Funny you bring this up, because the NOS had a reportage about the interest in this race after all the doping cases. Guess what, the general tone was "soooo what".....German fans were interviewed and they still liked Ullrich very much...
Another fan said that the top guys probably need to take doping in order to compete.............
I don't think there were less fans then last year....so the journalist ended his report with: "And the doping cases seem to be forgotten (by the fans) allready and cycling will, once again, overcome another doping crisis..........."