News and Reports for September 11 1995

Mt. Washington Hillclimb

   Sunday, 10 Sept 95 -- For the second year in a row (and only the 2nd
time in its 23-year history), inclement weather at the top of Mount
Washington (New Hampshire, USA) caused cancellation of the Mount Washington
Bicycle Hillclimb. Approximately 435 cyclists were left without a race.
   "The reactions ranged from outright anger to just kind of no response at
all," said spokeswoman Cindy Russell of the "Cycle to the Clouds" race.
"One person said, 'I want to kill. I trained so hard for this.' Another
said he had trained for 14 months."

Welsh Cycling

   Shane Sutton, 37, the Birmingham-based Australian professional who won
the Milk Race in 1990, has been appointed the Welsh Cycling Union's first
full-time national coach. His appointment begins on 1 January 96.

Tour of Poland (8)

Tour of Poland, Stage 8, 159 kms, 10 Sept 95:
  1. Quentino Rodrigues Por 4.12.22
  2. Fabrizio Guidi Ita +1.33
  3. Jan Lieswyn USA s.t.

Overall:
  1. Zbigniew Spruch Pol 27.12.15
  2. Guidi +55sec
  3. Dariusz Baranowski Pol +2.02

News from Switzerland
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>Here is some news from Switzerland of interest to non-Swiss. These races
>took place during last week. --C.Z.
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>Handicap Mountain race Chur-Arosa (33,2 km):
>  1. Runkel (pro, Swi) 1:06:58 (29,746 km/h):
>  2. Wernli (pro, Swi) 0:15.
>  3. Tonkow (pro, Rus) 0:37.
>  4. Parpan (sen, Swi) 1:14.
>  5. Lischer (jun, Swi) 1:14.
>  6. Ruoss (am, Swi) 1:43.
>  7. Zemke (pro, Ger) 2:43.
>  8. Kaelin (pro, Swi) 2:43.
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> 43. Berzin (pro, Rus) 7:28.
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>Schaan (Liechtenstein). Criterium 62,5 km (100 laps):
>  1. Rominger (Sz) 1:26:09 (43,875 km/h), 23 Pts.
>  2. Martinelli (It) 19.
>  3. De Wilde (Be) 14.
>  4. Tonkow (Russ) 9.
>  5. Berzin (Rus) 4.
>
>
>Schneisingen. GP Rueebliland, Stage race for juniors.
> Final general classification:
>  1. Rizzi (It) 10:07:11.
>  2. Bergant (Sln) 0:01.
>  3. Roque (Por) 0:03.
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>Fourmies (Fr). GP de Fournies (210 km):
>  1. Sciandri (Gb) 5:01:52.
>  2. Vandenbroucke (Be) 0:17.
>  3. Soerensen (Dk) 0:19.
>  4. Nelissen (Be) 0:32.
>  5. Planckaert (Be).
>  6. Tommi (It), all same time.
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>2. U.K. Bike Route
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>By Briony Warden, PA News, 11 Sept 95.
>   The proposed 2,400 mile national cycle route which will receive 42.5
>million pounds from the National Lottery was described by Heritage
>Secretary Virginia Bottomley today as "ambitious, visionary and exciting".
>   The cycle way project, which will cost 183 million pounds in total and
>is due to be ready by the year 2,000, is one of the first 27 schemes to
>benefit from funding by the Millennium Commission, of which Mrs Bottomley
>is chairman.
>   She also announced lottery funding totalling 24 million pounds for the
>other 26 schemes
>   The 42.5 miilion pounds grant to the charity Sustrans, which has built
>more than 300 miles of cycle routes over the past decade, will help
>construct the route over disused canal paths, derelict land and other
>traffic free routes, as well as build cycle lanes through towns and cities.
>   The route, which will eventually cover over 5,000 miles, will stretch
>from Inverness to Dover, from Plymouth to Holyhead and across Northern
>Ireland.
>   The rest of the 183 million pounds for the project will be sought from
>other organisations, including local authorities.
>   Mrs Bottomly said she hoped the scheme would revive "a form of transport
>many of us used as children" and she hoped to see a boom in cycling.
>   Britain is well behind the rest of Europe in providing facilities for
>cyclists. Only 2.5% of urban journeys are made by bicycle compared with
>about 30% in the Netherlands, 20% in Denmark and 11% in Germany.
>   John Grimshaw, director of Sustrans, said: "This is a project that
>offers the country an opportunity to change direction in transport policies
>and the way it treats the environment."
>   Secretary of State for Transport and keen cyclist Sir George Young said:
>"It is very good news for cycling.
>   "The project will complement the work that the Government and local
>authorities are doing to change the perception of cycling, so that it is
>seen as a genuine choice for many local journeys."
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ACF's Whiteley to UCI
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>   SYDNEY, 11 Sept 95 -- Australian Cycling Federation executive director
>Martin Whiteley will leave his job at the end of the year to take up a
>senior position with the sport's world governing body.
>   In a major coup for Whiteley and Australian cycling, it was announced
>today he would join the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) at Lausanne,
>Switzerland, on 8 January 95 as its mountain bike director. UCI president
>Hein Verbruggen, one of cycling's powerbrokers, had personally lobbied
>Whiteley for a year to take the job.
>   Whiteley, a long-time supporter of mountain biking, left Australia today
>with the national team for the mountain bike world titles. With mountain
>biking an Olympic sport next year for the first time, Whiteley said he
>would have liked to stay with the ACF until Atlanta, but the UCI was
>insistent he started as soon as possible.