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Yes Nic and Jay were included in the national team.

The plan was for Nic and Jay to ride on the national team in Egypt to extend Nic's current lead in the Africa Tour. Now that the national team isn't going (for what reason i don't know?) MTN are sending a team. It's bad that SA isn't sending a team anymore, its always been a really good tour for them but whats wrong with MTN sending a team just because they can afford to and is in their best interests?

Not sure? On the team classification results they have the team name.

The Tour finished yesterday with Nic White in 4th, Malcolm Lange 8th overall & Neil MacDonald winning the sprints jersey. Check out the full results: http://www.cyclingnews.com/road.php?id=road/2008/jan08/tropicale08/default Final general classification 1 Lilian Jegou (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 12.54.47 2 Yann Pivois (Fra) Bretagne Armor Lux 0.17 3 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.06 4 Nicholas White (RSA) South Africa 2.15 5 Anthony Roux (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 2.34 6 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.38 7 James Vanlandschoot (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 3.30 8 Malcolm Lange (RSA) South Africa 3.43 9 Stephane Bonsergent (Fra) Bretagne Armor Lux 7.16 10 Micka?l Cherel (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 7.33 11 Sedastien Duret (Fra) Bretagne Armor Lux 8.31 12 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 9.57 13 Jean Luc Delpech (Fra) Bretagne Armor Lux 9.58 14 S?bastien Turgot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 10.04 15 Noan Lelarge (Fra) Bretagne Armor Lux 10.08 16 Christian Poos (Lux) Differdange Lux 10.12 17 Maxime Vantomme (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 10.24 18 Movten Knudsen (Den) Differdange Lux 10.37 19 Adil Jelloul (Mar) Morocco 10.39 20 Adnane Aarbia (Mar) Morocco 10.52 Sprints classification 1 Neil Mac Donald (RSA) South Africa 12 pts 2 Jay Robert Thomson (RSA) South Africa 10 3 Lilian Jegou (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 9 4 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 6 5 Stephane Bonsergent (Fra) Bretagne Armor Lux 5 6 Bradley Potgieter (RSA) South Africa 4 7 Sedastien Duret (Fra) Bretagne Armor Lux 3 8 Perrig Quemeneur (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 3 9 Rony Martias (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 3 10 Malcolm Lange (RSA) South Africa 2

No one was forced to go on stage, Cherise & Jay attended the launch but didn't go up on stage because they chose not to in honor of their current sponsors!

Obviously a little screw up in the PR department. I wouldn't talk about your one sided PR race reports!

BIG words Octall... Agree with Norris

To Aunt Karen and family, Ryan will be missed but never forgotten... R.I.P Ryan.

Drivetrain if you don't have anything good to say about SA PRO's don't say anything at all... i do agree that everyone had the right to be on the road, it's up to the organizers to make sure of everyone's safety! As for the pro rider riding off after the incident... remember this is his bread and butter. He's not just racing off with his "buddies". The rider concerned has already obtained the name, number and email address of the lady and I'm sure has contacted her to apologize.