turning point in German cycling: Giant Alpecin is presented on the big stage
Even before the entrance of the French Embassy in the heart of Berlin at Pariser Platz formed long queues on Tuesday morning. The new team Giant Alpecin presented the cycling world, and it was as if the German cycling have embarked on a journey through time. Not in the good old days, which can be given the scandalous past, say not, of course, but at least back in time to the grand entrance, public attention as in the era Telekom and Jan Ullrich. Around 150 media representatives had come to the presentation of the first teams of the highest category with a German sponsor and a German license after five years. And it was like once Rudolf Scharping, former Minister and President of the Federation of German Cyclists. But with Heiko Maas also a real existing minister was next door came, who has brought a draft anti-doping law on the road last year, the immediately from the German professional cyclist Marcel Kittel and John Degenkol b from the team Giant Alpecin and Tony Martin was signed.
. Author: Michael Horeni, born in 1965, a correspondent for Sport in Berlin
Maas, a friend of cycling, met at the French embassy also his old acquaintance Christian Prudhomme, the director of the Tour de France. The prominent cast of politics, sports, politics and sports made the Cycling Embassy of the day clearly: The German cycling may, in the words of the also present President of the International Cycling Federation, Brian Cookson, hoping for a “dawn”. These fit that ARD also announced on Tuesday again circumferentially about the Tour de France to report this year (July 4 to 26), and that Prudhomme of applications German cities (including St. Wendel and Munster) as a future stage stop told. Last time was the Tour de France ten years ago in Germany as a guest. “This is a great day,” said team manager Iwan Spekenbrink. “I hope this will be a new starting point for cycling in Germany.”
© dpa The face of a new generation: Marcel Kittel
The face of a new generation: Marcel Kittel
When you look back over the last three presentations of the German team, who were also launched with great expectations, always meant during the season new doping revelations the end. In 2007, T-Mobile introduced the last time in Majorca – then gave inter alia Erik Zabel, Udo Bölts, Rolf Aldag and Bjarne Riis doping with EPO, cortisone and growth hormones to. 2008, Gerolsteiner presented in Gerolstein – and gave inter alia, on the doping cases Stefan Schumacher and Bernhard Kohl on. Hardly fared better team Milram, the last German team went so far as 2010 to the start and during the tour announced the withdrawal.
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In recent years, not least the success of gowns, Degenkolb and Martin and their combined use against Doping created the conditions that Berlin could now be proclaimed to the beginning of a new era for the German cycling. “We fought our way through tough years,” Degenkolb said at the presentation in 2015. “I am very proud of this change. We have long worked hard for it. That was a lot of effort, with many questions about doping, but we are a new generation. “
The change in the public perception was already in Berlin not without effect on the two German cycling hopes in a German, but more internationally oriented team: “This is really cool, a stark start to the new year. We have had in recent years not, &# 8220;Smock said. In previous years, the team had far presented in Spanish Altea at the team hotel, according to modest and barely registered. “It’s created a real spirit of optimism, mainly because we have German driver also been shown in recent years that we are competitive, we can win – and still have clearly positioned us. That’s why it’s fun to grow everything to see that, “Smock said.
With the prominent predecessors of the team telecoms and team T-Mobile, which led cycling in Germany only to new height and then ruined for years, do not want to be mentioned in the same breath coat and Co.. Even if the performance in Berlin turned out a little larger than in the most popular German cycling times. “We do not compare, but we go our own way. It would be nice if we win at home team a certain popularity. But as a team we now enter a new stage -. And when we need to orient themselves once they were “aware of the great responsibility in every respect, Kittel said. And so was the dark-doping past the celebrated birthday of the new German teams in Berlin an uncharged, but always omnipresent guest.
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