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Tour de france 2009

  • 17-03-2009 4:59pm
    #1
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,669 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Cycling News Flash, March 17, 2009

    Edited by Gregor Brown and Sue George
    Tour de France announces 20 teams – Fuji out

    Team Fuji-Servetto
    Photo ©: Roberto Bettini bettiniphoto_0033140_1_fullalt.jpg Organiser of the Tour de France, Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), announced the teams that will participate the 2009 edition, from July 4 to 26. Professional Continental teams Cervélo TestTeam, Skil-Shimano and Agritubel are on the list, but ProTour team Fuji-Servetto did not get an invitation to race.
    Fuji-Servetto is the incarnation of Saunier Duval, the 2008 team of Riccardo Riccò and Leonardo Piepoli. Both riders tested positive at the race last year for Erythropoietin (EPO) CERA. The team subsequently withdrew from the race.
    Cervélo TestTeam is the formation of 2008 champion Carlos Sastre. The Switzerland-based team joined Dutch Skil Skil-Shimano (with Jonathan Hivert, who finished eighth in ASO's Paris-Nice last week) and French Agritubel (team of French favourite Christophe Moreau).
    There will be 20 teams in total for the French Grand Tour. Three Professional Continental teams (listed above) and 17 of the 18 ProTour teams: Milram, Quick Step, Silence-Lotto, Saxo Bank, Caisse d'Epargne, Euskaltel-Euskadi, Garmin-Slipstream, Columbia-Highroad, AG2R La Mondiale, Bbox Bouygues Telecom, Cofidis, Française des Jeux, Lampre-NGC, Liquigas, Astana, Rabobank and Katusha. (GB)
    Discuss on the Cyclingnews Forum.
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    (All rights reserved/Copyright Future Publishing (Overseas) Limited 2009)


Comments

  • #2
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,669 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    So Astana in
    Barloworld out (bit surprised)
    Fuji out (Doh! did they even bother applying)

    Will the prince of darkness win (love cancer me)


  • #3
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    Tut, tut. I expect thousands of outraged American cycling fans now to be writing in to every cycling publication under the sun over Astana Fuji-Servetto's exclusion from the Tour. This is so unfair. It has nothing to do with the dopig scandals that have plauged the team and is clearly a conspiracy by the perfidious French to give their riders a better chance of winning.


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