Team managers: Bombini, Miozzo and Rosola. Medical team: Mazzoni, Besnati and Sturla (consultant).
King Juan Carlos of Spain will next Monday give an audience for the Spanish cycling team that competed in the World championships in Colombia.
Day 3, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 11 December 95.
Women's 3 km individual pursuit:
1. Nurhayati (Indonesia)
2. Chalerm Chamchun (Thailand)
3. Nordin Masleza (Malaysia)
Men's 4 km individual pursuit:
1. Thongchai Wangerdjaingarm (Thailand)
2. Kenneth Tan Cheng Hock (Singapore)
3. Eko Pambudi Teguh (Indonesia)
****
Day 4 (apparently), Chiang Mai, Thailand, 12 December 95.
Men's 4-kms team pursuit:
1. Indonesia 04:43.426
2. Philippines 4:49.551
3. Thailand 4:51.886
The Chiappucci club will organize the first running of "El Diablo", a cyclo-sportif event next June. Entry will be limited to 1,000 riders and the route will be through the Val d'Ossola, with a start at Ponte and a finish at Cascata del Toce. Two distances are contemplated, of 180 and 124 kilometers.
This is the time of year when plans are made in the cycling world.
Yesterday, Bugno's MG-Technogym got together; Richard and Boldato
were also there.
Today Piepoli's Refin squad meet, and also Polti with ex Rainbow
Jersey, Leblanc.
Coming up:
AKI-GIPIEMME: from 18 to 22/12 and from 18 to 30/1 at Castagneto
Carducci (LI);
AMORE&VITA-GALATRON: end of January, 10 days at Lido di Camaiore
(LU);
BRESCIALAT: from 2 to 12/2 at Castiglione della Pescaia (GR);
CARRERA: from 15 to 22/1 at Manerba (BS) and from 1 to 15/2 at Palma
di Maiorca;
MAPEI-GB: gruppo italo-belga from 25/1 to 5/2 at Marina di Bibbona
(LI), gruppo spagnolo from 1 to 15/2 at Palma di Maiorca;
MG-TECHNOGYM from yesterday to 15 dicembre at Monsacrati (LU), from
10 to 20/1 and from end of January to early February at
Donoratico (LI);
PANARIA-VINAVIL: from 4 to 10/1 and from 24/1 to 2/2 at Castagneto
Carducci (LI);
REFIN: from today to 14/12 at Miramare di Rimini;
ROSLOTTO-ZG MOBILI: from 10 to 17/1 and from 25/1 and beginning of
February at Capalbio (GR);
SAECO: from 15 to 22/12 at San Vincenzo (LI), from 2 to 15/1 at Palma
di Maiorca and from 5 to 13/2 at San Vincenzo;
SCRIGNO-BLUE STORM: from 27/1 to 12/2 at Donoratico (LI);
TEAM POLTI: from 22/1 to 3/2 at Arborea (OR);
GRUPPO GIUPPONI-LEALI: from 10 to 15/1 sul Lago di
Garda and from 25/1 to 10/2 at Castagneto
Carducci.
Hi there. Yesterday I rode a 55k mtb ride (not race) and while I was in the leading group (10 riders) my front tire went flat. I stopped to fix it but my friends didn't wait for me. We were riding along a river-bed (no water) so I couldn't follow the lines left by my friends. Soon I got lost. I tried to wait for the followers to reach me but somehow I thought they changed direction. So I went on for many kms in a narrow singletrak with nothing to drink and nothing to eat at all. When I understood I wasn't on the way home I had already reached the point of no return (better to go on then to go back...). I was suffering a hypoglycemic crisis (in other words, a "bonk") and my right leg was burning from a previous DH crash while the left one was bleeding from some "thorn" wounds. There were no signs of human presence all around just mountains and mountain goats (the only ones to reply to my screams...). The organizers had advised the whole path was "marked" but clearly it wasn't. After many singletrack kms I reached a wider lane with some signs of car tires. Soon I stopped a car and asked where I was going to. The answer froze the blood into my veins. I was VERY FAR from the finish but, according to the driver there were only 2 kms to reach the nearest village. It turned out that the kms were 8 instead of 2 and (Murphy's law n.119) there was a windy steep uphill to the village. The sun was disappearing behind the mountains. One hour later I was ringing at the police station of that small village (350 people) and asking to phone to the organizers to send a car to bring me to the finish. At 7 pm I was home.
