AG2R-LA MONDIALE (France) - AG2R-LA MONDIALE is made up mostly of young French riders. They'll be aiming for stage wins!
Maxime Bouet (FRA)
Dimitri Champion (FRA)
Martin Elmiger (SUI)
John Gadret (FRA)
David Le Lay (FRA)
Lloyd Mondory (FRA)
Rinaldo Nocentini (ITA)
Christophe Riblon (FRA)
Nicolas Roche (IRL)

ASTANA (Kazakhstan) - TEAM ASTANA features two-time winner and defending champion, Alberto Contador!
Alberto Contador Velasco (ESP)
David De La Fuente Rasilla (ESP)
Andriy Grivko (UKR)
Jesus Hernandez Blazquez (ESP)
Maxim Iglinskiy (KAZ)
Daniel Navarro Garcia (ESP)
Benjamin Noval Gonzalez (ESP)
Paolo Tiralongo (ITA)
Alexandre Vinokourov (KAZ)

BBOX BOUYGUES TELECOM (France) - BBOX BOUYGUES TELECOM features current French national champion, the ever-popular Thomas Voeckler!
Yukiya Arashiro (JPN)
Anthony Charteau (FRA)
Pierrick Fedrigo (FRA)
Cyril Gautier (FRA)
Pierre Rolland (FRA)
Mathieu Sprick (FRA)
Sébastien Turgot (FRA)
Thomas Voeckler (FRA)
Nicolas Vogondy (FRA)

BMC RACING (Switzerland) - TEAM BMC was started by our great friend Jim Ochowicz, the big daddy of American cycling, and features good old George Hincapie and current world champion Cadel Evans!
Alessandro Ballan (ITA)
Brent Bookwalter (USA)
Marcus Burghardt (GER)
Cadel Evans (AUS)
Mathias Frank (SUI)
George Hincapie (USA)
Karsten Kroon (NED)
Steve Morabito (SUI)
Mauro Santambrogio (ITA)

CAISSE D'EPARGNE (Spain) - This is a team full of great climbers. Look out for Luis Leon Sanchez in the mountains!
Imanol Erviti Ollo (ESP)
Rui Alberto Faria Costa (POR)
Jose Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (ESP)
Vasil Kiryienka (BLR)
Christophe Moreau (FRA)
Mathieu Perget (FRA)
Ruben Plaza Molina (ESP)
Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (ESP)
Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (ESP)

CERVELO TEST-TEAM (Switzerland) - Team Cervélo features former Tour winner Carlos Sastre and the sprinting God of Thunder, Thor Hushovd!
Xavier Florencio Cabre (ESP)
Volodymir Gustov (UKR)
Jeremy Hunt (GB)
Thor Hushovd (NOR)
Andreas Klier (GER)
Ignatas Konovalovas (LTU)
Brett Lancaster (AUS)
Daniel Lloyd (GB)
Carlos Sastre Candil (ESP

COFIDIS (France) - TEAM COFIDIS is another French team looking for stage wins!
Stéphane Auge (FRA)
Samuel Dumoulin (FRA)
Julien El Fares (FRA)
Christophe Kern (FRA)
Sébastien Minard (FRA)
Amaël Moinard (FRA)
Damien Monier (FRA)
Rémi Pauriol (FRA)
Rein Taaramäe (EST)

EUSKALTEL-EUSKADI (Spain) - Iñaki Isasi Flores (ESP)
EUSKALTEL-EUSKADI comes from the Basque Country in Spain and features Olympic champion Samuel Sanchez!
Egoi Martinez De Esteban (ESP)
Juan Jose Oroz Ugalde (ESP)
Alan Perez Lezaun (ESP)
Ruben Perez Moreno (ESP)
Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (ESP)
Amets Txurruka Ansola (ESP)
Ivan Velasco Murillo (ESP)
Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui (ESP)

FOOTON-SERVETTO (Spain) - This is one of the smaller teams in this year's Tour, and a stage win would be huge for them.
Jose Alberto Benitez Roman (ESP)
Eros Capecchi (ITA)
Manuel Antonio Leal Cardoso (POR)
Giampaolo Cheula (ITA)
Arkaitz Duran Aroca (ESP)
Markus Eibegger (AUT)
Fabio Felline (ITA)
Iban Mayoz Etxeberria (ESP)
Rafael Valls Ferri (ESP)

FRANCAIS DES JEUX (France) - Another French team, shooting for stage wins. Where have we heard this before?
Sandy Casar (FRA)
Rémy Di Gregorio (FRA)
Anthony Geslin (FRA)
Matthieu Ladagnous (FRA)
Christophe Le Mevel (FRA)
Anthony Roux (FRA)
Jérémy Roy (FRA)
Wesley Sulzberger (AUS)
Benoît Vaugrenard (FRA)

GARMIN-TRANSITIONS (United States) -
We don't mean to play favorites, but how can you not love Christian VDV and our man Dave Z?!? TDF trivia fact: the graphics on Garmin's Felt bikes are done by Mike and the Bike illustrator BOB THOMSON! YAY FOR THE BOBBER!
Julian Dean (NZL)
Tyler Farrar (USA)
Ryder Hesjedal (CAN)
Robert Hunter (RSA)
Martijn Maaskant (NED)
David Millar (GBR)
Christian Vande Velde (USA)
Johan Vansummeren (BEL)
David Zabriskie (USA)

