Road and Track Bicycle Racing News

Tuesday, October 5, 2004

Tomorrow's Menu
Tue Oct 5 20:24:22 2004 (EDT in North America)
Wedesday, October 6 Main Events: 

MEN: 
Stage Races: 
Stage 5, Tour du Sénégal (Senegal) Cat   2.5

Single Day races: None

Six Day Races:    None

WOMEN: 
Stage Races:      None

Single Day races: None


(Source: UCI)

UCI Calendars:     Track     Road     Women     UCI Home Page (Multilingual)
Official World Championships Site (Multilingual)


Tour du Sénégal - Cat. 2.5
Tue Oct 5 20:27:04 2004 (EDT in North America)

Oct. 5, 2004 - Rest Day. Here are the stages: 
30.09.04 - Prologue - Dakar                      1.6 km (ITT)
01.10.04 - Stage 1  - Dakar-Thiès               92.8 km
02.10.04 - Stage 2  - Thiès-Kaolack            160.6 km
03.10.04 - Stage 3  - Kaolack-Popenguine       141.3 km
04.10.04 - Stage 4  - Thiès-Somone              91.5 km
05.10.04 - Restday
06.10.04 - Stage 5  - Thiès-St Louis           192.4 km
07.10.04 - Stage 6  - St Louis-Louga-St Louis  138.2 km
08.10.04 - Stage 7  - Louga-Thiès              133.2 km
09.10.04 - Stage 8  - Mbour-Dakar              120.0 km
10.10.04 - Dakar Criterium                      55.0 km (Not counting for GC)

See the Cycle Racing website for fuller results.


(Source: Cycle Racing)
Cycle Racing Site (English)
Tour du Sénégal - Official Site (French)


Davide Rebellin: To ride Paris-Bourges
Tue Oct 5 17:23:20 2004 (EDT in North America)

Davide Rebellin, kept from participating in last Sunday's Worlds Championship Road Race
by what was considered by most fans to be a minor irregularity with his Argentinian
Citizenship papers will contest Paris Bourges this coming Thursday and then ride Paris-Tours, 
the penultimate event in the current World Cup series on Sunday next.

Rebellin currently leads the rankings in the World Cup but has only a slim lead (314 to 308)
over challenger Davide Rebellin.


(Source: la Gazzetta dello Sport)
la Gazzetta (Italian)


Bettini: Looking to Paris-Tours
Tue Oct 5 17:19:13 2004 (EDT in North America)

Paolo Bettini, the Italian Powerhouse who failed to finish the Worlds Championship
Road Race last Sunday, is looking to the traditional Fall/Autumn classic, Paris-Tours, 
to expunge the bitterness of his Worlds performance and perhaps improve upom his
current second place in the World Cup rankings.


(Source: la Gazzetta dello Sport)
la Gazzetta (Italian)


Freire joins the All Time Greats
Tue Oct 5 08:34:15 2004 (EDT in North America)

Triple Worlds winner since last Sunday, Spain's Oscar Freire joins a select band of legendary 
heros.

Whilst every rider Dreams of wearing the ``Maillot Arc en Ciel'', the ``Rainbow Jersey'' 
that sets the current owner above and apart from his contemporaries, few are the men who have 
earned this privilege.

And few and far between have been the Champions who have repeated the feat in a subsequent year.

But there are men, superhuman perhaps, who have won three World Championship jerseys.

Italy's Alfredo Binda, who led fellow Italians Costante Girardengo and Domenico
Piemontesi home for an all Italian podium in Nurburgring, Germany in the very first Worlds back in
1927 after two thirds of the field had called it a day due to the freezing rain and wind squalls
that buffeted the course, and the soul destroying 20 percent Hedwigshohe climb that had to be tackled
eight times, was, fittingly enough, the first to earn three Worlds Jersey's with victories in 1927, 
1930 and 1932.

Then came that Belgian superstar of the Road and Track, Rik van Steenbergen, a prolific winner and
one of the All Time Greats who won in 1949, 1956 and 1957.

Then another Belgian, the man Universally proclaimed as Greatest rider of All Time, Eddy Merckx,
managed the triple in 1967, 1971 and 1974.

But then came Oscar Freire some 30 years later to carve his name into the History Books with
his dramatic third win last Sunday in Verona.

Welcome to the Club, Oscar.


(Source: SixDay Staff)


Men Only
Tue Oct 5 08:21:32 2004 (EDT in North America)

Here's Chile's Luis Fernando Sepulveda

(Source: Six Day staff; Photo Courtesy: Cycle Info Site)
Cyclinfo Site (French)


Ladies Only
Tue Oct 5 08:09:18 2004 (EDT in North America)

Here's Canada's Clara Hughes

(Source: Six Day staff; Photo Courtesy: Cycle Info Site)
Cyclinfo Site (French)


Happy Birthday - Women
Tue Oct 5 08:04:49 2004 (EDT in North America)

Elena Novikova (1975) Russia - 29 today
157th UCI Ranking


(Source: Six Day staff) 


Happy Birthday - Men
Tue Oct 5 07:51:24 2004 (EDT in North America)

Josef Bruyere (1948) Belgium
Liege-Bastogne-Liege (1976)
Liege-Bastogne-Liege (1978)
Het Volk 1974
Het Volk 1975
Het Volk 1980


(Source: Six Day staff) 


Today's Menu
Tue Oct 5 07:49:06 2004 (EDT in North America)

Tuesday, October 5 Main Events: 

MEN: 
Stage Races: 
Rest Day, Tour du Sénégal (Senegal) Cat   2.5

Single Day races: None

Six Day Races:  None

WOMEN: 
Stage Races:  None

Single Day races: None


(Source: UCI)

UCI Calendars:     Track     Road     Women     UCI Home Page (Multilingual)
Official World Championships Site (Multilingual)


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