The Race of Truth is always the time trial. I have watched about a dozen editions since at the time it was happening right in my own back yard, but it often surprises. Even Kelly, a pretty unlikely candidate, has won it once. Coppi had one sole victory in this event, but it serves to point up that to win the big tours, one must also be able to race the clock.
1993 Armand De Las Cuevas (FRA)S.Hodge (AUS) E.Seigneur (FRA
1992 Johan Bruyneel (BEL) T.Rominger (CH) V.Ekimov (RUS)
1991 Tony Rominger (CH) E.Breukink (NED) T.Wegmuller (CH
1990 Thomas Wegmuller (CH) E.Breukink (NED) T.Rominger (CH)
1989 Laurent Fignon (FRA) T.Wegmuller (CH) C.Mottet (FRA)
1988 Charly Mottet (FRA) L.Fignon (FRA) M.Wilson (AUS)
1987 Charly Mottet (FRA) J.F.Bernard (FRA) M.Lejarreta (ES
1986 Sean Kelly (IRL) L.Fignon (FRA) J.F.Bernard (FR
1985 Charly Mottet (FRA) T.Marie (FRA) J.L.Vandenbroucke (B)
1984 Bernard Hinault (FRA) S.Kelly (IRL) S.Roche (IRL)
1983 Daniel Gisiger (CH) G.Lemond (USA) B.Oosterbosch
1982 Bernard Hinault (FRA) D.Gisiger (CH) B.Oosterbosch
1981 Daniel Gisiger (CH) S.Roche (IRL) H.Oersted (DAN
1980 Jean Luc Vandenbroucke D.Gisiger (CH) F.Moser (ITA)
1979 Bernard Hinault (FRA) F.Moser (ITA) J.Zootemelk (N)
1978 Bernard Hinault (FRA) F.Moser (ITA) H.Kuiper (NED)
1977 Bernard Hinault (FRA) J.Zoetemelk (NED) J.Marcussen (DA
1976 Freddy Maertens (BEL) R.Schuiten (NED) J.Zoetemelk (NE
1975 Roy Schuiten (NED) J.Zoetemelk (NED) B.Thevenet (FRA
1974 Roy Schuiten (NED) D.Baert (BEL) P,Lannoo (BEL)
1973 Eddy Merckx (BEL) L.Ocana (ESP) J.Zoetemelk (NE
1972 Roger Swerts (BEL) J.Zoetemelk (NED) Y.Hezard (FRA)
1971 Luis Ocana (ESP) J.Zoetemelk (NED) L.Mortensen (DA
1970 Herman Van Springel O.Ritter (DAN) L.Ocana (ESP)
1969 Herman Van Springel R.Poulidor (FRA) D.Boifava (ITA)
1968 Felice Gimondi (ITA) H.VanSpringel (BEL) L.Ocana (ESP)
1967 Felice Gimondi (ITA) B.Guyot (FRA) R.Hagmann (CH)
1966 Jacques Anquetil (FRA) F.Gimondi (ITA) E.Merckx (BEL)
1965 Jacques Anquetil (FRA) R.Altig (ALL) R.Poulidor (FRA
1964 Walter Boucquet (BEL) A.Den Hartog (NED) C.Valdois (FRA)
1963 Raymond Poulidor (FRA) F.Bracke (BEL) W.Boucquet (BEL
1962 Ferdinand Bracke (BEL) J.C.Lebaube (FRA) C.Valdois (FRA)
1961 Jacques Anquetil (FRA) G.Desmet (BEL) A.Moser (ITA)
1960 Ercole Baldini (ITA) J.Vloeberghs (BEL) R.Mastrotto (FR
