Montrealer James Piccoli captures the 33rd Tour de Beauce

Montrealer James Piccoli overcame a gap of 70 seconds on the final stage through the streets of St-Georges Sunday to win the 33rd Tour de Beauce.
Piccoli won the criterium Saturday in Quebec City to climb into eighth place in the general classification. He made a breakaway on the final lap to finish fourth in the stage and his time was good enough to grab the general classification with an 11-second edge over Britain’s Daniel Whitehouse. American Sergey Tsvetkov, the leader going into the