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The parcours for the 2002 Giro d'Italia will be announced on November 17 in Milan. There will be a live transmission from the starting town Groningen in the Netherlands to the press conference in Milan.
World Cup winner Erik Dekker will ride the prologue of the 2002 race live with a camera on his bike. He will do the prologue with a police escort, because they don't want to close the inner part of Groningen to all traffic.
The Giro 2002 starts in the Netherlands and goes via Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and France to Italy.
The Dutch town of Valkenburg sent a delegation to last week's Tour de France presentation in Paris, seeking to become a candidate to host a stage of the race in the next few years. After a meeting with Tour directory Jean-Marie Leblanc, two of the delegates, Gies Biemans and John Wauben felt confident that Valkenburg would be part of the Tour in 2004.
Previously it has been reported that nearby Liege will probably host the prologue of the 2004 Tour, meaning that Valkenburg is in a perfect position to welcome one of the early stages. The town was last visited by the Tour in 1992, when a stage finished there.
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Italian frame building guru Ernesto Colnago was in attendance at the last Italian elite race of the season, theCoppa d'Inverno-26th GP Pollo Brianzolo. The race was won by Zoccorinese Vellutex Palazzago rider and U23 World Champion Yaroslav Popovych, on a Colnago bike of course. Popovych's teammates Giampaolo Caruso (2nd in the World's) and Alberto Loddo (very successful all season) were very proud to meet their benefactor, as the photo on the right shows.
A former amateur cyclist and Parisian policeman has been put under investigation for the traffic of illegal drugs, according to AFP news agency. Reims magistrate Odile Madrolle is in charge of the affair involving Phillipe Boyer, from the Champagne-Ardenne region.
The affair started in 1999 when a 37 year old rider became ill after an overdose of amphetamines. The hospital in Reims found that a liquid amphetamine had been taken, and the manufacturer of the product requested that police look into the case to prevent damage to the company's image.
The enquiry revealed that the supplier of the illegal substances was from the Benelux area. Following this in June 2000, seven local amateur riders, aged 20 to 50, were charged by the police. Their names were not released, but it is alleged that they were involved in a drug trafficking ring for amphetamines, corticoids, cocaine and heroin amongst other products.
Phillipe Boyer became the eighth person to be embroiled when he was apprehended in Paris approximately 2 weeks ago.
The Lotto-Adecco team is essentially complete for next season, although it is not known yet whether Christophe Sercu's squad will be 24 or 25 riders. The reason being that Dane Tayeb Braikia is yet to decide if he will remain. He does have a contract, but he hasn't raced since his bad fall in the Tour of Murcia this year. If Braikia chooses not to stay, Sercu says that there will be no extra place for an additional rider.
Mario Aerts (Bel)
Frederic Amorison (Bel)
Serge Baguet (Bel)
Christophe Brandt (Bel)
Hans De Clercq (Bel)
Christophe Detilloux (Bel)
Glenn D'Hollander (Bel)
Niko Eeckhout (Bel)
Gorik Gardeyn (Bel)
Thierry Marichal (Bel)
Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus)
Tom Stremersch (Bel)
Andrei Tchmil (Bel)
Kurt Van De Wouwer (Bel)
Stefan Van Dijk (Ned)
Fulco Van Gulik (Ned)
Kevin Van Impe (Bel)
Kurt Van Lancker (Bel)
Peter Van Petegem (Bel)
Wesley Van Speybroeck (Bel)
Ief Verbrugghe (Bel)
Rik Verbrugghe (Bel)
Stive Vermaut (Bel)
Aart Vierhouten (Ned)
Tayeb Braikia (Den)
De Standaard reports that Domo-Farm Frites may find a new sponsor for next season from the oil-rich country of Qatar. The team's bike sponsor and Virenque guarantor Eddy Merckx recently returned from the country, saying that there was a "ninety percent chance" that a sponsor would be found from Qatar, however he couldn't reveal a name.
Domo manager Patrick Lefevere will fly to Qatar in November to discuss potential deals. Meanwhile, the team is trying to get a start in the first Tour of Qatar, a five day race which will be organised by the Sociètè du Tour de France.
"15 teams of eight men are planned for the race," said Merckx. "But I heard that there were 18 candidates. Lance Armstrong also feels something for this tour in January."
The recent renewals of Andy Vidts and Jurgen Guns have meant that the Vlaanderen-T-Interim team has a full complement of 20 riders for 2002. The team is quite young, with an average age of just 24 with half the riders being under 23.
New signings are Belgians Arne Daelmans, Stijn Devolder, Jan Kuyckx, Jurgen Vandewalle, Wim Vanhuffel, Ruud Verbakel, Kipcho Volckaerts and Rudolf Wenzel (RSA). Those staying include Ben Berden, Yoeri Beyens, Geoffrey Demeyere, Kris Gerits, Jurgen Guns, Jehudi Schoonacker, Nico Sijmens, Wesley Theunis, Danny Van Capellen, James Van Landschoot, Jan Verstraeten and Andy Vidts.
Riders leaving the team include Tom Stremersch (to Lotto-Adecco), Bjorn Leukemans and Tom Vannoppen (both to Collstrop-Palmans) and Matthew Gilmore (to Mapei).
Roger Swerts remains as team leader, with Jean-Pierre Heynderickx as directeur sportif. Peter Van den Abeele will be the team's cyclo-cross coach as well as acting as the assistant directeur sportif for the women's team. The manager is Fons Leroy.
German sprinter Sven Teutenberg (Festina) has signed for Swiss team Phonak for next season. The 29 year old has a one year contract, and will be one of 22 riders in the team. He has been a professional since late 1994 and has 19 wins.
Cycling journalists are getting ready to race again. Tuesday October 30 there is the 7th annual Saeco Press Trophy, the traditional end of season get together for the cycling press organised by the Saeco Macchine per Caffe team.
The journalists will race on a circuit of 2.3 km which has to be covered six times for a total of 13.8 km. Former professional Davide Cassani who is now a TV commentator is the rider to beat. As well as numerous wins as a professional, he also won the Saeco Press Trophy last year.
As usual the race will take place in the Appenine hills between Bologna and Florence at the home of the Saeco company in the village of Gaggio Montano. Everybody will meet up at 12:00 with the race starting at 2:45.
As ever the racing spirit of the event will combine with that of an air of enjoyment and relaxation after a long season. There are those who will take part in the race and many others who will just watch from the side of the road. These include the experienced Gino Sala from the L'Unità newspaper who also writes a few lines about the day and entertains everybody during the evening after the Press Trophy race.
1994: Eugenio Capodacqua (Repubblica)
1995: Francesco Moser (La Gazzetta dello Sport)
1996: Not contested
1997: Claudio Bagni (La Gazzetta dello Sport)
1998: Stefano Oldrati (Ciclismo)
1999: Stefano Oldrati (Ciclismo)
2000: Davide Cassani (Rai Sport)
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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