Stage 9: Bennati outsprints the rest, Levi wins the tour

Stage 8: Ullrich wins the stage, Levi wins the tour

Jan Ullrich won, as predicted the time trial of the tour of Germany. Unfortunately for him, he could only make 54 seconds on the tour leader, falling 32 seconds short of what he needed to get a win.
Tomorrow's stage is a flat last stage a formality for Levi Leipheimer and team Gerolsteiner.
Congrats to Levi and team Gerolsteiner.

Stage 7: Evans masterful, Ullrich probably out of it

A tremendous performance by Cadel Evans saw him win a very exciting stage 7 of the tour of Germany. Due to Jeker impressive pace on the climb five riders Jeker, Evans, Leipheimer, Jaksche and Contador broke away from the rest with 3 km to go to the finish. Jaksche launched an attack with 500 meters to go but Evans countered finishing 11 seconds ahead of Jaksche and Jeker, with tour leader Leipheimer 15 seconds back.
Ullrich had cracked earlier in the race finishing 42 seconds behind.
As it stands now, Leipheimer has 33 seconds lead on teammate Totschnig with Evans third 58 seconds behind. Ullrich is 5th with 1 minute 26 seconds behind, even with the time trial ahead (his specialty) making up 1'26'' on Leipheimer seems like a tall order.

Stage 6: Inglinskiy in a bunch sprint.

Maxim Iglinskiy from team Domina Vacanze won the sixth stage of the Tour of Germany.
The 24-year-old Kazakh won a frantic sprint involving nine riders, finishing ahead of Belgian Jurgen van der Broeck (Discovery Channel) and Italian Alessandro Ballan (Lampre-Caffita).
Levi Leipheim is still in yellow 18 seconds ahead of teammate toschting and 56 ahead of Jan Ullrich.
The tour win is going to be decided in stage 8, the time trial, with Ullrich looking to gain 56 seconds on Ullrich.

Stage 5: Bennati master of the sprint

Daniele Bennati from team Lampre won his second sprint of the tour of Germany to take the 219 km fifth stage.
The stage witnessed a long six-man breakaway that collapsed meters from the end.
Levi is still in the yellow jersey

Stage 4:Gerolsteiner above the rest

Levi Leipheimer jumped into the tour of Germany lead after a great performance in stage 4. Teammate Totschnig finished second. The 2 Gerolsteiner climbers left Ullrich behind them on the steepest hill to finish 1,2.
The American is now wearing the yellow jersey, his lead is 15'' over of his teammate Totschnig. Jan Ullrich is 47 seconds behind in third place.
Ullrich who made winning the tour of Germany one of his objectives of the year hasn't given up yet. The TT on stage 8 will decide it, although making 47 seconds up on Leipheimer might be a tall order, even for Ullrich.

Stage 3 : Bennati in a sprint

Lampre's Daniele Bennati outsprinted yesterday's sprint winner Pozzato, to win stage 3 of the tour of germany.
Bennati denied Pozzato a second stage win and Quickstep a third one as he finished millimeters ahead of yesterday's hero. Tankink finished in the bunch and kept his yellow jersey.
Commenting on a his stage win, Bennati said that he's affraid of tomorrow's stage and rightfully so as the fourth stage is the hardest of the tour.
Ullrich who is lurking 23 seconds behind (and all other favorites) will likely make a move.
Tomorrow's stage will reveal lots about the idendity of the overall winner.
So sit down and enjoy!!!

Stage 1: Tankink braves a crash and the elements

Bram Tankink of team Quickstep survived nasty weather, a nasty crash with 10 km to go
and Bram Eisel and Juan Jose Cobo to win the Stage 1 of the tour of Germany.
The three were involved in a breakaway almost the whole stage, but with 3 km to go Tankink broke away from the three, to get his first pro stage win. Cobo and Eisel finished 50 seconds later and the peloton came 3'15'' later.
Looking ahead to tomorrow's stage, a big cat 2 climb just before the end is going to be the make or break of the peloton. Tomorrow will witness lots of attacks, but with a downhill finish, I think the main favorites will hold till little bit later in the tour.

Deutschland Tour preview: Ullrich favorite on home turf

Ullrich made it clear, he wants to win on home turf, and he has a strong T-Mobile team backing him up, notably Vinokourov.
Vino who's leaving T-Mobile at the end of the year to liberty seguros, is arguably the strongest rival to Ullrich in the pack, but he won't challenge him as they are teamates or maybe not !!!!
Ullrich expects Vino to be the ultimate teamate and he's been one so far.
Other contenders are Julich from team CSC and Levi Leipheimer from team Gerolsteiner
At this point, these are only speculations, let's wait and see!
Stage 1 is coming up