News for March 10

Paris Nice

Paris-Nice starts tomorrow (March 10) in Chateauroux, finishing in Nice on March 17. The following teams (listed with principal riders) are taking part:

ONCE ( L. Jalabert)
GAN (Boardman, Rue, Rous)
AGRIGEL-LA CREUSE (Durand, Marie)
AUBERVILLIERS-93 PEUGEOT (Pontier, Saugrain)
LA MUTUELLE DE SEINE-ET-MARNE (N. Jalabert)
CASINO (Agnolutto, Mengin)
FORCESUD (Arnould, Capelle)
FESTINA (Virenque, Magnien)
MAPEI-GB (Olano, Steels, Vandenbroucke)
GEWISS (Gotti)
SAECO (Cipollini)
POLTI (Leblanc)
MG (Bugno, Richard)
AKI (Delion)
LOTTO (Nelissen, Tchmil)
TELEKOM (Riis)
MOTOROLA (Armstrong)
KELME ARTIACH (Cubino)
COLLSTROP (Capiot)

Fabian Jeker Injured

Swiss Festina rider Fabian Jeker received multiple injuries when he was in collision with a car earlier this week while training. He has a double fracture of the radius and ulna, a broken collar bone, a broken rib and a head injury. He was to have ridden in the Vuelta Ciclistica a Chile (13-24 March); his place in the Festina team will be taken by Jean-Cyril Robin. The other Festina riders to go to Latin America for the race are Herve, Moreau, Plaza, Garcia Casas and Arenas.

Gimondi Junior

Massimo Gimondi, the son of Tour de France (1965), Paris-Roubaix (1966) and Giro d'Italia (1967, 1976) winner Felice Gimondi, looks likely to join other scions of famous cycling families such as Axel Merckx and Jean-Luc Vandenbroucke's nephew Franck in a "pro" team. The 25 year old is presently riding for a Saeco offshoot, Vigoplant-Saeco, and earlier this week finished second to Filippo Casagrande (Scrigno-Blue Storm) in a race at Sant'Agata Militello in Italy.