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The UCI have released its official qualification list for the Men's World Road Race Championships in Lisbon on October 14. Rankings were calculated from August 15, meaning that Portugal lost its 20th spot to Ukraine, after Portuguese riders failed to perform as well as they did last year in their national tour. This means they are allowed only four riders in the road race rather than eight.
The UCI also notes that Lithuania is allowed an extra spot due to having the outgoing World Champion Romans Vainsteins. They should be prepared for a barrage of Latvian email saying "please correct", as Vainsteins is from that country.
18 entered of whom 12 starters 1 Italy 2 Spain 3 Germany 4 France 5 Belgium 6 Netherlands 7 U.S.A. 8 Switzerland 9 Russia 10 Kazakhstan 14 entered of whom 8 starters 11 Denmark 12 Australia 13 Lithuania 14 Latvia* 15 Poland 8 entered of whom 4 starters 16 Slovenia 17 Colombia 18 Austria 19 Great Britain 20 Ukraine 4 entered of whom 2 starters 21 Portugal 22 Czech Republic 23 Estonia 24 Sweden 25 Norway 26 Moldavia 27 Canada 28 Hungary 29 South Africa 30 New Zealand 2 entered of whom 1 starter 31 Venezuela 32 Croatia 33 Argentina 34 Bulgaria 35 Mexico *Latvia may also enter last year's outgoing World Champion Romans Vainsteins
Danish Champion Jakob Storm Piil (CSC-Tiscali) will not participate in the World Championships. After a hard season he wants to slow down already in September, according to web site cyclingworld.dk. Piil is right now one of the dominating riders in the Post Danmark Rundt with a fifth place so far.
31 year old Jørgen Bo Petersen will probably prolong his contract with second division Team Fakta. "It's as good as certain that I will stay by Fakta. The discussion is about whether I will sign for one or two years," he told Danish news agency Ritzau.
Petersen, who won the Tour of Luxembourg as well as the Tour of Saxony this summer, has had offers from several foreign teams. German Team Coast, with compatriots Frank Høj and Lars Michaelsen on the team and Jørgen Markussen in the management had shown interest.
"I have a good position on the team, so why not continue?" said Petersen who has ridden this year with a personal sponsor to pay his salary, since he came to Fakta after their budget was spent. The team agreed to pay all his supporting costs (material, travel etc.) and he will certainly be on a full contract next season.
Fakta are also trying to keep hold of Australian Scott Sunderland, who has benefited from a very solid early season to move up to 68th on the UCI rankings. Like it or not, UCI points are the gold standard for bargaining for riders, as teams want points to ensure their status in the top division. Next year with the restructuring of the team divisions to have a first tier of 10 teams (who can ride in any race), and a second tier with 20 (who get the next best picks), a lot of division II teams are trying to beef up their squads to make the cut.
Sunderland has had interest from several division I and II teams which could guarantee starts in the major races. However, he is also very happy with the organisation and atmosphere at Fakta, which has helped his racing this season (see the Cyclingnews interview with Scott for more details).
Fakta, currently in 11th place in the division II rankings, needs to sign other riders with enough points in order to secure a top 30 place. To do this, the team's budget will need to be expanded, and there are reportedly negotiations in place with other co-sponsors.
Tiscali want to pay less than CSC for sponsoring the CSC-Tiscali team next year since the company's names is only second in the team name. Negotiations has been going on since June and are not yet finalized, writes Danish website cyclingworld.dk.
CSC-Tiscali team management will meet the Danish Cycling Union and Team Danmark, a sponsoring organization for Danish sport in general, after the Tour of Denmark to start a U23 team. The idea is to engage six to eight promising young riders that will ride in the colours of CSC-Tiscali and prepare them for the professional team. Also foreign rider might be signed for this youth squad.
The community of Bekkevoort paid homage to Russian 'locals' Serguei Ivanov (Fassa Bortolo) and Guennadi Mikhailov (Lotto-Adecco) after their efforts in the recent Tour de France. Both riders took a flight in a hot-air balloon after the reception in the town hall on Thursday evening.
Ivanov and Mikhailov have lived for the last few years in Molenbeek-Wersbeek, a village that is part of the Oost-Brabantse community of Bekkevoort. Ivanov won the 9th stage of the Tour, but crashed out in stage 12. Mikhailov finished the race in 59th place.
Luigi Bocciolini, the public prosecutor in Florence, has placed 52 people under formal investigation for violation of the Italian anti-doping law. This is as a result of the narcotics police (NAS) raid in San Remo during the Giro d'Italia on June 6.
