Gerolsteiner: ‘Stage victory in final week’
- By Andrew Hood
- Published Jun. 23, 2008
Germany’s Gerolsteiner hopes it can crack the top 10 and win a stage in the upcoming Tour de France.
The team brings Markus Fothen and Bernhard Kohl as GC hopes with Stefan Schumacher leading the charge in the hunt for an elusive stage victory.
“Fothen and Kohl can challenge for the overall race, while we are looking for stage victories in the last week,” said team sporting director Christian Henn.
Fothen, fresh off winning a stage at the Tour de Suisse, is hoping to top his 14th overall during the 2006 Tour. Kohl, the team’s lean Austrian climbing specialist, is also looking for a strong GC performance.
The team will also bring sprinter Robert Forster and stage-hunters Fabian Wegmann and Oliver Zaugg.
The team is still searching for a new title sponsor to take over for Gerolsteiner, which ends its long-running support of the team at the end of this season.
Gerolsteiner for Tour de France
Robert Forster (G)
Markus Fothen (G)
Bernhard Kohl (A)
Sven Krauss (G)
Sebastian Lang (G)
Ronny Scholz (G)
Stefan Schumacher (G)
Fabian Wegmann (G)
Oliver Zaugg (Swi)
FILED UNDER: Road / Tour de France TAGS: Tour de France
Andrew Hood
Hood cut his journalistic teeth at Colorado dailies before the web boom opened the door to European cycling in the mid-1990s. Hood's covered every Tour since 1996 and has been VeloNews' European correspondent since 2002. He lives in Leon, Spain, when he's not chasing bike races.