News for July 5, 1997

Decisions of the UCI in Rouen:

Within short time track riders, mountain bikers and cycle-crossers will be subjected to the blood tests too which began for road riders in March 1997.

Next year there will be a World Cup race in Germany. This is a return to Germany of a World Cup event and the location will be announced next month.

The International Classic in Leeds has been deleted form the schedule.

Telekom and Banesto bikes disallowed

The time trial 'special' bike which Tour de France titleholder Bjarne Riis of Denmark planned to ride in Saturday's opening race against the clock was banned by race organisers on Friday.

Spanish rival Abraham Olano was also forbidden to use one of the bikes provided by Italian maker Pinarello, as was Riis's Deutsche Telekom teammate Jan Ullrich of Germany.

The ruling applied forbids ``anything that reduces resistance and offers artificial acceleration such as a fuselage.''

Russian Pavel Tonkov suffered the same fate in the Giro d'Italia last month.

On that occasion he was waiting to mount the starting ramp in Baselga di Pine in a 40 kms time trial when an official insisted he use another machine.

Technical officials at the Union Cycliste International have been tightening up on bike design.

They claimed that the 'specials' are not generally available, and that there was a trend towards a bike being considered more important than the rider.

Track bikes used to win Olympic golds in Atlanta have since been outlawed by new rulings on their dimensions.

Tour Teams - Final List

TELEKOM
Ploegleider: Walter Godefroot (Bel)
1. Bjarne Riis (Den)
2. Rolf Aldag (Dui)
3. Udo Bvlts (Dui)
4. Christian Henn (Dui)
5. Jens Heppner (Dui)
6. Giovanni Lombardi (Ita)
7. Georg Totschnig (Oos)
8. Jan Ullrich (Dui)
9. Erik Zabel (Dui)

FESTINA
Ploegleider: Bruno Roussel (Fra)
11. Richard Virenque (Fra)
12. Gianluca Bortolami (Ita)
13. Laurent Brochard (Fra)
14. Laurent Dufaux (Zwi)
15. Pascal Hervi (Fra)
16. Joona Laukka (Fin)
17. Christophe Moreau (Fra)
18. Didier Rous (Fra)
19. Neil Stephens (Aus)

MAPEI
Ploegleider: Patrick Lefevre (Bel)
21. Johan Museeuw (Bel)
22. Oscar Camenzind (Zwi)
23. Valentino Fois (Ita)
24. Zenon Jaskula (Pol)
25. Daniele Nardello (Ita)
26. Wilfried Peeters (Bel)
27. Tom Steels (Bel)
28. Andrea Tafi (Ita)
29. Frank Vandenbroucke (Bel)

ONCE
Ploegleider: Manolo Saiz (Spa)
31. Laurent Jalabert (Fra)
32. Inigo Cuesta (Spa)
33. David Etxebarria (Spa)
34. Marcelino Garcia (Spa)
35. Aitor Garmendia (Spa)
36. Javier Mauleon (Spa)
37. Roberto Sierra (Spa)
38. Mikel Zarrabeitia (Spa)
39. Alex Z|lle (Zwi)

MG-TECHNOGYM
Ploegleider: Giancarlo Ferretti (Ita)
41. Michele Bartoli (Ita)
42. Fabio Baldato (Ita)
43. Carlo Finco (Ita)
44. Fabiano Fontanelli (Ita)
45. Angelo Lecchi (Ita)
46. Nicola Loda (Ita)
47. Luca Scinto (Ita)
48. Gilberto Simoni (Ita)
49. Matteo Tosatto (Ita)

POLTI
Ploegleider: Gianluigi Stanga (Ita)
51. Luc Leblanc (Fra)
52. Rossano Brasi (Ita)
53. Inigo Chaurreau (Spa)
54. Mirko Crepaldi (Ita)
55. Gerrit de Vries (Ned)
56. Mirko Gualdi (Ita)
57. Giuseppe Guerini (Ita)
58. Sergei Oetsjakov (Oek)
59. Gianluca Valoti (Ita)

COFIDIS
Ploegleider: Cyrille Guimard (Fra)
61. Tony Rominger (Zwi)
62. Frankie Andreu (VSt)
63. Laurent Desbiens (Fra)
64. Philippe Gaumont (Fra)
65. Nicolas Jalabert (Fra)
66. Bobby Julich (VSt)
67. Kevin Livingston (VSt)
68. Christophe Rinero (Fra)
69. Cyril Saugrain (Fra)

