Career
His career highlights include third stage place in both the 1994 and 1995 Tour de France, a stage win in the Tour de Limousin in 1996, a stage win in the Tour de Suisse 1997, overall win of the Bayern-Rundfahrt in 1999, a stage win in the Deutschland Tour 1999, being the German road Champion in 2000, a stage win Deutschland Tour 2001, a stage win in the Bayern-Rundfahrt 2002, a 2nd stage place in the 2003 Tour de France, winner of the Sparkassen-Giro Bochum in 2003, and winner of the Sparkassen Cup Unna in 2003.
Aldag featured in the film Hell on Wheels concerning the 2003 Tour de France.
In "retirement", Aldag has set a goal of competing in Ironman triathlons. His first training goal was to complete a marathon in 2 hours 40 minutes. He finished the Hamburg marathon in April 2006 with a time of 2 hours 42 minutes. He went on to finish the 2006 Ironman Lanzarote triathlon in the Canary Islands in 50th place of 825 finishers with a total time of 10:22:14 (swim 1:23:18, bike 5:18:05, run 3:27:56).
T-Mobile hired Aldag as sporting director after sacking Rudy Pevenage who was named in the 2006 Operación Puerto doping case.
Aldag managed the team up the end of 2011 when HTC-Highroad folded due to lack of sponsorship.
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