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Coasting Zuelle to ride for new German team
BERLIN (Reuters) -- Swiss rider Alex Zuelle, twice winner of the Tour of Spain, has joined a new German team which was launched Thursday. Zuelle, 32, who was also runner-up in the 1999 Tour de France, joined Team Coast from Spanish team Banesto and said he planned to enter next month's Paris-Nice race with other members of the 23-strong squad. The other big name in the new team is Spain's Fernando Escartin. "I want to win the Tour de France at least once," Escartin, who finished third in the race two years ago, said. He said he hoped Team Coast would win selection for this year's Tour. "We want do well in the spring classics to make the organizers of the Tour de France invite us," Team Coast sport director Wolfram Lindner said at the team's launch in Berlin's Reichstag. Lindner won world and Olympic gold as a coach of the East German team in the days of communist rule. The new stable's owner, Guenther Dahms, said his goal was to establish the team as Germany's second major cycling force behind Team Telekom, which features former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich. Team Coast will start the season by entering the Ruta del Sol in Spain from February 18 to 22.
Copyright 2003 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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