News for September 24, 1997

Polish Team for World Championships

ITT: Zenon Jaskula (Mapei GB), Dariusz Baranowski (US Postal Service)

Road Race: Jaskula, Baranowski, Piotr Wadecki, Jacek Mickiewicz, Cezary Zamana, Andrzej Sypytkowski (all Mroz), Zbigniew Piatek, Piotr Chmielewski (both PEKAES).

Substitutes: Grzegorz Rosolinski (Mroz), Pawel Niedzwiecki (PEKAES)

Women (ITT and Road): Bogumila Matusiak

Meijs and Van der Wolf to German team

Raymond Meijs and Michael van der Wolf go to the German team PSV Cologne. They are currently riding for Foreldorado-Golff this year but the sponsors will stop supporting the professinal team at the end of this season.

It is also possible that the team leader of Foreldorado, Peter Verbeek, will join them. He will talk with PSV Cologne next week.

One of the last victories of Foreldorado was in Viane (Belgium) on Monday. John Talen won the GP Viane.

British oddity

The British cyclist Anthony Adams, training for the speed world record, has refused to pay a penalty of 150 British pounds for riding too fast in the centre of Cambridge. Adams denied that he had ridden faster than 40 kilometers per hour.