LA FRANCAISE DES JEUX
Ploegleider: Marc Madiot (Fra)
71. Mauro Gianetti (Zwi)
72. Fridiric Guesdon (Fra)
73. Stiphane Heulot (Fra)
74. Christophe Mengin (Fra)
75. Damien Nazon (Fra)
76. Andrea Peron (Ita)
77. Davide Rebellin (Ita)
78. Maximillian Sciandri (GBr)
79. Flavio Vanzella (Ita)

ROSLOTTO-ZG
Ploegleider: Massimo Ghirotto (Ita)
81. Alexander Gontsjenkov (Rus)
82. Vjatsjeslav Djavanian (Rus)
83. Marco Fincato (Ita)
84. Vitali Kokorin (Rus)
85. Pavel Padrnos (Tsj)
86. Torsten Schmidt (Dui)
87. Daniele Sgnaolin (Ita)
88. Massimo Strazzer (Ita)
89. Marco Zen (Ita)

GAN
Ploegleider: Roger Legeay (Fra)
91. Chris Boardman (GBr)
92. Fridiric Moncassin (Fra)
93. Stuart O'Grady (Aus)
94. Eros Poli (Ita)
95. Arnaud Pritot (Fra)
96. Girard Rui (Fra)
97. Frangois Simon (Fra)
98. Cidric Vasseur (Fra)
99. Henk Vogels (Aus)

TVM
Ploegleider: Cees Priem (Ned)
101. Maarten den Bakker (Ned)
102. Jeroen Blijlevens (Ned)
103. Bo Hamburger (Den)
104. Tristan Hoffman (Ned)
105. Servais Knaven (Ned)
106. Laurent Roux (Fra)
107. Jesper Skibby (Den)
108. Peter van Petegem (Bel)
109. Bart Voskamp (Ned)

SAECO
Ploegleider: Antonio Salutini (Ita)
111. Ivan Gotti (Ita)
112. Philipp Buschor (Zwi)
113. Francesco Casagrande (Ita)
114. Mario Cipollini (Ita)
115. Gian Matteo Fagnini (Ita)
116. Paolo Fornaciari (Ita)
117. Dario Frigo (Ita)
118. Giorgio Furlan (Ita)
119. Massimilliano Lelli (Ita)

RABOBANK
Ploegleider: Theo de Rooy (Ned)
121. Peter Luttenberger (Oos)
122. Michael Boogerd (Ned)
123. Erik Breukink (Ned)
124. Erik Dekker (Ned)
125. Patrick Jonker (Ned)
126. Robbie McEwen (Aus)
127. Danny Nelissen (Ned)
128. Rolf Svrensen (Den)
129. Leon van Bon (Ned)

CASINO
Ploegleider: Vincent Lavenu (Fra)
131. Alberto Elli (Ita)
132. Christophe Agnolutto (Fra)
133. Lauri Aus (Est)
134. Pascal Chanteur (Fra)
135. Fabrice Gougot (Fra)
136. Rolf Jaermann (Zwi)
137. Arturas Kasputis (Lit)
138. Jaan Kirsipuu (Est)
139. Marco Saligari (Ita)

BATIK-DEL MONTE
Ploegleider: Emmanuelle Bombini (Ita)
141. Evgeni Berzin (Rus)
142. Andrea Brognara (Ita)
143. Bruno Cenghialta (Ita)
144. Luca Colombo (Ita)
145. Francesco Frattini (Ita)
146. Nicola Minali (Ita)
147. Jon Odriozola (Spa)
148. Gianluca Pierobon (Ita)
149. Giuseppe Tartaggia (Ita)

BANESTO
Ploegleider: Josi-Miguel Echavarri (Spa)
151. Abraham Olano (Spa)
152. Marino Alonso (Spa)
153. Jose Luis Arrieta (Spa)
154. Manuel Beltran (Spa)
155. Santiago Blanco (Spa)
156. Angel Casero (Spa)
157. Jose Vicente Garcia (Spa)
158. Josi Maria Jiminez (Spa)
159. Orlando Rodrigues (Por)

LOTTO-MOBISTAR-ISOGLASS
Ploegleider: Jean-Luc Vandenbroucke (Bel)
161. Laurent Madouas (Fra)
162. Djamolidine Abdoesjaparov (Oez)
163. Peter Farazijn (Bel)
164. Jo Planckaert (Bel)
165. Benoit Salmon (Fra)
166. Andrei Tsjmil (Mol)
167. Andrei Teterioek (Kaz)
168. Paul van Hyfte (Bel)
169. Marc Wauters (Bel)

