tour du pont 1992

Tour DuPont

UCI, 7th -17th May 1992, USA

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• Date: 30 April 1992
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LeMond wins race and fans’ hearts U.S. star clinches Tour Du Pont victory

From the start at RFK Stadium to Capitol Hill to Rock Creek Park and back, people jockeyed for position. They yelled LeMond’s name. They waved and clapped their encouragement as he strained to pedal his bike faster than anyone else along the rough, 14-mile course on his way to finish line.

Everyone had come to see LeMond, this country’s greatest cyclist. They had come to see him win in America, to see him take his first major stage race anywhere since the 1990 Tour de France.

And when he did, when he had crossed the finish line in 29 minutes, 59 seconds, the third-best time of the day, to wrap up the overall title with 20 seconds to spare, they mobbed him.

They blew kisses from viewing stands. They crowded around his shaking, sweating body. Little girls in curls screamed his name, and grown men in sports shirts reached out to pat his shoulders.

They lifted his bike above the crowd and passed it out of the winner’s circle, and then they passed in a chair the same way, so LeMond could sit down, because he could no longer stand.

“I’m so happy to have this victory,” LeMond said much later, after celebrating with champagne and flowers, after escaping the crowd and having his legs rubbed down. “I haven’t won anywhere in America since 1985, and I’m not going to race forever. So this makes me very happy.”

The overcast day had started with LeMond holding a 10-second lead over his Z teammate, Atle Kvalsvoll, and 14 seconds over Motorola’s Phil Anderson.

When it was over, LeMond was the overall champion, finishing the 11-stage, 1,006-mile race in 44:27:43. Kvalsvoll was second for the third straight year, 20 seconds behind, and Coors Light’s Stephen Swart was third, 28 seconds back.

“It is OK to be second this year,” said Kvalsvoll. “Last year, losing to [Erik] Breukink made me sick, but losing to Greg is not losing. I feel my team still won.”

The Tour Du Pont was LeMond’s to win or lose in this last race against the clock. LeMond said he knew it, too.

“I felt the pressure,” he said, still smiling. “I was very nervous. I hadn’t come into this race expecting to win. I thought Atle would win. I thought I really didn’t have a chance because of the Wintergreen Mountain climb. But my teammates won me this race.”

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Du Pont Takes a Tour Of Sports Sponsorship

By Samuel Abt, International Herald Tribune

• May 13, 1992

When Greg LeMond opened the Tour Du Pont bicycle race with a victory in the prologue, the ESPN national sports cable-television station showed him chugging toward the finish line just ahead of a support van that prominently displayed a familiar corporate oval with the name Du Pont.

Newspaper and television cameramen then photographed Mr. LeMond as he received the leader's yellow jersey, which also bore the Du Pont name.

He stood on a podium with a Du Pont logo. Overhead hung a large banner lettered Du Pont. In the near background, just in case anybody missed the point, was the race's starting ramp and its Du Pont canopy.

That accounted for five plugs for Du Pont, but who's counting?The answer is Du Pont Co., the giant chemical manufacturer and sponsor of the Tour Du Pont.

"Our involvement in the Tour Du Pont is a dollars-and-cents marketing decision, and we think we have a bargain," said Jack L. Conmy, Du Pont's manager for special events.

Market surveys seem to agree. In rapidly increasing numbers, U.S. corporations are turning to sponsoring events as a way of generating publicity, goodwill and sales. From $2.8 billion estimated to have been spent on U.S. corporate sponsorships last year, the outlay is expected to reach $3.3 billion in 1992.

One reason is that sponsorship appears to be extremely cost efficient.

A good example is the Tour Du Pont, an 11-day road race that began in Wilmington last Thursday and will end Sunday in Washington after traveling 1,000 miles (1,616 kilometers) through Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia.

LAST YEAR DU PONT spent $1.7 million to sponsor the race, which was named the Tour de Trump in its first two years, 1989 and 1990, when it was sponsored by the New York-based developer Donald J. Trump. For its $1.7 million, Du Pont estimates it received almost $70 million worth of international media exposure.

Or publicity.

"In 40 years in the work force, I have never seen such concentrated, sustained and positive media coverage," said Mr. Conmy, a former newspaper journalist and political press secretary. Speaking of newspaper clips amassed from the race, he added, "They weighed 29 pounds [13.1 kilograms]. I've never measured an event's clippings by the pound before."

