Full-on for neo-pro Rabon

Frantisek Rabon's first pro year, with T-Mobile was supposed to be a learning year, a chance to slowly gain experience and get to know the ProTour circus by riding smaller stage races and one day races. But, as so often happens, it didn't work out that way.

Rabon, a 23 year-old Czech, got a last minute call to replace ailing team-mate Bram Schmitz in the Giro d'Italia, where he was also the very first rider to start the opening stage time trial.