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UCI Moves Track Worlds
with files from Australia Cycling
The UCI has announced that the 2003 Track Cycling World Championships will be moved from China. The Championships had been scheduled to take place between July 30 and August 3rd in Shenzhen in the country's south but the impact of the SARS outbreak has prompted a change of venue.
UCI Vice President, Ray Godkin, said the sport's ruling body will announce within the next week the new venue and dates although he has confirmed the Senior Championships will take place prior to the Junior Track Cycling World Championships scheduled to begin on August 20th in Moscow.
"The decision was made in consultation with the Chinese and they accept and understand the reasons why the Championships must be moved," said Mr Godkin. "Certainly we will be looking to China to host a future senior Championships, possibly in 2007, but not necessarily in Shenzhen.
"It's more likely that if the 2007 senior World Championships go to China they would go to Beijing and act as a test event for the 2008 Olympic Games."
But Mr Godkin says the Chinese have spent 45 million dollars to build a velodrome in Shenzhen for the World Championships and he hopes they might consider hosting the Junior World Titles in 2005, when the road and track disciplines will both be contested at the same Championships for the first time.
"The Shenzhen venue has a great 13km road circuit adjacent to the velodrome and would be ideal for the combined junior World Championships in 2005," said Mr Godkin.
Canadian Espoir European Project Update
Hard week at the office for the boys in blue and red. This year's Ruban Granitier Breton proved to be a hard one due to the combination of hard courses, bad weather and stiff competition with Saeco, Rabobank and Quickstep.
The stage race started with a 5 km technical prologue under the rain in Cesson-Sévigné. None of our guys really took any risks as starting a stage race with road rash is not ideal. So all finished with mid pack times. The prologue win went to Muravyev, the Kazak from Quickstep.
The following day set the stage for a hard tour as a break of 2 went up the road in a galeforce head wind. The break would take up to 6 minutes before hitting the finishing circuit where under the hard work of Quickstep to bring down the gap to 3 minutes. Muravyev attacked the pack to finish the 1min 30 down on the 2 breakaway riders. On the Canuck side not much to say aside from a crash from Warren that injured his left elbow but not too much harm done.
The next stage from Pluvigner to Theix was not much to talk about aside from the fact that breaks went up the road with no Canadians in, but it all came back together for a pack sprint won by a Saeco rider.
Theix to La Turballe was another hard stage due to the wind. Once again no Canadians were getting in the breaks but luck was once again on their side as ABX Go-Pass was not represented in the 15 man break and so all would come back before the finishing circuit. This stage was also marked as an unlucky one for Ryan (Roth) who after flatting at a bad time could not reintegrate the peloton and was forced to abandon because of the 12% time cut. Almost at the same time (Dominique) Rollin suffered a front puncture but was able to come back thanks to the help of Cameron (Evans) and Ian (Condron).
The next day stage from Plescop to Lannion, the team tactics were to change. Because none were able get into breaks they would initiate a break. The tactic would work in the beginning as François (Parisien) and Cam initiated a 15-man break that would never get more than a minute but forced a hard pace with the first 2 hours had a 47km-h average. Towards mid race François, not a 100% during this race, got shelled in a hard climb and was soon caught and dropped from the remainder of the pack. For his part Cam and the rest of the break would get caught by a now small pack. The pace would let up for about half an hour after 2 1/2 hours of racing before lighting it up again. When the pace picked up again Cam was not well positioned and ended losing contact. In the end the stage would go to Muravyev who was back in the overall lead of a badly damaged pack.
Having lost Rollin due to bad leg cramps the day before the team was now down to 4 riders, as was the average of most teams. Unfortunately, not having done the hardest stage yet things were gloomy for a lot of teams as the bad weather continued to be an issue. In any case, the stage started with a fast pace in the head wind with Parisien trying to go up the road with 6 riders. However, Parisien's efforts would prove to in vain and the hills would eventually get to him and he quickly saw himself in front of the broom wagon. The stage Lannion to Doardenez would go to a Saeco rider finishing strong on a hard finishing circuit.
With Muravyev in the leaders jersey by 32 seconds and the apparent ease that he has on the bike it was apparent that he will win the stage race.
The last stage from Guégon to Fougère (203kms) would prove to be one where Quickstep controlled the pace almost from the beginning to the end. With the first day of relatively favourable weather conditions the organizer could breathe a bit easier knowing that most starters of stage would finish.
