December 24, 2008 – Gregory Brenes (CRc) BCR-Pizza Hut leads the GC of the Vuelta a Costa Rica after 10 stages. Canada’s Julien Fillion (Can) TourdeQuebec is the top Canadian in 32nd. Stage 9 of the tour was cancelled due to difficulties controlling traffic on the circuit, so the GC remained the same going into Stage 10’s 15km individual time trial, which was won by Jose A. Bonilla (CRc) BCR-Pizza Hut. Pascal Bussieres (Can) TourdeQuebec was the top Canuck finisher in 50th. Phil Cortes (Can) TourdeQuebec is still in second overall in the points classification.

Results (brief)

Stage 10

1. Jose A. Bonilla (CRc) BCR-Pizza Hut 35:36
2. Julio Perez (Mex) Canel’s Turbo-Mayordomo 0:30
3. Henry Raabe (CRc) BCR-Pizza Hut 0:52
4. Gregory Brenes (CRc) BCR-Pizza Hut 1:07
5. Carlos Lopez (Mex) Canel’s Turbo-Mayordomo 1:09
6. Arnold Alcolea (Cub) Mapache 1:42
7. Juan P. Araya (CRc) Dos Pinos-Coopenae 1:55
8. Paulo Vargas (CRc) IBP Pensiones 2:07
9. Federico Ramirez (CRc) BCR-Pizza Hut 2:18
10. Manuel Rodas (Gua) Guatemala National Team 2:36

50. Pascal Bussieres (Can) TourdeQuebec 8:28
51. Julien Filion (Can) TourdeQuebec 8:38
57. Jean Lachance (Can) TourdeQuebec 9:14
58. Vincent Veilleux (Can) TourdeQuebec 9:50

Sprints Classification after Stage 10

1. Adonis Cardoso (Cub) Mapache 26 points
2. Phil Cortes (Can) TourdeQuebec 23
3. Pedro Sibila (Cub) Mapache 16

GC after Stage 10

1. Gregory Brenes (CRc) BCR-Pizza Hut 25:05:17
2. Arnold Alcolea (Cub) Mapache 1:38
3. Jose A. Bonilla (CRc) BCR-Pizza Hut 2:03
4. Marconi Duran (CRc) Dos Pinos-Coopenae 5:39
5. Julio Perez (Mex) Canel’s Turbo-Mayordomo 6:12
6. Paulo Vargas (CRc) IBP Pensiones 9:22
7. Marco Salas (CRc) Dos Pinos-Coopenae 10:09
8. Ernesto Hernandez (CRc) IBP Pensiones 11:06
9. Federico Ramirez (CRc) BCR-Pizza Hut 11:34
10. Raul Granjel (Cub) Mapache 11:38

32. Julien Filion (Can) TourdeQuebec 35:19
37. Pascal Bussieres (Can) TourdeQuebec 50:02
39. Phil Cortes (Can) TourdeQuebec 50:26
49. Jean Lachance (Can) TourdeQuebec 1:16:22
63. Vincent Veilleux (Can) TourdeQuebec 2:41:45