In a little bit less than one week (next Saturday) the 91st edition of the Giro d'Italia will start on Sicily (click here for the full track of the Giro 2008). Several teams have thus already announced their selection of riders for this Tour of Italy. In this article you'll find the first lists of riders.
Furthermore, you probably remember that Astana was not on the list of teams which had been selected to participate in the Giro when the selection was announced early February. Yesterday it was only rumours but this morning the Giro's director confirmed that Astana finally is invited to participate in the Giro d'Italia 2008!!
UPDATE 6 May 2008: yesterday night the Giro organiser has published the list of riders and this article has thus been updated for the missing teams and the numbers has been added.
UPDATE 9 May 2008: after a fall during a training David Arroyo unfortunately won't be able to participate for Caisse d'Epargne and with an intestinal virus Benjamin Noval cannot start for Astana; finally CSF Group Navigare sent Ariel Maximiliano Richeze back home after a positive doping check.
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The selected riders
- AG2R La Mondiale
12 Philip Deignan
19 Yuriy Krivtsov
13 René Mandri
14 Laurent Mangel
15 Rinaldo Nocentini
16 Nicolas Rousseau
17 Blaise Sonnery
18 Alexandre Usov
11 Tadej Valjavec - Astana
Big surprise since the Giro organisor first refused to invited this team due to a lack of motivation (the team initially completely focussed on the Tour de France) ... the new request for participation has apparently received more interest from the Giro organisor: "with another approach than before and with a list of top riders" as Angelo Zomegnan, Giro's director, said on Saturday.
Saturday night he said there was a 50% chance for Astana to participate in the Giro, on Sunday morning Zomegnan told the La Gazetta dello Sport newspaper (part of the same group as the Giro organisor): "Yes, I invited Contador" and he thus confirmed Astana's participation. The two reasons for this changed opinion on the Luxembourg team with Kazakh sponsors are -according to La Gazetta dello Sport- that Astana will send a team with all leaders to the Giro since the team cannot participate in the Tour de France and that the team now has a thorough anti doping programme and a new organisational structure.
Astana's three leaders who will participate in the Giro are:
22 Alberto Contador
28 Andreas Klöden
21 Levi Leipheimer
The list of other riders is as follows:
29 Assan Bazayev
24 Antonio Colom
23 Vladimir Gusev
25 Maxim Iglinsky
27 Andrei Mizourov
26Benjamin NovalSteve Morabito - with an intestinal virus Benjamin Noval will unfortunately be unable to start - Barloworld
31 Francesco Bellotti
32 Patrick Calcagni
33 Felix Cardenas
34 Stephen Cummings
35 Enrico Gasparotto
36 Christian Pfannberger
37 Carlo Scognamiglio
38 Mauricio Soler
39 Geraint Thomas - Caisse d'Epargne
41David ArroyoMathieu Perget - with a broken radius after a fall at the end of his training on 8 May David Arroyo can unfortunately not try to improve his tenth place from last year (the numbers might not be the final ones for this team)
42 Joan Horrach
43 Vladimir Karpets
44 Pablo Lastras
49 Luis Pasamontes
45 Fran Pérez
46 Mathieu Perget
47 Joaquim Rodriguez
48 José Rujano - Cofidis
51 Mickaël Buffaz
52 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle or Kevin de Weert (according to the Giro's website it's Duclos-Lassalle, but according to the team's website it's De Weert; Duclos-Lassalle would participate in the "4 jours de Dunkerque" which will last until Sunday)
53 Bingen Fernandez
54 Nicolas Hartmann
55 Mathieu Heijboer
56 Yann Huguet
57 Damien Monier
58 Nick Nuyens
59 Rik Verbrugghe - CSF Group Navigare
61 Emanuele Sella
62 Fortunato Baliani
63Ariel Maximiliano Richeze- after a positive doping check when he won the 4th stage of the Circuit de la Sarthe on 11 April in Le Mans he has been sent home on 9 May just before the start of the Giro
64 Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez
65 Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio
66 Filippo Savini
67 Matteo Priamo
68 Tiziano Dall'Antonia
69 Domenico Pozzovivo - Euskaltel - Euskadi
71 Josu Agirre Aseginolaza
72 Lander Aperribay
73 Koldo Fernandez
74 Aitor Galdos Alonso
75 Dionisio Galparsoro Martinez
76 Markel Irizar Aranburu
77 Inigo Landaluze Intxaurraga
78 Alan Perez Lezaun
79 Ivan Velasco Murillo - Française des Jeux
81 Mickaël Cherel
82 Timothy Gudsell
83 Yauheni Hutarovich
84 Lilian Jégou
85 Yoann Le Boulanger
86 Guillaume Levarlet
87 Jérémy Roy
88 Jelle Vanendert or Tom Stubbe (according to the Giro website it's Vanendert, according to the team's website it's Stubbe)
