10th Deutschland Tour - ProT

Germany, August 10-18, 2007

Photography

Stage 9 - August 18: Einbeck - Hanover, 143.1km

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• The peloton in the country side in Northern Germany
• The peloton in Hannover in front of the town hall.
• The final stage was fast and ended in a bunch sprint.
• Gerald Ciolek (T-Mobile) made it three in a row on the final day.
• He found legs and luck after an unsuccessful start to the race.
• Jens Voigt (CSC) won the overall of the 2007 Deutschland Tour.
• He led almost the whole race and was strong in the mountains.

Stage 8 - August 17: Fuerth ITT, 33.1km

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• Jens Voigt has permanent lipstick marks from all the kisses he's gotten this week
• Jens Voigt on the podium again this time as stage winner
• Jens Voigt cools down after winning the stage 8 time trial
• Erik Zabel holds onto the sprinter's jersey
• Jens Voigt powers to victory in the time trial
• Jens in yellow and a nearly sure bet to stay that way until the end of the Deutschland Tour
• Levi Leipheimer took third and now sits second overall.

Stage 7 - August 16: Kufstein - Regensburg, 192.2km

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• Gerald Ciolek (T-Mobile) wins in the rain
• It's always nice to win and even nicer to win twice
• Gerald Ciolek powers away with the stage seven win
• Victory again Ciolek took the bunch sprint for the second consecutive day
• Ciolek looks surprised to have one two days in a row
• Jens Voigt has had lots of kisses since taking the leader's jersey on stage two
• Ciolek gets his second podium visit in as many days
• Erik Zabel (Milram) took over the sprinters' jersey

Stage 6 - August 15: Laengenfeld - Kufstein, 175km

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• Ciolek gets well deserved podium time after winning a hard-fought sprint on stage six.
• Jens Voigt (CSC) spends another day in the leader's jersey
• Ciolek can't believe it - he's won a stage on his home turf.
• Gerald Ciolek (T-Mobile) took the uphill sprint in Kufstein.

Stage 5 - August 14: Sonthofen - Soelden, 157.6km

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• David López García (Caisse d'Epargne) won the queen stage to the Rettenbachferner.
• Voigt and Gesink are chasing the leader.
• The Spaniard on the podium after a had day in the saddle
• Jens Voigt (Team CSC) continues to lead the race.
• He is now thinking of repeating overall victory.

Stage 4 - August 13: Singen - Sonthofen, 183.8km

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• Damiano Cunego (Lampre-Fondital) wins stage 4 into Sonthofen

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• Zabel, Voigt, Schleck and Terpstra (from left) parade the jerseys.
• Hopefully the music is good on the channel of this Predictor rider.
• Paolo Bettini (Quick.Step-Innergetic) is preparing for the Worlds.
• Maarten Den Baaker (Skil-Shimano) rolls out.
• Leipheimer and Danielson chat while Hincapie has company by a Volksbank guy.
• Backstedt and Lövkvist on the first metres of the stage.
• Efimkin and Kohl on the flat part of the course...
• Sean Yates drives the Discovery car, but not for long as the sponsor leaves and the team folds.
• Marco Pinotti (T-Mobile) takes one of the first turns of the day.
• René Mandri and Yukihiro Doi
• Levi Leipheimer out of the saddle early in the stage - just to stretch.
• Linus Gerdemann (T-Mobile) is trying to overcome a cold.
• Jurgen Van Goolen (Discovery Channel) checks to see if he's last.
• Alan Piper in the T-Mobile car.

Stage 3 - August 12: Pforzheim - Offenburg, 181.8km

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• Erik Zabel gets his 13th win at the Deutschland Tour
• Zabel wins the sprint but Jens Voigt keeps the leader's jersey
• Erik Zabel (Milram) gets the better of José Joaquín Rojas (Caisse d'Epargne)