A break went up the road with 6 riders and would stay at 3 minutes all day until the hard finishing circuit where attacks from the breaks were launched. In the end the GC would go to Muravyev, who through this race was preparing the Tour of Slovenia!
For the remaining 3 Canadians they all finished the stage race fairly well and learned a fair bit on positioning and attrition. Perfect for the up coming Tour of Holland.
Until then it's rest time and the Tarbes-Sauveterre on the 8th and Tour du Perigord on the 11th.
Jacques Landry
National Development Coach
Blizzard Bike Club Fort St. John, BC, May 1
Courtesy Pat Ferris
A red-hot Mike Hientzman stopped the competition cold, Thursday night, at the Baldonnel time trial under very cool and snowy conditions. Mike's time of 29:13 was over a minute faster than second place Richard Howes. Pat Ferris was third at 30:44.
Ed Fornelli was 4th at 31:55, David Ferris 32:45, Erik Snucins 32:52, Gary Hilderman 33:03, Stephen Ferris 33:23 and Rod Lewis and Tammy Howes tied for 9th at 34:00.
Gord Harris won the 8 km with 14:52 and Jarrod Bell second at 19:14.
Coming up: Challenge Cup #1 from Humpty's, Sunday, at 10:00 am. This is the first of four Challenge Cup events over 2003 for the Grande Prairie Wheelers and the host and reigning champion Blizzard Bike Club.
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When GMOs (genetically modified organisms) were first promoted back in the early nineties, it sounded as if the world was about to be saved from famine. These altered crops would produce much higher yields and the hungry could finally be fed. For regions of the planet where there was little rainfall, plants could be made drought resistant. Vitamins could be introduced, making genetically modified produce more nutritious. Crops would be made resilient to pests and could grow in spite of them. And lastly—the bit of information that would ease all other worries—there would be virtually no difference between these and conventionally grown crops that came before them.
Like some experiment from a science fiction movie gone horribly wrong, we now witness the truth of GMOs. And the truth is many miles from the promises.
"What exactly have these crops done for us?" Andrew Kimbrell, founder and executive director of the Center for Food Safety, posed to Organic Connections. "What has this technology really given anybody? There's not a single human being on Earth who gets up in the morning wanting to buy genetically engineered food. Somehow, in all these years, they haven't been able to produce one single trait that actually contributes to consumers: better taste, more nutrition, lower fats—you name it; they haven't been able to produce one."
If anyone knows the GMO beat, it is certainly Andrew Kimbrell. He is a public interest attorney, activist and author. He has been on the front lines of public interest legal activity in technology, human health and the environment for most of his adult life. In 1997 he established the Center for Food Safety, the organization responsible for knocking down effort after effort of biotechnology giants to pollute our agriculture—and endanger our health—with GMOs. He is also a renowned speaker and has been featured in documentaries and on radio and television programs across the country, including The Today Show, CBS Sunday Morning, Crossfire, Headlines on Trial and Good Morning America. He has lectured at dozens of universities throughout the country and has testified before congressional and regulatory hearings.
The failed promise
Despite billions of dollars spent by companies attempting to deliver on the GMO promise, over 80 percent of all genetically engineered crops in the US and around the world are only designed to withstand large applications of herbicides. One major problem with these herbicide-tolerant plants is that weeds are getting resistant to the chemicals, making them very difficult to kill. Wide swaths of American farmland are now infested with these "superweeds" on which the chemicals no longer work. As a result, companies are resorting to creating crops resistant to even more toxic herbicides. But of course eventually the weeds will become resistant to these chemicals as well, a scenario that is inherently doomed to failure.
"I don't care what people's view on biotechnology is," Kimbrell said. "I can't imagine anybody who understands anything about agriculture who would not oppose plants that are designed solely to tolerate an increase in the amount of weed-killing chemicals so that crops can be massively sprayed with herbicides. Such plants don't increase yield; they don't increase taste. They don't do anything except allow farmers that convenience. And therefore you have 150 million more pounds of these weedkillers sprayed every year. Then you get superweeds—they're resisting in millions of acres right now.
"Five to eight years hence, current herbicides will no longer work and we'll have weeds that are resistant to them. So it's a very cynical game for chemical companies to sell an increasing number of chemicals until they can no longer sell them."
