Team CSC was, just like in the first years of the ProTour, by far the best team when it came to overall performance. Riis’ riders achieved sixteen individual victories, not including the successful team time trials. Typically those victories aren’t coming from just one or two riders but from no less than six.


Besides all these positive things, the CSC body also showed some scars at the end of the year. Halfway into May, when Ivan Basso easily won the Giro, The Fuentes-scandal started to stir in the background and just before the start of the Tour de France it touched CSC by implicating th...