There is still a chance that Bontempi wore pink if he got a 2+ sec bonus for his 3rd place in stage 1. We may need to search an Italian newspaper archive to solve this. :-)
Thanks for the link.
Bret Wade Boulder, CO
On Tue, 06 Aug 2002 13:22:45 -0500 The Maaslands <TheMaaslands@comcast.net>
wrote:
> You are right, he could have theoretically have
> worn the pink jersey with
> bonus points, but as you can see from the
> results at the following website:
> http://www.cycling-update.myweb.nl/
> %201986.htm. he didn't win until stage 7 and
> Visentini was the team's GC
> rider. Santimaria also won stage one with a big
> lead and then his team fared
> only reasonably in the team time trial. He
> never made it to pink. He could
> possibly have been a size 5, but more likley a
> size 4
>
> Steven
>
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> From: Bret Wade
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> - Carrera info?
>
>
> > Bontempi won five stages in the 86 Giro. It's
> not inconceivable that he
> also
> > wore the maglia rosa early on in that race.
> That's only a guess based on
> team
> > and size.
> >
> > Bret