Rogers to lead T-Mobile team at Tour de France

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2007

BERLIN (AFP) — Triple world time-trial champion Michael Rogers of Australia will lead the T-Mobile team at this year's Tour de France, the German outfit said Friday.

It's an inexperienced squad for the once dominant team, who used to count Jan Ullrich amongst their riders, with Briton Mark Cavendish, 22, and Germans Marcus Burghardt, 23, and Linus Gerdemann, 24, taking part for the first time.

T-Mobile general manager Bob Stapleton is hoping that his young outfit will have the hunger to breathe fire into the tour.

"With (Patrick) Sinkewitz, Gerdemann and (Axel) Merckx, Rogers has some good cyclists next to him," he said.

Stapleton added that he hopes Rogers can repeat his top 10 finish from last year and also win a stage, probably one of the...