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Scott UpdateCees Priem initially said he hadn't hit Scott. Thousands of TV viewers knew otherwise. It is hard to determine what happened. Van Petegem fell back to the TVM car to collect a bidon and Scott was riding just in front of him and slightly to his right. They were the last two wheels in the 2nd group. Van P collected his bottle from Priem and stuffed it back in his jersey while riding no hands (usual practice). The camera motor bike just to Van P's left and all (car, bikes and riders in very tight).It looked as if Priem drove to the right ever so slightly and, in doing so, clipped the back of Scotty's wheel which caused him to swerve hard to the left and catch Van Petergem amidships. Van P managed to stay upright so Scotty was the only one to fall and a following car just (repeat just) avoided running him over as he lay in the middle of the road. It is difficult to know how bad he is at present. I will keep everyone informed. You can send best wishes to Scott to this email address: Neilstorey@aol.com. Neil will pass them on. Wim's Spring Analysis of Road RacingWim van Rossum has provided this Spring Analysis of Road Racing exclusive to www.cyclingnews.com. For the data freaks it is stupendous. Hope you enjoy it.Wim writes: I have based the following analysis on the UCI-points obtained - by riders and teams - up to and including the 27th April as far as they are known to me (Thanks to the UCI for their help!). I made a division between UCI-points obtained in the 5 World Cup Races (= W.C.); the 4 "great Tours" (Paris-Nice, Tirreno-Adriatico; Setmana Catalana and Vuelta el Pais Vasco = G.T.) and all others races (= Oth). As the figures show, Michele Bartoli (Asics) is also the largest point scorer in the World Cup events. He is around 170 points ahead of second-ranked Franco Ballerini (Mapei) and number 3 Andrei Tchmil (Lotto). Looking to the team ranking the Mapei-Bricobi team has dominated the season to date leading the second-placed team, Rabobank by more than 600 points, while no.3 Casino has only half the points of Mapei. For the "Great Tours" we see a completely different picture, with the dominant team being ONCE-Deutsche Bank and their riders. They are in first place in the Team-ranking with an advantage of 670 points over Rabobank in second position. ONCE riders Laurent Jalabert and Inigo Cuesta Lopez are leading the individual rankings followed by Festina rider Alex Zülle (ex-ONCE!). The French team Casino is dominating the "Other Races" category. As a team they obtained just over 1000 more UCI-points than the Mapei-Bricobi, who are next best. In the individual ranking of the "other races", the Casino riders occupy third (Jaan Kirsipuu), fourth (Bo Hamburger), fifth (Alberto Elli) and sixth-place (Rodolfo Massi). Michele Bartoli (Asics) obtained the most UCI-points in this category, followed by Andrei Tchmil (Lotto) In the Total Individual Spring Rankings Michele Bartoli (Italy, Asics) has a narrow lead of 16 points over the leader of the UCI-ranking Laurent Jalabert (France, ONCE). Two Belgians Andrei Tchmil (Lotto) and Franck VandenBroucke (Mapei) have more than 100 points. In the Total Team Spring Rankings Casino is the leader with some 500 UCI-points more than the Mapei-Bricobi (which is leading the UCI rankings overall). Remember the spring rankings are not the same thing as the UCI rankings published by the UCI itself. WMore than 1000 UCI-points below Casino are the teams of ONCE, Festina-Lotus and Rabobank. Telekom-ARD, which