Domo-Farm Frites final selection. Out - Axel Merckx - back problems not completely cleared. Johan Museeuw slight knee problem. Prefers not to take any chances before Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix. Team will be Cassani/Cretskens/Knaven/Konecny/Milesi/Rodriguez/Van Heeswijk/Virenque

Mapei - Stefano Garzelli out. He went down with a throat problem during the Tirreno-Adriatico and has been forced to rest for 5 days. Team will be - Oscar Freire, Paolo Bettini, Italian Champion Daniele Nardello, Laszlo Bodrogi, Davide Bramati, Luca Paolini, Stefano Zanini and Robert Hunter.

ARTETXE GEZURAGA Mikel (Esp)
ETXEBARRIA ARANA Unai (Ven)
FLORES GALARZA Igor (Esp)
FLORES GALARZA Iker (Esp)
ISASI FLORES Inaki (Esp)
SANCHEZ GONZALEZ Samuel (Esp)
SILLONIZ ARESTI Josu (Esp)
SOLAUN SOLANA Cesar (Esp)

The Telekom riders have been announced via their web site. Jan Ullrich (knee problems) and Erik Zabel's lead out man Gian Matteo Fagnini (fractured collarbone - fell on stage one of Tirreno-Adriatico) are out. Bobby Julich replaces Fagnini.

ZABEL Erik (Ger)
ALDAG Rolf (Ger)
HUNDERTMARCK Kai (Ger)
JULICH Bobby (USA)
KLIER Andreas (Ger)
SCHAFFRATH Jan (Ger)
WESEMANN Steffen (Ger)
VINOKOUROV Alexandre (Kaz)

Danilo Di Luca will be the leader of the Saeco Macchine per Caffe'-Longoni Sport team for Milan-San Remo. Biagio Conte was 4th last year. Salvatore Commesso (Ita) will not be riding after his retirement at the Tirreno-Adriatico showed he is not in top form.

DI LUCA Danilo (Ita)
CELESTINO Mirko (Ita)
GALLETTI Alessio (Ita)
CONTE Biagio (Ita)
ASTARLOA Igor (Esp)
SPEZIALETTI Alessandro (Ita)
PEPOLI Cristian (Ita)
SABALIAUSKAS Marius (Lti)

Fernando Cortinovis from Lampre-Daikin has informed me that the team for Milan-San Remo will be as below. He says that "the lack of Rumsas is serious but with Svorada, Sciandri and Bertogliati we hope to do good".

Raimondas Rumsas crashed in the Trofeo dell'Etna and will be out of action due to lacerations and contusions. He was due to ride both the Tirreno-Adriatico and San Remo. Rubens Bertogliati replaces him.

CORTINOVIS Alessandro (Ita)
DIERCKXSENS Ludo (Bel)
MISSAGLIA Gabriele (Ita)
BERTOGLIATI Rubens (Sui)
SERPELLINI Marco (Ita)
SPRUCH Zbignew (Pol)
SCIANDRI Maximilian (Gbr)
SVORADA Jan (Cze)

The eight riders for Rabobank will be chosen from the following. Marcus Zberg was 8th last year.

DEN BAKKER Maarten (Hol)
BOVEN Jan (Hol)
DEKKER Erik (Hol)
HAYMAN Mathew (Aus)
DE JONGH Steven (Hol)
KROON Karsten (Hol)
PRONK Matthé (Hol)
WAUTERS Marc (Bel)
ZBERG Beat (Swi)
ZBERG Marcus (Swi)

The Team Coast riders are as follows.

GUIDI Fabrizio (Ita)
CHRISTENSEN Bekim (Den)
HERNANDEZ BERTRAN Jaime Javier (Esp)
HOJ Frank (Den)
GIANETTI Mauro (Sui)
MICHAELSEN Lars (Den)
KORFF André (Ger)
SCHWEDA Raphael (Ger)

The following riders are in reserve

ADAMSSON Stefan (Swe)
LARA RUIZ Francisco José (Esp)
HENRIX Sascha (Ger)
URBAN Malte (Ger)

Thanks to Alfonso Galilea, ibanesto.com's Directeur Sportif adj. and assistant Team Manager, who has informed me of who will participate for them this year as listed below.

