Canadian Mountain Biker to Nagano  Guido Visser, a fixture on the Canada Cup scene, has been selected to the Olympic cross-country ski team for the Nagano Olympics. The Bromont, Quebec rider finished third at a Canada Cup (ski) race in Val Cartier a few days ago to secure the spot.   CMBA Online  The Canadian Mountain Bicycling Alliance is now online. Check them out at the following (temporary) location. We say temporary, because once the paperwork is done they will move to www.cmba.ca    UCI Road Rankings (as of December 31st, 1997)  Men  1 JALABERT, Laurent FRA ONC 2,353.00 2 ULLRICH, Jan GER TEL 1,610.00 3 BARTOLI, Michele ITA MAG 1,430.00 4 ZUELLE, Alex SUI ONC 1,417.00 5 TONKOV, Pavel RUS MAP 1,403.00 6 TCHMIL, Andrei UKR LOT 1,236.00 7 ZABEL, Erik GER TEL 1,134.00 8 CASAGRANDE, Francesco ITA SAE 1,102.00 9 MUSEEUW, Johan BEL MAP 1,092.00 10 OLANO MANZANO, Abraham ESP BAN 1,043.00 11 TAFI, Andrea ITA MAP 1,042.50 12 ESCARTIN COTI, Fernando ESP KEL 1,023.00 13 ZBERG, Beat SUI MER 977.00 14 VIRENQUE, Richard FRA FES 970.00 15 EKIMOV, Vjatceslav RUS USP 935.00 16 REBELLIN, Davide ITA FDJ 928.00 17 DUFAUX, Laurent SUI FES 858.00 18 BOARDMAN, Christopher GBR GAN 830.00 19 SORENSEN, Rolf DEN RAB 812.00 20 RIIS, Bjarne DEN TEL 776.00  257 LUKASCEWICZ, Cszelaw CAN 126.00
293 ANAND, Mat CAN 107.00
342 WOHLBERG, Eric CAN SHA 90.00
395 WALTON, Brian CAN SAT 70.00
553 FRASER, Gordon CAN MUT 41.00
672 BARRY, Michael CAN 28.00
857 ROVER, Steve CAN MUT 15.00
933 LANDRY, Jacques CAN 12.00
1051 BERGERON, Fabien CAN 9.00
1080 HIBBARD, Mark CAN 8.00
1130 COJAN, Yannick CAN 7.00
1201 LAVALLEE, Alexandre CAN 5.00
1201 RANDELL, Andrew CAN 5.00
1269 BELZILE, Guillaume CAN 4.00
1335 NEPVEU, Michel CAN 3.00
1373 MAGGIACOMO, Daniel CAN 2.00
1413 PERRAS, Dominique CAN 1.00  Trade Team Standings  1 MAPEI - GB ITA 7,248.00 points 2 O.N.C.E. ESP 6,514.00 3 TEAM DEUTSCHE TELEKOM GER 5,964.00 4 FESTINA - LOTUS FRA 5,432.00 5 SAECO - A.S. JUVENES SAN MARINO SMR 4,337.00  Country Standings  1 ITALY 8,789.50 points 2 FRANCE 7,157.00 3 SPAIN 6,106.00 4 SWITZERLAND 5,831.00 5 GERMANY 5,282.00  23 CANADA 506.00  Women  1 KUPFERNAGEL, Hanka GER 425.00 points 2 CAPPELLOTTO, Alessandra ITA 333.00 3 ZABIROVA, Zoulfia RUS 257.00 4 POLIKEVICIUTE, Jolanta LTU 246.00 5 HEEB, Barbara SUI 238.00 6 MARSAL, Catherine FRA 211.00 7 LONGO-CIPRELLI, Jeannie FRA 209.00 8 LUPERINI, Fabiana ITA 175.00 9 TADICH, Elisabeth AUS 160.00 10 JACKSON, Linda CAN 158.00

50 LANGTON, Kimberly CAN 21.00
60 SAMPLONIUS, Anne CAN 13.00
108 BUSSIERES, Lizanne CAN 2.00  Espoir (Under 23) Men  1 PANETTA, Stefano ITA 153.0 points 2 ARVESEN, Kurt-Asle NOR 153.0 3 GLOMSER, Gerrit AUT 116.0 4 COMMESSO, Salvatore ITA 113.0 5 BODROGI, Laszlo HUN 106.0 6 MALBERTI, Fabio ITA 102.0 7 STRAUSS, Marcel SUI 101.0 8 CAPELLE, Ludovic BEL 82.0 9 ZANETTE, Aldo ITA 81.0 10 MENDEZ, Alberto Fermin GUA 80.0  Junior Men  1 HIECKMANN, Torsten GER 208 points 2 KESSLER, Matthias GER 192 3 WERNER, Christian GER 150 4 GÃœTTINGER, Sandro SUI 147 5 BOLT, Martin SUI 138 6 VAN DER KOOIJ, Vincent NED 106 7 D'AMORE, Crescenzo ITA 100 8 DE WAARD, Bram NED 95 9 KIVICHEV, Eduard RUS 88 10 KAISER, Robert GER 72  Oh, by the way...

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