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Article: Cycling: Cipollini refuses to be upstaged Tour de France: Italian sprints to another success as fellow countryman loses his temper
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 18, 1998
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By Robin Nicholl
with the Tour de France
FOR A long time on yesterday's stage Mario Cipollini did not
believe that he could win again while six minutes ahead of him
another Italian, with a British passport, clung to the dream of
triumph.
As the Olympic bronze medallist Max Sciandri and his breakaway
partners, Cedric Vasseur of France and Jose Rodriguez of Spain, raced
to a lead of six minutes, Sciandri became Tour leader "on the road".
The sun warmed the air for the first time in the opening week, and
life was looking promising as the trio were still more than two
minutes clear with 23 kilometres of the 204 kms leg to Brive
remaining.
Starting from La Chatre may have inspired Vasseur who ...