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From: fred@varian.UUCP (Fred Klink)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: Coors Classic Stage Five 8/6 (Hinault wins a stage)
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Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 20:04:41 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 12 20:04:41 1985
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> As they came in the the finish there were no markers for
> 1K, 500M, 200M.  Also about a block before the finish there was a
> Rodeo Days banner across the road.  Davis sprinted for the wrong
> banner.  Hinault came around and won the stage.  Understandably Davis
> was not happy with the results and felt he could have won the stage.

	Being in one of the first cars to drive down Commercial in
	Truckee after the race gave me an interesting perspective on
	this.  One, there was a 1K marker although it was on a fast
	downhill, thus easy to miss.  There was no 500 or 200M markers,
	however, the rodeo banner was a dull brown affair that said
	nothing about the bike race.  The race banner (Davis had seen
	four of these by Tuesday), was about 200 meters down the
	road, visible from the end of the street, and was the usual
	colorful Coors banner with the AT&T timer and stage town name
	banner hanging beneath it.  
	A somewhat lame excuse, but I guess an understand-
	able error, especially in the absence of a 200m sign and in the
	presence of Bernard Hinault.