[thechriswebb]

Tour De France Wildcards Awarded To Cofidis, Sojasun And Europcar | Cyclingnews.com

I really wanted to see MTN-Qhubeka there; thought they earned it. How many monuments did Cofidis win this year? Oh well; it is the Tour de France....

 

[DonDenver]

A typical France copy move for a domestic advantage in 2013...team squad(s) doping

 

[spookyload]

It is pretty standard to give the wild cards to French teams at the Tour. Pretty hard to justify leaving them at home to let a continental team from another country in. Gerald Ciolek is a great sprinter and could have mixed things up a bit for the group finishes. Too bad.

 

[den bakker]

MTN has not been considered, it has been down to 6 teams since early march.

 

[RRRoubaix]

I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you.

 

[ultimobici]

WWHat are you implying by the typical comment?

 

[davidka]

WWHat are you implying by the typical comment?

French teams earning spots over more deserving foreign teams is almost standard at TdF. It's France's national tour. Perhaps they don't realize how global an event it really is.

 

[jorgy]

Meh. It's expected. Who cares? There will be 19 ProTour teams there. Ostensibly, these are the 19 best pro teams. And with the race antics of folks like Voekler and Rollin, it's hard to argue with ASO's 'formula.'

 

[Ramirez-Auron]

I'm sorry for the new team IAM from Switzerland with their captains Thomas Löfkvist and Heinrich Haussler. After the reinstallment of Katusha as a world tour team by the UCI, unfortunately the ASO made the decision to spread only 3 instead of 4 Wildcards.