David Latasa Lasa was 179th a year ago 15' 39" down. He had been in a 4 man break with Sergey Matveyev (Panaria), Martin Rittsel (CSC) and Milan Kadlec (Mobilvetta) who had at one time a lead of 9'50". The break was caught on the Cipressa after being away for 155 km. José Ivan Gutierrez was 83rd at 1' 43" riding for ONCE.

BARANOWSKI Dariusz (Pol)
BROZYNA Tomasz (Pol)
BRUSEGHIN Marzio (Ita)
FLECHA GIANNONI Juan Antonio (Esp)
GUTIERREZ PALACIOS José Ivan (Esp)
JIMENEZ SANCHEZ Eladio (Esp)
LATASA LASA David (Esp)
PLAZA MOLINA Ruben (Esp)

The ONCE-Eroski team are as follows. However since picking the team David Arroyo has broken his collarbone in a fall during a training session. He will be out for at least a month.

Olano was 87th last year 1'43" down on Zabel. Zarrabeitia was 123rd at 4'50". Jaksche was in 150th place at 7'12".

ANDRLE René (Cze)
ARROYO DURAN David (Esp)
CARUSO Giampaolo (Ita)
DIAZ JUSTO Rafael (Esp)
GONZALEZ DE GALDEANO A. Igor (Esp)
HRUSKA Jan (Cze)
JÄKSCHE Jörg (Ger)
OLANO MANZANO Abraham (Esp)

The following riders are in reserve

ZARRABEITIA URANGA Mikel (Esp)
FLORENCIO CABRE Xavier (Esp)
BELOKI DORRONSORO Gorka (Esp)
GONZALEZ RIOS Jonathan (Esp)

The Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tollo team so far are as follows. The rest of the team will be chosen in March. Mario Cipollini, 2nd a year ago, attempts yet again to win the race of his dreams. The line up also includes 1996 winner Gabrielle Colombo (6th in 2001). Guido Trenti was 12th last year.

CIPOLLINI Mario (Ita)
COLOMBO Gabriele (Ita)
LOMBARDI Giovanni (Ita)
SCIREA Mario (Ita)
TRENTI Guido (Usa)
MARTIN PERDIGUERO Miguel Angel (Esp)

Kelme have informed me today that their team for San Remo will be:

CUENCA Juan Miguel
GUTIERREZ Jose Ignacio
NAVARRETE Leandro
ZABALLA Constantino
USANO Julian
VALVERDE Alejandro
JULIA José Cayetano
VICIOSO Angel

All riders are from Spain

12 March 2001 - Since picking the team José Cayetano Juliá has been in collision with a with a car while out training. His injuries are not serious however but he has a neck sprain and bruising to his body.

Lotto-Adecco

Van Petegem, who was in the crash with 300m to go on the Via Roma, finished in 13th place last year riding for Mercury. Mario Aerts was 18th.

AERTS Mario (Bel)
BRANDT Christophe (Bel)
MCEWEN Robbie (Aus)
MARICHAL Thierry (Bel)
MIKHAILOV Guennadi (Rus)
TCHMIL Andrei (Bel)
VAN LANCKER Kurt (Bel)
VAN PETEGEM Peter (Bel)

DE CLERCQ Hans (Bel) - Was in the original line-up but will now not be taking part due to a fall in the Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise on 5th February. He has broken his right hand in two places and is expected to be out of action until the end of April. Robbie McEwen has replaced De Clercq.

The following riders are in reserve

D'HOLLANDER Glenn (Bel)
STREMERSCH Tom (Bel)
AMORISON Frédéric (Bel)

A 'Top Club' (shown in bold) must take part in at least nine events otherwise it will be excluded from the 'Top Clubs' the following year.

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