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Today is a rest day and there has been some exciting moments happening. The team time Trial prologue was won by the American team Slipstream-Chipotle-H30!

The next day, my one of my favorite riders David Zabriskie crashed and abandoned the Giro. The next few days provided to be extremely riviting with Ricco winning two stages and the Italian Road champion sitting pretty in the Maglia Rosa for a couple days now.

Tomorrow is the first of 3 time trials with one of them including a mountain top finish!

photos from cyclingnews.com

ASO has voted and the new big American team, Slipstream-Chipotle is riding in the 2008 TdF! This is extremely exciting since some veterans of other teams will be on the squad. Former champion Alberto Contador and Levi will not be seen in this year’s TdF since Astana still has been denied.

The rest of the teams:

• Agritubel (Fra),
• Slipstream Chipotle - H30 (USA)
• Barloworld (GBr)
• Gerolsteiner (Ger)
• Team Milram (Ger)
• Quick Step (Bel)
• Silence-Lotto (Bel)
• Team CSC (Den)
• Caisse d’Epargne (Spa)
• Euskaltel-Euskadi (Spa)
• Saunier-Duval-Scott (Spa)
• High Road (USA)
• Bouygues Telecom (Fra)
• Crédit Agricole (Fra)
• Cofidis (Fra)
• Française des Jeux (Fra)
• AG2R La Mondiale (Fra)
• Lampre (Ita)
• Liquigas (Ita)
• Rabobank (Ned)

Floyd Landis the first winner of the tour de france to have his title stripped is going to have his last day court next week. In front of the Court of Sport Arbitration, he’ll plead his case in front of a closed panel to decide on his future. Hopefully it won’t be the circus show that happened last time in Arizona, where strange phone calls were made to Greg Lemond about kid touchers and other bizarre and weird blood work was presented. The French won’t be involved this time.

May your deliberations go well Mr. Landis.