Team Milram: two sprinters are better than one

The new Italo-German venture Team Milram was presented in Bremen, North Germany yesterday, and while everybody knew that the team will be the sprint train squad to look out for in 2006, some observers still had their doubts about the compatibility between its two star riders, Alessandro Petacchi and Erik Zabel. At the Nordmilch headquarters however, the Italian fast man Petacchi announced that he would participate in the Giro d'Italia as well as the Tour de France and - maybe - even the Vuelta a España, and that Zabel and himself would share the season's goals according to their capabilities.

"It's not the first time I will participate in all three Grand Tours," Petacchi said. "I look forward to this adventure. My other goals include Milano-Sanremo, the Tour of Flanders, Gent-Wevelgem and Paris-Tours at the end of the season."

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