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To: Mr. Blonde

“......(despite Columbia’s rather poor showing this year).”

How many stage wins did Garmin get? Did they get more than Columbia?

I'm just saying I think having 30% of the Teams in next years TdF be American Teams might be a bit much to the Europeans.

We shall see.

34 posted on 07/27/2009 11:17:21 AM PDT by PeteB570 (NRA - Life member and Black Rifle owner)

To: PeteB570; Mr. Blonde

Hi, PeteB. It would be more like 15% of the teams, since there’s generally 20-22 Teams invited to the TdF.

Mr. Blonde, it’s ASO, a private French organization, that hands out invites as Tour organizer. UCI is the Int’l org that licenses the Teams.

Both Columbia and Garmin have some names, and they have significant Euro membership as well.

My guess is that all 3 Teams will receive invites.

47 posted on 07/27/2009 2:28:32 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy (The time has come for someone to put his foot down. And that foot is me.)

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