A similar situation exists with the only other major group of genetically engineered plants, those engineered with insecticides. "Bt [Bacillus thuringiensis, a naturally occurring bacterium that is used as an insecticide] can kill the corn borer in corn, when the corn is genetically modified to include it," said Kimbrell. "In cotton we've seen that there's actually not enough Bt being expressed; it basically vaccinates the pests, because they get a little Bt but not enough to kill them. But I think we are seeing, and will see, more Bt resistance; and it's also a non-specific pesticide, so it kills butterflies, caddisflies, bees—whatever it wants to kill. This should have been understood before it was ever allowed out there. We shouldn't have independent reports cropping up years after a crop is approved saying that butterfly larvae are dying, that there's decimation of caddisflies in streams, and suspicion that bee colony collapse is related to Bt."
What happened? What went so wrong between the initial promises and the actual delivery of GMOs?
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"There's a very good reason we haven't seen these promises come about," Kimbrell explained. "The theory behind genetic engineering, which is the understanding of what a gene is and what a gene is not, has changed dramatically over the last decade. The idea that DNA—and particularly the part of DNA that we call a gene, which is a little above 1.5 percent of DNA—somehow controls traits is now not scientifically valid. Today most major scientists realize that DNA is not an actor, but is acted upon. There are millions of what are called epigenetic markers—various proteins and chemicals—that control how DNA is expressed in the cell. This idea that the DNA contains a trait such as drought resistance, size or nutrition is naive—and it was wrong. That's the reason GMOs have been limited to herbicide resistance or tolerance, because those are relatively easy traits to develop. As a matter of fact, a number of companies have developed herbicide tolerance even without genetic engineering.
"They've tried over a thousand different 'events,' as they call them—a thousand different traits—and those are just the ones that have made the field-trial stage. We don't know how many failures they've had, but they estimate 99.5 or 99.6 percent failure. So genetic engineering is not really even a technology; it's a fiddling with nature, with one little piece of what makes cells and heredity, called DNA—and it's a little piece of DNA."
GMO dangers ignored
Many countries, including those within the European Union, require strict labeling and testing of GMOs. As a result of this labeling, GMO products simply do not sell in most of the world. Here in the United States we do not require labeling or testing of GMOs. How is it that in the US GMOs seem to have had free rein?
"Unlike our European allies, unlike Australia, Japan, much of Africa and others, we have failed in the United States, for 25 years now, to pass a single law on addressing and assessing the environmental or health consequences of GMOs," Kimbrell pointed out. "Every effort has been defeated by the biotechnology industry.
"What we have in this country is a complete regulatory failure with GMOs. We have no mandatory labeling, no mandatory testing. The USDA to this day has never come up with an environmental impact statement on a single GMO plant, though they've promised it over and over again, and court after court has demanded they do so.
"The USDA has illegally approved one GMO after the other and has been disciplined by the courts, by the General Accounting Office, and by the Inspector General.
"The problem is that the USDA has pretty much become a rogue agency and a wholly owned subsidiary of the biotechnology industry, and that's really sad. Former Iowa governor, now US Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, was the biotechnology industrial organizations' 'Governor of the Year' in 2001. He brought his current general counsel, Ramona Romero, directly from DuPont this year. The law firm that Vilsack worked for fought us on GMO cases after he wasn't governor anymore."
Another problem is a combination of outdated legislation and agency disparity when it comes to attempts to enforce it. "You have a brand-new technology without any congressional guidance, which then goes down to the agency level," Kimbrell continued. "If you're EPA, FDA or USDA, you are trying to regulate biotechnology in agriculture under laws that were passed 15 years before anyone knew this technology existed. Here you have corn engineered to contain Bt and they try to regulate it under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. That means they're trying to treat the plant as a pesticide—the whole plant. When they passed that law in 1972 on pesticides, they thought they were regulating chemicals; they didn't think they were regulating plants. In another example, we're now seeing GMO salmon, and the FDA is treating it as an animal drug—the salmon. So what happens here is that because of the failure of Congress to withstand the lobbying of the industry, the entire technology has been shoved down to the agency level. We have about seven different agencies under about twelve different laws that are trying to regulate biotechnology, with laws that were passed long before biotechnology came on line. So it's a system that's built for failure.