Unless La Gazetta steps up and takes victory today we will see the yellow jersey change teams, as today is the very crucial 42-kilometres long time trial. It’s an important day for the GC contenders. Some of them will look to get the yellow jersey already after today’s stage, while those who doesn’t have a strong team of time trialists around them will just be looking to keep their losses at an acceptable level.



First team on the road was France Televisions. Fighting with Magenta and Accumulax for the win in this year’s ProTour, the French needs to get their captain Brajkovic into a good position. They posted a reasonable benchmark of 56’14.



They were beaten by the very next team though, not surprisingly as Credit Lyonnais has brought a very strong time trial team for this team as they will be looking set up this year’s Tour de France podium finisher, John Gadret in a good position.



A lot of teams then went by without getting close. Eurosport did post a good time but not enough to stay inside the Top 3. Last year’s winner Markus Fothen doesn’t get off to a good start here, which Accumulax and France Televisions will be looking to capitalize on. They finish the day more than 2 minutes down.



Cadel Evans’ WikiPedia led after the two first time checks and it looked as though they had put in a well-measured effort finishing with 5 riders. They could quite hold on and had to settle for provisional 2nd, 7 seconds off the time of Credit Lyonnais.



Philips – Hummel has a strong rider for the overall in Thomas Dekker, but the team couldn’t deliver today and finishing with only 4 riders didn’t make things better. Dekker will have to do this on his own.



Accumulax were one of the favourites for today. They couldn’t match the top 2 as they had to settle for 3rd on the day, 31 seconds off Credit Lyonnais. They have managed to set up Iglinski well with this performance.



From there on in there were no significant changes and the victory for Credit Lyonnais became reality when American Suzuki crossed the line to wrap up Day 2 here in Deutschland Tour.



This means we have William Bonnet in the yellow jersey, leading three of his team-mates and one of the pre-race favourites Cadel Evans is sitting very nicely indeed in 5th place.

1	CREDIT LYONNAIS	5h40'22
2	WIKIPEDIA	+ 7
3	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	+ 31
4	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	+ 34
5	EUROSPORT	s.t.
6	CARLSBERG	+ 39
7	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	+ 47
8	MAPEI	+ 48
9	FESTINA	+ 1'00
10	SONY ERICSSON	+ 1'06
11	NINTENDO - HONDA	+ 1'15
12	AMERICAN SUZUKI	+ 1'22
13	DOMINA VACANZE	+ 1'27
14	MOLTENI	+ 1'29
15	VIRGIN MEDIA - CAISSE D'EPARGNE	+ 1'45
16	ERSTE	+ 2'12
17	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	+ 2'13
18	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	+ 2'17
19	WARNER BROTHERS	+ 2'46

