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bill begg	Argentina SAIC Marathon	Lead	[-]
Posts: 4980 (12/05/05 18:20:34) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None Hi Skaters, Colombian men overcome Max Presti to win & Argentina women, take out the marathon. The young Colombian stars Julian Rivera & Jorge Cifuentes 2nd & 3rd in the World Championship marathon (Grafically displayed, on page 135 in the latest Sport Insider book) took out first & second place, ahead of the great marathon man Max Presti, Argentina skaters David Siano & Argustin Sanjuan were 4th & 5th, with young N.Z. Juniors DJ Nation 6th & Pweter Micheal, the world Junior points track champion, 7th. Cheers Bill
bill begg	Argentina SAIC Marathon	#1	[-]
Posts: 4980 (12/05/05 18:28:15) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Hi Skaters, In the ladies race Argentina took out the top placings with a victory to Melissa Bonnet, a silver medalist, at the World champs, Natalia Artero was 2nd, while evergreen Andrea Haritchelhar was 3rd. Fourth went to another Argentina skater Maira Arias, while The Colombian pair Jennifer Caicedo & Margarita Botero were 5th & 6th, with Argentina star & many times World champion Andrea Gonzales 7th. Cheers Bill
bill begg	Argentina Marathon	#2	[-]
Posts: 4980 (12/06/05 04:21:47) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Hi Skaters, The first 7 placings in the mens marathon, were decided by a breakaway. Possibly with Max Presti in it & the two Kiwi Juniors DJ Nation & Peter Micheal, some of their top International team mates, were content not to catch. But the two Colombians Rivera & Cifuentes being in the break, should have been enough to send alarm bells ringing, for the remainder of the main group. Cheers Bill
JimW53186	Re: Argentina Marathon	#3	[-]
Posts: 193 (12/06/05 07:49:47) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Thanks, Bill, for the report on the Colombians. Not surprised, but happy, with Rivera's win. He spends much time training (and training smart), would come to his home track, when I was there, with his training partner, during breaks in college class schedule. Of course, also did normal team/group training, which is probably as intense as any large group in the world, and with a group of peers as good or better than any. He is proud of having been beat in the last Worlds Marathon only by the USA team, and also of having beat Chad Hedrick in the past. Margarita is also a very savy skater, which was very noticeable even before I could spend much time with her; she often starts a couple of meters behind the pack, avoids the fight for a start position, then works her way to the front when the time is right during the race. Like Apolo Ohno, but more so. She also has become informally a part of the top skating family in Colombia, Rivera's, so has about the best situation for travel possible. (Not so good at home because they live in different cities.) The USA will claim a little credit for her as she's trained here, beside the best (and a team that always welcomes visitors). Jennifer is very highly respected by other Colombians, and quite friendly, unfortunately I saw more of her off the track, rather than on. Bill, you are right about alarm bells for the two Colombians; they are great with teamwork. ***************************** Re Sport Insider, how can we get copies of that? It's a great magazine, saw a copy in Colombia but the owner wouldn't part with it. I emailed Iguana (in English), received no reply. Jim White
bill begg	Re: Argentina Marathon	#4	[-]
Posts: 4980 (12/06/05 14:23:39) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Hi Jim, Why I mentioned the twoColombians on page 135, was that Technically, they wer both in full flight & Cifuentes Arms & body are in the positions, I try & teach, righ where I like the arms to be in a full on field sprint. When I dropped a copy of the early season print of Sport Insider to Glen Koshi, our Bont USA King Pin, Glen remarked, it was the best quality skate magazine he had ever seen.(Thats the one with Nicole on the front, with Tina Graf.) The latest Magazine,which Has Max Presti in front in the WIC leaders jersey & Laura Lardarni on the bottom right, is in Coni's own words, the best he has ever had published. The difficulty is the 150 page plus glossy magazine, is such good quality, it is so heavy, in N.Z. everyone wants one, but you can only bring o many back, due to airline weight. For N.Z. people, we have no magaine, but with a number of Stars competing in the WIC & SIC, the N.Z. skaters are sighted in Photo's 74 times & clearly featured in 39 Tmes. It also has European & Worlds coverage & results, so is of interest to a wide range of skating people. I am sure if some skate outlet brought them into the USA, they would be able to sellthem for sure. Cheers Bill
JimW53186	Re: Argentina Marathon	#5	[-]
Posts: 193 (12/06/05 14:28:08) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	So how can a skate outlet bring some into USA? Or how can we get someone at Iguana to answer that question? Bill, or anyone?
bill begg	Re: Argentina Marathon	#6	[-]
Posts: 4980 (12/06/05 16:04:59) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Hi Jim, You need to reach Coni by phone, he is that busy, with face to face contact, he can't get tied up on emails, like most us other people, in the skating World. But the magazine does need to get World Wide, as it can help build dreams & aspiraions, fror the future top skaters. Cheers Bill
colopatinador	Re: Argentina Marathon	#7	[-]
Posts: 590 (12/08/05 05:46:56) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Hi there, skaters! Its a surprise not to find (YET) in this or any other forum the usual self-indulgent post your happy-tabloid reporter usually delivers... With a neutral eye, let me tell you this: the event was a huge success. The pro race was GREAT, with a lot of action from a bunch of colombians,a full team of chileans, 3 italians, 3 kiwis and a lot of locals. To be honest, Presti could have win but was closed near the finish line by the 2 young colombians. The fitness race was fun: yours truly may have be the winner, but the ladies team took the head from the beginning. Well, considering they were Nora Vega, M. Eva Richardson and Tamara Llorens, I can be more than happy. Then there was a nice kids race, the show, the prizes, the disco... Just like a Coni produced event. Sadly, the swiss hero could not reach the argentinian capital due to airline problems, but I guess he might have been satisfied. Yes, there were a couple of glitches like the bad timming device, zero local promotion, the not so crowded place and the boring disco party but, hey, it was the first time here! And hopefully, not the last. May this be the start of a full South American Series of maratons.
bill begg	Re: Argentina Marathon	#8	[-]
Posts: 4980 (12/08/05 16:30:17) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Hi Marcello, First of all, they let YOU back into Argentina. Is it true or just a bad rumour, that you have offered your services to assist Guido & co next time. Racing Nora, Eva & Tamara, I bet you had a field day, an all time great & Argentinian lovely & an enforcer, just right5 in amongst your favoured company. I hae not been able to get into your web site, many times recently, is there some problem. Cheers Bill
colopatinador	Re: Argentina Marathon	#9	[-]
Posts: 590 (12/09/05 04:47:52) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Morning Mr Begg! Believe or not, I was INVITED there, but not by any of your average politicians...No, your rumour is untrue: I won't be involved in any of these matters UNLESS Coni himself ask me. Haha. And yes, it was an honour to watch those respectable bums from a closed and priviledged point of view. But hey... 40.000 spectators? 1000 skaters? It must have been somewhere else in Buenos Aires, boy. Or some kind of doping. re: Website - I'm changing server, the english one will be online and full of new material soon. As for the italian one... I don't give a rat's arse anymore.

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