was the number 3 team last year, is clearly the disappointing team to date this year. They are currently in 10th place and more than 50% of their points are due to the efforts of Erik Zabel. Individual Rankings in World Cup Events by UCI points 1. Michele Bartoli (Ita) Asics 504 2. Franco Ballerini (Ita) Mapei 331 3. Andrei Tchmil (Bel) Lotto 328 4. Emmanuel Magnien (Fra) Française des Jeux 313 5. Stefano Zanini (Ita) Mapei 279 6. Rolf Jaermann (Swi) Casino 275 7. Erik Zabel (Ger) Telekom 250 8. Johan Museeuw (Bel) Mapei 245 9. Maarten den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 229 10. Frédéric Moncassin (Fra) Gan 221 11. Peter van Petegem (Bel) TVM 212 12. Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 209 13. Laurent Jalabert (Fra) ONCE 178 14. Wilfried Peeters (Bel) Mapei 173 15. Andrea Tafi (Ita) Mapei 165 Team Rankings in World Cup Events by UCI points (all riders 1. Mapei- Bricobi 1426 2. Rabobank 800 3. Casino 722 4. La Française des Jeux 637 5. Asics-CGA 597 6. Lotto-Mobistar 498 7. Gan 493 8. Festina-Lotus 404 9. TVM-Farm Frites 366 10. Telekom-ARD 320
Individual Rankings in the Great Tours by UCI points 1. Laurent Jalabert (Fra) ONCE 651 2. Inigo Cuesta Lopez (Spa) ONCE 413 3. Alex Zülle (Swi) Festina 409 4. Frank Vandenbroucke (Bel) Mapei 375 5. Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 348 6. Rolf Jaermann (Swi) Casino 333 7. Rodolfo Massi (Ita) Casino 288 8. Mikel Zarrabeitia (Spa) ONCE 269 9. Erik Zabel (Ger) Telekom 211 10. Rolf Sörensen (Den) Rabobank 209 11. Franco Ballerini (Ita) Mapei 180 12. Marcelino Garcia Alonso (Spa) ONCE 172 13. Roberto Heras Hernandez (Spa) Kelme 150 14. Jens Heppner (Ger) Telekom 142 15. Peter Luttenberger (Aut) Rabobank 141 Team Rankings in the Great Tours by UCI points (all riders 1. ONCE-Deutsche Bank 1570 2. Rabobank 899 3. Casino 896 4. Mapei-Bricobi 880 5. Festina-Lotus 864 6. Telekom-ARD 511 7. Banesto 299 8. Saeco-Cannondale 294 9. Kelme-Costa Blanca 243 10. Scrigno-Gaerne 211 Individual Rankings in Other Events by UCI points 1. Michele Bartoli (Ita) Asics 516 2. Andrei Tchmil (Bel) Lotto 453 3. Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Casino 406 4. Bo Hamburger (Den) Casino 384 5. Alberto Elli (Ita) Casino 382 6. Rodolfo Massi (Ita) Casino 357 7. Franck VandenBroucke (Bel) Mapei 341 8. Peter van Petegem (Bel) TVM 305 9. Servais Knaven (Ned) TVM 295 10. Johan Museeuw (Bel) Mapei 279 11. Pascal Chanteur (Fra) Casino 273 12. Emmanuel Magnien (Fra) Française des Jeux 250 13. Leon van Bon (Ned) Rabobank 235 14. Viatcheslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal 207 15. Aitor Garmendia (Spa) Banesto 204 15. Mirko Celestino (Ita) Team Polti 204 Team Rankings in Other Events by UCI points (all riders 1. Casino 2363 2. Mapei-Bricobi 1339 3. Festina-Lotus 1333 4. TVM-Farm Frites 1178 5. Lotto-Mobistar 1022 6. Rabobank 863 7. ONCE-Deutsche Bank 861 8. Team Polti 756 9. Asics-CGA 715 10. Banesto 711 Total Individual Rankings for Spring by UCI Points Ranking in: UCI-pts W.C. G.T. Oth. 1. Michele Bartoli (Ita) Asics 1020 1 - 1 2. Laurent Jalabert (Fra) ONCE 1004 13 1 22 3. Andrei Tchmil (Bel) Lotto 886 3 19 2 4. Frank VandenBroucke (Bel) Mapei 818 27 4 7 5. Rodolfo Massi (Ita) Casino 775 20 7 6 6. Erik Zabel (Ger) Telekom 657 7 9 18 7. Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 651 12 5 57 8. Rolf Jaermann (Swi) Casino 630 6 6 250 9. Emmanuel Magnien (Fra) Franç. des Jeux 616 4 42 12 10. Bo Hamburger (Den) Casino 585 17 47 4 11. Alberto Elli (Ita) Casino 558 21 39 5 12. Johan Museeuw (Bel) Mapei 534 8 112 10 13. Peter van Petegem (Bel) TVM 517 11 - 8 14. Franco Ballerini (Ita) Mapei 516 2 11 395 15. Inigo Cuesta Lopez (Spa) ONCE 490 - 2 73 16. Rolf Sörensen (Den) Rabobank 417 23 10 54 17. Alex Zülle (Swi) Festina 414 147 3 - 18. Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Casino 411 147 - 3 19. Leon van Bon (Ned) Rabobank 394 16 - 13 20. Servais Knaven (Ned) TVM 367 71 39 9 21. Viatcheslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal 345 29 53 14 22. Mikel Zarrabeitia (Spa) ONCE 338 97 8 108 23. Stefano Zanini (Ita) Mapei 330 5 95 168 24. Frédéric Moncassin (Fra) Gan 328 10 53 88 25. Aitor Garmendia (Spa) Banesto 319 147 18 15 26. Mirko Celestino (Ita) Polti 314 24 - 15 27. Tom Steels (Bel) Mapei 308 95 25 17 28. Maarten den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 307 9 - 72 28. Marcelino Garcia Alonso (Spa) ONCE 307 147 12 34 30. Laurent Dufaux (Swi) Festina 307.75 18 24 115 Total Spring Rankings for Teams by UCI Points
(all riders) 5/2/98 UCI-pts W.C. G.T. Oth. 1. Casino 7 4170 3 3 1 2. Mapei-Bricobi 1 3645 1 4 2 3. ONCE-Deutsche Bank 4 2659 13 1 7 4. Festina-Lotus 2 2622.5 8 5 3 5. Rabobank 5 2562 2 2 6 6. TVM-Farm Frites 8 1820 9 11 4 7. Lotto-Mobistar 12 1703 6 13 5 8. Asics-CGA 15 1423 5 19 9 9. La Française des Jeux 11 1339 4 22 14 10. Team Polti 13 1256 12 15 8 11. Telekom-ARD 3 1244 10 6 18 12. Banesto 6 1082 23 7 10 13. Saeco-Cannondale 10 1069 14 8 11 14. Gan 8 1040 7 20 19 15. Cofidis 14 977 11 12 16 As we can see the whole field is completely dominated by the riders from the Division-I teams. Where are the riders of the Division-II teams? Best 10 Individual Riders in Division II Teams by UCI Points 43. Markus Zberg (Swi) Post Swiss Team 192 46. Pascal Lino (Fra) Big Mat 180 50. Dario Pieri (Ita) Scrigno 178 53. Davide Casarotto (Ita) Scrigno 169 53. Mario Manzoni (Ita) Mobilvetta 169 60. Marco Serpellini (Ita) Brescialat 155 63. Filippo Casagrande (Ita) Scrigno 152 82. Claudio Chiappucci (Ita) Ros Mary 126 84. Scott Sunderland (Aus) Palmans 123 92. Juris Silovs (Lat) Home Jack & Jones 112 And the Best 8 Teams:
17. Scrigno-Gaerne 855 24. Big Mat-Auber'93 424 25. Home Jack and Jones 333 26. Palmans-Ideal 311 27. Amore e Vita-ForzAcore 309 28. Post Swiss Team 290 29. Brescialat-Liquigas 279 30. Ros Mary-Amica Chips 259 If you want more details/information, please e-mail Wim van Rossum Vélo Magazine SurveyRémi Spilliaert who lives in Iceland (!) writes that the French newspaper Vélo Magazine (april 98) has conducted a survey and asked the top 100 UCI riders about their favourite World Cup Classic. More than one third voted for Liège-Bastogne-Liège.Votes: Liège-Bastogne-Liège - 34% Bartoli, Zulle, Zberg, Rebellin, Dufaux, Boardman, Elli, Pantani, Brochard, Gianetti, Roux, Vasseur, Leblanc, Bolts, Boogerd, Herve, Heulot, Etxebarria, De Las Cuevas, Gontchenkov, Camenzind, Jimenez, Hamburger, Noe, Henn, DiGrande, Meinert, Donati, Aldag, Meier, Totschnig, Massi, Guerini, Piccoli. Milan-San Remo - 19% Jalabert, Ullrich, Zabel, Casagrande, Museeuw, Cipollini, Svorada, Chiapucci, Sciandri, Steels, Minali, Petito, Clavero, Ferrigato, Conte, Guidi, Aus, C. Moreau. Paris-Roubaix - 16% Tchmil. Tafi, Virenque, Bortolami, Moncassin, Blijlevens, Kirsipuu, Magnien, Vogels, Agnolutto, Guesdon, Gontchar, Casrotto, Mazzanti, Knaven, Peeters. Tour des Flandres - 13% Ekimov, Sorensen, VanBon, Vandenbroucke, Van Petegem Barthe, Planckaert, Domingez, Wust, Michaelsen, Serrano, Simon, Den Bakker. Tour de Lombardie - 