The Tour de Georgia team list is now finally official. Adding to the eight initial teams are Symmetrics, Saunier-Duval, GE-Marco Polo, Jelly Belly, Team Type 1, Health Net, and Toyota-United. Symmetrics has also scored an invite to the Tour of Missouri. GE-Marco Polo is a Chinese Pro team with former Discovery rider Fuyu Li.
The organizers have tried to make it easy for the invited teams: time trial bikes are banned this year so International teams won't have to be troubled shipping in the extra TT equipment. It will be TT ala Merckx.
- Astana
- CSC
- Gerolsteiner
- High Road
- Saunier Duval-Scott
- BMC
- Slipstream-Chipotle
- Symmetrics
- Bissell
- GE-Marco Polo
- Health Net-Maxxis
- Jelly Belly
- Jittery Joe's
- Team Type 1
- Toyota-United
Rock Racing appears to be in trouble. On the heels of Cipollini quitting -- but not to race Milan San Remo -- they now have no Tour de Georgia as hoped.
