10 The Guardian | Saturday July 1 2006 The Guardian | Saturday July 1 2006 11 World Cup Germany v Argentina Cycling Tour de France

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Brawl erupts as Jens Roberto Lehmann 8 Abbondanzieri 5 Proved his Vulnerable usual reliable under self and was crosses but Germany reach frustrated given with the rest of the outstanding protection. team after Ayala’s Injured after blunder header opened the almost gifted Ballack an semi-finals on scoring for Argentina equaliser Arne Fabricio Friedrich 5 Coloccini 6 Thankless Impressive. task of Unalarmed penalties playing by Lahm’s The withdrawal of Jan Ullrich, T-Mobile’s team leader, deprives the race of its only previous winner Eric Gaillard/Reuters matador to forays and Tevez’s bull. Avoided a excellent in the air as goring, but unable to Germany pressed with close Argentina’s most increasing desperation Quarter-finals Germany 1 (0) Argentina 1 (0) fruitful route to goal. in the second half Tour elite thrown out as Ullrich and Klose 80 Ayala 49 aet Christoph Roberto Penalties Metzelder 6 Ayala 7 Basso caught up in drug crackdown 4 2 Crespo will Marvellous see his face display of the staring back defensive Referee Lubos Michel (Slovak) 5 Olympiastadion 72,000 T-Mobile in this Tour. The public-relations time, after a lengthy meeting of the inter- Germany substitutes Lehmann • Germany • Argentina through the skills learned Blood-doping probe by IOdonkor 62•, man who had arranged the spread, Luuc national teams association in Strasbourg’s Mertesacker 8 Metzelder Possession Territory bathroom mirror this in the course of 104 tactical. morning. Shadowed the caps, including ability Eisenga, was left to face the press on his Palais des Congrès, where it was decided NBorowski 74, 5 6 6 6 Spanish police implicates tactical. Friedrich 7 Lahm Chelsea forward and to foul on the sly, own, an apposite image of the shambolic the ethical code agreed on by the teams in MNeuville 86, tactical. Frings top riders on eve of start, 5 4 was rarely exposed capped by a goal embarrassment the race endured yester- 2005 should be rigorously applied. The Schneider 6 Schweinsteiger William Fotheringham day. Never can so many favourites have code specifies that teams should provi- Ballack Klose Podolski % % Per Gabriel reports from Strasbourg been lost in the flagship event in any sport sionally suspend cyclists who are involved 5 5 Mertesacker 6 Heinze 7 in so few hours. in police drug inquiries, and there have Argentina substitutes Tévez 7 5 Crespo Looked more Sir Alex After their implication in a blood- been many since the Festina scandal be- IFranco 71, injury. Jan Ullrich’s T-Mobile team had laid on a doping inquiry conducted by Spanish po- gan the clear-out within the sport. NCambiasso 72, Riquelme Rodríguez 49.3 50.7 52.9 47.1 like a shelf- Ferguson will tactical. 5 5 6 6 stacker in the be purring at sumptuous buffet in a luxurious golf club lice, and reported in the Spanish press on Critically for this Tour, the teams MCruz 79•, tactical. Sorín González 3 Shots on target 2 23 Fouls 32 Mascherano 6 opening the thought a dozen miles out of town where the press Thursday, was confirmed, the Tour was decided the half-dozen removed riders game, but that of Heinze, a superb foil 7 7 6 4 Shots off target 8 4 Corners 6 were to meet their squad yesterday morn- rapidly relieved of Ullrich and the other who were removed should not be re- Heinze Ayala Coloccini statuesque display is a for Ayala at centre-half, ing. But as the team bus turned into the big favourite, Ivan Basso, as well as last placed, even though the rules permit this. 5 74% Passing accuracy 76% 3 Offside 3 distant memory. returning to Old drive at Kemperhof, 10 minutes before year’s fourth finisher Francesco Mancebo “We wanted to give a strong message to Excellent concentration Trafford in this form Abbondanzieri forks up, the driver took a call on his of Spain. The three riders’ records put the outside world by not allowing re- mobile phone and was told to do a U-turn. them at the top of the Tour’s recent hier- placements. That would be too easy,” said Philipp Juan Pablo Michael Walker Berlin — Christoph Metzelder, Frings and Klose Their leader was out of the Tour de archy behind the now-retired seven-times Patrick Lefévère, head