Keep it clean boys
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ByEurosport
Published 30/03/2006 at 10:58 GMT
It's no April Fool's joke. The mayor - or burgermeister - of Grammont intends to ban the tossing of water bottles and other trash on the roadways in Sunday's Tour of Flanders. "I hope that Tom Boonen will be the first to lead by example," mayor Guido De P
CYCLING 2005 Tour of Flanders Ballan Klier
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"I'm appealing to the common sense of riders, [as] there will be no sanctions or fines," De Padt told the daily newspaper.
"How can young people understand that it's not good for the environment to toss anything and everything if they see riders doing it. On Saturday, there will be 13-thousand cyclotourists who will climb the Grammont and I can guarantee that afterward, the Muur and its surroundings will look like a bonafide public dump."
NO PRELIMINARIES FOR BETTINI
Despite his crash in Tirreno-Adriatico, Olympic champion Paolo Bettini will arrive in Belgium on Saturday where he intends to play a key role in helping Quickstep team-mate Tom Boonen retain his Ronde title.
PETACCHI FOR SURE
Twice he's failed to finish, but Alessandro Petacchi will definitely be at the start Sunday as super-gregario for Erik Zabel (fourth last year). Milram will also include Grabsch, Müller, Cadamuro, Cortinovis, Sacchi, and Den Bakker.
KLIER STAYING PUT
2005 runner-up Andreas Klier may be German, but he knows the Muur better than anyone: he lives with his family in Denderwindeke near Geraardsbergen, and as he told T-Mobile's official website: “I’m not moving away from here before I’ve won this race.”
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