89 Jussi Veikkanen - Gerolsteiner
91 Robert Förster
92 Thomas Fothen
93 Johannes Fröhlinger
94 Oscar Gatto
95 Sven Krauss
96 Andrea Moletta
97 Volker Ordowski
98 Davide Rebellin
99 Matthias Russ - Team High Road
101 Mark Cavendish
102 André Greipel
103 Adam Hansen
104 Tony Martin
105 Marco Pinotti
106 Morris Possoni
107 Frantisek Rabon
108 Kanstantsin Siutsou
109 Bradley Wiggins - Lampre
111 Marzio Bruseghin
112 Paolo Bossoni
113 Fabio Baldato
119 Francesco Gavazzi
114 David Loosli
117 Mirco Lorenzetto
118 Mauro Santambrogio
116 Simon Spilak
115 Sylvester Szmyd - Liquigas
121 Daniele Bennati
122 Kjell Carlström
123 Dario Cataldo
124 Vladimir Mikoljevic
125 Vincenzo Nibali
126 Andrea Noe'
127 Franco Pellizotti
128 Alessandro Vanotti
129 Charles Wegelius - LPR Brakes
2 Paolo Bailetti
3 Gabriele Bosisio
4 Riccardo Chiarini
5 Giairo Ermeti
6 Jure Golcer
1 Danilo di Luca
7 Daniele Pietropolli
8 Paolo Savoldelli
9 Alessandro Spezialetti - Quick.Step
131 Paolo Bettini
132 Alexander Efimkin (and not Vladimir as indicated on the Giro website!!)
133 Addy Engels
134 Mauro Facci
135 Juan Manuel Garate
136 Hubert Schwab
137 Kevin Seeldrayers
138 Andrea Tonti
139 Giovanni Visconti - Rabobank
141 Mauricio Alberto Ardila Cano
142 Graeme Brown
143 Bram de Groot
144 Theo Eltink
145 Mathew Hayman
146 Dmitry Kozontchuk
147 Gerben Löwik
148 Paul Martens
149 Denis Menchov - Saunier Duval - Scott
153 Raivis Belohvosciks
152 Jose Alberto Benitez Roman
155 David Cañada Gracia
154 Eros Capecchi
156 Ermanno Capelli
157 Iker Camano Ortuzar
158 Luciano Pagliarini Mendonca
159 Leonardo Piepoli
151 Riccardo Ricco' - S. Diquigiovanni - Androni G.
The team with the longest web site address of all cycling teams: www.serramentipvcdiquigiovanniandronigiocattoli.com will start in the Giro with the following riders:
162 Alessandro Bertolini
163 Danilo Hondo
164 Raffaele Illiano
165 Ruslan Ivanov
166 Gabriele Missaglia
167 Daniele Nardello
168 Carlos José Ochoa
169 Jose Rodolfo Serpa Perez
161 Gilberto Simoni - Silence Lotto
172 Dominique Cornu
173 Francis de Greef
174 Dries Devenyns
175 Nick Gates
176 Matthew Lloyd
177 Robbie McEwen
171 Geert Steurs
178 Jürgen van den Broeck
179 Wim Vanhuffel - Slipstream - Chipotle
181 Magnus Backstedt
182 Julian Dean
183 Ryder Hesjedal
184 David Millar
185 Jonathan Patrick McCarty
186 Danny Pate
187 Christopher Sutton
188 Christian Vandevelde
189 David Zabriskie - Team CSC
- Michael Blaudzun
- Gustav Larsson
- Anders Lund
- Jason McCartney
- Bradley McGee
- Stuart O'Grady
- Chris Anker Sørensen
- Nicki Sørensen
- Jens Voigt - Team Milram
Milram will have to do without Alessandro Petacchi in the Giro, due to a big bronchitis and because he "wants to prepare himself in the best possible way for the Tour de France".
- Igor Astarloa
- Markus Eichler
- Sergio Ghisalberti
- Matej Jurco
- Alberto Ongarato
- Enrico Poitschke
- Fabio Sabatini
- Marco Velo
- Erik Zabel - Tinkoff Credit Systems
211 Evgeni Petrov
212 Vasil Kiryienka
213 Luca Mazzanti
214 Alberto Loddo
215 Mikhail Ignatiev
216 Nikolai Trussov
217 Pavel Brutt
218 Serguei Klimov
219 Alexander Serov
The CSF Group-Navigare team will finally not participate in the Giro, because this team had to leave its place to Astana. door Thomas Vergouwen
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Le Giro sans Ale Jet avec sa bronchite et surtout une suspension de 12 mois...
Merci pour ton SMS, j'étais au boulot, pas trop le temps d'y répondre sur le moment.
Pendant que tu es dans le sud, tu descends jusqu'à Palerme pour le départ du Giro ?
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| Pascal | tuesday 06 May 2008 om 20h50
Salut Pascal,
J'aurai pu le mettre effectivement pour Petacchi parce que je l'avais lu cet après-midi (vive la carte 3G pour avoir de l'Internet même pendant les vacances ;-).
Pour le départ du Giro, j'aimerai bien ... mais ça fait quand même encore un peu loin ... J'en profite à fond par contre pour faire un peu de vélo avec mon père et du beau temps bien évidemment :-).
à bientôt !
| Thomas Vergouwen | tuesday 06 May 2008 om 21h26