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Stage 4
Saturday, May 17
Full Sail Downtown Criterium
East of The Dalles to
Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Resort
101 miles |
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BISSELL’s Paul Mach Claims his Best Career Win with Victory at the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic
BISSELL’s objectives for the final stage of Mt. Hood were very clear - to deliver Paul Mach to victory. The team’s roles were well defined for the day as Omer Kem, Burke Swindlehurst, and Morgan Schmitt controlled the front of the peloton, Graham Howard protected the race leader, and Paul Mach defended his lead. After a very aggressive first 15 minutes with a lot of attacking, an early break of 10 riders got off. Bissell was content to let the group hang in front as there were no threats to the GC in the break. The break of 10 eventually dwindled to 8 and BISSELL continued to command the peloton. Paul focused on matching all moves by Chris Baldwin (OUCH) who was 13 seconds behind Paul in the GC. Baldwin put everything out there to challenge Paul with attacks every few laps for the last half of the race, but Paul was there to counter all his moves. Jamie Sparling (Trek Red Truck) took the win over his original break mates, and all BISSELL riders came through in the main group thirty four seconds back. Paul defended his lead to get the overall victory. The outstanding teamwork shown by BISSELL all week was awarded with the win in the overall team classification.
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