of the teams body, accompanied him — while Ballack would Lahm 6 Sorín 5 France, which was at a stroke deprived of winner Lance Armstrong. the AIGCP, who added he was “ashamed” have played but for his suspension. Trademark Steady the only rider in the field who had actu- Ullrich finished in the first three in by what had happened. Germany are through to the semi-finals Less than four minutes into the second thrusts down despite an ally won the race. Ullrich’s team-mate seven of the last nine Tours, Basso second Early in the afternoon Basso’s manager the left were early booking and must feel unstoppable. After drawing half the quality of that experience was to Oscar Sevilla of Spain was also withdrawn, and third in the last two races and Bjarne Riis returned to the conference limited as until he 1–1 in normal time Jens Lehmann made be put to the test. After Maxí Rodriguez Germany were starved allowed Klose to steal along with Rudy Pevenage, the grizzled, Mancebo has five top-10 placings in the room in the Palais des Congrès where two saves in the penalty shoot-out that had won a corner, Riquelme strolled over of possession, but not past him and head burly Belgian former professional who has last six Tours. The loss of credibility was he and Basso had sat side by side only followed a tense extra 30 minutes. After a to take it. His previous two had been dan- embarrassed in his home Germany’s been Ullrich’s mentor since he turned the greater with the implication in the in- the day before, with Basso sidestepping handshake from his bitter rival gerous and this was no different, arriving defensive duties equaliser professional in 1993 and was to manage vestigation of Joseba Beloki, third in 2000 questions about the affair while Oliver Kahn, Lehmann blocked penalties like a whipcrack on the edge of the six- and 2001 and second in 2002. Riis declared himself powerless to act. from Roberto Ayala and Esteban yard box where Ayala had found space. Bernd Luis Armstrong settlement As for who might win in three weeks’ “We had a chance to look at the 50-page Cambiasso. There was ecstacy in the Having risen above Klose, Ayala’s header Schneider 5 González 6 time, that turned into a minor issue, given memo and have established that he is Olympiastadion. flew in between Lehmann and Lahm. Short stride, Least that doubts also remained over last year’s part of the case and under suspicion,” said The first half of normal time was almost Until then only the Costa Rica striker big heart. flamboyant The Sunday Times has settled with fifth finisher Alexandr Vinokourov, whose Riis. barren in terms of attacking creativity. Paulo Wanchope had scored against Ger- Exhausted by of the Lance Armstrong after he sued the Astana team only owed their place in the There was a certain implacable if Juan Román Riquelme tried to impose his many. That was three weeks ago, when his efforts to Argentine paper for libel over a 2004 article race to the clemency of the Court of unsavoury logic about yesterday’s events stealth passing on the occasion but often Klinsmann’s team had not yet forged a stifle the likes of midfield four but his which referred to a book, LA Arbitration for Sport on Thursday. when they were put in the context of failed and was moodily substituted in the reputation. Since then they have become Riquelme and Tevez, work-rate, touch and Confidential – The Secrets of Lance The CAS ruling could be premature. events in cycling since the exclusion of the 72nd minute. Both sides were guilty of known for aggression and progression and and replaced with an tenacity made him no Armstrong. In a high-court hearing, Five Astana riders who were due to start Festina team from the 1998 Tour. The hour gone less crucial irritating fouls and exaggeration but after 49 minutes of restraint Germany had Mr Justice Gray ruled that the the race today were implicated in the in- other great Tours, the Giro d’Italia and after Ayala put Argentina ahead with a no option but to revert to their natural meaning of the article as a whole quiry, along with several other riders in Vuelta a Espana, have been hit by scandals 49th-minute header the match game. Torsten Javier implied that Armstrong had taken the team not present at the Tour. Accord- that have made the overall results from expanded. There was