Tour de France Stage 5 results
Roger Thomas
in Portsmouth. A fine longish hill, steep (1 in 7, 14%), which slowed the
riders enough to get a good view of them. Perini, Lietti, Herve and
Van Hooydonck were still away at that point. Thousands of spectators
out today making it pretty certain that Le Tour will return to us some
time in the next decade.
Usual Reuter reports follow. Tomorrow, I'll try to give some sort of
"as it happens" account of the Cherbourg-Rennes stage.
PORTSMOUTH, England, July 7 (Reuter) - Leading placings in the fifth stage
of the Tour de France cycle race over 187-km around Portsmouth on Thursday:
1. Nicola Minali (Italy) Gewiss Ballan four hours 10 minutes
and 49 seconds
2. Olaf Ludwig (Germany) Telekom
3. Silvio Martinello (Italy) Mercatone Uno
4. Jan Svorada (Slovakia) Lampre
5. Djamolidine Abdoujaparov (Uzbekistan) Polti
6. Jean-Paul van Poppel (Netherlands) Festina
7. Johan Capiot (Belgium) TVM
8. Jaan Kirsipuu (Estonia) Chazal
9. Gianluca Bortolami (Italy) Mapei Clas
10. Christophe Capelle (France) GAN
11. Marc Sergeant (Belgium) Histor
12. Angel Edo (Spain) Kelme
13. Andrei Tchmil (Moldova) Lotto
14. Mario de Clercq (Belgium) Lotto
15. Thierry Gouvenou (France) GAN
16. Johan Museeuw (Belgium) GB MG
17. Bruno Thibout (France) Castorama
18. Fabiano Fontanelli (Italy) ZG Mobili
19. Emmanuel Magnien (France) Castorama
20. Uwe Raab (Germany) Telekom all same time
Leading overall standings:
1. Flavio Vanzella (Italy) GB MG 21 hours 45 minutes and 55
seconds
2. Johan Museeuw (Belgium) GB MG four seconds behind
3. Miguel Indurain (Spain) Banesto 14 seconds
4. Lance Armstrong (U.S.) Motorola 26
5. Armand de las Cuevas (France) Castorama 32
6. Thierry Marie (France) Castorama 37
7. Sean Yates (Britain) Motorola 38
8. Tony Rominger (Switzerland) Mapei Clas 42
9. Frankie Andreu (U.S.) Motorola 43
10. Thomas Davy (France) Castorama same time
11. Melchior Mauri (Spain) Banesto 45
12. Franco Vona (Italy) GB MG 51
13. Marino Alonso (Spain) Banesto 53
14. Chris Boardman (Britain) GAN same time
15. Phil Anderson (Australia) Motorola 54
16. Abraham Olano (Spain) Kelme 1:00
17. Gianluca Bortolami (Italy) Mapei Clas 1:01
18. Gerard Rue (France) Banesto 1:04
19. Jose-Ramon Uriarte (Spain) Banesto 1:08
20. Piotr Ugrumov (Latvia) Gewiss Ballan 1:18
PORTSMOUTH, England, July 7 (Reuter) - Outsider Nicola Minali of Italy
upset the speed kings to take the fifth stage of the Tour de France on Thursday.
Minali, 24, beat experienced German Olaf Ludwig of Germany into second
place in a massive sprint which ended the last of two stages in England.
Italian Silvio Martinello took third place in a relatively undemanding,
187-km ride around Portsmouth which allowed Italian Flavio Vanzella to retain
the race leader's yellow jersey.
Race favourites Miguel Indurain of Spain and Tony Rominger of Switzerland
came in with the pack to keep alive their chances of victory at the Paris finish
on July 24.
Four men, Pascal Herve of France, Italians Giancarlo Perini and Marco
Lietti and Belgian Edwig Van Hooydonck, escaped after 25 kilometres and rode
in front for most of the stage.
But the peloton, led by Vanzella's team mates in the GB MG stable,
eventually reacted and the four were pulled in four kilometres from home.
Vanzella, who took the jersey from Belgian team mate Johan Museeuw after
Wednesday's stage in Brighton, stays four seconds ahead of Museeuw in the
overall standings, with three times Tour winner Indurain in third place a
further 10 seconds back.
Indurain, seeking to become only the third man to win a fourth consecutive
Tour de France, was seen in front of the peloton on several occasions.
Like all his Banesto colleagues, Indurain was sporting a red scarf for San
Firmin day, the annual Pamplona bullfight festival.
The Tour, which had last came to Britain in 1974 with a stage near
Plymouth, returns to France for Friday's sixth stage from Cherbourg to Rennes.
The two stages through the southern counties of Kent, Sussex and
Hampshire proved a success, with thousands of fans lining the roads to cheer
the riders.
"I knew there would be a lot of people along the roads but I didn't expect
there would be that many," said Sean Yates, one of the two Britons in the race
with Chris Boardman, who held the race lead for the first three stages.
"I simply wish that the Tour will help give British cycling a new momentum
and will raise the interest of sponsors in the sport," said Tour director
Jean-Marie Leblanc. "I hope that in a few years, some of the kids we saw by the
roads will be riding on the Tour."
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Roger Thomas
Perry Friedman
> Leading overall standings:
> 1. Flavio Vanzella (Italy) GB MG 21 hours 45 minutes and 55
> seconds
> 2. Johan Museeuw (Belgium) GB MG four seconds behind
> 3. Miguel Indurain (Spain) Banesto 14 seconds
> 4. Lance Armstrong (U.S.) Motorola 26
What happened to Rolf Sorensen? Too many GB MG's in the top 4 so they kicked him out of the race? What gives?
Perry
Note: previous day's standings were:
1. Flavio Vanzella (Italy) GB MG 17 hours 34 minutes and six
seconds
2. Johan Museeuw (Belgium) GB MG four seconds behind
3. Miguel Indurain (Spain) Banesto 14 secs
4. Rolf Sorensen (Denmark) GB MG 23
5. Lance Armstrong (U.S.) Motorola 26
Norbert Vohn
>What happened to Rolf Sorensen? Too many GB MG's in the top 4 so they kicked him out of the race? What gives?
>
>Note: previous day's standings were:
> 1. Flavio Vanzella (Italy) GB MG 17 hours 34 minutes and six
> seconds
> 2. Johan Museeuw (Belgium) GB MG four seconds behind
> 3. Miguel Indurain (Spain) Banesto 14 secs
> 4. Rolf Sorensen (Denmark) GB MG 23
> 5. Lance Armstrong (U.S.) Motorola 26
>
Rolf had a flat tyre a few kilometers before the finish line. He crossed the line
about 1'5" after Nicola Minali.
/Norbert
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Keith Marchington
: In <773613...@alcala.demon.co.uk>, Ro...@alcala.demon.co.uk (Roger Thomas) writes:
: > Leading overall standings:
: > 1. Flavio Vanzella (Italy) GB MG 21 hours 45 minutes and 55
: > seconds
: > 2. Johan Museeuw (Belgium) GB MG four seconds behind
: > 3. Miguel Indurain (Spain) Banesto 14 seconds
: > 4. Lance Armstrong (U.S.) Motorola 26
: What happened to Rolf Sorensen? Too many GB MG's in the top 4 so they kicked him out of the race? What gives?
He flatted 3km from the finish.
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Keith