In a few days Paris-Nice 2010 will start in Montfort-l'Amaury for 8 stages towards Nice (check out all details of the Paris-Nice 2010 route, including maps on Google Maps/Google Earth).

The 22 participating teams currently present their lists of participating riders for this 68th edition of the Race to the sun and in this article you can find the list of participants. This article will be updated with their numbers once they've been announced by the organiser of the race, A.S.O.

Caisse d'Epargne

The Paris-Nice 2009 winner, Luis Léon Sanchez originally didn't plan to participate in Paris-Nice 2010.

About 10 days ago however, he announced on the team's website: We decided to make an important change in my programme. I will finally participate in Paris-Nice (7-14 March) and not in Tirreno-Adriatico as originally planned. This would have been my first participation in the Italian race and I was really looking forward to it because the stages, as initially announced, included a time trial, a mountain top finish on Montelupone and a middle mountains stage, but the organisers changed the programme and removed both the time trial and the mountain top finish on Montelupone. In those conditions I prefer to defend my title in Paris-Nice, a race which I always liked and in which I can play an important role together with Alejandro Valverde.

Besides Valverde (recently winner of the Tour Med 2010) and Sanchez, Yvon Ledanois' team will be composed of 6 other riders:
1/ Luis Léon Sanchez
2/ Juan Jose Cobo Acebo
3/ Jose Vicente Garcia Acosta
4/ José Ivan Gutierrez
5/ David Lopez Garcia
6/ Luis Pasamontes
7/ Mathieu Perget (the winner of the Tour du Limousin 2009)
8/ Alejandro Valverde

AG2R La Mondiale

The team from Chambéry planned to have Rinaldo Nocentini as its leader, but the Italian rider who wore the yellow jersey during 8 days in the Tour de France 2009, fell in the Grand Prix Insubria, flew over the fence and finally landed in a field. He was operated in Italy for a double broken leg and at this time we can only hope he'll be able to make his come-back before the end of the season.

Finally, the AG2R La Mondiale of Vincent Lavenu and Julien Jurdie is composed of:
111/ Tadej Valjavec
112/ Maxime Bouet
113/ Dimitri Champion
114/ Cyril Dessel
115/ David Le Lay
116/ Julien Loubet
117/ Christophe Riblon
118/ Nicolas Roche

Astana

The team from Kazakhstan of course comes to Paris-Nice with its leader Alberto Contador, who won Paris-Nice 2007, the first stage in 2009 and the stage with the Montagne de Lure. Due to a moment of weakness in the stage to Fayence he finally had to let the overall victory to Luis Léon Sanchez.

The riders in Guido Bontempi's team will be:
31/ Alberto Contador
32/ Dmitriy Fofonov
33/ Maxim Gourov
34/ Andriy Grivko
35/ Daniel Navarro
36/ Benjamin Noval Gonzalez
37/ Oscar Pereiro Sio
38/ Gorazd Stangelj

Bbox Bouygues Telecom

Jean-René Bernaudeau team's leader is Thomas Voeckler but he will share this role with Pierrick Fédrigo. The riders of the bright blue team are:
161/ Pierrick Fédrigo
162/ William Bonnet
163/ Cyril Gautier
164/ Alexandre Pichot
165/ Pierre Rolland
166/ Yuriy Trofimov
167/ Sébastien Turgot
168/ Thomas Voeckler

Cervélo TestTeam

The Australian German (or must I saw Germand Australian now?) Heinrich Haussler is the leader of the team of the Canadian bike supplier:
61/ Heinrich Haussler
62/ Xavier Florencio
63/ Volodymir Gustov
64/ Ted King
65/ Daniel Lloyd
66/ Joaquin Novoa Menedez
67/ Dominique Rollin
68/ Xavier Tondo

Cofidis, le crédit en ligne

David Moncoutié has finally not been selected by Francis van Londersele. The leader role of the team will be shared between Rémi Pauriol, Samuel Dumoulin (who already took 4 victories in 2010: the 1st stage of the Tropicale Amissa Bongo‎, the 3rd stage and the overall ranking of the Etoile de Bessèges and the 3rd stage of the Gran Premio dell'Insubria) and Rein Taaramae.
The riders of the team are:
181/ Rémi Pauriol
182/ Stéphane Augé
183/ Samuel Dumoulin
184/ Leonardo Duque
185/ Julien El Fares
186/ Sébastien Minard
187/ Amaël Moinard
188/ Rein Taaramae

Euskaltel-Euskadi

The Bask team has announced that Igor Gonzalez de Galdeano's team will be led by the Olympic Champion Samuel Sánchez, with Koldo Fernández de Larrea for the sprint stages.
The riders of the team are:
131/ Samuel Sanchez
132/ Koldo Fernández
133/ Beñat Intxausti
134/ Egoi Martínez
135/ Mikel Nieve
136/ Romain Sicard
137/ Iván Velasco
138/ Gorka Verdugo

Française des Jeux

In addition to Christophe Le Mével, recent winner of the Tour du Haut Var 2010, the FDJ team contains the following riders:
81/ Christophe Le Mével
82/ Sandy Casar
83/ Mickael Cherel
84/ Rémy Di Gregorio
85/ Arnaud Gérard
86/ Anthony Geslin
87/ Matthieu Ladagnous
88/ Wesley Sulzberger

Garmin-Transitions

The leader of this American team is David Millar. Christian Vande Velde, who won the 4th stage of Paris-Nice in 2009, is also part of the team, just like the young and promising climber Dan Martin.

