Linus Gerdemann talked about the soccer games and was right about the German National team's game date. He may come on board to the new Luxembourg based team next year.
Christian Knees wore the German National Champion jersey. I guess his wife's (or girlfriend's) or dauther's name is Tenja. I noticed this tattoo on his right arm. Please notice that in German J is like Y, so this reads like Tanya.
Who is Tenja?
Gramin-Transitions (USA)
51 Christian Vande Velde, 52 Julian Dean (NZL), 53 Tyler Farrar, 54 Ryder Hesjedal (CAN), 55 Robbie Hunter (RSA), 56 Martijn Maaskant (NED), 57 David Millar (GBR), 58 Johan Van Summeren (BEL), 59 David Zabriskie.
Here are the gangs.
Christian Vande Velde was upbeat that day. Poor Christian, though. He eventually went out of the race due to injury.
Here Dave is relaxed sitting on the bike.
David Zabriskie got on the bike again.
Now he hangs on to the handle bar and pretends that he is focused (but not really).
Robert Hunter is gesturing and encouraging some audience to blow that annoying vuvuzela because he had hard time NOT falling asleep, I guess.
As you can see Tyler Farrar stayed pat all the time. He is an amazing guy.
BMC Racing Team (USA)
121 Cadel Evans (AUS), 122 Alessandro Ballan (ITA), 123 Brent Bookwalter, 124 Marcus Burghardt (GER), 125 Mathias Frank (SUI), 126 George Hincape, 127 Karsten Kroon (NED), 128 Steve Morabito (SUI), 129 Mauro Santambrogio (ITA).
Cadel Evans looked very relaxed.
He was all smiles.
George Hincape looked all-American in this Natinal Champion jersery.
Rabobank (Netheland)
191 Denis Menchov (RUS), 192 Lars Boom, 193 Oscar Freire (ESP), 194 Juan Manuel Garate (ESP), 195 Robert Gesink, 196 Koos Morenhout, 197 Rrischa Niermann (GER), 198 Bram Tankink, 199 Maarten Tjallingii.
Denis Menchov's mind is wondering off.
Denis Menchov looks like a monk contemplating on the boring aspect of life.
Cofidis, le Crédit en Ligne (France)
171 Rein Taarame (EST), 172 Stéphane Augé, 173 Samuel Dumoulin, 174 Julien El Fares, 175 Christophe Kern, 176 Sébastien Minard, 177 Amaël Moinard, 178 Damien Monier, 179 Rémi Pauriol.
Team Sky (Great Britain)
31 Bradley Wiggins, 32 Michael Barry (CAN), 33 Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR), 34 Steven Cummings, 35 Juan Antonio Flecha (ESP), 36 Simon Gerrans (AUS), 37 Thomas Löfkvist, 38 Serge Pauwels (BEL), 39 Geraint Thomas.
Team RadioShack (USA)
21 Lance Armstrong, 22 Janez Brajkovic (SLN), 23 Christopher Horner, 24 Andreas Klöden, 25 Levi Leipheimer, 26 Dmitiy Muravyev (KAZ), 27 Sergio Paulnho (POR), 28 Jaroslav Popovych (UKR), 29 Grégory Rast (SUI).
Team Saxo Bank (Denmark)
11 Andy Schleck (LUX), 12 Matti Breschel, 13 Fabian Cancellara (SUI), 14 Jakob Fuglsang, 15 Stuart O'Grady (AUS), 16 Fränk Schleck (LUX), 17 Chris Anker Sørensen, 18 Nicki Sørensen, 19 Jens Voigt (GER).
Astana (Kazakhstan)
1 Alberto Contador (ESP), 2 David De La Fuente (ESP), 3 Andriy Grivko (UKR), 4 Jésus Hernandez (ESP), 5 Maxim Iglinskiy, 6 Daniel Navarro (ESP), 7 Benjamin Noval (ESP), 8 Paolo Tiralongo (ITA), 9 Alexandre Vinokourov.
This was the end of a long very boring presentation
