News and Race Reports for September 19 1995

World Media Online

As you may know, World Media Online has covered the '95 edition of the Tour
de France in real time on the Internet @ (http://www.worldmedia.fr/tour/).
The operation was a success, generating more than 450,000 requests a day.
Therefore, we decided to go on, and cover three other main events of the
bicycle racing season of 1995.

* We will offer a daily coverage of the last week of La Vuelta, in Spain,
from Tuesday 19th to Thursday 28th of September.

* We will then go to Latin America, in Colombia, to follow the cycling
world championships from Monday 2nd to Sunday 8th of October.

* Our journalist, James Startt, will then fly to China, to cover the China
Tour for World Media Online, from Thursday, 26 October to Thursday, 5th of
November.

We hope you will enjoy these features.

Our new URL is:

http://www.world Media.fr/wm/velo/

The page will be opened starting Tuesday, 19th of September. Until then, it
will not be possible access the files.

Gilbert Cattoire
Webmaster (World Media Online)

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Alfredo Martini has selected the 12 riders who will form the Italian team,
the squadra azzuri, at the Worlds:

  Gianni Bugno, MG-Technogym
  Francesco Casagrande, Mercatone Uno
  Davide Cassani, MG-Technogym
  Claudio Chiappucci, Carrera
  Stefano Colage, ZG-Mobili
  Stefano Della Santa, Mapei-GB
  Alberto Elli, MG-Technogym
  Gianni Faresin, Lampre
  Maurizio Fondriest, Lampre
  Ivan Gotti, Gewiss-Ballan
  Paolo Lanfranchi, Brescialat
  Marco Pantani, Carrera
  Oscar Pellicioli, Polti
  Leonardo Piepoli, Ceramiche Refin

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Tour of Spain

Finally, yesterday's stage win was Laurent Jalabert's 20th win of the
season. Here is a list of his 1995 victories, to date (9/18/95):

  Tour of Majorca,       1 stage
  Tour of Valencia       1 stage
  Paris-Nice             Overall and 1 stage
  Milan-San Remo
  Criterium Int'l        Overall and 2 stages
  GP Amorebeit
  Fleche-Wallonne
  Midi-Libre             1 stage
  Tour of Catalonia      Overall and 2 stages
  Tour de France         Stage 12 (and green points jersey)
  Tour of Galicia        1 stage
  Tour of Spain          Stages 3, 5, 8 and 15

Reminiscent of Sean Kelly at his peak. But Kelly won as many
races as this for 5 consecutive seasons so Jalabert has a long way to go
yet if he is to be truly compared to the legendary Irishman.

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Jose Escudero (Spain) established a kilometer world record in Quite
(Ecuador) with a time of 1:01.945. 

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Rincon looking for a move?

Oliverio Rincon, L'Equipe reports archly, can hardly have an "odour of
sanctity" around him as far as the ONCE bosses are concerned. The Colombian
climber is in contact with Banesto, Castellblanch and Motorola, it claims.