Yesterday I presented you the the Critérium International 2010 route in Porto-Vecchio on Google Maps/Google Earth, today it's time for the list of 17 participating teams and the riders who will be at the start, with their numbers.

On the mountaineous route in Corsica, the riders who will probably be among the best performers are the recent winner of Paris-Nice 2010, Alberto Contador (Astana), the World Champion Cadel Evans (BMC Racing Team) and the seven time Tour de France winner, Lance Armstrong (Team Radioshack). Not to forget riders such as the Olympic Champion Samuel Sanchez (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Mauricio Soler (Caisse d'Epargne), Michael Rogers (HTC-Columbia) or the winner of the Tour de France 2009 stage in Arcalis, Brice Feillu (Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team).

The teams and riders at the start of the Critérium International 2010

17 teams will be at the start of this 79th edition of the Critérium International with most probably 130 riders.

Team HTC-Columbia

The American team will come to the start with a team which was built auround the Australina rider Michael Rogers and the Czech Frantisek Rabon. The young Danish rider Rasmus Guldhammer (photo, © TDWSPORT.COM) will also be present.
1/ Frantisek Rabon
2/ Michael Albasini
3/ Bert Grabsch
4/ Rasmus Guldhammer
5/ Maxime Monfort
6/ Marco Pinotti
7/ Michael Rogers
8/ Peter Velits

Astana

The recent winner of Paris-Nice 2010, Alberto Contador, has changed his programme and instead of participating in the Tour de Catalogne he will thus be the leader of the Astana team in the Critérium International 2010.
11/ Alberto Contador
12/ Dmitriy Fofonov
13/ Maxim Gourov
14/ Roman Kireyev
15/ Daniel Navarro
16/ Benjamin Noval Gonzalez
17/ Bolat Raimbekov
18/ Alexandre Vinokourov

Team Radioshack

Lance Armstrong, around whom this American team was built from scratch at the end of 2009, will be the leader of Team Radioshack. The Critérium International will be the first race in which he will confront his former team mate Alberto Contador.
21/ Lance Armstrong
22/ Matthew Busche
23/ Ben Hermans
24/ Christopher Horner
25/ Tiago Machado
26/ Sergio Paulinho
27/ Yaroslav Popovych
28/ Ivan Rovny

AG2R La Mondiale

The team from Chambéry announced that due to a big number of injured riders in our team, only seven riders will start in this race.

Under the all-seeing eye of directeur sportif Arturas Kasputis this will be the 7 riders:
31/ Dimitri Champion
32/ Blel Kadri
33/ Maxime Bouet
34/ Hubert Dupont
35/ John Gadret
36/ David Le Lay
37/ René Mandri

Garmin-Transitions

The second American team, Garmin-Transitions, will also come to the start of the Critérium International 2010 with 7 riders, including David Millar as its leader.
41/ David Millar
42/ Kirk Carlsen
43/ Fredrik Kessiakoff
44/ Trent Lowe
45/ Daniel Martin
46/ Danny Pate
47/ Ricardo van der Velde

BMC Racing Team

The American team with a Swiss sponsor who has recruited the World Champion Cadel Evans for this season, will come to the Critérium International 2010 with a team which was built around the Australian rider and sees this race as a good test.
51/ Cadel Evans
52/ Chad Beyer
53/ Mathias Frank
54/ Thomas Frei
55/ Jeffry Louder
56/ Steve Morabito
57/ Mauro Santambrogio
58/ Florian Stalder

Cofidis

The team from the north of France will send only 6 riders to Corsica, including David Moncoutié as their road captain.
61/ David Moncoutié
62/ Leonardo Duque
63/ Julien El Fares
64/ Kalle Kriit
65/ Damien Monier
66/ Rémi Pauriol

Française des Jeux

The Française des Jeux will also have only 6 riders at the start of the Critérium International in Porto-Vecchio:
71/ Benoît Vaugrenard
72/ Mikaël Cherel
73/ Gianni Meersman
74/ Wesley Sulzberger
75/ Jussi Veikkanen
76/ Arthur Vichot