Individual

1	Mathieu Perget	CREDIT LYONNAIS	55'40
2	Dimitri Champion	CREDIT LYONNAIS	s.t.
3	John Gadret	CREDIT LYONNAIS	s.t.
4	William Bonnet	CREDIT LYONNAIS	s.t.
5	Adrian Laidler	CREDIT LYONNAIS	s.t.
6	Cadel Evans	WIKIPEDIA	+ 7
7	Matthieu Sprick	WIKIPEDIA	s.t.
8	Danny Pate	WIKIPEDIA	s.t.
9	Ben Hermans	WIKIPEDIA	s.t.
10	David George	WIKIPEDIA	s.t.
11	Maxim Iglinski	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	+ 31
12	Robert Hunter	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	s.t.
13	Marcel Barth	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	s.t.
14	Jussi Veikkanen	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	s.t.
15	Matea Kvasina	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	s.t.
16	Piotr Mazur	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	+ 32
17	Rafaâ Chtioui	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	+ 33
18	Koen De Kort	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	+ 34
19	Janez Brajkovic	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	s.t.
20	Enrico Franzoi	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	s.t.
21	Michael Schär	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	s.t.
22	Kristof Vandewalle	EUROSPORT	s.t.
23	Sébastien Joly	EUROSPORT	s.t.
24	Matthias Kessler	EUROSPORT	s.t.
25	Sandy Casar	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	s.t.
26	Marcel Kittel	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	s.t.
27	Luke Roberts	EUROSPORT	s.t.
28	Andrei Sartasov	EUROSPORT	s.t.
29	Marcel Sieberg	CARLSBERG	+ 39
30	Bert Grabsch	CARLSBERG	s.t.
31	Stefan Schumacher	CARLSBERG	s.t.
32	Bernhard Eisel	CARLSBERG	s.t.
33	Stefan Schreck	CARLSBERG	s.t.
34	Tom Stubbe	WIKIPEDIA	+ 44
35	Michael Rogers	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	+ 47
36	Dennis Van Winden	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	s.t.
37	Joost Posthuma	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	s.t.
38	Marzio Bruseghin	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	s.t.
39	Michael Ford	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	s.t.
40	Yoann Offredo	MAPEI	+ 48
41	Dmitri Kozontchuk	MAPEI	s.t.
42	Markus Eichler	MAPEI	s.t.
43	Damien Gaudin	MAPEI	s.t.
44	Aleksandr Kolobnev	MAPEI	s.t.
45	Juri Krivtsov	CREDIT LYONNAIS	+ 58
46	Wladimir Gustov	FESTINA	+ 1'00
47	Jordi Grau	FESTINA	s.t.
48	Steve Morabito	FESTINA	s.t.
49	Jaroslav Popovych	FESTINA	s.t.
50	Brian Vandborg	FESTINA	s.t.
51	Rick Flens	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	+ 1'02
52	Jurgen Van Goolen	FESTINA	s.t.
53	Jakub Danacik	SONY ERICSSON	+ 1'06
54	Assan Bazajev	SONY ERICSSON	s.t.
55	Sebastian Lang	SONY ERICSSON	s.t.
56	Viktor Renäng	SONY ERICSSON	s.t.
57	Victor Hugo Peña	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	s.t.
58	Kevin Fouquet	SONY ERICSSON	s.t.
59	Aleksandr Arekejev	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	+ 1'11
60	Pierrick Fédrigo	NINTENDO - HONDA	+ 1'15
61	Jairo Agudelo	NINTENDO - HONDA	s.t.
62	Santiago Perez Fernandez	NINTENDO - HONDA	s.t.
63	Stef Clement	NINTENDO - HONDA	s.t.
64	Clément Lhotellerie	NINTENDO - HONDA	s.t.
65	Matthieu Ladagnous	AMERICAN SUZUKI	+ 1'22
66	Fabio Sacchi	AMERICAN SUZUKI	s.t.
67	Matt Booth	AMERICAN SUZUKI	s.t.
68	Dries Devenyns	AMERICAN SUZUKI	s.t.
69	Julien Berard	AMERICAN SUZUKI	s.t.
70	Stefano Garzelli	EUROSPORT	+ 1'24
71	Evgeni Sokolov	AMERICAN SUZUKI	+ 1'25
72	Rigoberto Úran	DOMINA VACANZE	+ 1'27
73	Jelle Vanendert	DOMINA VACANZE	s.t.
74	Vincenzo Nibali	DOMINA VACANZE	s.t.
75	Joseph Cooper	DOMINA VACANZE	s.t.
76	Bobbie Traksel	DOMINA VACANZE	s.t.
