Road Race
Olaf Pollack began his road cycling career at small German team Agro-Adler-Brandenburg in 1997. After 3 years he left for Team Gerolsteiner. In 2005 and 2006 he rode for T-Mobile leaving in 2007 for Team Wiesenhof. The highlight of his road cycling career was wearing the pink leader's jersey at the 2006 Giro d'Italia. In August 2009, an eye problem made him end his cycling career, but a month later it became known that he had failed a drug test. In 2009 he was suspended by the German Cycling Federation.
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