Seated in his office in the Nemours Building in Wilmington, he opened a study by Joyce Julius & Associates Inc., a sports marketing firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

The study showed that in a bit over three and a half hours of 1991 coverage on ESPN, sponsors - mainly Du Pont but also several associated concerns - were mentioned 441 times. The U.S. exposure value, or the cost for similar television commercials, was put at $5.16 million.

In just under an hour and a half of Tour Du Pont coverage on the national broadcast network CBS, sponsors were mentioned 96 times, for an exposure value of $1.49 million.

Both networks are offering the same amount of coverage, and presumably mentions, this year.

Comparing these figures with exposure generated by other sports events, the study found that the Tour Du Pont outranked college football bowl games, the triple crown of horse racing, tennis and golf. "And that exposure was only in the American market," Mr. Conmy said. The Du Pont was shown on television in 88 countries to an audience estimated at 200 million people. Overseas, the exposure was estimated to have been worth $66 million.

Similar international television coverage, mainly on the Eurosport cable station, is being provided this year.

"We've been involved in Europe since the late 1950s, and we're close to a $10 billion company there," said Jamie Murray, who is responsible for Du Pont's worldwide corporate advertising. "Our vision is that we're going to become a top 10 great global company.

"But to do that we've got to become better known," he added. Mr. Murray acknowledged ruefully that in France, for example, the name Du Pont evoked a luxury cigarette lighter, not the Delaware-based company that had 1991 revenue of $38.7 billion and net income of $1.4 billion. "And the other Du Pont is maybe a $500 million company," he added.

The European and Asian market exposure, added to the American one and the 29 pounds of newspaper clips, rounds out to the figure of $70 million in publicity.

"Even if you discount it by 90 percent," Mr. Conmy said, "it's still almost a $10 million value." That would be five times the $2 million Du Pont is spending on sponsoring the race this year in the first year of a three-year contract.

In a time of economic distress, has anybody complained that the $2 million might be used to safeguard Du Pont jobs? "Absolutely," said Mr. Murray. "This company tries never to get into a situation where it lays people off. We prefer attrition, early retirement.

"But the issue is being economically competitive and then growing. Things like the Tour Du Pont are focused on driving our reputation to help us sell."

Mr. Conmy offered another survey, this one of telephone interviews conducted with about 500 randomly selected people across the United States. Extrapolated, the results asserted that 6 percent of the general population had been aware that Du Pont was sponsoring a sporting event and 21 percent had heard of the Tour Du Pont.

Better yet, the study said, 30 million Americans had heard of the Tour Du Pont and knew it was a cycling event. Among this group, the study continued, "awareness of key Du Pont brands was significantly higher among those proven aware of the Tour." Fifty-nine percent of the proven aware knew, for example, about Kevlar, a Du Pont product, as against 31 percent of the unaware. For Lycra, the ratio was 82 percent against 74 percent and for Imron, 29 percent against 16 percent.

All are among the 40 Du Pont chemical products that are used in bicycling, among other activities.

"Du Pont doesn't sponsor the race because we expect to make a gigantic profit out of selling our products to the bicycle industry," said Robert C. McCoy, the business program manager for advanced materials in bicycles."We sponsor the race because we're a big global company, and biking is something all our customers and employees relate to. There are a lot of people who relate to cycling and it's exciting to watch. It's healthy and it's nonpolluting.

"It's also a way to display a lot of our products." A huge van full of bicycling gear made from Du Pont materials follows the race and parks prominently on main streets to attract crowds. "So it's a way for Du Pont to get its message out around the world," Mr. McCoy said.

That message is straightforward: "People aware of the Tour," said the telephone survey, "are significantly more likely to rate Du Pont more positively than GE or IBM in terms of quality products, social responsibility, innovative and particularly 'as a great global company' than those not aware of the Tour."

As befits a worldwide advertising manager, Mr. Murray was livelier than the survey in his appraisal. He compared the Tour Du Pont's value to that of such athletes as LeMond, Michael Chang and Katarina Witt that Du Pont sponsors personally.

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Guide about Moscow Vnukovo International Airport arrivals

Vnukovo International Airport, formerly Vnukovo Andrei Tupolev International Airport (named after Andrei Tupolev). It is a dual-runway international airport offering Vnukovo arrivals in the Vnukovo District of Moscow, Russia. The location is 28 kilometers southwest of the city center. It is currently Russia’s third busiest airport after Domodedovo Airport and Sheremetyevo .

