On www.velowire.com you have already discovered the 2010 Santos Tour Down Under route on Google Maps / Google Earth. In only a few hours from now the criterium which announces the upcoming start of the Tour Down Under, the Cancer Council Helpline Classic, will take place on a closed circuit of 1,7 kilometers around Rymill Park in Adelaide.

From Tuesday the first race of the UCI ProTour 2010 will take place in South-Australia.

In this article you can discover the start list for the Tour Down Under 2010 including the numbers of the participants*. At the end of the article you can also discover some short videos about the Tour Down Under!

The list of participants in the Tour Down Under 2010 and their numbers

CONTINUE READING AFTER THIS ADVERTISEMENT Astana		Team Radioshack
	1/ Allan Davis (photo) 2/ Oscar Pereiro 3/ Valeriy Dmitriyev 4/ Andriy Grivko 5/ Gorazd Stangelj 6/ Josep Jufre Pou 7/ Jess Hernandez Blazquez directeur sportif : Guido Bontempi		11/ Lance Armstrong 12/ Daryl Impey 13/ Jason McCartney 14/ Yaroslav Popovych 15/ Sebastien Rosseler 16/ Tomas Vaitkus 17/ Gert Steegmans directeur sportif : Jose Azevedo
BMC Racing Team		Omega Pharma-Lotto
	21/ Cadel Evans (photo) 22/ George Hincapie 23/ Karsten Kroon 24/ Danilo Wyss 25/ Martin Kohler 26/ Mauro Santambrogio 27/ Thomas Frei directeur sportif : John Lelangue		31/ Mickaël Delage 32/ Olivier Kaisen (photo) 33/ Jonas Ljungblad 34/ Matthew Lloyd 35/ Jurgen Roelandts 36/ Gerben Löwik 37/ Jurgen van Goolen directeur sportif : Hendrik Redant
CONTINUE READING AFTER THIS ADVERTISEMENT Team HTC-Columbia		Team Sky
	41/ André Greipel 42/ Michael Rogers 43/ Bert Grabsch 44/ Bernhard Eisel 45/ Marcel Sieberg 46/ Matthew Goss 47/ Hayden Roulston directeur sportif : Allan Peiper		51/ Christopher Sutton 52/ Davide Viganò 53/ Ben Swift 54/ Mathew Hayman (photo) 55/ Russell Downing 56/ Christopher Froome 57/ Greg Henderson directeur sportif : Sean Yates
AG2R La Mondiale		Team Katusha
	61/ Martin Elmiger (photo) 62/ Cyril Dessel 63/ Yuriy Krivtsov 64/ Blel Kadri 65/ René Mandri 66/ Anthony Ravard 67/ Ludovic Turpin directeur sportif : Laurent Biondi		71/ Robbie McEwen (photo) 72/ Alexander Pliuschin 73/ Eduard Vorganov 74/ Juan Ripoll Horach 75/ Denis Galimzyanov 76/ Stijn Vandenbergh 77/ Sergey Klimov directeur sportif : Dmitri Konychev
CONTINUE READING AFTER THIS ADVERTISEMENT Team Saxo Bank		Team Milram
	81/ Stuart O'Grady 82/ Jens Voigt 83/ Kasper Klostergaard 84/ Baden Cooke 85/ Frank Hoj 86/ Juan Jose Haedo 87/ Anders Lund directeur sportif : Bradley McGee		91/ Robert Förster 92/ Markus Fothen 93/ Dominik Roels 94/ Thomas Rohregger (photo) 95/ Wim Stroetinga 96/ Luke Roberts 97/ Björn Schröder directeur sportif : Vittorio Algeri
Française des Jeux		Caisse d'Epargne
	101/ Wesley Sulzberger 102/ Thibaut Pinot 103/ Yauheni Hutarovich (photo) 104/ Anthony Roux 105/ Mikaël Cherel 106/ Pierre Cazaux 107/ Arthur Vichot directeur sportif : Thierry Bricaud		111/ Alejandro Valverde (photo) 112/ Luis Léon Sanchez 113/ José Joaquin Rojas 114/ Ivan Gutierrez 115/ José Garcia 116/ Mathieu Drujon 117/ Mathieu Perget directeur sportif : Neil Stephens
CONTINUE READING AFTER THIS ADVERTISEMENT Euskaltel-Euskadi		Rabobank
	121/ Romain Sicard (photo) 122/ Jonathan Castroviejo 123/ Gorka Izaguirre 124/ Miguel Minguez 125/ Mikel Nieve 126/ Daniel Sesma 127/ Ivan Velasco directeur sportif : Alvaro Gonzalez de Galdeano		131/ Graeme Brown 132/ Stef Clement (photo) 133/ Rick Flens 134/ Tom Leezer 135/ Koos Moerenhout 136/ Jos van Emden 137/ Pieter Weening directeur sportif : Frans Maassen
Liquigas-Doimo		Garmin Transitions
	141/ Tiziano Dall'Antonia 142/ Kristjan Koren 143/ Jacopo Guarnieri 144/ Maciej Paterski 145/ Mauro Finetto 146/ Peter Sagan 147/ Fabio Sabatini directeur sportif : Dario Mariuzzo		151/ Jack Bobridge 152/ Julian Dean (photo) 153/ Cameron Meyer 154/ Christian Meier 155/ Trent Lowe 156/ Robbie Hunter 157/ Matthew Wilson directeur sportif : Matthew White
CONTINUE READING AFTER THIS ADVERTISEMENT Footon-Servetto		Quick Step
	161/ José Alberto Benitez 162/ Manuel Cardoso 163/ Aitor Pérez Arrieta 164/ David Gutiérrez Palacios 165/ Michele Merlo 166/ Martin Pedersen 167/ David Vitoria directeur sportif : Stefano Zanini		171/ Kevin van Impe 172/ Mauro Facci 173/ Thomas Vedel Kvist 174/ Nikolas Maes 175/ Addy Engels 176/ Jurgen van de Walle (photo) 177/ Andreas Stauff directeur sportif : Rik van Slycke
UniSA Australia
	181/ Michael Matthews 182/ Rohan Dennis (Jayco Skins) 183/ Simon Clarke (ISD-Neri) 184/ Timothy Roe (Trek-Livestrong Under 23 Development Team) 185/ Jonathan Cantwell (Fly V Australia) 186/ Peter McDonald (Drapac Porsche Cycling) 187/ David Kemp (Fly V Australia) directeur sportif : Dave Sanders

