Well since there's a a topic about some ballgame with a ball and who will win it, I guess I'll post that other pretty popular event

So who will win 'Le Tour de France'?

Who get's the Yellow jersey, the green jersey, the red polka dot jersey and maybe even the white jersey

And wich team and rider is your favourite

btw Armstrong doesn't compete, and Ullrich and Basso, and a couple of others have some spanish difficulties. Should become a intresting event this year, no more super players...

the teams and players;

Discovery channel

001 - AZEVEDO José POR
002 - EKIMOV Viatceslav RUS
003 - HINCAPIE George USA
004 - MARTINEZ Egoi ESP
005 - NOVAL GONZALEZ Benjamin ESP
006 - PADRNOS Pavel CZE
007 - POPOVYCH Yaroslav UKR
008 - RUBIERA José Luis ESP
009 - SAVOLDELLI Paolo ITA

TEAM CSC

011 - JULICH Bobby USA
012 - LOMBARDI Giovanni ITA
013 - O’GRADY Stuart AUS
014 - SASTRE Carlos ESP
015 - SCHLECK Frank LUX
016 - VANDEVELDE Christian USA
017 - VOIGT Jens GER
018 - ZABRISKIE David USA

T-MOBILE TEAM

021 - KLÖDEN Andréas GER
022 - GUERINI Giuseppe ITA
023 - HONCHAR Serhiy UKR
024 - KESSLER Matthias GER
025 - MAZZOLENI Eddy ITA
026 - ROGERS Michael AUS
027 - SINKEWITZ Patrik GER

AG2R PREVOYANCE

031 - MOREAU Christophe FRA
032 - ARRIETA Jose Luis ESP
033 - ASTARLOZA Mikel ESP
034 - CALZATI Sylvain FRA
035 - DESSEL Cyril FRA
036 - DUMOULIN Samuel FRA
037 - GERRANS Simon AUS
038 - GOUBERT Stephane FRA

GEROLSTEINER

041 - LEIPHEIMER Levi USA
042 - FOTHEN Marcus GER
043 - KOPP David GER
044 - LANG Sebastian GER
045 - SCHOLZ Ronny GER
046 - TOTSCHNIG Georg AUT
047 - WEGMANN Fabian GER
048 - WROLICH Peter AUT
049 - ZBERG Beat SUI

RABOBANK

051 - MENCHOV Denis RUS
052 - BOOGERD Michael NED
053 - DE GROOT Bram NED
054 - DEKKER Erik NED
055 - FLECHA Juan Antonio ESP
056 - FREIRE Oscar ESP
057 - POSTHUMA Joost NED
058 - RASMUSSEN Mickael DEN
059 - WEENING Pieter NED

DAVITAMON - LOTTO

061 - EVANS Cadel AUS
062 - AERTS Mario BEL
063 - BRANDT Christophe BEL
064 - HORNER Christopher USA
065 - MC EWEN Robbie AUS
066 - RODRIGUEZ Fred USA
067 - STEEGMANS Gert BEL
068 - VANSEVENANT Wim BEL
069 - VANSUMMEREN Johan BEL

PHONAK HEARING SYSTEMS

071 - LANDIS Floyd USA
072 - GRABSCH Bert GER
073 - HUNTER Robert RSA
074 - JALABERT Nicolas FRA
075 - MARTIN PERDIGUERO M.Angel ESP
076 - MERCKX Axel BEL
077 - MOERENHOUT Koos NED
078 - MOOS Alexandre SUI
079 - PENA Victor Hugo COL

LAMPRE-FONDITAL

081 - CUNEGO Damiano ITA
082 - BALLAN Alessandro ITA
083 - BENNATI Daniele ITA
084 - BRUSEGHIN Marzio ITA
085 - COMMESSO Salvatore ITA
086 - RIGHI Daniele ITA
087 - TIRALONGO Paolo ITA
088 - VALJAVEC Tadej SLO
089 - VILA ERRANDONEA Patxi ESP

CAISSE D’EPARGNE-ILLES BALEARS

091 - VALVERDE Alejandro ESP
092 - ARROYO David ESP
093 - BRARD Florent FRA
094 - GALVEZ Isaac ESP
095 - GARCIA ACOSTA Vicente ESP
096 - KARPETS Vladimir RUS
097 - PEREIRO SIO Oscar ESP
098 - PORTAL Nicolas FRA
099 - ZANDIO Xabier ESP

QUICK STEP - INNERGETIC

101 - BOONEN Tom BEL
102 - CRETSKENS Wilfried BEL
103 - DE JONGH Steven NED
104 - GARATE Juan Manuel ESP
105 - POZZATO Filippo ITA
106 - RUJANO José VEN
107 - TANKINK Bram NED
108 - TOSATTO Matteo ITA
109 - VASSEUR Cédric FRA

