TEAM RETURNABLE SURGES AT TOUR de FRANCE!
Thursday • July 26, 2001


Members of Team Returnable celebrate after completing the 17th stage of this year's Tour de France (AP photo)

MONTLUCON, France - The cycling team sponsored by famed rock and roll combo The Returnables continued to shock the racing community today as they swept the top 4 spots of the grueling 17th stage of the Tour de France.

The quartet broke away from the pack with about 22 miles to go, with their custom-made Schwinn banana seat 3-speeds proving to be too much competition for Italy's Massimiliano Lelli and Latvia's Romans Vainsteins, who finished 5th and 6th, respectively.

"124 miles is a long haul," Team spokesman Frankie Lee Ray told a gathering of reporters. "Especially when you have to deal with those cheating Cinzano bastards."