77	Iñigo Landaluze	MOLTENI	+ 1'29
78	Benjamin Noval	MOLTENI	s.t.
79	Francis De Greef	MOLTENI	s.t.
80	Luca Mazzanti	MOLTENI	s.t.
81	Luis Perez Rodriguez	MOLTENI	s.t.
82	Roman Kilun	WIKIPEDIA	+ 1'31
83	Daniele Bennati	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	+ 1'33
84	Kevin Ista	WIKIPEDIA	+ 1'41
85	Taylor Phinney	VIRGIN MEDIA - CAISSE D'EPARGNE	+ 1'45
86	William Ford	VIRGIN MEDIA - CAISSE D'EPARGNE	s.t.
87	Ian Stannard	VIRGIN MEDIA - CAISSE D'EPARGNE	s.t.
88	Lars Boom	VIRGIN MEDIA - CAISSE D'EPARGNE	s.t.
89	Vladimir Karpets	VIRGIN MEDIA - CAISSE D'EPARGNE	s.t.
90	Arthur Garcia Rincon	VIRGIN MEDIA - CAISSE D'EPARGNE	+ 1'46
91	Ivan Kovalev	VIRGIN MEDIA - CAISSE D'EPARGNE	+ 1'48
92	Sebastian Langeveld	VIRGIN MEDIA - CAISSE D'EPARGNE	+ 1'51
93	Emanuele Rizza	AMERICAN SUZUKI	s.t.
94	Eric Baumann	CARLSBERG	+ 1'58
95	Rik Verbrugghe	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	+ 2'03
96	Ben Curfs	AMERICAN SUZUKI	+ 2'09
97	Claudio Cucinotta	SONY ERICSSON	+ 2'10
98	Jérôme Baugnies	ERSTE	+ 2'12
99	Patrik Sinkewitz	ERSTE	s.t.
100	Michail Ignatiev	ERSTE	s.t.
101	Baden Cooke	ERSTE	s.t.
102	Logan Hutchings	ERSTE	s.t.
103	Kai Reus	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	+ 2'13
104	Anthony Roux	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	s.t.
105	Markus Fothen	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	s.t.
106	Linus Gerdemann	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	s.t.
107	Bruno Neves	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	s.t.
108	Dmitri Medvedev	SONY ERICSSON	s.t.
109	Arnaud Coyot	ERSTE	+ 2'14
110	Luigi Sestili	CREDIT LYONNAIS	+ 2'16
111	Olaf Pollack	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	+ 2'17
112	Pieter Weening	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	s.t.
113	Thomas Dekker	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	s.t.
114	László Bodrogi	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	s.t.
115	Mark Renshaw	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	s.t.
116	Anthony Lavoine	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	+ 2'25
117	Anders Lund	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	+ 2'29
118	Gert Dockx	MAPEI	+ 2'34
119	Michael Mørkøv	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	+ 2'37
120	Stephen Vicelich	MAPEI	+ 2'43
121	André Vital	MOLTENI	+ 2'45
122	Carlo Westphal	CARLSBERG	s.t.
123	Wouter Weylandt	WARNER BROTHERS	+ 2'46
124	Mark Scanlon	WARNER BROTHERS	s.t.
125	Kevin Seeldraeyers	WARNER BROTHERS	s.t.
126	Giovanni Visconti	WARNER BROTHERS	s.t.
127	Jürgen Van de Walle	WARNER BROTHERS	s.t.
128	Alexandre Aulas	DOMINA VACANZE	+ 2'47
129	Oliver Zaugg	FESTINA	+ 3'07
130	Fabien Taillefour	CREDIT LYONNAIS	+ 3'08
131	Alejandro Borrajo	SONY ERICSSON	+ 3'23
132	Vicente Reynès	EUROSPORT	+ 3'30
133	Sylwester Szmyd	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	+ 3'32
134	Axel Merckx	EUROSPORT	+ 3'34
135	Peter Wrolich	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	+ 3'36
136	Raffaele Illiano	NINTENDO - HONDA	+ 3'45
137	Óscar Guerao	MAPEI	+ 3'47
138	Mauro Da Dalto	DOMINA VACANZE	+ 3'51
139	Christophe Le Mével	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	+ 3'57
140	Marc Machado	CARLSBERG	s.t.
141	Evert Verbist	DOMINA VACANZE	+ 4'04
142	Daniel Thorsen	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	+ 4'13
143	Fredy Montaña	NINTENDO - HONDA	+ 4'20
144	Stéphane Bonsergent	FESTINA	+ 4'24
145	Aitor Galdos	MOLTENI	+ 4'32
146	Ashley Hutchinson	NINTENDO - HONDA	+ 4'33
147	Saulo Lay	ERSTE	+ 4'42
148	Ruben Bongiorno	MOLTENI	+ 4'55
149	Josu Irazusta	THE CONTROL TEAM	+ 13'03