Stage 2 - August 11: Bretten TTT, 42.2km

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• George Hincapie warms up.
• Levi Leipheimer anxious to start.
• The Discovery line-up or at least six of them.
• Off they go!
• Paolo Bettini (Quick.Step-Innergetic) looks after his team.
• A last minute wheel change brimgs hectic into Bouygues Telecom.
• Juan José Oroz (Euskaltel-Euskadi) affirms that he will ride today.
• Puttin on the fighting gloves.
• Robert Wagner (Wiesenhof-Felt) seems to feel the weight of being last.
• Steffen Wesemann (Wiesenhof-Felt) relaxing after the sign-in.
• Wiesenhof is ready for some chicken.
• Do you want to switch heart rate monitors and confuse our coaches?
• Give the heart rate monitor to me. Now.
• Euskaltel was happy with the start. It went uphill right away.
• Caisse d'Epargne riders wait after signing in.
• Levi Leipheimer (Discovery) warms up
• George Hincapie (Discovery) rolls to the weigh-in area.
• Tom Danielson (Discovery) in the start area.
• Danielson a few moments away from lining up on the start line.
• Leipheimer before the race of the truth which to some feels like hell.
• Levi decided to move the whole team to the left one minute before the start.
• When the captain talks everyone listens
• and then everyone moves to the left...
• But they were lined-up alright to start the second stage on time.
• Discovery takes off with power.
• Paolo Bettini (Quick.Step-Innergetic) his helmet makes up for the missing rainbow jersey.
• Bettini before the start.
• The Italian opts for regular bars with a TT extension.
• Française des Jeux takes off.
• Saunier Duval gets ready.
• Yann Huguet (Cofidis) heading to the weighing procedure.
• One of the last team time trials for the Discovery team.
• Maarten Wynants (Quick.Step-Innergetic) before the start.
• The Belgian must have a light-hearted radio program.
• The world champion Bettini is not thrilled about time trialing.
• Bettini adjusts the antenna which broadcasts the instructions to racing on the German roads.
• The Française des Jeux bottles contain gyummy stuff that make you lick your tongue.
• It is the road ahead that doesn't look like a delicatessen.
• Machine and legs are ready for the 42 kilometres.
• Française des Jeux starts with full energy in front of a "bikes prohibited" sign.
• Angel Gomez (Saunier Duval) is the reigning time trial champion.
• Saunier Duval at the start.
• This team was riding to raise money for SOS Kinderdoerfer.
• Some rolled up their sleeves and could not wait to start the time trial.
• while others were hot even before the start.
• The back numbers featured the new slogan (Stay clean - live clean). This is the back of Joan Horrach.
• André Greipel (T-Mobile) at the sign-in.
• Gerald Ciolek (T-Mobile) gets his bike weighed. He suffered a flat on the course.
• The riders who finished were dripping wet on a humid day.
• André Greipel (T-Mobile) all smiles before the start.
• Giuseppe Guerini (T-Mobile) aligns his jersey to be more aerodynamic.
• Philipp Ludescher in white as the best young rider. He was in the break yesterday.
• As Mugerli still warms up a happy Unibet rider already returned from the day's work.
• Erik Zabel (Milram) gets the thumbs up before the start.
• Zabel sprinted right from the start to lead his team into the first corner.
• Matej Mugerli (Liquigas) was in no danger to lose his polka dot, even though there was a hill right from the start.
• The devil cools off with some ice cream.
• Unibet has some question marks about its sponsorship, which should be answered this week.
• George Hincapie after the race.
• Mugerli and Liquigas take off.
• Damiano Cunego (Lampre-Fondital) before the start.
• The Italian concentrates before the start.
• Napolitano all smiles despite not getting the victory yesterday.
• Robert Förster (Gerolsteiner) heads to the chair after signing in.
• Gerolsteiner before the start.
• And off they go.
• Förster enjoyed the day in yellow.
• Euskaltel at the finish happy to have survived a race that is not the strength of the Basques.
• Caisse d'Epargne in the roundabout after the finish, checking the large screen TV to their right.
• World Champion Fabian Cancellara takes off his helmet on a humid day.
• Jens, where did you say were the chairs?
• Voigt wipes off the sweat.
• Schleck, Cancellara, Voigt after the race.
• Cancellara cools down with no more desire to listen to anything o the headphones.
• Marco Pinotti (T-Mobile) flatted and had to finish by himself.
• The Italian was dripping wet from his solo effort.
• The time trial helmets with antenna do look a bit funky.
• Rolf Aldag checks out the gearing of this bike. The Magentas didn't have a stress-free ride with two flats.
• Gerdemann with spokesman Stefan Wagner.
• Gerdemann interviewed by German TV.
• Napolitano finished by himself
• Gerolsteiners arrived in third place.
• Matthias Russ (Gerolsteiner) finds out he has to go to the doping control.
• His number was held up as they finished, but he was able to get a bottle of Gerolsteiner Apfelsaftschorle.
• Then the Chaperon accompanied him all the way to the bathroom.
• CSC heads to podium after beating all the other teams.
• Voigt and Julich often room together and aren't far from each other on the podium, either.
• Bobby Julich (CSC) is an outstanding time trialer.
• Bobby Julich in the centre of his team-mates.
• The winning CSC formation.
• Jens Voigt (CSC) won a one second time bonus yesterday, which makes him the leader of his team.
• Jens Voigt tries on the leader's jersey
• Jens Voigt is happy to be back in the lead.
• Robert Förster smiles as he is back in 'his' jersey for best sprinter.
• Förster won yesterday and there were no points today.
• Bobby Julich (CSC) walks back from the podium.
• Matej Mugerli (Liquigas) is still leading the mountains classification.
• Fabian Cancellara shares a laugh with a friend as he heads back from the podium.
• The Swiss kept the flowers on his handle bars unlike others who threw them to the spectators.
• Andy Schleck is the best young rider rider.
• The rider from Luxembourg enjoyed the podium ceremonies.

Stage 1 - August 10: Saarbruecken, 183.7km

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• Zabel and Napolitano fight for victory.
• But Robert Förster (Gerolsteiner) wins stage 1 on a rainy day.
• The German didn't mind the wet weather or the podium kisses.