Team Sky

Team Sky will come with a complete team of 8 riders including Thomas Lövkvist who could well take a good spot in the stage classification of the 3rd stage of this Critérium International which will be an individual time trial (in 2007 he won the individual time trial of this race).
81/ Thomas Lövkvist
82/ Sylvain Calzati
83/ Kjell Carlström
84/ Russel Downing
85/ Simon Gerrans
86/ Lars-Peter Nordhaug
87/ Nicolas Portal
88/ Morris Possoni

Bbox Bouygues Telecom

The team from the French Vendée departement will have Thomas Voeckler as its leader, of c completely French team, except for Yury Trofimov.
91/ Thomas Voeckler
92/ Franck Bouyer
93/ Anthony Charteau
94/ Pierrick Fedrigo
95/ Cyril Gautier
96/ Laurent Lefèvre
97/ Pierre Rolland
98/ Yury Trofimov

Caisse d'Epargne

The Spanish team with a French sponsor will have Christophe Moreau as its road captain with a quite heterogeneous team. The former polka dot jersey of the Tour de France, Juan Mauricio Soler Hernandez was probably quite pleased with the mountaineous route of this Critérium International.
101/ Christophe Moreau
102/ Andrey Amador
103/ Juan José Cobo Acebo
104/ Arnold Jeannesson
105/ David Lopez Garcia
106/ Mathieu Perget
107/ Juan Mauricio Soler Hernandez
108/ Rigoberto Uran

Euskaltel-Euskadi

The Bask team will come to the start of the Critérium International 2010 with the Olympic Champion Samuel Sanchez.
111/ Samuel Sanchez
112/ Jorge Azanza Soto
113/ Beñat Intxausti
114/ Gorka Izagirre Insausti
115/ Egoi Martinez
116/ Mikel Nieve
117/ Juan José Oroz
118/ Amets Txurruka

Saur-Sojasun

Stéphane Heulot's team will have Jérôme Coppel as its leader and can also count on the rider who has had the polka dot jersey in Paris-Nice 2010, Laurent Mangel.
121/ Jérôme Coppel
122/ Cyril Bessy
123/ Jimmy Engoulvent
124/ Jeremy Galland
125/ Cyril Lemoine
126/ Guillaume Levarlet
127/ Laurent Mangel
128/ Julien Simon

Skil-Shimano

The Dutch team decided to send a Japanese rider as the leader of the team in the Critérium International 2010.
131/ Yukihiro Doi
132/ Alexandre Geniez
133/ Simon Geschke
134/ Feng Han
135/ Yann Huguet
136/ Thierry Hupond
137/ Albert Timmer
138/ Frederik Wilmann

Roubaix Lille Métropole

The second team with an orange kit has created its team around Clément Lhotellerie.
141/ Clément Lhotellerie
142/ Jocelyn Bar
143/ Matthieu Boulo
144/ Renaud Dion
145/ Mickael Larpe
146/ Arnaud Molmy
147/ Cédric Pineau
148/ Steven Tronet

Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team

The second Dutch team will be organised aorund the climber Brice Feillu who hopes to be in a better shape than in Paris-Nice 2010.
151/ Brice Feillu
152/ Matteo Carrara
153/ Michal Golas
154/ Sergey Lagutin
155/ Wouter Poels
156/ Stéphane Rossetto
157/ Rob Ruijgh
158/ Lieuwe Westra

Bretagne-Schuller

This Continental Pro team will come with 7 French riders and one Spaniard:
161/ Eduardo Gonzalo Ramirez
162/ Jean-Marc Bideau
163/ Florian Guillou
164/ Romain Hardy
165/ Lilian Jégou
166/ Nicolas Jouanno
167/ Johan Le Bon
168/ Florian Vachon

door Thomas Vergouwen
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