risk involved because of the Frings 7 Mascherano 6 drugs to enhance his performance. ing to the race organiser, Christian Prud- certain years virtually meaningless. It was the first time Germany had been Germany’s The steel to He rejected arguments for the paper homme, “doping within the team looked The 2001 Giro lost its overall leader and behind in the tournament and was the most complement that the words conveyed no more to be organised”. A further decision on the main favourite after a police raid; the 2005 effective Riquelme’s biggest question asked of Jürgen Klins- than the existence of reasonable team’s position in the race was pending. Vuelta winner Roberto Heras was recently player silk. Tigerish mann's players so far. Their response was despite the twin tasks in the tackle, totally grounds to suspect. “The Sunday Ullrich, Sevilla and Pevenage went early banned after a positive test. For the Tour’s impressive and the accidental collision of sticking close to committed and Times has confirmed to Mr Armstrong in the morning, after T-Mobile were sent a hierarchy to be shaken in this way on race between Klose and Roberto Abbon- Riquelme and winning cynical when required that it never intended to accuse him of fax by the Tour organisers who had eve was shocking but not astounding. danzieri that saw the Argentina goal- the ball for the cause being guilty of taking any received a 50-page memo from the Span- Whether the credibility of the Tour could keeper depart on a stretcher on 71 minutes performance-enhancing drugs and ish Cycling Federation, giving details of be restored, and how long that might take, could not be cited as the turning point. Michael Maxi sincerely apologised for any such the police investigation. was what remained to be seen. Nine minutes later, though, Klose beat his Ballack 6 Rodríguez 6 impression,” the paper’s lawyers said. Mancebo, who is now considering re- replacement Leonardo Franco with his Composure Missed a tirement, and Basso followed at lunch- Tour in turmoil, main section, page 18 ≥ first headed goal for Germany for three and grace chance to years. It was deserved on the energy Ger- were a make the many showed — Torsten Frings was delight, but score 2–0 relentless in midfield — and took the game the new Chelsea after shooting into the into extra-time. It was chanceless, though midfielder saw too little side netting after a Wiggins is clean and a time-trial contender Fabricio Coloccini hit Lehmann's bar with of the ball to dominate move down the right as he would like and booked for diving a miss-hit cross. It was the first time they After a sparky opening 20 minutes, in William Fotheringham Strasbourg has been outspoken in his condemnation which Michael Ballack went close with a had been behind and the Bastian Juan Román Routes of drug-taking in the sport and he wel- header from a cute Bernd Schneider cross, Schweinsteiger 4 Riquelme 5 comed yesterday’s events, echoing Mil- the rest of the first half was sheer attrition. biggest questions were Little sign of Seventy Today’s prologue time-trial will resemble Tomorrow Stage 1 114.6 miles lar’s description of Operation Puerto and By the end of it neither goalkeeper had the attacking minutes of the banquet in Macbeth, with Ivan Basso, Kehl its aftermath as “fantastic”. asked of Germany potency he Riquelme at made a save. Argentina had buzzed in Jan Ullrich and Francisco Mancebo, barred “It’s good, bloody good, it’s about time showed to half-power is Strasbourg those opening few minutes with help the Germans purr better than most for suspected doping, in the role of Ban- Offenburg they got rid of these sods if they are Riquelme looking as if he might seize the space left between the midfield and Germany’s Miroslav Klose, the tournament’s top scorer so far, rises above the Argentina defender Gabriel Heinze at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin John Sibley/Action Images in attack as they players at full wattage, quo. While their absences will overshadow proven to be doing stuff. Guys like me afternoon. Tall, languid and brave in his defence, room Tévez and Hernán Crespo dispatched Ecuador but disappointing the afternoon — as indeed will France’s Plobsheim have to endure them making our lives passing, Riquelme was giving his side a were likely to