Vnukovo Airport is Moscow’s oldest working airport, being opened in July 1941 for VKO airport arrivals. Azur Air, Gazpromavia, I-Fly, Pobeda, RusLine, and Utair use Vnuokovo Airport as a hub for Moscow VKO flight arrivals and to fly to other destinations. Along with Moscow Domodedovo Airport, Sheremetyevo International Airport, and Zhukovsky International Airport, it is one of the four major airports that serve Moscow.

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• Turkish Airlines: Ankara , Antalya , Istanbul 
• Pobeda: Kazan, Krasnodar, Sochi ,Kaliningrad, Volgograd, Istanbul SAW , Dubai , Antalya
• UTair Aviation: Adler/Sochi , Makhachkala, Vladikavkaz, Ukhta, Yakutsk, Naryan-Mar, Ufa, Nojabrxsk

During the summer more flights will go to holiday destinations. Think about Bodrum , Dalaman , Barcelona , Cancún , Larnaca , Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi , Phuket , Cagliari , Salzburg , Split , Thessaloniki , Zanzibar.

Moscow Vnukovo Airport passenger statistics

The airport can handle up to 10,100 passengers each hour. It employs 4,000 personnel. In 2013, the airport handled about 11.18 million passengers, an increase of 15.3 percent over 2012. The airport handled 722,500 passengers in February 2014, up 23.8% from February 2013, owing to Utair’s development. In 2019, the airport handled 24.01 million passengers, increasing 12% from the previous year. The Moscow Vnukovo flight arrivals keep increasing over the years. The year 2020 brought 12,565,241 passengers to the airport.

The airport has two intersecting runways that are 3,500 meters (11,500 feet) and 3,060 meters long (10,040 feet) for Vnukovo Andrei Tupolev airport arrivals. Each runway is 60 meters (200 feet) width and has 10 meters (33 foot) broad safety shoulders on both sides. The capacity of the shared runway is 60 aircraft Vnukovo airport arrivals per hour. Runway 24 is primarily utilized for departure, whilst Runway 01 is primarily utilized for VKO arrivals.

Terminal at Moscow Vnukovo Airport

Two passenger terminals (Terminals A and B), one general aviation terminal (for charter and business flights), one cargo terminal are available at the airport. There are 60 aircraft stands are available at the airport for Vnukovo arrivals. Terminal A have a total floor space of 250,000 square meters (2,700,000 square feet) and a passenger throughput capacity of 7,800 passengers per hour, with a total capacity of 18–20 million passengers per year to process many VKO airport arrivals.

Serving airlines with Moscow VKO flight arrivals

• Aircompany Armenia
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Ground transportation

• Taxis are widely available outside both Terminal A and Terminal B’s first floors.
• The Aeroexpress connects Vnukovo Airport to central Moscow in a nonstop service which is a good option to be on time for Moscow Vnukovo flight arrivals. The Aeroexpress operates from Kievskiy railway terminus (metro stop: Kievskaya) to Terminal A’s basement level (total trip time: 35 minutes).
• From 7:00 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., minibus route 45M connects Yugo-Zapadnaya metro station with Vnukovo Andrei Tupolev airport arrivals. The Ford van minibusses depart every 10 minutes. The minibus stops get located on the curb outside the Yugo-Zapadnaya metro station and in the forecourt of Vnukovo Airport Terminal A.

Vnukovo airport arrivals

Immigration clearance.

Passengers queue at the immigration counter with all necessary documentation. Following immigration protocols, the immigration officer verifies photo identification and asks some questions.

Baggage claim

Collect your baggage from the appropriate conveyor belt in the VKO arrivals lounge following immigration clearance. If you diser that your luggage has gone missing, contact the Airline officer.

After clearing immigration and retrieving your luggage, you must pass through customs before being permitted to leave the airport at the Vnukovo arrivals hall.

Nearby hotels to stay

There are no designated sleeping places at Vnukovo airport, although there is a dark zone without windows between gates 28/28A and 29/29A in the international departure area. Various hotels near the airport offer uninterrupted sleep when having late VKO airport arrivals.

• Aerosleep Capsule Hotel
• Four Points by Sheraton Moscow Vnukovo Airports
• Antis House Uninn
• Vnukovo Green Palace Hotel