Tour of Spain News

Teams for the Vuelta

MAPEI-GB
1. Adriano Baffi
2. Manuel Beltran
3. Bart Leysen
4. Stefano della Santa
5. Federico Echave
6. Jon Unzaga
7. Manuel Fernandez
8. Abraham Olano
9. Miguel Angel Pena

ARTIACH
11. Daniel Clavero
12. Felix Garcia Casas
13. R Garcia Espana
14. Orlando Rodrigues
15. Jose Manuel Garcia
16. Manuel Pascual
17. Asiat Saitov
18. Antonio Sanchez
19. Jose Luis Santamaria

BANESTO
21. Jose Ramon Uriarte
22. Angel Luis Casero
23. David Garcia
24. Marino Alonso
25. Erwin Nijboer
26. Carmelo Miranda
27. Ramon Gonzalez Arrieta
28. Jesus Montoya
29. Vicente Aparicio

CARRERA
31. Marco Pantani
32. Leonardo Sierra
33. Remo Rossi
34. Peter Luttenberger
35. Mario Mantovan
36. Marco Arthungi
37. Filipp Simenoni
38. Stefano Cembali
39. Mario Chiesa

CASTELLBLANCH-MX O.
41. Eluterio Anguita
42. Francisco Cerezo
43. Tom Cordes
44. J.M. Uria Gonzalez
45. Jose A. Espinosa
46. Alfredo Irusta
47. Carlos Maya
48. Klaus Moller
49. Marcel Wust

CHAZAL-MBK-KONIG
51. Jean-Francois Bernard
52. Miguel Arroyo
53. Jean-Philippe Bourgeot
54. Pascal Chanteur
55. Jimmy Delbove
56. Gilles Delion
57. Martial Locatelli
58. Philippe Louviot
59. Bruno Cornillet

EUSKADI
61. Ivon Ajuria
62. Inigo Cuesta
63. Thierry Elissalde
64. Asier Guenetxea
65. Alvaro Galdeano
66. Juan C. Gonzalez
67. Inigo Gonzalez
68. Roberto Laiseka
69. Roberto Leazun

GAN
71. Nicolas Aubier
72. Jean-Claude Colotti
73. Didier Rous
74. Pascal Derame
75. Thierry Gouvenou
76. Pascal Lance
77. Arnaud Pretot
78. Eddy Seigneur
79. Cedric Vasseur

GEWISS-BALLAN
81. Vladislav Bobrik
82. Ermanno Brignoli
83. Ivan Cerioli
84. Giorgio Furlan
85. Nicola Minali
86. Jon Odriozola
87. Bjarne Riis
88. Piotr Ugrumov
89. Stefano Zanini

KELME-SURENA
91. Francisco Benitez
92. Francisco Cabello
93. J. Carlos Dominguez
94. Martin Farfan
95. Ignacio Garcia Camacho
96. Jose Rodriguez
97. Jose Luis Sanchez
98. Marcos Serrano
99. Jose Angel Vidal

LOTUS-FESTINA
101. Richard Virenque
102. Pascal Herve
103. Jean-Cyril Robin
104. Valerio Tebaldi
105. Roberto Torres
106. Juan Arenas
107. David Plaza
108. Joona Laukka
109. Stephan Goubert

MOTOROLA
111. Frankie Andreu
112. Kevin Livingston
113. George Hincapie.
114. Alvaro Mejia
115. Axel Merckx
116. Kaspars Ozers
117. Andrea Peron
118. Johnny Weltz
119. Cesary Zamana

NOVELL
121. Djamolidine Abdujaparov
122. Michael Boogerd
123. Eddy Bouwmans
124. Vjatjeslav Ekimov
125. Rob Mulders
126. Dainis Ozols
127. Sven Teutenberg
128. Edwig van Hooydonck
129. Henk Vogels

ONCE
131. Johan Bruyneel
132. Herminio Diaz Zabala
133. Roberto Sierra
134. Laurent Jalabert
135. Alberto Leanizbarrutia
136. Melcior Mauri
137. Oliveiro Rincon
138. Neil Stephens
139. Alex Zulle

POLTI
141. Inigo Chaurreau
142. Mauro Gianetti
143. Mirco Gualdi
144. Mirco Crepaldi
145. Sergej Outschakov
146. Oscar Pellicioli
147. G. Pianegonda
148. Roberto Pistore
149. Mario Scirea

