- Title: ALGERIA: CYCLING - THIRD INTERNATIONAL "TOUR D'ALGERIE" STARTS FROM ALGIERS
- Date: 22nd March 1972
- Summary: 1. SV Czech team preparing 0.05 2. SV Yugoslav team 0.08 3. SV Swedish team 0.13 4. GV Polish team checking tyres 0.16 5. SV Belgian team 0.21 6. SV Swiss team 0.26 7. GV West German team 0.30 8. SV Moroccan team 0.34 9. SV Soviet team make final preparations 0.37 10. SV Starter calling cyclists to line 0.42 11. SV Crowd look on 0.45 12. SV PAN ALONG start of race - riders away 1.07 Initials OS/1632 /OS/1642 SPORT: CYCLING Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: ALGIERS, ALGERIA
- Country: Algeria
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- Story Text: The third international "Tour D'Algerie" is due to end in Algiers on the second of April.
Sixteen nations are represented in this year's race, and a record 102 competitors are taking part. The countries represented are Algeria, Belgium Bulgaria, Italy, Morocco, Poland West Germany, Rumania, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia - and for the first time, Denmark, Holland and Czechoslovakia.
The cyclists had a journey of more than 1060 miles (1720 kms) ahead of them when they set out from Algiers on Tuesday (21 March). The fist stage of sixty miles (98kms) was to be over gentle hill country and to end with a mass spring into the town of Ouzou.
SYNOPSIS: Cyclists from Czechoslovakia are competing int his year's tour of Algeria cycle race for the first time. Sixteen national teams gathered at Algiers on Tuesday for the start of the race -- which won't end until April the second.
Poland has been represented in the race before - as has Belgium. A record number of 102 competitors are taking part - all of them amateur cyclists. It's the third time this international event has been held. There are six cyclists in the team from West Germany.
For all the teams - the last few hours before the start were a time for final checks and preparations.
The race is run in twelve stages...a total of more than one thousand and sixty miles (1720 kms). This first day's run was to the town of Ouzou about 60 miles away, and was to include a gentle hill section and a mass sprint. There is no clear favourite for the race - but the organisers have predicted an exciting contest in a race that they see as a major test of endurance.
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