The road race national jersey wearers you can expect to see in the peloton for the next year:

Kazakhstan - Alexander Vinokourov

More to come.

*edited to say oops* Thanks Devil.

Those Kazahkstanian colors would fit in nicely with Discovery next year.

Pinotti won the RR? I thought he won the TT? Same with Gutierrez.

Yep. Those two are the TT champs, not the RR champs.

He did win the TT - the road champs, in the main, are being held today. I will be juggling the French, Italian, and German races on TV. Tough job, but someone has to do it. ;)

And BTW, I suppose everyone knows that Bettini will not be contesting the Tricolore this year.

I'd like to see Pozzato or Petito get the win today. It'll be weird seeing Thor Hushovd without the Norwegian national champ's jersey.

How about an update, juggler? ;)

You are so lucky... it would be nice to get a peek... just a peek!

Koffee

Some notables:

France - Pierrick Fedrigo (Bouygues Telecom)
Germany - Gerald Ciolek (Akud Arnolds Sicherheit)
Italy - Enrico Gasparotto (Liquigas - Bianchi) (Pozzato 2nd)
Netherlands - Leon Van Bon
Norway - Morten Christiansen (CK Bjørgvin/Team Sparebanken Vest)
Russia - Vladimir Gussev (Team CSC)
Spain - Juan Manuel Gárate (Saunier Duval Prodir)
Switzerland - Martin Elmiger (Phonak)

Ciolek is only 18. He beat Förster and Zabel at the line. Have to keep an eye out for this kid.

Goddamnit, I wish Zabel had won.

I've been looking for a jersey that has Kazakh flag on it, but can't find it. :(

Sorry. I was out all of yesterday immediately after France, and I had to watch a replay of Italy this morning, so stayed away from anything that would have ruined the surprise - TV, Forums, etc. :(

No big names won other than Van Bon and Vino. Won't be many champ jersies at Le Tour:( Friere out as well. At least McEwen will be showing off his Aussie champ jersey.

Maybe Glomser will step up this year?

National champs riding the Tour in bold font

Austria: Gerrit Glomser (Lampre-Caffita)
Belgium: Serge Baguet (Davitamon-Lotto)
Slovakia: Martin Prazdnovsky (ZP Podbrezova)
Czech Republic - Jan Svorada (eD'system - ZVVZ)
Croatia: Matija Kvasina (Perutnina Ptuj)
Denmark: Lars Ytting Bak (Team CSC)
France: Pierrick Fedrigo (Bouygues Telecom)
Germany: Gerald Ciolek (Akud Arnolds Sicherheit)
Great Britain: Russell Downing (Recycling.co.uk-MGXPOWER-Litespeed)
Hungary: László Garamszegi (P-NIVO Betonexpressz SE)
Ireland: David O’Loughlin (Navigators Insurance)
Italy: Enrico Gasparotto (Liquigas - Bianchi)
Kazakhstan: Alexandre Vinokourov (T-Mobile)
Luxembourg: Frank Schleck (CSC)
Netherlands: Leon van Bon (Davitamon-Lotto)
Norway: Morten Christiansen (CK Bjørgvin/Team Sparebanken Vest)
Poland: Adam Wadecki (Intel - Action)
Portugal: Joaquim Andrade (Riberalves)
Russia: Sergey Ivanov (T-Mobile)
Slovenia: Mitja Mahoric (Perutnina Ptuj)
Spain: Juan Manuel Gárate (Saunier Duval Prodir)
Switzerland: Martin Elmiger (Phonak Hearing Systems)
Ukraine: Mikhailo Khalilov (LPR)

Hopefully Big Tom gets to know what the back of it looks like real well.....:D

While wearing the maillot vert? ;)

only coz Robbie's in yellow......:D :D