Tour de Delta – Unknown’s WIN

To the surprise of many, local rider Morgan Cabot who calls Vancouver home and lives on Commercial Drive was ecstatic with the win on the final day of the Tour de Delta.

She rides for a local club team Glotman Simpson, beating a field that included the alternate for Canada’s Olympic Track team.

If this wasn’t enough of a surprise amateur Steve Fisher of Bellingham shocked a field of top professional cyclists, giving him the win for the men’s road race.

In addition he won the overall title for the 2012 Tour de Delta Omnium.

In conversation with Morgan she told me “The team motto is believe in your dreams and my dream has been to win a Cat 1 race and I never thought I could do it,” said a beaming but somewhat giddy Cabot who has only been racing for three short years on any circuit. “I can’t stop smiling.” In conversation with her, she truly is a breath of fresh air, given what she was up against!

Fisher (22) leaves for Belgium two short days following this race to race with the US under-23 team in Europe.

He recently finished fifth at the recent US under-23 Road Nationals.

While managing an interview for Delta TV, he told me “This is definitely my biggest result ever and it’s an awesome experience just to be racing with these pro’s and much better if you can beat them on a single day. I am a little pleasantly surprised but I knew I was capable so I told my teammates that and they really rode all out for me.” The field he was talking about included Pro Tour riders Christian Meier and Svein Tuft of Orica-GreenEDGE.

He somehow managed to bridge up to an eight-rider breakaway group with two laps left, and then won a sprint to the finish line.

He rides for the Seattle-based Hagens Berman domestic elite team and has his sights on the 2016 Olympics in Rio.

Fisher is taking pre-physical therapy courses at Western Washington University and is in his third year with a Hagens Berman squad. A while back while under a different name a (rather young) Tuft was also on it’s roster.