12% Tonkov, Escartin, Gotti, Belli, Faresin, Nardello, Garmendia, Garcia Casas, Barbero, Lanfranchi, Blanco, Andersson. Magnusson, Olano, Riis and Mauri did not vote. Zarrabeitia and Heras voted for la Classica San Sebastian which did not belong to the list submitted. You can visit Remi's cycling page (in French) at http://www.raunvis.hi.is/~remi/velo.html Matt White UpdateWe recently reported that Matt White had been suspended for 2 months following a positive test for a banned drug - an asthma drug. The actual details are that he was suspended from funding from the Olympic Athletes Program in Australia but he reports that he never got any money from them anyway! The positive test relates to the fact that while he is an asthmatic, he didn't have his certificate with him at the time of the test during the Tour of Tasmania. So in technical terms he was in breach of UCI rules.On a brighter note, Matt has confirmed that both he and Peter Rogers will be riding the Giro this year. The Amore e Vita boss had originally given them a limited schedule of races, but once they had shown their lead-out potential for Magnussen in a Swiss race recently, and then again at Niedersachsen the manager changed the schedule quick-smart. As of last Wednesday, they had 15 race days before the start of the Giro. Beverly, England, Procam 2 Day, April 25-26, 260 kms:Final GC 1. Jon Clay (GB) Brite RT 0.00 2. Matt Stephens (GB) Harrods 0.51 3. Brian Smith (GB) Clarke Contracts 0.57 4. Rob R. Jones (GB) Linda McCartney RT 1.05 5. David Rand (GB) PDM Sports 1.12 6. Matt Illingworth (GB) Brite RT 1.37 7. John Tanner (GB) Brite RT 2.06 8. Kevin Dawson (GB) Ambrosia 2.06 9. Joe Bayfield (GB) Harrods 2.08 10. Jeff Wright (GB) Edinburgh 2.16From Paul Curran. News from DenmarkKim Plesner Frederiksen writes that Jens Veggerby will ride his first road race of the season in Fridays Rund um den Henninger Turm.Acceptcard Pro Cycling will have the following 8 riders at the race: Jens Veggerby, Soren Petersen, Björnar Vestöl (NOR), Morten Sonne, Stig Guldbaek, Jimmi Madsen, Tayeb Braikia, Jakob Piil. I haven't yet got the official 8 riders from Team home Jack and Jones, and probably won't get them until the team and Brian Holm has sorted out their "conflict" in a meeting Tuesday or Wednesday. Rolf will ride for the Rabobank team. Lotto-Mobistar Team for Tour de FranceThis is the pre-selection of the Belgian team Lotto - Mobistar for the Tour of France:Mario Aerts, Peter Farazijn, Joona Laukka, Laurent Madouas, Chris Peers, Jo Planckaert, Andrei Tchmil, Andrei Teteriuk, Kurt Van de Wouwer, Paul Van Hyfte, Geert Verheyen and Rik Verbrugghe. 9 riders per team may start in the Tour. US National Road Rankings UpdateWomen: Place Points Name Home 1. 273 Clara Hughes Saturn Hamilton Ont. Canada 2. 245 Nicole Freedman Shaklee Palo Alto Calif. 3. 198 Linda Jackson Saeco-Timex Napean Ont. Canada 4. 181 Karen Kurreck Saturn Cupertino Calif. 5. 177 Susy Pryde Saeco-Timex Auckland New Zealand 6. 163 Marie Holjer Ralph’s-Klein Sweden 7. 136 Mari Holden Greenery Hawk Colorado Springs Colo. 8. 125 Tina Mayolo PowerBar Athens Ga. 9. 117 Leigh Hobson Shaklee Kitchener Ont. Canada 10. 116 Pam Schuster Saeco-Timex Northridge Calif. 11. 115 Julie Hanson Saturn Boulder Colo. 12. 106 Laura Van Gilder Navigators Cresco Pa. 13. 105 Cheryl Binney Ralph's-Klein Los Angeles Calif. 14. 104 Tammy Jacques Schwinn-Toyota Carbondale Colo. 15. 99 Dede Demet Saturn Boulder Colo. 16. 90 Alison Sydor Volvo-Cannondale N.Vancouver B.C. Canada 17. 90 Jennifer Evans Team EDS Austin Texas 18. 