BEROMUENSTER, Switzerland : Germany's former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich, of the T-Mobile team, won the first stage of the Tour of
Switzerland here.
Ullrich, the 1997 Tour winner who will be among Lance Armstrong's main challengers this July, outsprinted Swiss duo Oskar Camenzind and Fabian Jeker
after a relatively flat 176 km ride between Sursee and here.
The Tour of Switzerland normally begins with a time trial prologue however organisers, for the first time since 1993, decided against including
it.