Lampre-ISD's Grega Bole Wins in France

Grega Bole of Gaerne's Lampre-ISD team has taken his first victory in the GP de Plouay-Bretagne.

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Marvellous victory by Grega Bole in Gp Plouay (248,3 km). Preceding on the arrival Gerrans, Voeckler and Hushovd, Slovenian cyclist gave Lampre-ISD its fist victory in the French race.

Bole's success is only the final part of a perfect performance by the whole blue-fucsia team, that took the head of the group with Malori and Loosli at 50 km to go in order to decrease the gap from the 8 attackers (breakaway begun at the 26th kilometre).

Lampre-ISD's riders could limit the gap from 6' to 2'30" and then, thanks to the good job by Pietropolli and Spilak, the last attacker was caught on the last hill of the circuit, at 3,5 km to go.

Suddenly, just after the top of the hill, Bole attacked from the group (there were also Hondo and Cunego for Lampre-ISD) and he could resist to the attempts by Gerrans, Voeckler and Hushovd, who tried to follow the Slovenian cyclist.
For Bole, 26 years old, this is the 2nd seasonal victory and the 12th in career.

"This is the best victory in my career, because it's my first success in a classic and because I got it at the end of a very good performance - Bole explained - After Tour de France, I realized important performances and I was always in the top part of the races standings, finally today I won. I thank my team mates, perfect during the whole race, and Lampre-ISD, that always supports me".

"Well deserved victory for Bole and for all the team members, who all performed a perfect race - sport director Tebaldi said - We knew Grega was in a good fit, that's why we decided to work hard in the head of the group in order to chase the attackers: it could be a risk, but Bole, thanks to the outstanding attack in the final kilometers, made all that work very useful".

1° Bole
2° Gerrans
3° Voeckler
4° Hushovd
5° Nizzolo