The team is complete with 5 other riders:
121/ David Millar
122/ Tom Danielson
123/ Fredrik Kessiakoff
124/ Daniel Martin
125/ Christian Meier
126/ Thomas Peterson
127/ Svein Tuft
128/ Christian VanDevelde

Team Katusha

The Russian team announced the following selection:
151/ Serguei Ivanov
152/ Alexander Botcharov
153/ Joan Horrach
154/ Alexander Kolobnev
155/ Danilo Napolitano
156/ Evgueni Petrov
157/ Joaquim Rodriguez
158/ Eduard Vorganov

Lampre-Farnese Vini

The Italian team, who has a new co-sponsor this year, has announced its selection around Damiano Cunego:
141/ Damiano Cunego
142/ Grega Bole
143/ Matteo Bono
144/ David Loosli
145/ Mirco Lorenzetto
146/ Simone Ponzi
147/ Daniele Righi
148/ Alessandro Spezialetti

Liquigas-Doimo

The second Italian team announced its selection around Roman Kreuziger and the following riders will be with him at the start of Paris-Nice 2010:
51/ Roman Kreuziger
52/ Francesco Chicchi
53/ Mauro Finetto
54/ Aleksandr Kuchynski
55/ Peter Sagan
56/ Ivan Santaromita
57/ Brian Vandborg
58/ Frederik Willems

Omega Pharma-Lotto

The Belgian team of Philippe Gilbert sent the following riders to Paris-Nice 2010:
71/ Jurgen van den Broeck
72/ Francis de Greef
73/ Mickael Delage
74/ Philippe Gilbert
75/ Daniel Moreno Fernandez
76/ Jean-Christophe Peraud
77/ Jürgen Roelandts
78/ Jurgen van Goolen

Quick Step

The second Belgian team now officially announced its selection around Sylvain Chavanel:
21/ Sylvain Chavanel
22/ Carlos Barredo
23/ Kevin de Weert
24/ Nikolas Maes
25/ Jérôme Pineau
26/ Kevin Seeldrayers
27/ Kévin van Impe
28/ Wouter Weylandt

Rabobank

The Dutch Rabobank team for Paris-Nice 2010 is a completely Dutch selection:
91/ Lars Boom
92/ Rick Flens
93/ Tom Leezer
94/ Koos Moerenhout
95/ Joost Posthuma
96/ Bram Tankink
97/ Jos van Emden
98/ Dennis van Winden

Saur-Sojasun

Stéphane Heulot's team counts on Jimmy Casper for the sprint stages (and especially at the end of last year he showed the team can indeed still count on him, and he also won the 1st stage of the Tour of Oman 2010) while Jérôme Coppel targets a top 10 ranking in the general classification.

The riders of the team are:
201/ Jimmy Casper
202/ Jérôme Coppel
203/ Jimmy Engoulvent
204/ Jérémie Galland
205/ Cyril Lemoine
206/ Laurent Mangel
207/ Jean-Marc Marino
208/ Yannick Talabardon

Skil-Shimano

The Dutch team has announced the following selection for Paris-Nice 2010 (3 French riders, 4 Dutch and 1 German):
211/ Koen de Kort
212/ Roy Curvers
213/ Alexandre Geniez
214/ Simon Geschke
215/ Yann Huguet
216/ Thierry Hupond
217/ Albert Timmer
218/ Tom Veelers

Team HTC-Columbia

The HTC-Columbia team built its selection around the German Tony Martin:
41/ Tony Martin
42/ Matthew Goss
43/ André Greipel
44/ Adam Hansen
45/ Craig Lewis
46/ Maxime Monfort
47/ Hayden Roulston
48/ Marcel Sieberg

Team Radioshack

The team of the seven times winner of the Tour de France, Lance Armstrong, will have Levi Leipheimer and Christopher Horner as its leaders in Paris-Nice 2010.
Other big names are Yaroslav Popovych, Janez Brajkovic and Gert Steegmans.
The riders of this team are:
101/ Levi Leipheimer
102/ Janez Brajkovic
103/ Christopher Horner
104/ Geoffroy Lequatre
105/ Tiago Machado
106/ Yaroslav Popovych
107/ Sebastien Rosseler
108/ Gert Steegmans

Team Saxo Bank

The Danish team announced on its website the following selection around leader Frank Schleck for Paris-Nice 2010:
11/ Frank Schleck
12/ Laurent Didier
13/ Jakob Fuglsang
14/ Juan José Haedo
15/ Gustav Larsson
16/ Richie Porte
17/ Chris Anker Sørensen
18/ Jens Voigt

Team Sky

The British Team Sky announced the following selection for the Race to the sun:
171/ Simon Gerrans
172/ Sylvain Calzati
173/ Kjell Carlström
174/ Dario Cioni
175/ Steve Cummings
176/ Greg Henderson
177/ Serge Pauwels
178/ Geraint Thomas

Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team

The Dutch team, hoping for an invitation for the Tour de France 2010 comes to Paris-Nice 2010 with the Brice and Romain Feillu brothers. Another important rider in the team, Johnny Hoogerland will also be at the start in Montfort-l'Amaury.

The riders of the team for Paris-Nice 2010 are:
191/ Borut Bozic
192/ Brice Feillu
193/ Romain Feillu
194/ Johnny Hoogerland
195/ Bjorn Leukemans
196/ Marco Marcato
197/ Jens Mouris
198/ Alberto Ongarato

door Thomas Vergouwen
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