Thursday was definitely not Robert Förster's day. To begin with, he and four Gerolsteiner team-mates almost didn't make it to the start of the first stage of the Benelux Tour. Förster, Markus Zberg, Frank Hoj and Volker Ordowski got into the hotel elevator to go down to the team bus and on to the race - but ended up going nowhere.
"The five of us were stuck in the one metre by one metre elevator cabin for 40 minutes," recalled Förster on his Web site, www.robert-foerster.de. "You could hardly breathe. It was not for anyone who is claustrophobic!"
