The T-Mobile Team has selected its nine-man roster for the Tour de France - with
the team's GC ambitions centred around Michael Rogers. Joining him in London on
July 7th will be Marcus Burghardt, Mark Cavendish, Bernhard Eisel, Linus
Gerdemann, Kim Kirchen, Axel Merckx and Patrik Sinkewitz....

Bert Grabsch slots into the T-Mobile Team's Tour de France roster as a late
replacement for fitness worry Guerini Guerini. Named as first replacement in
last week's Tour roster, the 32-year old German will make his fourth Tour start
and first for T-Mobile when the race kicks-off in London on Saturday.

"Bert has been performing very solidly in the past weeks," said head of sports
management Rolf Aldag. "He brings a lot of experience and is definitely a strong
replacement for Giuseppe."

Grabsch has been in fine form in recent weeks - at the Tour of Bavaria in early
June he landed second place in the key time trial on his way to an impressive
second overall. He followed that up last week in Rostock by capturing the German
TT title for the first time.

After pulling on the German champions jersey he quipped: "I hope that winning
this title boosts my chances of a Tour de France start place. I really hope that
I can make the cut for the Tour squad, even if there won't be a team time trial
in France this year."

Guerini hampered by stomach problems
Though Giuseppe Guerini was named to T-Mobile's original nine, the two-time Tour
stage winner has been hampered by stomach problems since the recent Tour de
Suisse and a question mark hung over the Italian's current fitness.

"Giuseppe hasn't properly recovered from his stomach problems," said Aldag.
"Therefore, we had to make this decision because we weren't sure he had the form
and fitness to perform his team duties at a three-week Tour."

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