89 Jeanne Golay Schwinn Paramount Glenwood Springs Colo. 19. 88 Elizabeth Emery Saturn New York N.Y. 20. 86 Nicole Reinhart Shaklee Portland Ore. 21. 81 Annette Kamm Fuji Racing Team Asheville N.C. 22. 79 Joan Wilson Ralph's-Klein Palo Alto Calif. 23. 79 Louisa Jenkins Shaklee Boulder Colo. 24. 74 Ward Griffiths Safeway-Saturn Seattle Wash. 25. 72 Alison Dunlap Team GT Colorado Springs Colo. 26. 66 Brenda Brashears PowerBar Grants Pass Ore. 27. 61 Emily Robbins Celestial Seasonings Wauwatosa Wis. 28. 57 Aleka Skouras unattached Los Altos Calif. 29. 56 Julie Young Fanini Auburn Calif. 30. 52 Karen Bliss Livingston Saturn Gainesville Fla. 31. 48 Kendra Wenzel Saeco-Timex McKenzie Bridge Ore. 32. 44 Aileen Loe Start to Finish Arroyo Grande Calif. 33. 38 Cybil Diguistini Canadian National Victoria B.C. Canada 34. 37 Sandra Kolb Pacific Velo Aiea Hawaii 35. 34 Laura Mullen Safeway-Saturn-Saturn Campbell Calif. 36. 34 Stacey Peters LeMond-Bike Gallery Portland Ore. 37. 32 Sue Palmer Haro Hamilton Ont. Canada 38. 30 Kim Erdoes PowerBar Oklahoma City Okla. 39. 30 Andrea Ratkovic-Bowman Pedalers Norman Okla. 40. 30 Kathleen Gleason Potomac Chapel Hill N.C. Teams: 1. 736 Saturn 2. 544 Saeco-Timex 3. 543 Shaklee 4. 270 Ralph's-Klein 5. 260 PowerBar 6. 141 Safeway-Saturn Teams are ranked based on the totals of their top five riders. Teams must have a minimum of three riders scoring points to be ranked. Men:Place Points Name Home 1. 474 Julian Dean Mercury Hamilton New Zealand 2. 352 Gord Fraser Mercury Ottawa Ont. Canada 3. 271 Kirk Willett Mercury Pullman Wash. 4. 222 Trent Klasna Navigators Pine Valley Calif 5. 183 Jonathan Vaughters U.S. Postal Service Englewood Colo 6. 165 Mike McCarthy Saturn New York N.Y 7. 137 Fred Rodriguez Saturn Piedmont Calif 8. 131 Eric Wohlberg Shaklee Burlington Ont. Canada 9. 130 John Peters Mercury Santa Rosa Calif 10. 123 Eddy Gragus OilMe Fort Collins Colo 11. 113 Derek Bouchard-Hall Shaklee Menlo Park Calif 12. 110 Cadel Evans Volvo-Cannondale Plenty Vic. Australia 13. 104 Michael Sayers Mercury Sacramento Calif. 14. 96 Thurlow Rogers Mercury Van Nuys Calif. 15. 90 Levi Leipheimer Saturn Windsor Calif. 16. 90 Roberto Gaggioli OilMe Vinci Italy 17. 86 Frank McCormack Saturn Leicester Mass. 18. 85 Chris Wherry Saturn Boulder Colo. 19. 85 Chann McRae Saturn Austin Texas 20. 83 Norm Alvis Saturn Colorado Springs Colo. 21. 76 George Hincapie U.S. Postal Service Charlotte N.C. 22. 75 Brian Walton Saturn N. Delta B.C. Canada 23. 74 Scott Fortner Saturn Littleton Colo. 24. 70 Marty Jemison U.S. Postal Service Salt Lake City Utah 25. 63 Jim Copeland Colorado Cyclist Colorado Springs Colo. 26. 62 Colby Pearce Colorado Cyclist Boulder Colo. 27. 62 Olin Bakke Shaklee Sierra Madre Calif. 28. 60 Tyler Hamilton U.S. Postal Service Brookline Mass. 29. 60 Bart Bowen Saturn Albuquerque N.M. 30. 60 Greg Randolph Team GT Durango Colo. 31. 57 Antonio Cruz Nutra Fig Sparks Nev. 32. 55 Roy Knickman Mercury Colorado Springs Colo. 33. 55 Scott Moninger Navigators Boulder Colo. 34. 55 Ron Schmeer Nutra Fig Seattle Wash. 35. 54 Robbie Ventura Navigators Gurnee Ill. 36. 50 Chad Gerlach OilMe W. Sacramento Calif. 37. 48 Steve Larsen Schwinn-Toyota Bend Ore. 38. 48 Mark McCormack Saturn N. Easton Mass. 39. 45 Paul Martin Navigators N. Royalton Ohio 40. 45 Steve Sevener Wisconsin Ginseng Athens Ga. Teams: Rank Total Team 1. 1331 Mercury 2. 563 Saturn 3. 401 Navigators 4. 394 United States Postal Service 5. 346 Shaklee 6. 281 OilMe 7. 188 Nutra Fig 8. 176 Colorado Cyclist 9. 65 Wisconsin Ginseng 10. 50 Ikon-Lexus |