Nineteen Germans will start the Tour this Saturday in London. This new record, up by two from the previous best, shows that Germany is still benefiting from the Jan Ullrich-boom, even with the current negative headlines.
Team Gerolsteiner only has two foreigners in their line-up for the Tour, but Austrians Bernhard Kohl and Peter Wrolich at least speak the same language. Milram sends five German and T-Mobile four. Astana (Klöden), CSC (Voigt) and Rabobank (Niermann) have one German each in their formations.
Germans at Le Tour
Gerolsteiner: Markus Fothen, Robert Förster, Heinrich Haussler, Sven Kraus, Ronny Scholz, Stefan Schumacher, and Fabian Wegmann.
Milram: Ralf Grabsch, Christian Knees, Enrico Poitschke, Marcel Sieberg and Erik Zabel.
T-Mobile: Marcus Burghardt, Linus Gerdemann, Bert Grabsch, Patrik Sinkewitz
Astana: Andreas Klöden
CSC: Jens Voigt
Rabobank: Grischa Niermann
