TEAMS

YEAR OF TOUR NAME NAT BIRTH VICTORIES APPEARANCES CSC SASTRE Carlos SPA 1975 3 6 ARVESEN Kurt-Asle NOR 1975 12 2 BAK Lars-Ytting DEN 1980 5 0 BLAUDZUN Michael DEN 1973 11 2 BRESCHEL Matti DEN 1984 1 0 Main sponsor: Provider of IT services CANCELLARA Fabian SWI 1981 30 2 Address: Riis A/S, Team CSC, Firskovvej 36, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark CUESTA Iñigo •N SPA 1969 3 5 GOSS Matthew AUS 1986 2 0 www.team-csc.com Website: GUSTOV Volodymir UKR 1977 1 3 ProTour ranking (end 2006): First HAEDO Juan José •N ARG 1981 8 0 2007 budget: ¤7 million JOHANSEN Allan DEN 1971 12 1 Date of team’s foundation: 2001 JULICH Bobby USA 1971 19 9 Tour record: Seventh appearance, nine stage victories, two KLOSTERGAARD Kasper DEN 1983 0 0 victories ( 2001 and 2002), one team classification victory (2003) KOLOBNEV Alexandr •N RUS 1981 3 0 Past stars: Rolf Sörensen, Laurent Jalabert, Bo Hamburger, , KROON Karsten HOL 1976 6 3 , , Maximilian Sciandri, Tristan Hoffman, Ivan LJUNGQVIST Marcus SWE 1974 14 3 Basso, Jakob Piil LUND Anders •N DEN 1985 0 0 MICHAELSEN Lars DEN 1969 17 3 Team manager: O’GRADY Stuart AUS 1973 30 10 PEDERSEN Martin DEN 1983 8 0 ROBERTS Luke AUS 1977 6 1 ’S ANALYSIS SCHLECK Andy LUX 1985 3 0 “They will know right from the first evening whether SCHLECK Frank LUX 1980 3 1 SORENSEN Chris-Anker •N DEN 1984 1 0 Cancellara’s Tour has been a success. But whether SORENSEN Nicki DEN 1975 9 5 the Swiss wins the prologue or not, you can be sure VANDEVELDE Christian USA 1976 2 4 that we will see a lot of CSC in July. Firstly, because VOIGT Jens GER 1971 51 9 with Julich, Schleck and Sastre, they cause some ZABRISKIE David USA 1979 10 2 upsets on the climbs. And, secondly, because in The nine riders for the Tour are selected just before the start. -Roubaix winner Stuart O’Grady, they have one Statistics compiled April 1, 2007. of the best breakaway riders in the peloton. I’ve got really confidence in Bjarne Riis coming up with something because, in my opinion, he’s the best Leader Climber Puncheur Rouleur/Time triallist strategist around at the moment.” •N New signing

EQUIPMENT Frame: Cervélo Groupset: FSA Wheels: Zipp Clothing: Descente

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