Tour de France - View from the peloton

Eurosport - Fri, 03 Jul 16:04:00 2009

We hear from the stars of all 20 teams at the presentation ahead of the Tour de France, which starts on Saturday.

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Click on the links below to watch and hear the views from each team:

Agritubel

Maxime Bouet, Sylvain Calzati, Brice Feillu, Romain Feillu, Eduardo Gonzalo, David Le Lay, Geoffroy Lequatre, Christophe Moreau and Nicolas Vogondy.

AG2R

Jose-Luis Arrieta, Cyril Dessel, Hubert Dupont, Vladimir Efimkin, Stéphane Goubert, Lloyd Mondory, Rinaldo Nocentini, Christophe Riblon and Nicolas Roche.

Astana

Lance Armstrong, Alberto Contador, Andreas Klöden, Levi Leipheimer, Dmitriy Muravyev, Sergio Paulinho, Yaroslav Popovych, Gregory Rast and Haimar Zubeldia.

Bouygues Telecom

Yukiya Arashiro, Pierrick Fedrigo, William Bonnet, Saïd Haddou, Laurent Lefèvre, Alexandre Pichot, Pierre Rolland, Thomas Voeckler and Yuriy Trofimov.

Caisse d'Epargne

David Arroyo, Rui Costa, Arnaud Coyot, Ivan Gutiérrez, Luis Pasamontes, Oscar Pereiro, José Joaquin Rojas, Luis León Sánchez and Rigoberto Uran.

Cervelo

Inigo Cuesta, Volodymir Gustov, Heinrich Haussler, Thor Hushovd, Andreas Klier, Brett Lancaster, José Angel Gomez Marchante, Hayden Roulston and Carlos Sastre.

Cofidis

Stéphane Augé, Samuel Dumoulin, Leonardo Duque, Bingen Fernandez, Christophe Kern, Sébastien Minard, Amaël Moinard, David Moncoutié and Rémi Pauriol.

Columbia-HTC

Mark Cavendish, Bernhard Eisel, Bert Grabsch, George Hincapie, Kim Kirchen, Tony Martin, Maxime Monfort, Mark Renshaw, Michael Rogers.

Euskaltel - Euskadi

Mikel Astarloza, Igor Antón, Rubén Pérez, Amets Txurruka, Egoi Martínez, Gorka Verdugo, Juan Jose Oroz, Koldo Fernández de Larrea and Alan Pérez.

Francaise des Jeux

Sandy Casar, Jérôme Coppel, Anthony Geslin, Yauheni Hutarovich, Sébastien Joly, Christophe Le Mével, Jérémy Roy, Benoît Vaugrenard and Jussi Veikkanen.

Garmin - Slipstream

Julian Dean, Tyler Farrar, Ryder Hesjedal, Martijn Maaskant, David Millar, Danny Pate, Christian Vande Velde, Bradley Wiggins and David Zabriskie

Katusha

Alexandre Botcharov, Joan Horrach, Mikhail Ignatiev, Sergei Ivanov, Vladimir Karpets, Danilo Napolitano, Filippo Pozzato, Nikolay Trusov and Stijn Vandenbergh.

Lampre - NGC

Alessandro Ballan, Marco Bandiera, Marzio Bruseghin, Angelo Furlan, David Loosli, Daniele Righi, Mauro Santambrogio, Marcin Sapa and Simon Spilak.

Liquigas

Daniele Bennati, Vincenzo Nibali, Franco Pellizotti, Roman Kreuziger, Fabio Sabatini, Alksandr Kuschynski, Alessandro Vanotti, Fredrik Willems and Brian Bach Vandborg.

Milram

Gerald Ciolek, Markus Fothen, Johannes Fröhlinger, Linus Gerdemann, Christian Knees, Niki Terpstra, Peter Velits, Fabian Wegmann and Peter Wrolich.

Quick Step

Carlos Barredo, Sylvain Chavanel, Steven De Jongh, Stijn Devolder, Jérôme Pineau, Sébastien Rosseler, Matteo Tosatto and Jurgen Van de Walle. Plus Tom Boonen or Allan Davis.

Rabobank

Stef Clement, Juan Antonio Flecha, Oscar Friere, Juan Manuel Garate, Robert Gesink, Denis Menchov, Grischa Niermann, Joost Posthuma and Laurens ten Dam.

Saxo Bank

Kurt-Asle Arvesen, Fabian Cancellara, Stuart O'Grady, Gustav Larsson, Andy Schleck, Fränk Schleck, Chris Anker Sørensen, Nicki Sørensen and Jens Voigt.

Silence - Lotto

Cadel Evans, Mickael Delage, Sebastian Lang, Matthew Lloyd, Staf Scheirlinckx, Greg Van Avermaet, Jurgen Van den Broeck, Johan Vansummeren and Charly Wegelius.

Skil - Shimano

Fumiyuki Beppu, Simon Geschke, Kenny Van Hummel, Jonathan Hivert, Kurt de Koen, Cyril Lemoine, Piet Rooijakkers and Albert Timmer.

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  1. So, there were 20 teams at the presentation then?... I­ only saw 7 on Eurosport, I was starting to fear a much­ depleted peleton this year!

    From Liz B, on Sat 4 Jul 2:10PM

  2. Comment no 8 - Dan martin is not in - great shame but­ good to see his cousin Nicholas Roche is there.

    From Bikefan, on Sat 4 Jul 5:50AM

  3. great to see Dan Martin in the garmin line up.­ can't wait to see how he gets on in the alps , defo­ one to watch for the future(if he can improve his­ time-trailing)

    From Wil, on Thu 2 Jul 1:39PM

  4. Just noticed, only eight riders listed for Skil. Is­ this a mistake or is there a pronlem?

    From KGL, on Thu 2 Jul 10:24AM

  5. Basso is not at the Tour as Liquigas broke the­ gentlemen's agreement between teams and signed him­ two years early after his ban. The decision to omit him­ from the line-up is more a political one and saves any­ awkwardness between them and the other pro-tour teams­ and [of course] ASO who have hinted on a number of­ occasions that he would not be welcome this year.­ He'll be back next year though, with a more­ realistic chance of a podium after a seasons racing in­ his legs. This year it'll be a proper challenge for­ the Vuelta.

    From KGL, on Thu 2 Jul 2:12AM

  6. Basso said he was not ready for the Tour as the the­ Giro took alot out of him.

    From Liz S, on Wed 1 Jul 8:42PM

  7. basso is doing tour of spain

    From ai, on Wed 1 Jul 2:13PM

  8. No Basso? what the?

    From Stevie, on Wed 1 Jul 1:36PM

  9. Can someone tell me why Basso is out?

    From jayelliottpurdy, on Wed 1 Jul 12:43PM

  10. cocaine has a similar effect to speed, it numbs your­ perception of pain and limitations of physical and­ mental abil;ities are extended. I liek the boonan and­ the Paris Roubaix win was awesome but he has a problem­ and need to be clean.

    From antony.birt1, on Wed 1 Jul 12:17PM
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