July 26/97 11:21 am - Olano Takes Penultimate Stage Victory

Posted by Editor on 07/26/97
 

Stage 20, Disneyland (Paris) ITT - 63 km  1 OLANO Abraham 1h15'57" 2 ULLRICH Jan 00'45" 3 GAUMONT Philippe 01'12" 4 JULICH Bobby 02'24" 5 DEKKER Erik 02'39" 6 MOREAU Christophe 02'56" 7 BROCHARD Laurent 03'10" 8 DUFAUX Laurent 03'11" 9 VIRENQUE Richard 03'32" 10 KASPUTIS Arturas 03'48"  GC  1 ULLRICH Jan 96h35'59" 2 VIRENQUE Richard 09'09" 3 PANTANI Marco 14'03" 4 OLANO Abraham 15'55" 5 ESCARTIN Fernando 20'32" 6 CASAGRANDE Francesco 22'47" 7 RIIS Bjarne 26'34" 8 JIMENEZ Jose Maria 31'17" 9 DUFAUX Laurent 31'55" 10 CONTI Roberto 32'26"  17 JULICH Bobby 1:01:30  Note: In yesterday‚s stage (19), the first and second place finishers - Voskamp and Heppner - were relegated to 11th and 12th for pushing and shoving each other in the sprint. Seems a little bizarre, since they were 30 seconds ahead of anyone else at the time...