in article [email hidden], Jenko at [email hidden] wrote
on 7/3/04 11:00 AM:
Quoted message said:David Off said:
Bravo to the US... 3 riders in the top ten.
If you extend that to the top 30, you see whose countries
care the most about the Tour Spain: 9 riders (Gutierrez,
3rd, was the first among them) USA: 6 (Armstrong, 2nd)
Germany: 5 (Voigt, 7th) Norway: 2 (Hushovd, 5th) Russia: 2
(Ekimov, 19th) Belgium: 2 (Wauters, 22nd) Switzerland: 1
(Cancellara, 1st) Australia: 1 (McGee, 4th) France: 1
(Moreau, 8th) Italy: 1 (Peron, 20th)
Other countries Netherlands: De Groot, 37th Portugal:
Azevedo, 38th ... Denmark: Piil, 83rd
Jenko
Austria: Bernhard Eisel (FDJ), 43rd Czech Republic: Jan
Hruska (Liberty), 45th Lithuania: Marius Sabaliauskas
(Saeco), 50th Sweden: Magnus Backstedt (Alessio), 62nd
Ireland: Mark Scanlon (AG2R), 63rd Colombia: Santiago Botero
(T-Mobile), 71st New Zealand: Julian Dean (Credit Agricole),
72nd Venezuela: Unai Etxebarria (Euskaltel), 76th Poland:
Darius Baranowski (Liberty), 88th Estonia: Janek Tombak
(Cofidis), 112nd Slovenia: Martin Hvastija (Alessio), 113rd