We won the Tour de France!

Two experiments were conducted to investigate whether a higher availability of Jan Ullrich's success in the 1997 Tour de France led to higher identifi cation with the German nation. In the first experiment the availability of Jan Ullrich's success was manipulated directly within a questionnaire, in t he second indirectly through the availability of a symbol (yellow tricot), associated with the success in the "Tour de France". In both experiments pe ople in the high-availability-condition report higher identification with t he own nation than people in the control-condition. These results are in ac cordance with our hypotheses.