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TOUR DU PONT LEMOND WINS PROLOGUE, GETS MONKEY OFF HIS BACK

Greg LeMond, often criticized for showing up at the Tour Du Pont in the physical condition of a baseball player in December, blistered the opening prologue phase of this year’s race in 6:18:18. That means he’ll wear the leader’s jersey for the first time in four starts in this race.

“It’s only a prologue,” LeMond laughed when he was finished. But he knows that the last two winners of Tour Du Pont prologues — Raul Alcala in 1990 and Erik Breukink in 1991 — also won the entire race.

“I can alway break the tradition,” LeMond cautioned. But then he quickly added, “But I’m a traditionalist.”

He edged out Steve Swartz of Coors Light and Russian Dmitri Nelubin, who finished 1.9 and 6.13 seconds back, respectively.

But perhaps more important, LeMond took leads of almost 17 and 20 seconds, respectively, over defending world champion Gianni Bugno and two-time Tour de France winner Laurent Fignon, leaders of the powerful Gatorade team.

“I know I’ve been riding as well as anybody in the flats,” LeMond said of his physical conditioning which he said was the best it ever has been for this race.

But the mountains have him worried since he said he’s six or seven pounds over his ideal weight. “In cycling weight is everything. You’re fighting gravity,” he explained.

The fight won’t be very hard today since the high point on the Dover-to-Wilmington road race is 150 feet. That race starts at 10 a.m.

Then LeMond gets back into the saddle at 5 p.m. (actually he’ll go off closer to 6:45 since he’s the leader) for a 16.1-mile time trial, his specialty.

There are three time trials in this year’s Tour Du Pont, including one on the final day May 17 in Washington, D. C., which has the race’s organizers just drooling over the possibility of an American winning it.

Mike Plant, executive director of the Tour Du Pont, understated, “It’s obviously beneficial for the event for (LeMond) to wear the (leader’s) jersey.”

Plant said that when the leader of an event comes from the event’s backyard “the level of interest increases.”

A crowd of perhaps 3,000 at the start-finish line exploded as he left the starting ramp and when he turned for home and it was obvious he was moving faster than any other rider, a giant “Oooh” went up from the crowd.

He was surrounded by the media, hounded by autograph hunters and as he rode his bike down the hill to the post-race press conference, youngsters chased after him on foot.

“I haven’t won a race here since 1985 or 86 so it’s nice,” LeMond said of all the adulation.

He wasn’t sure when he won his last prologue, either, until one of his biographers told him he never had.

But he knew his last stage win came in the 1990 Tour de France. So he’ll feel a little strange wearing yellow today when the race leaves Dover.

Can he hold it? “I have a good chance,” he admitted. “Probably as good as I ever had.”

He said he’s backed by a strong group of riders from his “Z” team, including Atle Kvalsvoll, who was runner-up the last two years.

He left know doubt he’d like to do it. “I’ve suffered psychologically here quite a bit,” he said of the pressures of trying to win in his homeland.

“If you’re riding poorly you feel you’re letting down a lot of people.”

He said in his training ride in the morning he hardly felt like a winner, with many doubts entering his mind and a sense of nervousness coming over him.

He said it took him a few kilometers into the prologue before he felt comfortable. “In a prologue you have to take some chances to do well,” he said.

The riders were buffeted by breezes of over 20 miles per hour and temperatures n the mid-50s were hardly to the liking of LeMond who claims to be a summer rider.

“If it was raining I know I wouldn’t have won it,” he said.

Rain is in the forecast today, but LeMond said a time trial is a bit more forgiving that a shorter prologue race and that he was confident he could do well.

“I think it is a good race for me,” he said of the Tour Du Pont’s setup that has a balance of time trials and mountain finishes. “There is a very chance for me to win this race,” he allowed.

Swart, who moved up a notch from a third place finish last year, was the 56th rider off the stand. His lead held up until LeMond, riding next-to-last in the 105-rider field, slipped in front.

Swart, who’s from New Zealand, said, “I’m not complaining, but the yellow would have been nice.”

Swart said although the wind was stiff, it was fair since it didn’t change much during the race and affected all riders equally.

Until Swart’s ride, the best performance was a 6:27 by Motorola’s Frankie Andreu who last year crashed in the prologue. “I was a little more careful in the corner,” Andreu answered wryly when asked what made the difference this year.

Andreu’s time, officially listed as 6:27.99 was good for sixth.

Others in the top five — LeMond’s benchmark for those in contention overall — were former race winner Da-Otto Lauritzen of Team Motorola, who was fourth in 6:25.55 and Peter Stevenhaagen of the Swiss Helvetia team who was clocked in 6:27.74.

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The 1992 Tour Du Pont will start in Wilmington, Del., on May 7, and after a 1,000-mile loop through the Middle Atlantic region will finish at RFK Stadium on May 19.

"We have shortened the overall race this year by almost 150 miles from last year, but have made it more mountainous, which should make the race more intense," said Tour executive director Michael Plant.

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The Unique Burial of a Child of Early Scythian Time at the Cemetery of Saryg-Bulun (Tuva)

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In 1988, the Tuvan Archaeological Expedition (led by M. E. Kilunovskaya and V. A. Semenov) discovered a unique burial of the early Iron Age at Saryg-Bulun in Central Tuva. There are two burial mounds of the Aldy-Bel culture dated by 7th century BC. Within the barrows, which adjoined one another, forming a figure-of-eight, there were discovered 7 burials, from which a representative collection of artifacts was recovered. Burial 5 was the most unique, it was found in a coffin made of a larch trunk, with a tightly closed lid. Due to the preservative properties of larch and lack of air access, the coffin contained a well-preserved mummy of a child with an accompanying set of grave goods. The interred individual retained the skin on his face and had a leather headdress painted with red pigment and a coat, sewn from jerboa fur. The coat was belted with a leather belt with bronze ornaments and buckles. Besides that, a leather quiver with arrows with the shafts decorated with painted ornaments, fully preserved battle pick and a bow were buried in the coffin. Unexpectedly, the full-genomic analysis, showed that the individual was female. This fact opens a new aspect in the study of the social history of the Scythian society and perhaps brings us back to the myth of the Amazons, discussed by Herodotus. Of course, this discovery is unique in its preservation for the Scythian culture of Tuva and requires careful study and conservation.

Keywords: Tuva, Early Iron Age, early Scythian period, Aldy-Bel culture, barrow, burial in the coffin, mummy, full genome sequencing, aDNA

Information about authors: Marina Kilunovskaya (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Vladimir Semenov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Varvara Busova  (Moscow, Russian Federation).  (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences.  Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Kharis Mustafin  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Technical Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Irina Alborova  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Biological Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Alina Matzvai  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected]

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