Cycling: Ullrich's Tour Preparation Delayed

Former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich has delayed preparations for this year's race after a knee injury.
Jan Ullrich, the only Tour de France winner likely to start this year's race, yesterday announced that he would delay his start to the season because of a knee injury, giving a boost to the several other favourites to succeed the seven-times winner Lance Armstrong, who retired last July.

Ullrich was due to start the Circuit de la Sarthe stage race next week but will not race until the Tour of Romandie on April 25. "I would have liked to have begun racing again but I don't want to get anything wrong," he said.

The German is due to contest the Giro d'Italia as preparation for the Tour but this now looks ambitious because the Giro starts on May 6.


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Published: 3/30/2006
 
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