CREDIT AGRICOLE

111 - CAUCCHIOLI Pietro ITA
112 - BOTCHAROV Alexandre RUS
113 - CHARTEAU Anthony FRA
114 - DEAN Julian NZL
115 - ENGOULVENT Jimmy FRA
116 - HALGAND Patrice FRA
117 - HINAULT Sébastien FRA
118 - HUSHOVD Thor NOR
119 - LE MEVEL Christophe FRA

EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI

121 - MAYO Iban ESP
122 - CAMANO Iker ESP
123 - ETXEBARRIA Unai VEN
124 - HERNANDEZ Aitor ESP
125 - ISASI Inaki ESP
126 - LANDALUZE Inigo ESP
127 - LOPEZ GARCIA David ESP
128 - VERDUGO Gorka ESP
129 - ZUBELDIA Haimar ESP

COFIDIS CREDIT PAR TELEPHONE

131 - MONCOUTIE David FRA
132 - AUGE Stéphane FRA
133 - CASPER Jimmy FRA
134 - CHAVANEL Sylvain FRA
135 - COYOT Arnaud FRA
136 - MORENI Cristian ITA
137 - PARRA Ivan Ramiro COL
138 - VERBRUGGHE Rik BEL
139 - WIGGINS Bradley GBR

SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR

141 - SIMONI Gilberto ITA
142 - CANADA David ESP
143 - DE LA FUENTE David ESP
144 - GOMEZ MARCHANTE Jose Angel ESP
145 - LOBATO Ruben ESP
146 - MILLAR David GBR
147 - RICCO Riccardo ITA
148 - RINERO Christophe FRA
149 - VENTOSO Francisco ESP

FRANCAISE DES JEUX

151 - CASAR Sandy FRA
152 - DA CRUZ Carlos FRA
153 - EISEL Bernhard AUT
154 - GILBERT Philippe BEL
155 - JOLY Sébastien FRA
156 - LARSSON Gustav SWE
157 - LÖVKVIST Thomas SWE
158 - MENGIN Christophe FRA
159 - VAUGRENARD Benoît FRA

LIQUIGAS

161 - DI LUCA Danilo ITA
162 - ALBASINI Michael SUI
163 - BACKSTEDT Magnus SWE
164 - CALCAGNI Patrick SUI
165 - CARLSTRÖM Kjell FIN
166 - GARZELLI Stefano ITA
167 - MUGERLI Matej SLO
168 - PAOLINI Luca ITA
169 - QUINZIATO Manuel ITA

BOUYGUES TELECOM

171 - VOECKLER Thomas FRA
172 - BENETEAU Walter FRA
173 - BROCHARD Laurent FRA
174 - FEDRIGO Pierrick FRA
175 - GESLIN Anthony FRA
176 - LEFEVRE Laurent FRA
177 - PINEAU Jérôme FRA
178 - ROUS Didier FRA
179 - SPRICK Matthieu FRA

TEAM MILRAM

181 - ZABEL Erik GER
182 - CELESTINO Mirko ITA
183 - GRABSCH Ralf GER
184 - GRIVKO Andriy UKR
185 - IGLINSKIY Maxim KAZ
186 - KNEES Christian GER
187 - SACCHI Fabio ITA
188 - SCHRÖDER Björn GER
189 - VELO Marco ITA

AGRITUBEL

191 - MERCADO Juan Miguel ESP
192 - CALVENTE Manuel ESP
193 - COUTOULY Cédric FRA
194 - DUENAS NEVADO Moises ESP
195 - GONZALO RAMIREZ Eduardo ESP
196 - LAURENT Christophe FRA
197 - MARTINEZ José Alberto ESP
198 - PLOUHINEC Samuel FRA
199 - SALMON Benoit FRA

Place your bets!

ummm ,waiting for a scroll picture from you, when you're ready

This is my bet, and I'm stickin with it! Go PeeWee!

How the hell am I supposed to pick a guy out of all those?! eeny meeny miny mo...

Watch out for Rasmussen win a mountain stage by about 20 minutes and hold on to it.
But seriously, if Kloden has his form of two years ago, he'll be my pick.

He'll be your WHAT!?

I say Germany's going to win the World Cup! Huh? What? Oh right, wrong sport.

Alejandro Valverde (CAISSE D’EPARGNE-ILLES BALEARS) from Spain

It is time for a new generation to emerge. I have no expectation. I just hope that the winner will be decided in the end.

LANCE ARMSTRONG!
ohhh...wait.

Yeah...Lance or PeeWee, It's a coin toss

Lance retired last year you guys.
I believe it MAY be possible that the Tour will still have a residual and posible lasting
audience in the US....considering how few Americans are in it though..it may not
survive after this year...the networks say the airing of the Tour is a huge undertaking,
so if the viewers aint there...we'll be back to the old...minimal coverage..
BUT We'll ALWAYS have Corestates!!! WOOHOO!