Milram is playing a balancing act in 2008. It continues to use aging sprinters Alessandro Petacchi and Erik Zabel as its trump cards but divests seven experienced team workers and signs seven riders 25 or under — including the talented Velits twins from Slovakia. The switch from an Italian to German base and change of general managers from sport veteran Gianluigi Stanga to the corporate Jochen Hahn is intended to tighten the team’s ethical standards.