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Substitutes used: C Giles (Havant), J Shaw (Southgate), N Thompson (Old Loughtonians).Umpires: J Rommel and C Siebrecht (Germany).. Substitutes used: R Koster, M Eikelboom.ENGLAND: D Luckes (East Grinstead); J Halls (Old Loughtonians), P McGuire (Teddington); S Hazlitt (Hounslow), Soma Singh (Southgate, capt), R Garcia (Polo Barcelona); C Mayer, Kalbir Takher (both Cannock), R Thompson (Hounslow), J Laslett (Teddington), B Sharpe (Cannock). Thompson struck again with an impressive individual goal in the final minute.NETHERLANDS: R Jansen; E Jazet, J Delmee; W Van Pelt, B Poortenaar; J Brinkman, M Delissen (capt), L Klein Gebbink; S Veen, T De Nooijer, R Van Wijk. Yesterday, in The Hague, they lost 5-2 despite soaking up considerable pressure in the opening 10 minutes.After the Dutch captain Marc Delissen opened the scoring, loose marking allowed Remco Van Wijk to put them further ahead before the interval.After falling further behind Rob Thompson forced a penalty corner in the second half, which Callum Giles converted. In each game we fought back well and created a lot of chances but our finishing was not good." At Breda on Saturday, England conceded four goals in nine minutes before losing 5-1.
David Whitaker, England's coach, described the weekend as: "Disappointing and frustrating, but we must learn from our mistakes. Caruso and Elli had, however, escaped with the Belgian Sammie Moreels, Latvia's Arvis Piziks, and the Italian Marco Milesi. Then the two Italians escaped after 180km, and Sciandri saw his chance.With his fifth place Johan Museeuw, of Belgium, improved his lead in the World Cup of which this race was the seventh round.. England experienced a frustrating weekend in the Netherlands as they went through their final preparations for next week's European Cup in Dublin with two convincing defeats at the hands of the world silver medallists.
"I could see there were not too many guys in good condition, and that a lot were tired."When I caught the leaders, I knew from experience of this course that if we were a minute or more ahead on reaching the finishing circuit there was a good chance of winning."This success had the same stamp on it as his Tour de France stage win at St Etienne Then he shook off Hernan Buenahora and raced on alone. Yesterday as he, Roberto Elli, and Roberto Caruso began the final eight kilometres, Sciandri pedalled away to open a winning gap of 44 seconds.After twice climbing Holme Moss the class field was scattered around the magnificent moorlands. This year he took out a British racing licence, declared himself truly Italian, but keen to race for Britain in the World Championships - and hopefully the Atlanta Olympics.He has finished seventh and four in previous Classics, but yesterday was quick to spot his opportunity. Max Sciandri took the victory he badly wanted yesterday when he won the Leeds Classic. Then he raised questions over the world selection he craved so much that he took out a British racing licence. For an Italian, born in Derby of an English mum and an Italian dad, he got a rousing reception as he rode along The Headrow finishing straight, arms aloft to celebrate a win forged in the last 50 of the 233 kilometre race. "It's something special to win in England, and I was motivated because of that and this selection business," Sciandri said.
"I will decide about the World Championships at the end of the month because it is going to be a particularly hard course in Colombia."I am in really good condition, and if I am in that shape at the time of the world race in October then I would be confident about it."He was frustrated with Italian selectors who, with a wealth of talent to pick over, ignored his claims. Emma Richards, also of Helensburgh but studying at Glasgow University, was second.. Scottish contenders dominated, with Neil McLellan of Edinburgh University Sailing Club winning. Neither, however, has any hope left of beating the record of two days, 12 hours, 41 minutes, 15 seconds set by the American maxi Nirvana in 1983.The was also little breeze on Ullswater for the 11th qualifying heat of the BT National Match Racing Championship. In two weeks he goes to Canada for a Soling regatta, and on the 27th he begins the selection trials for the 1996 Olympics.As expected, the navigator Jeremy Gordon Walker had taken Ludde Ingvall's sub-maxi Nicorette further south in the search for wind. She had rounded the Lizard yesterday afternoon, with the Whitbread 60 Corum Meteorite chasing her along the shore.
Beadsworth has been told that the torn ligaments in his left ankle could take six to eight weeks to heal. That meant, as she has the lowest handicap of the big boats, Britain's Group 4 Seahorse, skippered by Robin Aisher, found herself in the unusual position of leading, but knowing that as soon as any breeze settled in the race would restart.The positions put the American big boat, Bob Towse's Blue Yankee, five places behind Italy's Capricorno and the Italians need to be at least two places per boat ahead of the Americans if they are to threaten their lead.The American 40, David Clarke's Pigs in Space, which had hurriedly been given some keel reinforcement before the start, was three places behind Italy's BravaQ8, and only Italy's 36-foot Mumm a Mia! was trailing America's No Problem by one place.The British 40, Group 4 Astro, with Andrew Hurst aboard as a last-minute replacement for Andrew Beadsworth, was placed seventh, and the Mike Golding skippered Mumm 36, Group 4 was fifth. The high pressure cooker in the Channel was keeping the 242 boats in the 1995 Fastnet Race on slow broil yesterday, after keeping them on the back burner overnight. The spinnaker exit from the Solent on Saturday was a pleasant change from the majority of occasions when crews, especially foredeck hands, cross the line already soaked and starting to chill - not the best way to begin a 605-mile slog. But too little wind can be as frightening as too much. The majority of the fleet found itself parked overnight, the westerly ebb tide having run its course, the easterly flood threatening to bring them back to the Solent, and too little wind to make progress.By breakfast yesterday, the majority still had not rounded Start Point at the western end of Lyme Bay, by lunch they were only a few miles further on, and the next six hours produced just 17 miles of gain. And they don't make the right noise."Results, Sporting Digest, page 21. All the kids want is a Honda FireBlade now."The surge in popularity of 900cc Honda FireBlades dates back to the end of last year when a bloke was nicked for doing between 165 and 175mph on one, thus earning Honda a front-page splash in Motor Cycle News."It's tragic All people are interested in is horsepower and mph.