relish. David Odonkor was and Sweden nevertheless World Cup quarter-final with Brazil — hard in the mountains and what hap- territorial advantage. With Juan Pablo sent on for Schneider on 63 minutes and British fans at least will have keen eye on pened yesterday is brilliant from that Saverne Sorín eager to get forward down the left sixty seconds later a Germany corner Joy in the end for sea of red, black and yellow Lukas Carlos proceedings, with David Millar and the point of view. In another way it’s not good to support Riquelme and Luís Gonzalez caused panic in the Argentina area. As Podolski Tevez quadruple Olympic medallist Bradley Wig- though as it will take over the next few 5 7 France influential in midfield, there were Klose collided with Abbondanzieri, Obvious role A street gins among the shortlist of contenders. Sprint Côte de weeks, but for someone like me who races moments when it seemed that Argentina the ball fell to Ballack. It bounced high model for footballer Such is the dearth of talented British Climb Heiligenstein clean it’s good that it’s being unravelled.” had the capacity to cut loose. and Ballack’s shot was unsure but, just three weeks, drawn by the big screens that off approached, the streets filled with team's arrival was replaced by the sound spotty from the road racers that Wiggins is Britain’s first Strasbourg Strasbourg Wiggins will start today’s time-trial Paul Kelso Berlin 146m 150m Yet just at that point a German, fre- for good measure, Ayala blocked it have sprouted at half-kilometre intervals commuters rushing home early, some of feet tensely shuffling. In keeping with teenagers Rooney Tour debutant since 2000, when Millar Saverne Côte de Heiligenstein Plobsheim with next year’s prologue in his native 290m Kehl quently Frings, would nip in to erase any anyway. and the fact they are never more than 50 abandoning bicycles to take their chance the rest of this World Cup the best seats with bad hair to mimic. mould. Powerful, quick finished the race, and this will be the first London on his mind. He has made no Here’s hoping they and fiercely committed, bright south American ideas. Ballack was But now there was a contest. Within the The Argentina Under-21s popped out for yards from a drink. of finding standing room in the fan park. are reserved for the sponsors and in the Tour since 1995 when there has been more 53 101.5 137 175.5km bones of his determination to be in the another willing to track back and the con- next 15 minutes there were five substitu- a spot of sightseeing yesterday morning It is doubtful whether the giant screen By 4.45pm they needed all the guile grandstands that provide guests of Coca- don’t copy shameless he terrified Germany’s than one British representative. frame by then but his last prologue out- first-half dive back four all afternoon gestion meant that Carlos Tévez, chosen tions and both of Klinsmann’s were about at the Brandenburg Gate. It was to be the that hangs from the gate flanked by and craft of Juan Román Riquelme to find Cola and Mastercard with a view above the It is also the first time since the prologue ing, at the Dauphiné Libéré stage race, re- ahead of Javier Saviola, was unable to to make telling interventions. Tim last sighting of a blue-and-white shirt advertising hoardings is what Stalin had a spot not already occupied by a com- hoi polloi nails were chewed. All knew the time-trial’s inception in 1967 that Britain Today Prologue 11.81 miles sulted only in a disappointing 21st place make any impression. Occasionally, Borowski replaced the disappointing Bas- within several miles of the physical and in mind when he arrived to carve up the patriot wearing a daft hat and a tense grin. hosts were being outplayed. Miroslav Hernán has had two strong candidates, even if which he put down to over-confidence. Klose Crespo Boulevard via Philipp Lahm down the Germany tian Schweinsteiger on 74 minutes and, spiritual heart of the reunited German city 60 years ago but yesterday it was a The one thing none of them had counted One thing the whole nation has come 5 5 Wiggins was yesterday unwilling to be Strasbourg de l’Orangerie France Wiggins’ team manager at Cofidis, Eric 140m left, Klinsmann’s workers were able to after Odonkor had robbed Sorín on the capital all day, as close to a