. Like if you have a question about something that only admins would know the answer to, then PM them and they will have the DISCUSSION with you about you question

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tdoyle1995 (May 23, 2011 at 10:36)

oh real nice lauren just a great job

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jon-15 (May 23, 2011 at 13:49)

I WANT SOME COVERAGE!!!

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sexley (May 23, 2011 at 10:18)

Is that all the racers that showed??

skylerm (May 23, 2011 at 10:32)

128 racers that a lot lol

bikervince101 (May 23, 2011 at 11:24)

No it's only the pro categories.

Full results here : http://www.fqsc.net/sites/default/files/resultats-dh_tremblant.pdf

cikudh (May 23, 2011 at 17:19)

yeah! Canadian got many bike parks, many bikers, hence resulted bunch of elites!!! this just not happen in my country... :'( :'( :'(

sxvr6 (May 24, 2011 at 6:35)

I think you have to ask M.Vincent Allard he his the east reporter . It was a hard week end on my side,but still finish the race

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DHDH (May 24, 2011 at 10:16)

Yeah Hans and Rob. Solid result.

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