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The French bank Crédit Lyonnais, a sponsor of the Tour de France for 20 years, will have the option of not renewing it's contract with the Tour after the 2003 race, although the bank won't make a decision until after the 2001 Tour according to Nicolas Chaine, the bank's director of communications. In 1994 Jean Peyrelevade took over as head of the struggling bank and decided to renew the contract with the Tour for another eight years, despite an annual cost of 35 million francs, in order to keep the company from appearing "truly moribund." The company has stuck with the Tour,

In 2000, the Tour LeFleur reached the high point of its seven-year existence when the Jackson, Mississippi, event played host to the U.S. Olympic Trials. Last week, the organizing committee announced that the race would not be back in 2001. "After the phenomenal year we had, hosting the Time Trial Championship and the U.S. Olympic Trials, we feel like we set a standard that we want to maintain," said Bo Bourne, Tour LeFleur creator, in a press release issued last Friday. "We added live television and the Jumbotron at the start/finish area. We also had other amenities and a level of

The 84th Giro d’Italia route was announced on November 11, and according to Marco Pantani, the 3572km race between Pescara on the eastern coast and Milan promises to be a “wide-open race.” Indeed, many of the stages of the May 19-June 10 race could favor a climber such as Pantani. The race includes 21 stages, an 8km prologue in Pescara, one rolling 55km time trial in stage 15, a foray into Slovenia, and one rest day before the San Remo-San Remo 17th stage. There are 22 major climbs spread out over 10 of the stages, with the highest being the Colle Fauniera at 2511 meters (8161 feet). Three

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Written by Josh at Zipp:Here is an excerpt from a PM I sent to somebody a few weeks ago on this identical topic. I hope this helps clarify things somewhat... The outer aluminum hoop in our clincher rims weighs only 200 grams, and therefore will get much hotter than a standard aluminum rim. Since the temperature of something is relative to the energy input/mass, a 200 gram rim will get twice as hot as a 400 gram rim for the same energy input. What happens is that if your descending a mountain at 70 degrees and you brake for 2 minutes and your standard aluminum rims heat to 220 degrees (an