GC

1	William Bonnet	CREDIT LYONNAIS	5h40'22
2	Mathieu Perget	CREDIT LYONNAIS	s.t.
3	Adrian Laidler	CREDIT LYONNAIS	s.t.
4	John Gadret	CREDIT LYONNAIS	s.t.
5	Cadel Evans	WIKIPEDIA	+ 7
6	Ben Hermans	WIKIPEDIA	s.t.
7	Danny Pate	WIKIPEDIA	s.t.
8	Matthieu Sprick	WIKIPEDIA	s.t.
9	Robert Hunter	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	+ 31
10	Marcel Barth	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	s.t.
11	Jussi Veikkanen	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	s.t.
12	Maxim Iglinski	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	s.t.
13	Matea Kvasina	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	s.t.
14	Piotr Mazur	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	+ 32
15	Rafaâ Chtioui	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	+ 33
16	Koen De Kort	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	+ 34
17	Michael Schär	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	s.t.
18	Sandy Casar	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	s.t.
19	Marcel Kittel	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	s.t.
20	Kristof Vandewalle	EUROSPORT	s.t.
21	Andrei Sartasov	EUROSPORT	s.t.
22	Matthias Kessler	EUROSPORT	s.t.
23	Luke Roberts	EUROSPORT	s.t.
24	Janez Brajkovic	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	s.t.
25	Enrico Franzoi	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	s.t.
26	Bernhard Eisel	CARLSBERG	+ 39
27	Marcel Sieberg	CARLSBERG	s.t.
28	Stefan Schreck	CARLSBERG	s.t.
29	Bert Grabsch	CARLSBERG	s.t.
30	Stefan Schumacher	CARLSBERG	s.t.
31	Tom Stubbe	WIKIPEDIA	+ 44
32	Joost Posthuma	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	+ 47
33	Marzio Bruseghin	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	s.t.
34	Dennis Van Winden	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	s.t.
35	Michael Rogers	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	s.t.
36	Markus Eichler	MAPEI	+ 48
37	Dmitri Kozontchuk	MAPEI	s.t.
38	Yoann Offredo	MAPEI	s.t.
39	Damien Gaudin	MAPEI	s.t.
40	Juri Krivtsov	CREDIT LYONNAIS	+ 58
41	Jaroslav Popovych	FESTINA	+ 1'00
42	Brian Vandborg	FESTINA	s.t.
43	Jordi Grau	FESTINA	s.t.
44	Steve Morabito	FESTINA	s.t.
45	Wladimir Gustov	FESTINA	s.t.
46	Jurgen Van Goolen	FESTINA	+ 1'02
47	Rick Flens	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	s.t.
48	Assan Bazajev	SONY ERICSSON	+ 1'06
49	Jakub Danacik	SONY ERICSSON	s.t.
50	Kevin Fouquet	SONY ERICSSON	s.t.
51	Sebastian Lang	SONY ERICSSON	s.t.
52	Victor Hugo Peña	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	s.t.
53	Aleksandr Arekejev	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	+ 1'11
54	Daniele Bennati	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	+ 1'13
55	Stef Clement	NINTENDO - HONDA	+ 1'15
56	Jairo Agudelo	NINTENDO - HONDA	s.t.
57	Pierrick Fédrigo	NINTENDO - HONDA	s.t.
58	Santiago Perez Fernandez	NINTENDO - HONDA	s.t.
59	Fabio Sacchi	AMERICAN SUZUKI	+ 1'22
60	Matthieu Ladagnous	AMERICAN SUZUKI	s.t.
61	Dries Devenyns	AMERICAN SUZUKI	s.t.
62	Julien Berard	AMERICAN SUZUKI	s.t.
63	Stefano Garzelli	EUROSPORT	+ 1'24
64	Evgeni Sokolov	AMERICAN SUZUKI	+ 1'25
65	Bobbie Traksel	DOMINA VACANZE	+ 1'27
66	Joseph Cooper	DOMINA VACANZE	s.t.
67	Jelle Vanendert	DOMINA VACANZE	s.t.
68	Rigoberto Úran	DOMINA VACANZE	s.t.
69	Vincenzo Nibali	DOMINA VACANZE	s.t.
70	Francis De Greef	MOLTENI	+ 1'29
71	Luca Mazzanti	MOLTENI	s.t.
72	Luis Perez Rodriguez	MOLTENI	s.t.
73	Iñigo Landaluze	MOLTENI	s.t.
74	Benjamin Noval	MOLTENI	s.t.
75	Roman Kilun	WIKIPEDIA	+ 1'31
76	Kevin Ista	WIKIPEDIA	+ 1'41
77	Lars Boom	VIRGIN MEDIA - CAISSE D'EPARGNE	+ 1'45