1959 Aldo Moser (ITA) R.Riviere (FRA) A.Vaucher (CH)
1958 Jacques Anquetil (FRA) G.Saint (FRA) M.Vermeulin (FR
1957 Jacques Anquetil (FRA) E.Baldini (ITA) A.Moser (ITA)
1956 Jacques Anquetil (FRA) A.Bouvet (FRA) M.Bover (ESP)
1955 Jacques Anquetil (FRA) A.Buovet (FRA) M.Janssens (BEL
1954 Jacques Anquetil (FRA) J.Brankart (BEL) I.Vitre (ITA)
1953 Jacques Anquetil (FRA) R.Creton (FRA) A.Coletto (ITA)
1952 Louison Bobet (FRA) M.Blomme (BEL) Y.Marrec (FRA)
1951 Hugo Koblet (CH) F.Coppi (ITA) R.Berton (FRA)
1950 Maurice Blomme (BEL) R.Berton (FRA) A.Rolland (FRA)
1949 Charles Coste (FRA) W.Van Est (NED) M.Blomme (BEL)
1948 Rene Berton (FRA) F.Kubler (CH) E.Tassin (FRA)
1947 Fausto Coppi (ITA) E.Idee (FRA) F.Magni (ITA)
1946 Fausto Coppi (ITA) E.Idee (FRA) A.Mahe (FRA)
1945 Eloi Tassin (FRA) E.Carrara (FRA) A.Dubuisson (BE
1944 Emile Carrara (FRA) J.Rossi (ITA) E.Idee (FRA0
1943 Jozef Somers (BEL) J.Rossi (ITA) M.Clautier (BEL
1942 i)Jean Marie Goasmat (FRA) E.Galliussi (ITA) P.Cogan (FRA)
1942 ii)Emile Idee (FRA) O.Van den Meerschaut (BEL) J.Rossi (ITA)
1941 i)Jules Rossi (ITA) F.Mithouard (FRA) F.Kubler (CH)
1941 ii)Louis Aimar (FRA) U.Marie (FRA) L.Gauthier (FRA
1938 Louis Aimar (FRA) G.Schulte (NED) A.Fournier (FRA
1937 Pierre Cogan (FRA) M.Archambaud (FRA) G.Speicher (FRA
1936 Antonin Magne (FRA) P.Cogan (FRA) L.Montero (SWE)
1935 Antonin Magne (FRA) E.De Caluwe (BEL) L.Montero (ESP)
1934 Antonin Magne (FRA) A.Fournier (FRA) L.Montero (ESP)
1933 Raymond Louviot (FRA) L.Le Calvez (FRA) M.Valentijn (NE
1932 Maurice Archambaud (FRA) A.Bovet (ITA) L.Le Calvez (FR
The event was run over the following courses:-
1932-1938 and 1943-1972 Chevreuse Valley (west of Paris)
Course record (140.3km circuit) - 40.23 km/h Jacques
Anquetil (1955) (100.0km circuit) - 43.59 km/h Jacques
Anquetil (1961) ( 73.5km circuit) - 47.52 km/h Felice
Gimondi (1968)
1973 St-Jean-de-Monts
1974-1976 Angers, Course record ( 90.0km circuit) - 44.98 km/h
Roy Schuiten (1975)
1977-1990 Cannes (2 lap course), Course Record ( 90.0km course)
- 45.66 km/h Laurent Fignon (1989)
1991 Pisa, Italy
1993 Lac du Madine, France
In 1941 and 1942, the race was held in two locations:-
1941
i) in the non-occupied zone at Toulouse
ii) in the occupied zone at Paris
1942
i) Avignon - Marseille
ii) Paris
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