Volksbank as first Austrian Team in a ProTour race

Team Volksbank will be celebrating an exciting "first" next week: it will be the first Austrian team to participate in a ProTour race when it contests the Deutschland Tour.

Team Manager Thomas Kofler said, "Our guys want to show what they can do. After the Tour of Austria, they were rather depressed because of the poor results, but that just motivates them more for the Deutschland Tour. I will be excited to see just how big the difference is in a ProTour race. I assume that we as a team will represent Austria well."