Ullrich wants to ride the Giro

"This year I would like to start with my training earlier and I would like to ride the Giro d'Italia as preparation," to winning the Tour de France, T-Mobile's Jan Ullrich said in an interview with the Austrian newspaper Kurier.

"I have the reputation of training less than the others," said Ullrich. "But that's not so. I want to increase the quality of my training, an increased quantity is not really possible."