million Berlin- flame that drew red, gold and black clad on, however, was the skills of the to know of Jürgen Klinsmann's side is that Started the Much more drawn on his chances in spite of the ab- 140m Boyer, feels that in actual fact his protégé press their guests into a corner but right and found Lahm with a crossfield ers without tickets turned out to watch moths from across the city. Argentinian sightseers' elders and betters. they have heart, and hope had not been game locked like the mid- sence of three recent prologue winners, does not yet have sufficient belief in his in a petty season there was little promise of any real end pass, the ball was ferried to Ballack. The the quarter-final against Argentina. Dressed in the shirts of their heroes — As Juan Pablo Sorín and his colleagues abandoned even before Miroslav Klose Lance Armstrong, Bradley McGee of Aus- own ability. “Brad is a super rider but he row with Crespo product. Germany captain did not have a great The Fan Fests have been a charming Lukas Podolski seems a particular in the visitors’ back four stifled the life out stole in to redeem himself with Germany's Heinze, lost Ayala for Stamford Bridge tralia and the Swiss Fabian Cancellara. “I’m needs to gain in confidence,” said Boyer. The combination of respect and wari- game but he sent in a good centre and feature of this tournament but none favourite among teenage boys able to of Germany's early attacks the noise that equaliser. The roar that swept through the Argentinian goal before regulars have come to feeling good, but I have no expectations “That’s why I’ve decided to put him in the ness was smothering the play and the Borowski met it with a flick of the head. is more stirring or engaging than the con- replicate his acne-and-bad-highlights had rolled down the Tiergarten on the city shook the scaffolding on the Ameri- redeeming himself with know. Well marshalled on myself and no one in the team has ex- Tour. I don’t want him to turn up in Lon- atmosphere. Thanks to Tévez’s inclusion Borowski’s touch took the ball to the far servatively named Fan Mile — it is closer look with little effort — they teemed into can Embassy that is emerging next to the equaliser by Metzelder pectations of me. I’ve improved my form Avenue de la don next year and be over-awed by the oc- Argentina’s outfield 10 had an average age post where his Werder Bremen team-mate to two — that stretches from the west side the city centre in anticipation of the Brandenburg Gate. in the last few weeks but I could be first or Forêt-Noire casion. If he can come through the Tour Fans anticipate the Time check 140m of just below 27. Germany’s were some 14 Klose rose to place an emphatic header in of the Brandenburg Gate to the Sieges- biggest party since the wall came down It could not dispel the nerves, however, Substitutes Substitutes last. What happened yesterday will mean well it will be a turning point for him.” On D Odonkor (for Schneider, L Franco (Abbondanzieri, Strasbourg Time check Strasbourg months younger, with only Schneider the bottom corner. Ultimately that saule monument. 17 years ago. biggest party since and, as extra-time wore on, the anxiety there are a few more out of the picture.” 140m 140m paper and on recent form, the favourite 62) 5 71) 4 Boulevard Avenue de la over 30. Yet this German side is not inex- returned us to the tension of the Running through the wooded parks of Inbound trains trailed flags from open kicked in again. With penalties looming a Since deciding to focus on road racing de l’Orangerie Forêt-Noire this afternoon, however, will be David T Borowski (for E Cambiasso (Riquelme, perienced. Schneider was one of four Ger- beginning but extra-time promised much the Tiergarten, it has hummed with sup- windows, the stairs of the U-Bahn stations the Wall came down million people waited to see if the evening Schweinsteiger, 74) 6 72) 5 until the build-up to the defence of his Zabriskie, the young American who de- mans who started the last World Cup final more drama. porters from all over the world these last were inch-deep in ticker tape and, as kick- would bring tears or beers in the garten. O Neuville (Klose, 86) 6 J Cruz (Crespo, 79) 6 Olympic pursuit title in Beijing, Wiggins 1.6 3.5 4.4 7.1km feated Armstrong in the stage last year.