Searches carried out in the rooms of each team competing in the race revealed a large quantity of restricted and prohibited medical products, according to Italian police. Initially, 86 people were put under investigation, but following the completion of the analyses of 160 products, this number has been reduced to 52.
The results of the analyses revealed that approximately 10 percent of the products (which were in opened but unlabeled bottles) contained prohibited substances such as insulin and growth hormone. However, no traces of EPO were found.
Here is the list of riders that will face further investigation: Dario Andriotto (Alexia), Simone Borgheresi (Mercatone Uno), Davide Bramati (Mapei), Ermanno Brignoli (Mercatone Uno), Andrea Brugnara (Alexia), Marzio Bruseghin (iBanesto.com), Matteo Carrara (Colpack), Daniel Clavero (Mercatone Uno), Massimo Codol (Lampre), Daniele De Paoli (Mercatone Uno), Giuseppe Di Grande (Caldirola), Vladimir Duma (Panaria), Alberto Elli (Telekom), Giuliano Figueras (Panaria), Paolo Lanfranchi (Mapei), Marco Magnani (Alexia), Mario Manzoni (Alexia), Renzo Mazzoleni (Colpack), Gabriele Missaglia (Lampre), Giampaolo Mondini (Mercatone Uno), Massimiliano Mori (Saeco), Rinaldo Nocentini (Mapei), Pavel Padrnos (Saeco), Perez Cuapio (Panaria), Andrea Peron (Fassa Bortolo), Mariano Piccoli (Lampre), Ivan Quaranta (Alexia), Domenico Romano (Panaria), Fabio Sacchi (Saeco), Paolo Savoldelli (Saeco), Maxmilian Sciandri (Lampre), Edy Serri (Alexia), Roberto Sgambelluri (Telekom), Marcello Siboni (Mercatone Uno), Alessandro Spezialetti (Cantina Tollo), Gian Luca Valoti (Alexia), Antonio Varriale (Panaria), Marco Velo (Mercatone Uno), Marco Villa (Alexia), and Dario Frigo (ex-Fassa Bortolo).
Next Thursday, Luigi Bocciolini will meet those responsible in the NAS to sort out when the hearings will take place, in order to determine the exact source of the seized doping products.
The Bo Hamburger case does not affect the validity of the EPO test is the official point of view of the Danish Sports Federation doping committee in a statement issued Wednesday. The reason for Hamburger's acquittal was the fact that there were two different results of the B sample analysis of which one was under the allowed level of 80 percent. The UCI's EPO test can be used, despite the fact that it isn't yet approved by the International Olympic Committee.
31 year old ex-pro Martin Kryger, riding for and training Team Cycling Ringsted, who tested positive for Nandrolone in June, will be suspended for two years since his B sample also showed traces of Nandrolone, according to Danmarks Radio. Kryger blames a food supplement.
After it was revealed that his B sample was positive he was immediately lifted out from Team Cycling Ringsted by the team management.
This weekend sees the European Mountain Bike Championships in St Wendel, Germany, an important preparation for the European riders prior to the World Championships in Vail, Colorado (September 8-16). Title holders in the cross country discipline are Belgian champion and Olympic silver medallist Filip Meirhaeghe in the men, and French rider Laurence Leboucher in the women. Meirhaeghe's main challenger will be Frenchman Miguel Martinez, current leader in the World Cup. Martinez missed out on the podium in last year's Euro championships due to technical problems, but is certainly in form as his recent win in Leysin indicates.
Others to watch for include Belgian Roel Paulissen, Dutchman Bart Brentjens, and Spaniard Jose Antonio Hermida, all well up in the World Cup standings.
Laurence Leboucher will be coming off a win in Leysin, and will be the hot favourite for the women's race. Also Spanish World Champion Margarita Fullana (winner in Kaprun), Swiss Barbara Blatter (World Cup leader) and Olympic champion Paola Pezzo (Italy) will be ones to watch.
The 2001 Goodwill Games will be held in Brisbane, Australia, with the track events on the newly refurbished Chandler velodrome. The Australian team and prize purse for cycling will be announced later today by Games president and USA Cycling president Mike Plant, as some of the Australia's top cyclists, including Olympic Gold medallist Brett Aitken and Danny Day, will try out the track.
The Goodwill Games will take place on September 1-2.
Belgian coaches José De Cauwer and Ronny Vanmarcke have chosen their team for the European U23 championships in Apremont, France (August 24-26).