The last team is a bit different from the others: it's a national Australian team which is composed of riders from different professional teams (mentioned between the brackets above) which is sponsored by the University of South Australia (UniSA) and which allows Australian riders to participate in a ProTour race and thus get a unique experience which might one day allow them to be part of a UCI ProTour team themselves.

Some short videos about the Tour Down Under

In order to get you in the mood of this race under the South-Australian sun, you can discover below some short videos linked to the Santos Tour Down Under 2010. These videos come from different cycling teams.

Rabobank : interview Tom Leezer

Rabobank : interview Koos Moerenhout

Rabobank : interview du directeur sportif, Frans Maassen

Rabobank : interview Graeme Brown

Rabobank : Koos Moerenhout & Stef Clement at the 2010 Rabobank team presentation

in Dutch

Team Sky : promo Sky Sports

For Team Sky the Tour Down Under is the very first cycling race in the history of the team (see also the Team Sky 2010 team presentation) and this race will be partly broadcasted on Sky Sports in the UK. This 30 seconds video is the promo which announces the broadcasting times and which insists on the blue line on the Team Sky kit: the line between ....

The official promotion video of the Santos Tour Down Under 2010

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* these are the numbers as announced by the organisation of the Tour Down Under on Saturday 16 January 2010 for the Santos Tour Down Under 2010. The Cancer Council Helpline Classic not officially being part of the UCI ProTour race Tour Down Under, the numbers in this criterium can be different from those announced here.

door Thomas Vergouwen
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