World Track Cup Round 1, Cali, Colombia
4000 metres Teams Pursuit:
1. Russia (new track record) 4:11:39
2. New Zealand, 4:13:63
3. Spain 4:13:51
3000 metre Pursuit - Women:
1. Antonella Belluti (Italy) 3:35:40
2. Rasa Mazeikite (Lithuania) 3:40:91
3. Rebecca Twigg (USA) 3:40:96
Sprint - Women:
1. Galina Enioukhina (Russia)
2. Felicia Michele Ballanger (France)
3. Michele Louise Ferris (Australia)
Sprint - Men:
1. Martin Mayne Nothstein (USA)
2. Arnaud Tournant (France)
3. Eyk Pokorny (Germany)
Points:
1. Pavel Khamidouline (Russia)
2. Juan Llaneras (Spain)
3. Juan Curuchet (Argentina)
4000 metre Individual Pursuit - Men:
1. Alexei Markov (Russia) 4:25:16
2. Christian Vandevelde (USA) 4:27:79
3. Juan Martinez (Spain)
Kilo Time Trial
1. Soren Yves Lausberg (Germany) 1.02.143
2. Jose Antonio Escuredo (Spain) 1.03.582
3. Herve Robert Thuet (France) 1.03.640
Criterium Woerden, Netherlands, May 20 19971. Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) TVM 80 km in 1.59.53 (40,039 km/h) 2. Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 3. Erik Zabel (Ger) Telekom 4. Michel Cornelisse (Ned) Foreldorado 5. Leon Van Bon (Ned) Rabobank 6. Servais Knaven (Ned) TVM 7. Ron McKay (Ned) individual 8. Dennis Moons (Bel) Vlaanderen 2002 9. Oleg Pankov (Ukr) RDM 10. Frank Hoj (Den) Collstrop../apr97.htmlFBD Milk Ras Raas offers Bartoli a Million (guilders)Rabobank Manager Jan Raas has offered the top Italian rider Michele Bartoli for one million guilders (about $A700,000). This was announced yesterday during the Giro by Bartoli's team leader Giancarlo Ferretti."This is a fantastic contract", Bartoli said. "But i will first discuss it with Feretti. He has taken me to the top. Also, Ferretti has as strong a team as you can get and I may remain with him." This season Michele Bartoli has already won Luik-Bastenaken-Luik and Rund um den Henniger Turm (GP Frankfurt). The Italian is also the leader in the individual standings in the World Cup and is in third place on the UCI world ranking. He has won 6 times this season. The Raas team is not the only one who is interested in him. Cyrille Guimard of the new French team Cofidis will offer a lot of money to the Italian. Guimard is looking for a top man for next season. He is waiting for the news of Lance Armstrong's battle with cancer. Tony Rominger is in his last year and Maurizio Fondriest is looking like he is going to succumb to a persistent back trouble. The best classic's rider for the season is not the only Italian rider who is being offered a big contract. Mario Cipollini is being lured y Cyrille Guimard (Cofidis). Voor Cipollini has stated that he willleave Saeco at the end of the season.
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