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26.03.2007/ Wouter Weylandt won new Dutch race, Ullrich press conference on March 31, "Challenge de Hesbaye": Kevin Ista with another win for PCW Bodysol, Francois won GP Rudy Dhaenens, Augé
won Cholet - Pays de Loire, Saul Raisin will return to the peloton, Former Telekom soigneur: Doctors of the university of
Freiburg delivered epo
Mailbox - win a nice surprise with Original Autograph of Jan Ullrich
Letterbox: You can send your letters with ideas, comments and other things you would like to let us and
our readers to know to: letters@cyclingheroes.de . Some of the letters will be published on our website. We can only publish letters with your full name, hometown
and country.
The editor choose every month "The letter of the month". The writer of the best letter in March 2007
will receive a nice surprise with original handwritten autograph of Jan Ullrich.
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Wouter Weylandt won new Dutch race
Wouter Weylandt has won the first edition of the Ronde van het Groene Hart on Sunday. The race is a new
race in the Netherlands. Weylandt beat at the final sprint Greg Brown (Rabobank) and Greg Van Avermaet (Predictor-Lotto) at
the end of a break away with others 12 riders.
For the young Belgian rider this is the second seasonal win after a stage in the Drie Daagse Van West
Vlaanderen.
Results Ronde van het Groene Hart
1 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quick Step-Innergetic
2 Graeme
Brown (Aus) Rabobank
3 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Predictor-Lotto
4 Steffen Radochla (Ger) Wiesenhof-Felt
5 Aart Vierhouten
(Ned) Skil-Shimano
Ullrich press conference on March 31
While many companies probebly would not start a business relationship with Jan Ullrich at the moment, Terra-S
is looking forward to their cooperation with the former Olympic champ. On their website www.terra-s.de the company published a statement in which Terra-S announce a public autographing session with the
1997 Tour de France winner and a press conference where Ullrich will speak about the Terra-S-Bike-Technology and Jan Ullrich
Bike-Products. In the near future the products will be avaible at many shops.
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"Challenge de Hesbaye": Kevin Ista with another win for PCW Bodysol
Today's "Challenge de Hesbaye" at Trognée (near Liège) was a race over 153 kilometres for Espoirs and Elites without
contract.
And once again, PCW Bodysol - Euro Millions took the win. Today's winner was Kevin Ista, a week after Sébastien
Delfosse at "Kattekoers", a second win in a row for the team! Delfosse finished 4th, and Michaël Pollazi was 8th, the
team winning also the teams' classification.
A young rider of Davitamon - Win for Life - Jong Vlaanderen present, Sven
Vandousselaere, just 18, was also in the 12-wheel group at the head of the race. He finished 5th after a very combative race.
Francois won GP Rudy Dhaenens
Jurgen François (Jartazi - Promo Fashion) has won the GP Rudy Dhaenens on Sunday. François was the strongest
of the four-headed lead group and out-sprinted Ivo Bruin (Koopmans Cycling Team) and Paul Martens (Skil-Shimano).
Augé
won Cholet - Pays de Loire
Stéphane Augé (Cofidis) has won Cholet - Pays de Loire today. Augé was the best of a breakaway group and outsprinted
Stéphane Pétilleau (Bretagne Armor Lux) and Janek Tombak (Jartazi - Promo Fashion). Jonas Ljungblad (Unibet.com) was
also part of the breakaway group and ended ninth.
Saul Raisin will return to the peloton
American rider Saul Raisin (Credit Agricole) who was in a coma after a crash at the Circuit de la Sarthe last
april will return to the peloton. Saul also wrote a book and on March 31 the great Raisin Hope charity ride will take place.
Read our interview with Saul at http://www.cyclingheroes.info/id512.html
Former Telekom soigneur: Doctors of the university of Freiburg delivered epo
Belgian TV channel VRT broadcasted a feature about the use of doping on Sunday. In the Belgian tv programm
Panorama former telekom soigneur Jef D'hont said: "I saw epo for the first time when I was a soigneur with Telekom."
It was the first time D'hont spoke about doping. D'hont continued by saying: "Rider Uwe Ampler took it, against the will of
team manager Walter Godefroot." D'hont: "But the results of Ampler were very good, that's how the epo era started." According
to D'hont doctors of the university of Freiburg were involved as well: "The riders asked themselves for epo, our doctors of
the university of Freiburg delivered it." According to D'hont Bjarne Riis once had a hematocrit level of 64% during the 1996
Tour de France, which was won by the the Danish Telekom rider. "Then I said he [Riis] had to watch out and he started
to get problems. He got rheumatism from epo and other substances he might have taken as well. He was standing stiff of doping."
D'hont said sprinter Erik Zabel did not take epo: "Our sprinter Erik Zabel did not take it. He tried
a small dose once but he was categorical against it. He said he did not need epo."
Walter Godefroot said about organized epo use in the Belgian TV programm: "There was no team - organized
use of epo at Telekom." According to Panorama Godefroot did not want to speak about the past: "We have learned enough already."
But Godefroot did say he discovered the use of epo and informed the UCI about it.
According to sportwereld.be Quickstep manager Patrick Lefevere reacted on the TV programm by asking the
TV makers a question: "What do you want? Do you want every rider to confess on his knees?"
According to various professors riders like Gert Steegmans, Nick Nuyens and Tom Boonen do
not take epo. Their blood values are normal and their developement was natural.
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