Wegmann: one second

One second is not very long, but it is enough to make the difference between winning or not, as Gerolsteiner's Fabian Wegmann discovered over the weekend. He finished off the podium Saturday in the Tour of Poland, missing out on third place by one second, but on Sunday he won the Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt race by exactly one second.

Wegmann had been fifth overall going into the final stage in Poland, only 15 seconds down. Johan Van Summeren of Predictor-Lotto won the stage from a long solo escape. Wegmann attacked frequently out of the following group, but his competitors wouldn't let him get away. "At least we tried, and showed our competitive spirit," said his older brother and directeur sportif, Christian Wegmann. In the end, Wegmann finished eighth on the stage, two seconds behind third place finisher Kim Kirchen of T-Mobile, who used the bonus seconds to leapfrog from 30th to third place, exactly one second ahead of Wegmann.

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