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02-23-2005, 04:19 PM

"B Lafferty" <Coppi@Lugano.com> wrote in message
> This may be the result of contamination from Chernobyl. See:
> http://www.eapceast.org/upload/Mikha...%202002doc.doc
> Let's hope the future bodes well for his family.
>

Could be. Depends on where he was at the time. Chances are more likely that
his future wife was subjected to radioactive fallout than he was.
http://history1900s.about.com/gi/dyn...yl%2Fmaps.html

However, most of the increases of cancer were thyroid cancer, leukaemia and
birth defects, especially in Belarus.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4028729.stm

Interestingly, the US had a team scheduled to participate in the Peace Race
shortly after Chernobyl popped. I recall Doug Smith telling the USCF that
there was no way he wanted to go on that trip.

" 1986 saw the lowest ever number of starters in the Peace Race. The fact
that the race started in Kiev, less than 2 weeks after the Chernobyl nuclear
disaster might have had something to do with it. From Western Europe only
France and Finland turned up at the starting line that year. As I mentioned
earlier, these pages are dedicated to the glory that has been (and hopefully
will be again) the Peace Race, for political "commentary" the reader will
need to look to other sources. So, consequently I will just say that the
1986 starting city could have perhaps been selected with greater care by the
Race organizers. While there seem to have been, as far as I am aware, no
reports of either riders, or members of the 1986 Peace Race caravan,
suffering any ill effects from the 3 Kiev stages of 1986, a start in Moscow,
for example, might have proved more inviting to a greater number of West
European teams. http://www.ros.com.au/~mach/peace/peace-main.html

02-23-2005, 04:19 PM	#6 (permalink)
Carl Sundquist Guest Posts: n/a	Re: 'Sasha' Zinoviev, 43, cycling champ, dies "B Lafferty" <Coppi@Lugano.com> wrote in message > This may be the result of contamination from Chernobyl. See: > http://www.eapceast.org/upload/Mikha...%202002doc.doc > Let's hope the future bodes well for his family. > Could be. Depends on where he was at the time. Chances are more likely that his future wife was subjected to radioactive fallout than he was. http://history1900s.about.com/gi/dyn...yl%2Fmaps.html However, most of the increases of cancer were thyroid cancer, leukaemia and birth defects, especially in Belarus. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4028729.stm Interestingly, the US had a team scheduled to participate in the Peace Race shortly after Chernobyl popped. I recall Doug Smith telling the USCF that there was no way he wanted to go on that trip. " 1986 saw the lowest ever number of starters in the Peace Race. The fact that the race started in Kiev, less than 2 weeks after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster might have had something to do with it. From Western Europe only France and Finland turned up at the starting line that year. As I mentioned earlier, these pages are dedicated to the glory that has been (and hopefully will be again) the Peace Race, for political "commentary" the reader will need to look to other sources. So, consequently I will just say that the 1986 starting city could have perhaps been selected with greater care by the Race organizers. While there seem to have been, as far as I am aware, no reports of either riders, or members of the 1986 Peace Race caravan, suffering any ill effects from the 3 Kiev stages of 1986, a start in Moscow, for example, might have proved more inviting to a greater number of West European teams. http://www.ros.com.au/~mach/peace/peace-main.html