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Subject: Coors Classic Prologue
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Date: Sat, 3-Aug-85 23:51:31 EDT
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From: hamachi (Gordon Hamachi)

Ron Kiefel of the 7-Eleven Pro team won the Coors Classic prologue time
trial this morning at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco.  Kiefel edged out
star Greg LeMond-ster of the Celestial Seasonings/Red Zinger (La Vie Claire)
team, while Bernard Hinault finished way back approximately 25 seconds
behind Kiefel.  The course ran from pier 45 to Coit tower at the top of
Telegraph hill in San Francisco.  The winning time on the 1.1 mile, 295 foot
climb, was approximately 3 minutes and 10 seconds.

The men's teams:
    7-Eleven Pro
	Doug Shapiro
	Davis Phinney
	Ron Kiefel
	Chris Charmichael
	Bob Mathis
	Alex Steida
    Celestial Seasonings/Red Zinger Pro
	Greg LeMond
	Bernard Hinault
	Steve Bauer
	Eric Solamon
	Charly Berard
	Guido Winterberg
    Sil Power Tools Pro
	Sean Kelly et al.
    Pugeot Pro
    Colombia Pro
    Soviet Union
    Cuba
    DDR (East Germany)
    Mexico
    Killians/Ireland
    Holland
    France
    Levi's-Raleigh
	Andrew Hampsten
	Steve Tilford
	Thurlow Rogers
	Roy Knickman
	Greg Demgen
	Don Sutton
    Schwinn
	Thomas Prehn
	Jeff Pierce
	Jaanus Kuum
	Tom Broznowski
	Steve Speaks
	Bruce Whitsel
    Suntour Composite International
    McDonalds/Dia-Compe/Suntour

I find it quite interesting that Greg Le Mond gets top billing over
Hinault on the Red Zinger team.  Further, Hinault did not contest
the time trial and thus starts off tomorrow's race many seconds down.
Is this "Greg's race"?  Also, Jonathan Boyer isn't here.  The
recent winner of the RAAM must still be recovering from his "walkover"
against the marathon cyclists race.

The second stage of this "Hell of the West" imitation of fantasy (see my next
article) is tomorrow's Fisherman's Wharf Criterium.  This is 60 laps on a
flat 0.7 mile loop, for a total distance of 42 miles.  Strangely enough,
the course passes through the full length of pier 45 which contains the
Coors Classic bicycle expo before making a tight 180 degree turn back
past the USS Pampanito and out onto city streets.  The race starts tomorrow
at 10 am.

The bike expo itself is something of a disappointment.  It basically looks
like small time stuff.  There weren't banks upon banks of gleaming
gruppos stretched out on display.  The most interesting things there
were a custom 4-person "tandem", and the bike John Howard used recently
to break the world's motor paced speed record.

--Gordon Hamachi