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11.08.2007/ Once againthe Danish CSC team proved what
an excellent squad it is in team time trials. Saturday CSC won the 42.2-kilometer long second stage of the Deutschland
Tour 25 seconds ahead of Discovery Channel in second place.
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| Jens Voigt during this years Tour de France (picture: Heinz Zwicky) |
CSC's stage win was crowned with Jens Voigt taking the yellow jersey
with the bonus second he had over his team mates thanks to his third place in the sprint on Friday's opening stage of
the Tour of Germany.
"The team did really well, because it isn't just any old squad Discovery Channel has come with.
The team functioned perfectly and we managed to time it really well, so that we had the resources to really turn it on at
the end. So it's no exaggeration to say we are all completely satisfied,” said CSC sports director Kim Andersen after
the stage.
Rabobank sports director Frans Maassen was satisfied with the performance
of his team: "This was a homogenous team that managed to keep the time gap between them and the favorites very limited. I
have not been able to discover any weaknesses. We finished with seven cyclists because Sébastian Langeveld did not bother
about the final 200 meters after a tough effort. But he was also super, though. The same thing applied to Theo Eltink, Mauricio
Ardila, and Robert Gesink, in spite of the fact that it was a difficult course for them because of the many changes in pace.
They held out great."
Opening stage
Friday's opening stage was decided after a bunch sprint which was won by Gerolsteiner's Robert Förster.
Results
Stage 1
1 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner
4.24.16 (41.708 km/h)
2 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre-Fondital
3 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram
4 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne
5 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt
6 Kenny Robert Van Hummel (Ned) Skil-Shimano
7 Werner Riebenbauer (Aut) Team Volksbank
8 Aitor Galdos Alonso (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
9 Aurélien Clerc (Sui) Bouygues Telecom
10 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance
Stage 2
1 CSC
(Den) CSC 51:40
2 Discovery
Channel (USA) DSC 0:25
3 Gerolsteiner (Ger) GST 0:55
4 Caisse d'Epargne (Esp) GCE 0:56
5 T-Mobile (Ger) TMO 0:59
6 Rabobank (Ned) RAB 1:03
7 Liquigas (Ita ) LIQ 1:20
8 Cofidis (Fra) COF 1:23
9 Milram (Ita) MRM 1:33
10 AG2R (Fra) A2R 1:33
General Classification after stage 2:
1 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC
5.15.55
2 Fabian Cancellara (Sui) Team CSC
0.01
3 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC
4 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team CSC
5 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC
6 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Team CSC
7 Chris Anker Sřrensen (Den) Team CSC
8 Jason McCartney (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team
0.27
9 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team
10 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team
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