Garmin-Barracuda:

Tom Danielson
Tyler Farrar
Ryder Hesjedal
Robbie Hunter
Dan Martin
David Millar
Christian Vande Velde
Johan Vansummeren
David Zabriskie

Rabobank:

Laurens ten Dam
Robert Gesink
Steven Kruijswijk
Bauke Mollema
Mark Renshaw
Luis Leon Sanchez
Bram Tankink
Maarten Tjallingii
Maarten Wynants

Astana:

Alexandr Vinokurov
Jani Brajkovič
Borut Bozič
Dmitry Fofonov
Andriy Grivko
Maxim Iglinskiy
Andrey Kashechkin
Fredrik Kessiakoff
Robert Kiserlovski

Lotto Belisol:

Lars Bak
Francis De Greef
André Greipel
Adam Hansen
Greg Henderson
Jürgen Roelandts
Marcel Sieberg
Jurgen Van den Broeck
Jelle Vanendert

Omega Pharma-Quickstep:

Chavanel
De Weert
Devenyns
Grabsch
Leipheimer
Martin
Pineau
Vandenbergh
Velits

Euskaltel-Euskadi:


Samuel Sánchez
Gorka Verdugo
Mikel Astarloza
Egoi Martínez
Rubén Pérez
Pablo Urtasun
Gorka Izagirre
Jorge Azanza
Amets Txurruka

Katusha:

Giampaolo Caruso
Oscar Freire
Vladimir Gusev
Joan Horrach
Aliaksandr Kuchynski
Denis Menchov
Luca Paolini
Yuriy Trofimov
Eduard Vorganov

RadioShack-Nissan:

Fabian Cancellara
Tony Gallopin
Chris Horner
Andreas Klöden
Maxime Monfort
Yaroslav Popovych
Frank Schleck
Jens Voigt
Haimar Zubeldia.

Poor Gallopin. The only youngster stuck in with that mob of old fogeys. It'll be like going on holiday with your parents

Have to say I was totally underwhelmed when I saw that team.

UK championship races on Sunday - highlights on ITV4 on Monday at 19:00

Despite having no veterans, Garmin are close behind RSNT's average age with only two riders under 30. Putting Hesjedal as leader so soon after the Giro suggests a lack of depth in the squad.

With Vino back again for Astana there does seem to be a shortage of young talent to nudge the over-35's into retirement.

Given the two favourites odds are to narrow to be worthwhile, who are people backing if there is going to be an upset?

Sir Chris Hoy refutes suspicion of Carr-like tax arrangements on his website:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012...ived-loan-firm
http://www.chrishoy.com/

Tom Boonen Belgian Champion 2012

And some other winners that are likely to feature in big races over the next 12 months:

France - Nacer Bouhanni (very talented young sprinter)
Germany - Fabian Wegmann
Ireland - Matt Brammeier
Italy - Franco Pellizotti
Netherlands - Niki Terpstra
Norway - Edvald Boasson Hagen
Russia - Eduard Vorganov
Slovakia - Peter Sagan (who else...)
Spain - Francisco Ventoso

And the British champion, in case you don't know and want to watch the highlights on ITV4 tomorrow:

At least that means Movistar still have the Spanish champ.

Sagan, eh? Who'd'a thunk it?

I forgot the biggest surprise, the Schleck Family Invitational, aka the Luxembourg RR was won by... Laurent Didier!

The one who isn't a Schleck won it! pmsl

I have created a DS mini league on the Halfords TDF website, and thought this the likeliest thread to find participants. See below link for details. Thanks

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1681600

Radio 5 Live Sport preview of the Tour: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/...0626-2334a.mp3

The first of the ITV4 and SBS Tour podcasts have been uploaded:
http://downloads.itv.com/podcasttdf.xml
http://feeds.feedburner.com/cyclingcentral

and a chat with the ITV presenter Ned Boulting:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheBikeShow

TV schedule for the Tour:
http://tv.eurosport.co.uk/search.shtml?query=cycling
http://www.itv.com/tourdefrance/tour...live-schedule/ plus evening highlights.

I thought it started tomorrow but it's today !

Early starts on Eurosport as well - 12.30 for the next few days (1.15 for the prologue today)

This is going to require some personal schedule rearrangements !

Decent ride from Gilbert, didn't think he'd be as high. Could ride into yellow tomorrow with that.

Sagan's on the road now, could be looking at the leader tonight. Got Zabriskie to chase ahead of him

...and Sagan slips...