UPDATE 9 June 2007: Agritubel and T-Mobile added
UPDATE 9 June 2007: Caisse d'Epargne and Rabobank added
UPDATE 12 June 2007: AG2R, Astana and Barloworld added
UPDATE 19 June 2007: part of the list is now final for Agritubel, Gerolsteiner added
UPDATE 23 June 2007: updates for AG2R, Euskatel-Euskadi and T-Mobile and Lampre-Fondital and Liquigas have been added
UPDATE 24 June 2007: update for Agritubel
UPDATE 25 juni 2007: update for Rabobank and Quick.Step-Innergetic added

On May 30th the team selection for the Tour de France 2007 has been announced by ASO.

As of today, fourteen teams already announced their (preliminary) selections of riders: AG2R, Agritubel, Astana, Barloworld, Caisse d'Epargne, Euskaltel - Euskadi, Gerolsteiner, Lampre-Fondital, Liquigas, Predictor-Lotto, Quick.Step-Innergetic, Rabobank, Saunier Duval - Prodir and T-Mobile.

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  AG2R

  AG2R has announced a selection in two parts: one containing 8 riders who are sure they have an entry ticket for the Tour de France and a preselection of another 4 riders who have to fight for the remaining entry. The 8 who are sure to be in the Tour are:
  - José Luis Arrieta
  - Sylvain Calzati
  - Cyril Dessel
  - Martin Elmiger
  - John Gadret
  - Stéphane Goubert
  - Christophe Moreau
  - Ludovic Turpin
  
  Based on the following list of 4 riders, 1 last one will be chosen to go to the Tour as well:
  - Hubert Dupont
  - Simon Gerrans
  - Yuriy Krivstov
  - Jean-Patrick Nazon
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  Agritubel

  With a prelimary selection of 11 riders, Agritubel still has to scrap 2 before the start of the Tour. Eight riders have seen their participation confimed:
  - Freddy Bichot
  - Moises Duenas Nevado
  - Romain Feillu
  - Eduardo Gonzalo Ramirez
  - Nicolas Jalabert
  - Juan Miguel Mercado (probably their leader)
  - Benoit Salmon
  - Nicolas Vogondy
  
  The other rider will be chosen from the following list:
  - Emelien-Benoît Bergès
  - Cédric Hervé
  - Samuel Plouhinec
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  Astana

  Astana has selected 12 riders of which 6 are sure to participate. The 6 riders who are sure to participate are:
  - Andrei Kashechkin
  - Matthias Kessler
  - Andreas Klöden
  - Eddy Mazzoleni
  - Paolo Savoldelli
  - Alexander Vinokourov (leader)
  
  The other 3 riders who will complete this team will be chosen from the following 6:
  - Antonio Colom Mas
  - Maxim Iglinskiy
  - Sergei Ivanov
  - Benoit Joachim
  - Guennadi Mikhailov
  - Grégory Rast
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  Barloworld

  Barloworld, just like AG2R, announced a selection in two parts: one of six riders who are sure to participate to this year's Tour and a preselection of another 8 riders who will have to prove they're worth one of the 3 remaining entry tickets. The following 6 riders will definitively participate:
  - Robert Hunter (South-Africa)
  - Alex Efimkin (Russia)
  - Geraint Thomas (UK)
  - Felix Cardenas (Colombia)
  - Mauricio Soler (Colombia)
  - Fabrizio Guidi (Italy)
  
  The following 8 riders will have to prove they are fit enought to ride the Tour during the following weeks in Spain, Switzerland and Germany to be part of the 3 additional riders for Barloworld's Tour team:
  - Kanstantin Siutsou (Belarus)
  - Enrico Degano (Italy)
  - Gianpaolo Cheula (Italy)
  - Paolo Longo Borghini (Italy)
  - Giosuè Bonomi (Italy)
  - John Lee Augustyn (South-Africa)
  - Hugo Sabido (Portugal)
  - Pedro Arreitunandia (Spain)
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  Caisse d'Epargne

  Caisse d'Epargne has already announced its final selection of 9 riders:
  - Florent Brard
  - José Vicente Garcia Acosta
  - Vladimir Karpets
  - Oscar Pereiro Sio
  - Francisco Perez
  - Nicolas Portal
  - Luis Leon Sanchez Gil
  - Alejandro Valverde (leader)
  - Xabier Zandio
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  Euskaltel - Euskadi

