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Tour de France 2012 Team Preview: Movistar

Movistar heads to this year’s race with a deeply talented roster full of riders who will challenge for stage wins and one or two who might score a high overall finish in Paris. Movistar will likely spend the first week trying to nab a stage win for Jose Joaquin Rojas while positioning the talented sprinter … Continue reading

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Tour de France 2012 Team Preview: Lotto-Belisol

For a major Belgian team like Lotto-Belisol, the season has two main points of interest: the classics and the Tour de France. In the classics, the team came up empty. Andre Greipel and Jelle Vanendert did their best to snag wins on the cobbles and in the Ardennes, but in the end they just didn’t … Continue reading

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Tour de France 2012 Team Preview: Liquigas-Cannondale

After a disastrous Giro d’Italia in which the team failed to win a stage or mount a serious GC challenge, Liquigas-Cannondale heads to the Tour de France with Vincenzo Nibali and Peter Sagan—the team’s most successful riders so far this season. Nibali last rode the Tour de France in 2009 and finished seventh in a … Continue reading

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Tour de France 2012 Team Preview: Lampre-ISD

I hate to say it, but Lampre (along with a few other teams) might be proof that the World Tour’s automatic grand tour entry policy might need some tweaking. Yes, the team won two stages and the green jersey in 2010, but any team whose grand tour prospects hinge upon Alessandro Petacchi might need to … Continue reading

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Tour de France 2012 Team Preview: Katusha

Russia’s Katusha Team comes to Liege Saturday with a two-pronged approach to this year’s Tour de France: help Denis Menchov obtain as high a GC finish as possible and win a stage or two (and perhaps challenge for the green jersey) with Oscar Freire. While not incredibly lofty, these goals might seem a tad unrealistic … Continue reading

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Tour de France 2012 Team Preview: Garmin-Sharp

Garmin-Sharp is first of a few teams heading to the Tour de France with more than one GC option. In fact, they have three of them. Giro d’Italia champion Ryder Hesjedal leads the way in an attempt to do what no rider has done since Marco Pantani in 1998—win both races in the same season. … Continue reading

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