April

Oscar Freire won the Brabantse Pijl for the third time in a row and Alessandro Ballan took the overall of the Driedaagse van De Panne. A few days later Ballan also won the Tour of Flanders. J.J. Haedo won the Cologne Classics. The German race still hasn't found a new sponsor for the 2008 edition. We would like to thank the UCI for governing the sport. Juan José Cobo took the Tour of Basque country. Andreas Klöden won the French stage race Circuit de la Sarthe and young gun Marcus Burghardt won Gent-Wevelgem. Stuart O' Grady won Paris-Roubaix after a long attack and Joaquim Rodriguez took the Klasika Primavera. Janez Brajkovic won the Tour de Georgia and Damiano Cunego the Giro del Trentino. Gerolsteiner's Stefan Schumacher won the Amstel Gold Race and a few days later his teammate Davide Rebellin won the Fleche Wallonne. Rabobank's Young gun Robert Gesink impressed many observers with his 9th place on the famous wall of Huy. Danilo Di Luca took Liège-Bastogne-Liège. In 2008 Paris-Roubaix, Fleche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège are no longer part of the Pro-Tour. We would like to thank the UCI for governing the sport. Colombian rider Wilson Zambrano won the overall of the Vuelta a El Salvador, a nine day stage race.

May

Patrick Sinkewitz won his home race: Rund um den Henninger Turm . Young gun Thomas Dekker took his second Pro-Tour stage race: the Tour de Romandie. In 2006 Dekker won Tirreno-Adriatico. Koldo Gil won the Vuelta Asturias. Gil was allegedly involved in the Fuentes scandal but like many other riders Gil was allowed to race as the Spanish Cycling Federation closed all cases of the Spanish riders that were allegedly involved in 'Operacion Puerto'. The investigating judge of the court of Madrid ruled that the sports federations were not allowed to use official Guardia Civil documents to open proceedings against athletes. However Ivan Basso and Michele Scarponi both admitted their involvement in the scandal and were banned by the Italian Cycling Federation. We would like to thank the UCI for governing the sport. Ivailo Gabrowski won the overall of the International Presidency Turkey Tour and the four days of Dunkerque are now five days. The French stage race was won by Mathieu Ladagnous. Former pro Bert Dietz confessed systematic doping at Team Telekom during the nineties and claims that it was title sponsor Deutsche Telekom who signed with the University of Freiburg. Deutsche Telekom later confirms. We want to thank the UCI for governing the sport. Sergey Honchar was suspended by the T-Mobile Team after the internal anti-doping programm of the Team found irregularities. We would like to thank the UCI for governing the sport. The Giro d'Italia was won by Danilo Di Luca. The killer rode a very solid Giro. After the Giro the UCI refused to hand over material of Eddy Mazzoleni, Danilo Di Luca and Gilberto Simoni to Italian Anti-Doping Authorities. We would like to thank the UCI for governing the sport. Gerald Ciolek won the Tour of Rheinland-Pfalz. It was the final edition after 42 years of the German stage race. The organisation stopped all operations. We would like to thank the UCI for governing the sport. Robert Hunter took the Tour de Picardie and Vladimir Karpets took the Volta a Catalunya. Vladimir Gusev won the Tour of Belgium. After Bert Dietz a wave of confessions by former Telekom riders: Bjarne Riis, Christian Henn, Udo Bölts, Rolf Aldag and Erik Zabel confessed to have taken epo. Shortly after the wave of confessions T-Mobile doctors of the university of Freiburg admitted to have treated several Telekom riders with performance enhancing drugs. We would like to thank the UCI for governing the sport.