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The Tour de France’s English jaunt has come to an end after a very successful prologue and stage one. The prologue through London brought out great weather and huge crowds who lined up along some of London’s biggest monuments to take in a bike race. Fabian Cancellara took the win by burning up the course in under 9 minutes for a five mile time trial. The course was not super fast with “chip and seal” type pavement, lots of “traffic furniture” remnants which required racers to bunny hop their bikes at certain points.
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Here is the full list of racers for the 2007 Tour de France. The race icks off Saturday in London with a very picturesque prologue. Homeboys and TT specialists David Millar and Bradley Wiggins will be gunning for the prologue stage win.
As for an overall winner, stay tuned for my prediction on this year’s Tour
Caisse d’Epargne
11. Oscar Pereiro (ESP)
12. David Arroyo (ESP)
13. Vicente Garcia Acosta (ESP)
14. José Ivan Gutierrez (ESP)
15. Vladimir Karpets (RUS)
16. Francisco Perez (ESP)
17. Nicolas Portal (FRA)
18. Alejandro Valverde (ESP)
19. Xabier Zandio (ESP)
T-Mobile
21. Michael Rogers (AUS)
22. Marcus Burghardt (GER)
23. Mark Cavendish (GBR)
24. Bernhard Eisel (AUT)
25. Linus Gerdemann (GER)
26. Bert Grabsch (GER)
27. Kim Kirchen (LUX)
28. Axel Merckx (BEL)
29. Patrick Sinkewitz (GER)
CSC
31. Carlos Sastre (ESP)
32. Kurt-Asle Arvesen (NOR)
33. Fabian Cancellara (SUI)
34. Inigo Cuesta (ESP)
35. Stuart O’Grady (AUS)
36. Frank Schleck (LUX)
37. Christian Vandevelde (USA)
38. Jens Voigt (GER)
39. David Zabriskie (USA)
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