TOUR DE FRANCE.
Australian Cyclists Feeling
The Strain.
GRADUALLY FALLING BACK.
(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) LONDON, July 9.
At Evian Pontarlier the teams separate, to resume racing against time. Fresh men in the other teams emphasises Australia's disadvantage in having no reserve.
Allelelulia, Victorious, Pierre Magne, Bidot, Moineau, A. Magne are leading. Leducq, Frantz, Dewaele, Rebry and Meertens follow, 9i minutes behind.
Watson is thirty-sixth and Oppermnn thirty-seventh, 2J hours behind the leaders. Osborne punctured twice and is sixty-sixth, 46m 47s behind the other Australians.
The Australians are feeling the effects of the strenuous racing. Opperman says he is fatigued, but determined to lace to the finish. In many respects the Australians would have been better with tourist routiers. Many good riders could have been obtained who would have been of assistance.
The cours# is mountainous.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 161, 10 July 1928, Page 7
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