SAECO-MERCATONE UNO
151. Michele Bartoli
152. Ruggero Borghi
153. Simone Biasci
154. Paolo Forniciari
155. Eros Poli
156. Rosario Fina
157. Giuseppe Calcaterra
158. Giuseppe Petito
159. Antonio Politano

SANTA CLARA
161. Romes Gainetdinov
162. Jordi Gilabert
163. Javier Pascual
164. M. Rodriguez Gil
165. Eloy Santamarta
166. D. Tcherkachine
167. Jose Jarque
168. Inaki Ayarzaguena
169. Andrej Zintchenko

SICASAL
171. M. Abreu-Campos
172. Michael Andersson
173. Victor Gamito
174. Joaquim Gomes
175. Carlos Pinho
176. Carlos Carneiro
177. Goncalo Amorin
178. Serafim Vieira
179. Ricardo Felgueira

TELEKOM
181. Rolf Aldag
182. Gerd Aydhem
183. Bert Dietz
184. Christian Henn
185. Kai Hundertmark
186. Mario Kummer
187. Jan Ullrich
188. Steffen Wesemann
189. Erik Zabel

TVM-VERZEKERINGEN
191. Jeroen Blijlevens
192. Tristan Hoffman
193. Peter Meinert
194. Peter van Petegem
195. Roland Meier
196. Raymond Thebes
197. Servais Knaven
198. Jesper Skibby
199. Martin van Steen


News on 5th September


Stage 2, 4 Sept 95 -- Gianluca Pianegonda, from Vicenza in Italy, took
the first big win of his career in monday's stage of the Tour of Spain.
After a long breakaway by Laurent Jalabert, Pienagonda got away from a
small group in the last kilometers and crossed the finish line with 13
seconds lead. He also took over the yellow yersey as overall leader from
Abraham Olano who finished with the peloton.

   ** GAN's Pascal Derame failed to make the start of the Vuelta after
almost colliding with a police car that was travelling in the wrong
direction around the time trial circuit. Derame was warming up at the time.
Derame braked hard and avoided the car but landed on his face on the
pavement. The next morning, said team-mate Cedric Vasseur, Derame looked as
if he'd had a "bout with [Mike] Tyson during the night".

   ** Time trial winner Abraham Olano has prepared carefully in Indurain
style for the Vuelta. "The week before the start," he said, "I rode each
day for six to seven hours in the French Pyrenees, logging up five ascents
of the Tourmalet, five of Luz-Ardiden and two of Hautacam."

News from Stage 4

   * Gale-force winds and heavy rain forced officials to call a halt after
only eight of the 164 kms and restart the race 71 kms further on in
Villalba, shortening the stage to 85 kms.

   * A fist fight broke out between Venezuelan Leonardo Sierra and Spain's
Ramon Gonzalez Arrieta. Reports are the two riders fell to the ground after
grabbing each other's handlebars in the middle of the peloton. Off their
bikes, they then went toe-to-toe. After being separated, remounting and
continuing, the two were provisionally expelled from the race by judges
with 15 kms remaining in the stage. The cause of the scuffle is still being
investigated. With judges reviewing race footage, a final decision
regarding their expulsion is being debated. Neither rider was in contention
with Sierra lying at 98th and Arrieta at 83rd.

   * "This is a great victory for the team and especially for me after what
happened before the Tour," said victor Marcel Wust, who now rides for the
Spanish Castellblanch team. (He was a member of the now-defunct Le
Groupement team.)

   * Tomorrow's stage 5 includes one 460 meter 3rd category climb on its
route from La Coruna across hilly Galician territory to Orense.
Oops, News from Stage 3 (sorry for the order problems)

    The first mountain finish in this year's Tour of Spain at Alto de
Naranco (1st category, 6 kms at 7%) saw Laurent Jalabert go away with two
kilometers to go and take a solo win and also the leader's yellow jersey.
He also has the mountain and points jersey, the only missing is the sprint
jersey (so far).

Additional Stage Notes (from Reuters):

   * Today's (Tuesday) stage ended with a 600-meter-high special category climb.

   * Commented Jalabert: "Last year I would never have thought I could win
in the Naranco. It's a short climb and I thought I could be among the
leaders at the end but never to come home alone."

   * Jalabert still sees teammate Zuelle as most likely to win the Vuelta,
but has not ruled out a possible victory for himself. "I showed in the Tour
 I can be among the front-runners over three weeks, though all
things being equal Alex has the best chance. There's always a chance
however of a repeat of something like today or a breakaway," he said.

   * Tomorrow's fourth stage rolls 160 kms between Tapia de Casariego and
the Galician port of La Coruna, with one 3rd category climb.