- Jesper Skibby wants to talk with TVM about a transfer to the new Danish team, Jack and Jones. He even wants to pay money to TVM because to buy his contract out. He also does not want to race an international schedule next year so the move to the smaller team suits him.
1 JALABERT, Laurent 1,980 2 ULLRICH, Jan 1,610 3 ZUELLE, Alex 1,517 4 TONKOV, Pavel 1,411 5 BARTOLI, Michele 1,317 6 MUSEEUW, Johan 1,310 7 VIRENQUE, Richard 1,297 8 TAFI, Andrea 1,216 9 ZABEL, Erik 1,139 10 CASAGRANDE, Francesco 1,129 11 OLANO MANZANO, Abraham 1,088 12 ESCARTIN COTI, Fernando 1,048 13 EKIMOV, Vjatceslav 1,026 14 REBELLIN, Davide 985 15 TCHMIL, Andrei 985 16 ZBERG, Beat 946 17 GIANETTI, Mauro 918 18 BOARDMAN, Christopher 898 19 RIIS, Bjarne 816 20 DUFAUX, Laurent 808 21 CIPOLLINI, Mario 769 22 NARDELLO, Daniele 754 23 ELLI, Alberto 753 24 GOTTI, Ivan 748 25 CAMENZIND, Oskar 706 26 PANTANI, Marco 665 27 SVORADA, Jan 664 28 SORENSEN, Rolf 662 29 GONTCHENKOV, Alexandre 655 30 PETITO, Roberto 652 31 DOMINGUEZ DOMINGUEZ Juan Carlos 637 32 BORTOLAMI, Gianluca 622 33 JIMENEZ SASTRE, José Maria 616 34 STEELS, Tom 595 35 HERVE, Pascal 565 36 FERRIGATO, Andrea 562 37 BÖLTS, Udo 548 38 VANDENBROUCKE, Frank 543 39 ZARRABEITIA URANGA, Mikel 517 40 BOOGERD, Michael 512 41 LEBLANC, Luc 508 42 BLIJLEVENS, Jeroen 502 43 CLAVERO SEBASTIAN, Daniel 499 44 GUIDI, Fabrizio 496 45 MINALI, Nicola 495 46 MICHAELSEN, Lars 494 47 VASSEUR, Cédric 493 48 ROUX, Laurent 473 49 VAN BON, Leon 471 50 MONCASSIN, Frédéric 466
The selection is: Leon van Bon, Michael Boogerd, Erik Breukink, Erik Dekker, Max van Heeswijk, Danny Nelissen, Aart Vierhouten, Koos Moerenhout (all Rabo), Bart Voskamp, Steven de Jongh, Servais Knaven and Tristan Hoffman (all TVM).
Erik Breukink and Erik Dekker will also start in the individual time trial.
A friend from Denmark, Henrik Falk watched the event and sent this report.
"The three days track racing (8 nations with 8 riders each) arranged by Societe de Tour de Franse in Bercy (Paris) was a great race with lots of excitement.
Germany had a big lead before the last night, but with two events to go the French team overtook them, and with a superior Florian Rosseau winning the final event (Tour de Lance 250 meter) the home crowd went crazy.
But it almost went wrong, just 10 meters after finishing the Tour de Lance, Florian's sadle fell off. He was not seriously injured. His time was 12.775 more than 70 km/hour.
Their also was a big battle for 4 place. Denmark almost lost it because of a terrible last event, but thanks to Florian`s brilliant riding, the Aussies and the U.S. team could not beat Denmark.
Final standings: 1. France 173 2. Germany 166 3. Italy 153 4. Denmark 107 5. USA 106 6. Australia 104 7. Espoirs (France) 70 8. Spain 54