KELME
Ploegleider: Alvaro Pino (Spa)
171. Fernando Escartin (Spa)
172. Francisco Benitez (Spa)
173. Hernan Buenahora (Col)
174. Francisco Cabello (Spa)
175. Juan Jose De Los Angeles (Spa)
176. Arsenio Gonzalez (Spa)
177. Jose ,,Chepe'' Gonzalez (Col)
178. Javier Pascual (Spa)
179. Jose Angel Vidal (Spa)

MERCATONE UNO
Ploegleider: Giuseppe Martinelli (Ita)
181. Marco Pantani (Ita)
182. Marco Artunghi (Ita)
183. Roberto Conti (Ita)
184. Oscar Pellicoli (Ita)
185. Giusvan Piovaccari (Ita)
186. Massimo Podenzana (Ita)
187. Marcello Siboni (Ita)
188. Mario Traversoni (Ita)
189. Beat Zberg (Zwi)

US POSTAL
Ploegleider: Mark Gorski (VSt)
191. Vjatsjeslav Ekimov (Rus)
192. Adriano Baffi (Ita)
193. Dariusz Baranowski (Pol)
194. Pascal Derami (Fra)
195. Tyler Hamilton (VSt)
196. George Hincapie (VSt)
197. Marty Jemison (VSt)
198. Peter Meinert-Nielsen (Den)
199. Jean-Cyril Robin (Fra)

LA MUTUELLE DE SEINE ET MARNE
Ploegleider: Yvon Sanquer (Fra)
201. Jean-Philippe Dojwa (Fra)
202. Jean-Frangois Anti (Fra)
203. Stiphane Cueff (Fra)
204. David Delrieu (Fra)
205. Gordon Frasier (Can)
206. Claude Lamour (Fra)
207. Gilles Maignan (Fra)
208. Laurent Pillon (Fra)
209. Dominique Rault (Fra)

BIG MAT - AUBER 93
Ploegleider: Stephane Javalet (Fra)
211. Pascal Lino (Fra)
212. Miguel Arroyo (Mex)
213. Ludovic Auger (Fra)
214. Thierry Bourguignon (Fra)
215. Laurent Genty (Fra)
216. Thierry Gouvenou (Fra)
217. Pascal Lance (Fra)
218. Anthony Morin (Fra)
219. Gilles Talmant (Fra)

Riis

The group have set up a company, Professional Cycling Denmark, and Riis holds 50 percent of the shares.

``This is a serious project, and I will help in any way I can to make it successful, particularly with my contacts in the sport,'' Riis said.

The partnership also includes Alex Pedersen, the 1994 world amateur road race champion.

The team, who will have a house builder and a clothing company as their sponsors, will start next year in cycling's second division.

The first of their 12 signings is another Dane, Brian Holm, who last year helped Riis in his Tour triumph.

Holm misses this year's Tour after failing to recover sufficiently from a crash in April.

Olano

Now the 1995 world road champion dreams of achieving a little of what his compatriot and role model has done in winning the Tour de France five times.

``It is an honour to be compared to Miguel but it's irrelevant. My record cannot compare to his,'' he said.

But it is not easy for Olano to avoid such comparisons.

The 27-year-old Spaniard, who shot to instant fame two years ago when he finished second in the Tour of Spain before becoming world champion, has reached the age Indurain was when he won his first Tour in 1991.

In 1995 at the road world championships in Colombia, Indurain symbolically passed the baton to his young compatriot by controlling the chase behind him as he had broken away in the final kilometres.

Indurain's retirement at the end of last season after a disastrous Tour and an even worse showing in the Vuelta opened the door to Olano's transfer from Mapei to the Banesto team Indurain had led for years.

The move underlined the similarities between the two riders, especially as this season Olano has followed exactly the same preparation for the Tour as Indurain opted for in the past.

But his team manager Jose Miguel Echavarri, the man who made Indurain, refused to draw parallels between the two.

``It's the same as with good wine. Once you've finished a bottle, you taste another one. I'm not a wine waiter so I'm not sure how well this wine will age,'' he said.

Olano decided not to take part in the Giro d'Italia despite finishing second last year and instead entered the Dauphine Libere which he should have won had he not fallen on the last stage.

``There was no way I could lose this race. I was very unlucky and it's a disappointment I've struggled to overcome,'' he said.

Unlike Indurain, who had a trouble-free career, Olano has already had his share of problems.

Injuries and a wrong choice of team when he turned professional in 1992 nearly ruined his career before it got off the ground.

His wife proved his saviour.

A police officer in San Sebastian, she trained him behind her motorcycle while he was without a team in 1993.

She also cooked low fat cuisine to fight Olano's main problem, overweight.