Men's road race: Tom Boonen, Stijn Devolder, Kevin De Weert, Jan Kuyckx, Gert Steegmans, Jurgen Van Goolen, Kevin Van Impe and Frederik Willems
Men's time trial: Stijn Devolder, JurgnVan Goolen and Kevin Van Impe.
Women's road race: Corine Hierckens, Veerle Ingels, Nele Van Den Bossche, Sévérine Villance, Evy Van Damme, Ine Wannijn and Laure Werner
Women's time trial: Evy Van Damme and Ine Wannijn
Swedish Espoir ace Kristoffer Ingeby, racing in France for CC Etupes, will miss the European Championships after a crash Thursday. Ingeby broke a bone in his hand and is expected to be away from racing for four weeks, according to Michel Lafis' website Cykelnytt. He has also signed a stagiaire contract with Team Fakta from September 1.
The Mapei-Quick Step team will be present at the HEW Cyclassics-Cup on Sunday, August 19 in Hamburg. Michele Bartoli, recent winner of the G.P. di Camaiore, Paolo Bettini and the Italian Champion Daniele Nardello, who returned to racing only at the Post Danmark Rundt because of some problems with his left elbow. Nardello is back in full flight it seems, as he is poised to finish in second place in the race behind David Millar, with one stage to go.
Other riders of the team managed by Serge Parsani will be Elio Aggiano, Dario Cioni (winner of the Volta a Minho in July), Luca Paolini, Luca Scinto and Patrik Sinkewitz in his home country for his first World Cup Race.
Mapei will also be sending a team to the Joseph Voegeli Memorial pair time trial, consisting of Laszlo Bodrogi/Fabian Cancellara; and Evgueni Petrov/Michael Rogers.
Next week, the team for the Vuelta Ciclista a Burgos (August 20-24) is Elio Aggiano, Triki Beltran, David Cañada Garcia, Oscar Freire, Pedro Horrillo Muñoz, Paolo Lanfranchi, Andrea Tafi, and Charly Wegelius.
Major Races and Events
September 7-29, 2002: Vuelta
a España (GT) - Preview, stage list
May 11-June 2, 2002: Giro
d'Italia (GT) - Preview, stage list, photos
July 6-28, 2002: Tour
de France (GT) - Full preview & official route details
December 8: Superprestige
Rd 5 (Cat. 1) - Erwin Vervecken
November 29-December 4: Six
Days of Noumea (6D) - Sassone/Neuville victorious
November 26-December 1: Six
Days of Zurich (6D) - Day
6 - McGrory/Gilmore/Schnider win
December 1: Melbourne
Cup on Wheels (IM) - Scott Moller, Keirin,
Sprint, Support
races
December 2: Cyclo-cross
World Cup #2 (CDM) - Sven Nijs again
November 24-December 3: Juegos
Deportivos Centroamericanos (JR) - Final results
December 8-9: Frankfurter
Rad-Cross (Cat. 2) - Alex Mudroch, UK
National Trophy Series #4 (Cat. 3) - Roger Hammond, Grote
Prijs Industrie Bosduin - Kalmthout (Cat. 1) - Bart Wellens, Int.
Radquer Obergösgen (Cat. 2) - Björn Rondelez, Trofeo
Mamma e Papa Guerciotti (Cat. 3) - Enrico Franzoi, Premio
Egondo (Cat 3) - David Seco, Irish
cyclo-cross championships - Robin Seymour
Results: local racing
Australia - CycleWest
Promotions Omnium Series #2, Eastern
Suburbs Summer Criterium Series, Carnegie
Caulfield Tuesday criterium, Southern
Cross Junior Track Open & Madison Cup, Manly
Warringah CC, George
Town Track Carnival, Carnegie
Caulfield CC, Randwick
Botany CC, Gold
Coast CATS CC, Caesar's
Illawarra CC, Caesar's
Illawarra (track)
Denmark - Danish
cyclo-cross Post Cup #3
Italy - Gran
Premio Città di Bassano
Luxembourg - GP
De Kopstal
New Zealand - Cyco
Criterium series
Spain - Elorrio
cyclo-cross
USA - Georgia
Cross Series Championship, Chimborazo
Grand Prix cyclo-cross, Boulder
Cross Rd 6, New
Mexico State Cyclo-x Champs, Sorrento
Cyclo-x & California State Champ's, Boulder
Cross Rd 5, Verge
New England series, Northampton
CC Cyclo-cross Championships, Chris
Cross International CycloCross
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