Jan Ullrich
Jan Ullrich
Jan Ullrich; born 2 December 1973) is a German former professional road bicycle racer. Ullrich won a gold and a silver in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He won the 1999 Vuelta a España and the HEW Cyclassics in front of a home crowd in Hamburg in 1997. He had podium finishes in the hilly classic Clásica de San Sebastián. His victorious ride in the 1997 Tour de France led to a bicycle boom in Germany. He retired in...
ProfessionCyclist
Date of Birth2 December 1973
head pull reduce sheet
I'm going to try every day to reduce this 55-second split. I could go to my room, get into bed, pull the sheet over my head and cry, but I won't.
legs power season start
You start to feel that the power missing. The season has been long, and the legs start to get heavy.
giving good team until
I am disappointed today, of course. It was actually going well until the rain. But I have a good team and we are not giving up.
relief
It's not really a relief that he quit,
moment sit
At the moment I just can't sit on the saddle.
july paris reckon wear yellow
I want to wear yellow in Paris in July and I reckon I am on the right track,
catch fun ride season technical
I have a lot to catch up. I've never started the season so late. It was fun to ride after so long. I didn't go all out on this very technical course.
appearance armstrong beat last tour valuable victory
I have always said that a Tour victory is more valuable if Lance Armstrong is participating. I will do everything I can to beat him in his last appearance on the Tour.
distance eliminate hesitate opportunity
In the Tour, it's important to use every opportunity to distance or eliminate adversaries and if there's a chance, I won't hesitate to attack.
confident work
I have the motivation, but not the legs. I still have a lot of work to do, but I'm confident in myself.
beat control course liked relief team
Of course I would have liked to beat him but unfortunately I couldn't. It's not really relief because the Tour's going to change. There won't be a team like his who will control the race.
few general keen key legs looking test
I'm not looking at the general classification but I will be keen to test my legs on a few key stages.
bad climb fighting knew tour
It was a bad day and I knew it from the first climb in Aspin, ... I'm going to keep fighting because the Tour is not over.
course greatest maybe time trying
If it's true, I would of course be disappointed. Lance is the greatest of our time and maybe somebody's trying to put him down. I don't know what it's about, so all of this is very speculative.