CONTENTS
  1. Hofbrau Cup, 19-23 July 95
  2. UCI rankings after '95 Tour de France
  3. Post-Tour Criteriums (1)
  4. Ruminations on Age and the Tour

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1. Hofbrau Cup, 19-23 July 95
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Stage 1:
 * Neutralised in homage to Fabio Casartelli

Stage 2

	1. Andreas Kappes (Ger, Refin) 93.5km in 2.3.21
	2. Ulrich (Ger, Telekom)
	3. Faresin (It, Lampre)                  same time
	4. Scinto (It, MG)                          +14 sec

Stage 3	

        1. Gianni Faresin (It, Lampre) 188.3km in 4.44.36
	2. Della Santa (It, Mapei)                same time
	3. Meinert (Den, TVM)                         +08 sec
	4. Pistore (It, Polti)                        +19 sec
	5. Svorada (Slov, Lampre)                    2.45

Stage 4	Team time trial

	1. MG          58.59
	2. Telekom       +13 secs
	3. Gewiss       0.29
	4. Lampre       0.45
	5. Mapei        0.49

Stage 5	

        1. Hendrik Van Dyck (Bel, TVM) 83.1km in 2.0.16
  	2. Colonna (It, Mapei)                      +02 secs
	3. Vandenbroucke (Bel, Mapei)
	4. Missaglia (It, Brescialat)
	5. F. Bontempi (It, Brescialat)             all s.t.

Final overall

	1. Faresin      9.47.45
	2. Della Santa    +1.53
	3. Ullrich         2.21
	4. Scinto          2.26
	5. Pistore         2.52

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2. UCI rankings after '95 Tour de France
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 1. Tony Rominger    	3272
 2. Laurent Jalabert 	2070
 3. Miguel Indurain 	 1931
 4. Alex Zulle			     1541
 5. Chiappucci	      	1529
 6. Berzin			         1268
 7. Museeuw		        	1228
 8. Fondriest		      	1223
 9. Casagrande		      1018
10. Richard			         954
11. Bortolami		        953
12. Tchmil			          911
13. Armstrong	      	  864
14. Virenque		         856
15. Ekimov			          805
16. Sorensen	        	 702
17. Abdoujaparov	      701
18. Boardman		         689
19. Rebellin			        687
20. Ugrumov		          686

By Teams:

 1. Mapei			   852
 2. Once				   602
 3. Gewiss			  601
 4. MG				     553
 5. Banesto			 392
 6. Lampre 			 359
 7. Carrera			 346
 8. Mercatone	 321
 9. Telekom			 298
10. Novell			  290	

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3. Post-Tour Criteriums (1)
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The first of the post-Tour criteriums took place at Lisieux, Normandy,
France last night (Monday 24 July). Dante Rezze, who went down a ravine in
the tragic Tour de France crash was a welcome sight in the field. "Dante,"
said Laurent Jalabert, another participant, "You're here, but it was said
you wanted to stop bike racing?" "it's true, I did," he replied, "but now
I'm keen to ride again." Cautious rides were also seen from Eric Boyer,
injured in the left hand and Thierry Laurent, gradually getting back into
shape after abandoning on the Tour stage to Revel. Other participants
included Virenque, Lemarchand, Arnould, Seigneur, Pensec, Bourguignon,
Durand, Madouas and Bourgeot. The race proper was preceded by a "time
trial" on the 2.150km circuit so that the fans could see each of their
heroes alone. This part of the proceedings was set off by a ride from a
one-legged amateur, Jean-Yves Lanoe of the CPAM de Creil club.

The result of the race proper:
  1. Virenque
  2. Seigneur
  3. Madouas
  4. N. Jalabert
  5. L. Jalabert

Today the circus moved on to Callac, for an afternoon race which promised a
richer field, including L. Jalabert, Virenque, Pantani, Chiappucci,
Rominger, Tchmil, Seigneur, Madouas, Duclos-Lassalle, Rue etc.....



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4. Ruminations on Age and the Tour
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Tour de France podium results and age in (##) for the past 10 years.

1986  1. LeMond (25)       2. Hinault (31)     3. Zimmermann (27)    27.7*
1987  1. Roche (27)        2. Delgado (27)     3. J.F.Bernard (25)   26.3
1988  1. Delgado (28)      2. Rooks (28)       3. Parra (28)         28.0
1989  1. LeMond (28)       2. Fignon (28)      3. Delgado (29)       28.3
1990  1. LeMond (29)       2. Chiappucci (27)  3. Breukink (26)      27.3
1991  1. Indurain (27)     2. Bugno (27)       3. Chiappucci (28)    27.3
1992  1. Indurain (28)     2. Chiappucci (29)  3. Bugno (28)         28.3
1993  1. Indurain (29)     2. Rominger (32)    3. Jaskula (31)       30.7
1994  1. Indurain (30)     2. Ugrumov (33)     3. Pantani (24)       29.0
1995  1. Indurain (31)     2. Zulle (28)       3. Riis (31)          30.0

* This column is the average age of the podium for that year.
Average age for rider making the podium in past 10 years: 28.3
Average age for the winner in past 10 years: 28.2
Average age of 2nd place: 29.0
Average age of 3rd place: 27.7