List of teams and cyclists in the 2007 Tour de France
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Participating riders from various nations, Green: fewer than 10 riders; blue: 10+; orange: 20+; red: 40+.
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The list of teams and cyclists in the 2007 Tour de France contains the professional road bicycle racers who competed at the 2007 Tour de France from July 7 to July 29, 2007.[1] Of the 20 UCI ProTour teams, Unibet.Com was not allowed to participate because their gambling sponsor conflicts with the law in France. Of the non-ProTour teams, the organisation invited
Agritubel and Barloworld.[2]
Discovery Channel announced their full team on June 27. Johan Bruyneel, Discovery sport director, announced that Levi Leipheimer would lead assisted by George Hincapie, Egoi Martínez, Benjamín Noval, Yaroslav Popovych, Alberto Contador, Vladimir Gusev, Sérgio Paulinho and Tomas Vaitkus . Following recent illness, there was no space for Tom Danielson.[14]
For Team CSC, the full squad was announced on June 29. Carlos Sastre leads the team with Fränk Schleck, Fabian Cancellara, David Zabriskie, Stuart O'Grady, Kurt Asle Arvesen, Íñigo Cuesta, Jens Voigt, Christian Vande Velde[15] Due to his 1996 doping admission, Bjarne Riis will not be the team director this year, being replaced by Kim Andersen.[16]
On 5 July, Team Milram announced that Alessandro Petacchi will not race the Tour de France after his non-negative doping test at this year's Giro d'Italia.[17]
On 3 July, it was announced that no one would use #1 during the 2007 Tour.
The full list of riders with race numbers was confirmed by the tour organisers on Friday 6 July [18]
Euskaltel is the only team that has all its riders from the same country.
There are six current road race national champions: Dean, Hincapie, Iglinsky, Moreau, Valjavec and Wegmann, and seven current time trial national champions: Zabriskie, Cancellara, Clement, B. Grabsch, Gusev, Gutierrez and Vaugrenard.
There is no earlier Tour de France general classification winner in the Tour. (Pereiro was awarded 2006 win in September 2007)
Three riders have won a Grand Tour: Savoldelli (Giro 2002&2005), Menchov (Vuelta 2005) and Vinokourov (Vuelta 2006).
Three riders have won points competition in Tour de France: Zabel (1996–2001), McEwen (2002, 2004, 2006) and Hushovd (2005).
Two riders have won the King of the Mountains competition in Tour de France: Rinero (1998) and Rasmussen (2005–06).
Four riders have won the U25 competition in Tour de France: Salmon (1999), Menchov (2003), Karpets (2004) and Popovych (2005).
36 riders have won a stage in Tour de France earlier: Boogerd, Boonen, Calzati, Cancellara, Cardenas, Fedrigo, Flecha, Freire, García Acosta, Halgand, Hincapie, Hushovd, Ivanov, Mayo, McEwen, Menchov, Mercado, Millar, Moreau, O'Grady, Pereiro, Popovych, Pozzato, Rasmussen, Sastre, Savoldelli, Schleck, Tosatto, Valverde, Vasseur, Verbrugghe, Vinokourov, Voigt, Weening, Zabel and Zabriskie.
Riders who won their first Tour de France stage in 2007: Bennati, Casar, Contador, Gerdemann, Hunter, Leipheimer, Soler, Steegmans. Evans and Kirchen were awarded stage wins in 2008, after Alexander Vinokourov was removed from the stage results.
15 riders who have worn the yellow jersey: Boonen, Cancellara, Dessel, Hincapie, Hushovd, McEwen, Millar, Moreau, O'Grady, Pereiro, Vasseur, Voeckler, Voigt, Zabel and Zabriskie.
Riders who wore yellow jersey for the first time in 2007: Contador, Gerdemann, Rasmussen.
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