Team Gerolsteiner will send an international line-up to its homeland Deutschland Tour, which starts Friday. Eight riders from five nations - Germany, Switzerland, Italy, the Netherlands and Austria - will take on the 1301.9-kilometre race over nine stages. The race itself runs through Germany and parts of Austria.
The team will lead with two candidates for the overall win, Davide Rebellin and Bernhard Kohl. Kohl is especially expected to look forward to the fifth stage that ends with a mountaintop finish in his native Austria. In addition, sprinter Robert Förster will be looking for stage wins.
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