From: jan@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Jan Wysocki)
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles
Subject: Results TOB
Keywords: Stage 2
Date: 12 Aug 92 13:55:36 GMT
Reply-To: jan@dcs.qmw.ac.uk
Organization: Vision Laboratory, Queen Mary & Westfield College.


"Tour of Britain" Stage 2, Edinburgh to Gateshead, 133.3 miles.

Started: Aug 11th, 9.30 a.m.

Information gleaned without permission, but gratefully 
acknowledged, from Channel 4 television, "Cycling Weekly" and the "Independent"
My apologies to Phil Anderson, yesterday, if he doesn't like being labeled
Austrian! 

This stage was raced against a strong head wind and into rain for the
first half.  By Dunion hill (about 44 miles), the then leaders Brian
Smith and Bo Hamburger were averaging 21.2 mph.  Sean Yates and
Dominque Krieger broke away from the field near the border and
established a 52 second lead, but this was steadily eroded by the Lotto
team.  At 123 miles Allan Peiper broke with Andrea Tafi, but soon left
Tafi behind, Imboden caught up and led the climb into Gateshead with
Phil Anderson on his tail.

Channel 4 occasionally chats to riders and today we got a nice close up 
conversation with Greg LeMond and Phil Anderson as Allan Peiper passed.
The half hour tv coverage proved a little inadequate today, huge jumps along
the race made it hard to follow progress.

Stage    Time          Name                    Nationality, Team
Position    

 1.       5:38:02      Maximilian Sciandri     Italian, Motorola
 2.            do.     Andri van der Poel      Dutch, Tulip + Koga Miyata
 3.            do.     Heinz Imboden           Swiss, Subaru Montgomery
 4.            do.     Jos van Aert            Dutch, PDM-Comcorde
 5.            +8*     Eddy Bouwmans           Dutch, Panasonic-Sportlife
 6.                    Mario Kummer            German, PPDM-Comcorde
 ..
 8.            do.     Phil Anderson           Australian, Motorola
16.            do.     Sean Yates              UK, Motorola
19.            do.     Robert Millar           UK (Scot.), TVM
21.            do.     Hendrik Redant          Belgian, Lotto
78.         +2:17      Greg LeMond             US, Z - Cycles LeMond

* Times shown here as +8 are from last nights tv coverage.  Today's 
"Independent" shows them as +7.

There were 3 sprints and 3 hill climbs in Stage 2.
Brian Smith is King of the Mountains.

Overall   Overall
Position  Time 

 1.       7:40: 1      Maximilian Sciandri
 2.            +3      Jos van Aert
 3.            +8*     Andri van der Poel
 4.            +8*     Hendrik Redant
 5.           +16      Olaf Ludwig 
 6.           +18      Johan Museeuw
 7.           +20      Phil Anderson
 ..
14.           +22      Sean Yates
14.           +22      Robert Millar
79.         +2:32      Greg LeMond

Still to come:
Stage 3 Aug 12th, 11 a.m.      Middlesbrough to Hull,  103.5 miles
Stage 4 Aug 13th, 11.10 a.m.   Lincoln to Coventry,    114.2 miles.
Stage 5 Aug 14th, 10.15 a.m.   Nottingham to Leeds,    118.8 miles.

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          Jan Wysocki                 |  Computer Science Department,
                                      |  Queen Mary and Westfield College,
 email:    jan@dcs.qmw.ac.uk          |  Mile End Road,
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