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Pssst! The latest insider news: Erik Zabel – Exchange experience for support
03/01/2025
Also in Team MILRAM’s second year, sprinter Erik Zabel was one of the team’s most important protagonists – as a winning rider and as an adviser for the young ones. With regard to constance, the younger riders could also take a leaf out of Zabel’s book: While most of his team-mates were on holiday, the 37 year-old was still on his laps. At the sixdays in Amsterdam, Dortmund and Munich, the MILRAM-rider finished on the podium. In Dortmund’s Westfalenhalle Zabel only missed a point for the win.
„At the beginning is was pretty unfamiliar to be on the track again,“ Zabel says. „Especially because I was coming right from the road. So the pedalling was still a bit tough. But altogether I’m quite satisfied with the sixdays. Of courst the road season was long and the legs tired for the one or other moment. But the race in Dortmund for example is always very special to me, because it’s close to my home. Consequently, the motivation’s particularly high. And with Peter Schep and Leif Lampater I was fortunate with my partners.“
Good partnership is what brought Team MILRAM on the track of success last year as well. „In it’s second year, the team has finally found together,“ Erik Zabel continues. „And everybody contributed his part. Teamwork was important to us in the past season. Like between Alessandro Petacchi and me, which really has become excellent. But the other riders did a great job as well. For example at the Deutschland-Tour, which we did almost with young riders only. They took their chance to call attention to themselves again. Like Niki Terpstra, who won the best climber’s jersey at the Deutschland-Tour. Or Christian Knees, who did a great season altogether. But also riders like Sebastian Siedler and Marcel Sieberg took the year to show their strength.
For me personally, the Tour de France was one of the season’s highlights again. To wear the green jersey again was a fantastic feeling. But I would also call the stage wins at the Tour de Suisse, Vuelta and Deutschland-Tour highlights. Successes the team played a big part in. The young riders as well. This is why I’m looking forward to the coming season when there will be even more young talents in the team I can support with my experience. This is going to be a huge challenge, which I willingly
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