Zimmermann on Tour low: "Was very tired and broken"

Professional cyclist Georg Zimmermann experienced an unprecedented low after his third participation in the Tour de France. "I've never come out of a Grand Tour so exhausted," the 25-year-old told the German Press Agency. On Wednesday, the Augsburg rider will start at the Deutschland Tour.

Georg Zimmermann on the strain of the Tour de France

After the Tour of France, he had experienced a kind of hole. "I was very tired and exhausted," he added. "I let it go for a while, listened to my body and gave it the regeneration it needed after the Tour de France." He has been feeling better for about ten days now.

The Augsburg native is enjoying his best career year to date. He won a stage at the Tour of the Dauphine and finished second on the tenth stage of the Tour de France. At the Deutschland Tour, which starts on Wednesday, the climbing specialist is also counted among the favourites for the podium due to his fourth and fifth place in the past.

Deutschland Tour 2023: Cycling stars at the start

The Tour will cover 732 kilometres through Saarland, Sauerland, Essen, Hanover and Bremen, among other places. Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome, this year's Tour bronze medallist and last year's winner Adam Yates and former world champion Mads Pedersen will be taking part. On the German side, time trial champion Nils Politt, Maximilian Schachmann and the two sprinters Pascal Ackermann and Phil Bauhaus are among those starting.

>> This is the route of the Deutschland Tour 2023

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