News for November 6, 1999
Teams and contractsLuxembourg Courtesy of Gérard Schiltz 23-year old Luxembourg rider Christian Poos, who was riding for the French Elite-2 Team Nogent sur Oise last year has signed a contract with the Post Swiss Team. He has signed for the next two years. Poos was the 1997 winner of Liege-Bastogne-Liege for Under 23s. Netherlands Courtesy of Dick Soepenberg The Dutch division II team, Batavus-Bankgiroloterij-Big Star will have the following riders on its roster for next year: Johan Bruinsma Cees Jeurissen Rudie Kemna Rik Reinerink Paul van Schalen Jan van Velzen New signings: Wim van de Meulenhof Lars Teutenberg Wim Omloop Norway Courtesy of Tomas Nilsson Norwegian plans to form a minor professional team, Vestfold Elite, will not be carried out and the team will dissolve after a major sponsor backed out. A new attempt will be made for 2001. The riders will split to other Norwegian clubs and two riders, Lennart Slinning and Řyvind Lillehagen are pondering foreign amateur team offers. Nations rankings - per capita Courtesy of Skye Legon Following Tomas Nilsson's nations ranking analysis in yesterday's news (note: HJ&J are safely into division one next year), Skye Legon from Switzerland redid the calculations based on UCI points per capita. Here is the surprising analysis: Rank UCI rank Country UCI Points Pop. (Jul 99) Pts/million 1 15 Estonia 1,925.5 1 408 523 1,367.0 2 6 Switzerland 7,045.0 7,275,467 968.3 3 2 Belgium 9,560.5 10,182,034 939.0 4 13 Latvia 2,114.0 2,353,874 898.1 5 9 Denmark 4,063.0 5,356,845 758.5 6 23 Slovenia 1,081.5 1,970,570 548.8 7 32 Luxembourg 231.0 429 080 538.4 8 4 Netherlands 7,244.5 15,807,641 458.3 9 21 Lithuania 1,314.0 3,584,966 366.5 10 3 Spain 8,711.0 39,167,744 222.4 11 16 Sweden 1,791.8 8,911,296 201.1 12 1 Italy 11,238.0 56,735,130 198.1 13 20 Austria 1,468.0 8,139,299 180.4 14 26 New Zealand 648.0 3,662,265 176.9 15 60 Liechtenstein 5.0 32 057 156.0 16 25 Norway 680.8 4,438,547 153.4 17 11 Kazakhstan 2 339.5 16,824,825 139.1 18 5 France 7 206.5 58,978,172 122.2 19 22 Czech Republic 1 248.0 10,280,513 121.4 20 24 Portugal 1 043.0 9,918,040 105.2 21 14 Australia 1 939.0 18,783,551 103.2 22 7 Germany 5 746.3 82,087,361 70.0 23 12 Poland 2 258.0 38,608,929 58.5 24 30 Slovakia 290.0 5,396,193 53.7 25 34 Moldavia 224.5 4,460,838 50.3 26 33 Finland 225.0 5,158,372 43.6 27 17 Colombia 1 692.0 39,309,422 43.0 28 40 Ireland 153.0 3,632,944 42.1 29 43 Uruguay 113.0 3,308,523 34.2 30 19 Ukraine 1,509.0 49,811,174 30.3 31 18 Great Britain 1,542.5 59,113,439 26.1 32 10 Russia 3,489.0 146,393,569 23.8 33 28 Venezuela 542.0 23,203,466 23.4 34 48 Croatia 98.5 4,676,865 21.1 35 27 Canada 585.0 31,006,347 18.9 36 8 USA 4,475.0 272,639,608 16.4 37 44 Hong Kong 112.0 6,847,125 16.4 38 37 Yugoslavia 158.0 11,206,847 14.1 39 39 Cuba 154.0 11,096,395 13.9 40 42 Hungary 114.0 10,186,372 11.2 41 38 Chile 155.0 14,973,843 10.4 42 45 Zimbabwe 101.0 11,163,160 9.0 43 56 Kirghyzstan 39.0 4,546,055 8.6 44 46 Burkina Faso 99.0 11,575,898 8.6 45 51 Belarus 83.0 10,401,784 8.0 46 49 Guatemala 92.0 12,335,580 7.5 47 29 South Africa 306.0 43,426,386 7.0 48 55 Dominican Republic 47.0 8,129,734 5.8 49 59 Trinidad & Tobago 6.0 1,102,096 5.4 50 46 Uzbekistan 99.0 24,102,473 4.1 51 58 Armenia 13.0 3,409,234 3.8 52 31 Egypt 235.0 67,273,906 3.5 53 35 Iran 199.0 65,179,752 3.1 54 52 Peru 80.0 26,624,582 3.0 55 53 Algeria 78.0 31,133,486 2.5 56 50 Argentina 86.0 36,737,664 2.3 57 36 Mexico 163.0 100,294,036 1.6 58 57 Syria 19.0 17,213,871 1.1 59 61 Costa Rica 4.0 3,674,490 1.1 60 41 Japan 122.0 126,182,077 1.0 61 61 Georgia 4.0 5,066,499 0.8 62 54 Brazil 51.0 171,853,126 0.3 |