Back from the Tour of Ireland, the American rider Craig Lewis (Team Columbia-HTC) and the Belgian manager of Team Astana Johan Bruyneel have contracted the virus.

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Armstrong and Cavendish headline a streamlined Tour of Ireland

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I posted this link 'A Tale of solitude'  (about the fact there was no team car to take Contador to the start of the Annecy time trial)  http://www.diariosur.es/20090727/deportes/ciclismo/fiesta-privada-contador-20090727.html in our thread here

http://www.podiumcafe.com/2009/7/26/963370/changed-impressions-or-im-rooting

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Lampre change team to
Allesandro Ballan, Marzio Bruseghin, Marco Bandiera, Angelo Furlan, David Loosli, Daniele Righi, Mauro Santambrogio, Marcin Sapa & Simon Spilak.

FdJ definite - Sandy Casar (FRA), Jérôme Coppel (FRA), Anthony Geslin (FRA), Sébastien Joly (FRA), Yauheni Hutarovitch (BLR), Christophe Le Mével (FRA), Jérémy Roy (FRA), Benoît Vaugrenard (FRA), Jussie Veikkanen (FIN).

Quick Step: Barredo, Chavanel, de Jongh, Devolder, Pineau, Rosseler, Tosatto, vd Walle + either Boonen or Davis

 

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AGRITUBEL

CERVELO TEST TEAM

AG2R LA MONDIALE    DESSEL Cyril France    NOCENTINI Rinaldo Italy

ASTANA    CONTADOR VELASCO Alberto Spain    LEIPHEIMER Levi United States    POPOVYCH Yaroslav Ukraine

BBOX BOUYGUES TELECOM    ROLLAND Pierre France

CAISSE D'EPARGNE    PEREIRO SIO Oscar Spain    SANCHEZ GIL Luis Leon Spain

COFIDIS LE CREDIT EN LIGNE    AUGE Stéphane France

EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI    SANCHEZ GONZALEZ Samuel Spain

FRANÇAISE DES JEUX    CASAR Sandy France    LADAGNOUS Matthieu France

GARMIN - SLIPSTREAM    MILLAR David United Kingdom    WIGGINS Bradley United Kingdom

LAMPRE-N.G.C.    CAUCCHIOLI Pietro Italy

LIQUIGAS    CHICCHI Francesco Italy    KREUZIGER Roman Czech Republic

QUICKSTEP    BARREDO LLAMAZALES Carlos Spain    CHAVANEL Sylvain France

RABOBANK    FLECHA GIANNONI Juan Antonio Spain    POSTHUMA Joost Netherlands

SILENCE-LOTTO    EVANS Cadel Australia    GILBERT Philippe Belgium

SKIL-SHIMANO    HUPOND Thierry France

TEAM COLUMBIA - HIGHROAD    BURGHARDT Marcus Germany

TEAM KATUSHA    STEEGMANS Gert Belgium

TEAM MILRAM    KNEES Christian Germany

TEAM SAXO BANK    SCHLECK Andy Luxembourg    VOIGT Jens Germany

Check out the 2009 course.

Ivan Basso starts his season, but will RR show up at all ?http://www.infobiker.com.ar/noticias.php?idnoticia=4620

Certainly not the Cuban missile as he is  in Oz with Fuji.                                          (Fuji's Javier Megias is in TDU also, Del Nero replaces him.)

El 3° Tour de San Luis cada vez está más cerca. La carrera de ciclismo más importante del calendario argentino comenzará el 19 y finalizará el 25 de enero en la capital puntana. Ya están confirmados 21 equipos y la participación del italiano Ivan Basso, ganador de Giro de Italia en 2006y Oscar Sevilla (segundo en la Vuelta a España 2001),.