78	Taylor Phinney	VIRGIN MEDIA - CAISSE D'EPARGNE	s.t.
79	William Ford	VIRGIN MEDIA - CAISSE D'EPARGNE	s.t.
80	Vladimir Karpets	VIRGIN MEDIA - CAISSE D'EPARGNE	s.t.
81	Arthur Garcia Rincon	VIRGIN MEDIA - CAISSE D'EPARGNE	+ 1'46
82	Ivan Kovalev	VIRGIN MEDIA - CAISSE D'EPARGNE	+ 1'48
83	Emanuele Rizza	AMERICAN SUZUKI	+ 1'51
84	Sebastian Langeveld	VIRGIN MEDIA - CAISSE D'EPARGNE	s.t.
85	Eric Baumann	CARLSBERG	+ 1'58
86	Rik Verbrugghe	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	+ 2'03
87	Baden Cooke	ERSTE	+ 2'04
88	Claudio Cucinotta	SONY ERICSSON	+ 2'10
89	Michail Ignatiev	ERSTE	+ 2'12
90	Jérôme Baugnies	ERSTE	s.t.
91	Logan Hutchings	ERSTE	s.t.
92	Patrik Sinkewitz	ERSTE	s.t.
93	Bruno Neves	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	+ 2'13
94	Kai Reus	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	s.t.
95	Markus Fothen	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	s.t.
96	Linus Gerdemann	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	s.t.
97	Anthony Roux	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	s.t.
98	Dmitri Medvedev	SONY ERICSSON	s.t.
99	Arnaud Coyot	ERSTE	+ 2'14
100	Luigi Sestili	CREDIT LYONNAIS	+ 2'16
101	Mark Renshaw	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	+ 2'17
102	Olaf Pollack	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	s.t.
103	Pieter Weening	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	s.t.
104	Thomas Dekker	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	s.t.
105	Wouter Weylandt	WARNER BROTHERS	+ 2'34
106	Gert Dockx	MAPEI	s.t.
107	Michael Mørkøv	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	+ 2'37
108	André Vital	MOLTENI	+ 2'45
109	Carlo Westphal	CARLSBERG	s.t.
110	Mark Scanlon	WARNER BROTHERS	+ 2'46
111	Giovanni Visconti	WARNER BROTHERS	s.t.
112	Jürgen Van de Walle	WARNER BROTHERS	s.t.
113	Kevin Seeldraeyers	WARNER BROTHERS	s.t.
114	Alexandre Aulas	DOMINA VACANZE	+ 2'47
115	Michael Ford	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	+ 3'05
116	Oliver Zaugg	FESTINA	+ 3'07
117	Alejandro Borrajo	SONY ERICSSON	+ 3'23
118	Vicente Reynès	EUROSPORT	+ 3'30
119	Sylwester Szmyd	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	+ 3'32
120	Axel Merckx	EUROSPORT	+ 3'34
121	Peter Wrolich	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	+ 3'36
122	Raffaele Illiano	NINTENDO - HONDA	+ 3'45
123	Óscar Guerao	MAPEI	+ 3'47
124	Mauro Da Dalto	DOMINA VACANZE	+ 3'51
125	Aleksandr Kolobnev	MAPEI	+ 3'57
126	Christophe Le Mével	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	s.t.
127	Evert Verbist	DOMINA VACANZE	+ 4'04
128	Clément Lhotellerie	NINTENDO - HONDA	+ 4'16
129	Stéphane Bonsergent	FESTINA	+ 4'24
130	Ben Curfs	AMERICAN SUZUKI	+ 4'27
131	Matt Booth	AMERICAN SUZUKI	+ 4'31
132	Aitor Galdos	MOLTENI	+ 4'32
133	Ashley Hutchinson	NINTENDO - HONDA	+ 4'33
134	Saulo Lay	ERSTE	+ 4'42
135	Anthony Lavoine	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	+ 4'43
136	Anders Lund	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	+ 4'47
137	Sébastien Joly	EUROSPORT	+ 4'49
138	Ruben Bongiorno	MOLTENI	+ 4'55
139	David George	WIKIPEDIA	+ 5'06
140	László Bodrogi	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	+ 5'20
141	Dimitri Champion	CREDIT LYONNAIS	+ 5'39
142	Fabien Taillefour	CREDIT LYONNAIS	+ 8'07
143	Marc Machado	CARLSBERG	+ 8'24
144	Daniel Thorsen	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	+ 9'12
145	Stephen Vicelich	MAPEI	+ 9'18
146	Fredy Montaña	NINTENDO - HONDA	+ 9'19
147	Ian Stannard	VIRGIN MEDIA - CAISSE D'EPARGNE	+ 10'02
148	Viktor Renäng	SONY ERICSSON	+ 11'09
149	Josu Irazusta	THE CONTROL TEAM	+ 32'02