  This is a preselection of 11 riders, with Haimar Zubeldia as a lead, of which finally 9 will participate. The confirmed riders are written in bold:
  - Igor Anton
  - Jorge Anzanza
  - Andoni Aranaga
  - Mikel Astarloza
  - Iñaki Isasi
  - Iñigo Landaluze
  - Juan Jose Oroz
  - Ruben Perez
  - Amets Txurruka
  - Gorka Verdugo
  - Haimar Zubeldia
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  Gerolsteiner

  For this German team which is sponsored by a mineral water supplier, a list of 5 names has been confirmed for this year's Tour:
  - Markus Föthen
  - Bernard Kohl (probably their leader)
  - Sebastián Lang (if he no longer suffers from his injuries)
  - Stefan Schumacher
  - Fabian Wegmann
  
  The sprinter Heinrich Haussler has told the press that he would also participate in this year's Tour ...
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  Lampre-Fondital

  For Lampre-Fondital only 3 rider are sure to participate:
  - Alessandro Ballan
  - Daniele Benatti
  - Tadej Valjavec (leader)
  
  
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  Liquigas

  For Liquigas 6 riders will definitely participate:
  - Manuel Beltran Martinez
  - Vladimir Miholjevic
  - Filippo Pozzato
  - Manuel Quinziato
  - Charles Wegelius
  - Frederik Willems
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  Predictor - Lotto

  Predictor-Lotto also announced a preliminary selection of 12 riders. These riders thus have to prove themselves in the upcoming month since 3 of them will finally not go to the Tour, because a Tour team contains 9 riders. The preliminary selection is as follows (in alphabetical order):
  - Mario Aerts
  - Dario Cioni
  - Cadel Evans
  - Chris Horner
  - Leif Hoste
  - Josep Jufre
  - Björn Leukemans
  - Robbie McEwen
  - Fred Rodriguez
  - Bert Roesems
  - Roy Sentjens
  - Wim Vansevenant
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  Quick.Step - Innergetic

  On Monday June 25th, Quick.Step - Innergetic also announced its preselection which contains 11 riders. After the Belgian Championships, the final team of 9 riders will be announced. The preselection is as follows (in alphabetical order):
  - Carlos Barredo
  - Tom Boonen
  - Steven De Jongh
  - Juan Manuel Garate
  - Bram Tankink
  - Andrea Tonti
  - Matteo Tossato
  - Sebastien Rosseler
  - Kevin Van Impe
  - Gert Steegmans
  - Cedric Vasseur
  
  The team will be managed by Wilfried Peeters and Rik van Slycke.
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  Rabobank

  The Rabobank team has announced its final selection for the Tour de France on Monday July 25th. It appears to be an experienced team with 6 former Tour stage winners and only one Tour newcomer (Thomas Dekker). The team members for Rabobank are:
  - Michael Boogerd
  - Thomas Dekker
  - Juan Antonio Flecha
  - Oscar Freire
  - Bram de Groot
  - Denis Menchov (leader)
  - Grischa Niermann
  - Michael Rasmussen
  - Pieter Weening
  
  The team will be managed by Erik Dekker and Erik Breukink who still have two riders on an additonal list in case one of the 9 can finally not participate (Theo Eltink & Koos Moerenhout).
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  Saunier Duval - Prodir

  Saunier Duval - Prodir seems to have announced its final selection already, because their list contains 9 riders (in alphabetic order):
  - Iker Camaño
  - Juanjo Cobo
  - David de la Fuente
  - Jose Angel Gomez Marchante
  - Ruben Lobato
  - Iban Mayo
  - David Millar
  - Christophe Rinero
  - Francisco Ventoso
  
  Their team manager is Mauro Gianetti and in this selection, David Millar will be a potential winner for time trials (3 time trials are planned in this year's Tour!) and Francisco Ventoso will be there for the sprint arrivals.
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  T-Mobile

  T-Mobile has announced a pre-selection of 13 riders on its website:
  - Lorenzo Bernucci (27/Italy)
  - Marcus Burghardt (23/Germany)
  - Mark Cavendish (22/Great Britain)
  - Bernhard Eisel (26/Austria)
  - Andreas Klier (31/Germany)
  - Linus Gerdemann (24/Germany)
  - Bert Grabsch (31/Germany)
  - Giuseppe Guerini (36/Italy)
  - Roger Hammond (33/Great Britain)
  - Kim Kirchen (28/Luxembourg)
  - Axel Merckx (34/Belgium)
  - Michael Rogers (27/Australia, LEADER)
  - Patrik Sinkewitz (27/Germany)
  
  Servais Knaven is no longer on the list.

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