HTC-COLUMBIA (United States) - Can the Manx Missile, Mark Cavendish, get his act together and win 37 stages plus the green sprinter's jersey this year, or will he crumble under pressure and act like a child whose favorite balloon has just popped? We'll soon find out!
Mark Cavendish (GB)
Bernhard Eisel (AUT)
Bert Grabsch (GER)
Adam Hansen (AUS)
Tony Martin (GER)
Maxime Monfort (BEL)
Mark Renshaw (AUS)
Michael Rogers (AUS)
Kanstantsin Siutsou (BLR)

KATUSHA (Russian Federation) - Team KATUSHA features sprinter Robbie McEwen and a lot of Russians!
Pavel Brutt (RUS)
Serguei Ivanov (RUS)
Vladimir Karpets (RUS)
Alexandr Kolobnev (RUS)
Robbie Mcewen (AUS)
Alexandre Pliuschin (MDA)
Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver (ESP)
Stijn Vandenbergh (BEL)
Eduard Vorganov (RUS)

LAMPRE (Italy) - Team LAMPRE is an Italian squad and features the great sprinter Alessandro Petacchi and all-arounder Damiano Cunego!
Grega Bole (SLO)
Damiano Cunego (ITA)
Mauro Da Dalto (ITA)
Francesco Gavazzi (ITA)
Danilo Hondo (GER)
Mirco Lorenzetto (ITA)
Adriano Malori (ITA)
Alessandro Petacchi (ITA)
Simon Spilak (SLO)

LIQUIGAS-DOIMO (Italy) - LIQUIGAS is a powerful Italian squad that features this year's Giro d'Italia winner Ivan Basso!
Ivan Basso (ITA)
Francesco Bellotti (ITA)
Kristjan Koren (SLO)
Roman Kreuziger (CZE)
Aleksandr Kuschynski (BLR)
Daniel Oss (ITA)
Manuel Quinziato (ITA)
Sylwester Szmyd (POL)
Brian Bach Vandborg (DEN)

MILRAM (Germany) - Team MILRAM features many great German riders, including young powerhouse Linus Gerdemann!
Gerald Ciolek (GER)
Johannes Fröhlinger (GER)
Linus Gerdemann (GER)
Roger Kluge (GER)
Christian Knees (GER)
Luke Roberts (AUS)
Thomas Rohregger (AUT)
Niki Terpstra (NED)
Fabian Wegmann (GER)

OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO (Belgium) - Team OMEGA is a Belgian outfit that features the great Philippe Gilbert and one of our favorite Twitter guys, Charles Wegelius!
Mario Aerts (BEL)
Francis De Greef (BEL)
Mickael Delage (FRA)
Sebastian Lang (GER)
Matthew Lloyd (AUS)
Daniel Moreno Fernandez (ESP)
Jürgen Roelandts (BEL)
Jurgen Van Den Broeck (BEL)
Charles Wegelius (GBR)

QUICK STEP (Belgium) - Team QUICK STEP will be riding without their star rider Tom Boonen. That will hurt them; they'll be hunting for stage wins.
Carlos Barredo Llamazales (ESP)
Sylvain Chavanel (FRA)
Kevin De Weert (BEL)
Dries Devenyns (BEL)
Jérôme Pineau (FRA)
Kevin Seeldraeyers (BEL)
Jurgen Van De Walle (BEL)
Wouter Weylandt (BEL)
Maarten Wynants (BEL)

RABOBANK (Netherlands) - Dutch Team Rabobank features one of our favorite riders, and the guy with a really cool name: LARS BOOM!
Lars Boom (NED)
Oscar Freire Gomez (ESP)
Juan Manuel Garate Cepa (ESP)
Robert Gesink (NED)
Denis Menchov (RUS)
Koos Moerenhout (NED)
Grischa Niermann (GER)
Bram Tankink (NED)
Maarten Tjallingii (NED)

RADIOSHACK (United States) - Team RADIOSHACK is the new American team that features our great friend Levi Leipheimer and some guy who's won this race 7 times. Can't think of his name...
Lance Armstrong (USA)
Janez Brajkovic (SLO)
Chris Horner (USA)
Andreas Klöden (GER)
Levi Leipheimer (USA)
Dmitriy Muravyev (KAZ)
Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho (POR)
Yaroslav Popovych (UKR)
Grégory Rast (SUI)

SAXO BANK (Denmark) - Team SAXO BANK is one of the strongest in the Tour, with the Schleck brothers and Fabulous Fabian Cancellara. Woo hoo!
Matti Breschel (DEN)
Fabian Cancellara (SUI)
Jakob Fuglsang (DEN)
Stuart O’grady (AUS)
Andy Schleck (LUX)
Fränk Schleck (LUX)
Chris Anker Sørensen (DEN)
Nicki Sørensen (DEN)
Jens Voigt (GER)

TEAM SKY (United Kingdom) - New British team Sky will be putting their hope in Bradley Wiggins for the overall win!
Michael Barry (CAN)
Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR)
Stephen Cummings (GB)
Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (ESP)
Simon Gerrans (AUS)
Thomas Lövkvist (SWE)
Serge Pauwels (BEL)
Geraint Thomas (GB)
Bradley Wiggins (GB)