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The last of the Tour de France's 22 teams confirmed their rosters Tuesday. Who's in for the 99th edition?

Tour de France director says Contador is uniquely capable of riding on instinct and making race-changing attacks

Aussie defending champ looks for answers to the question of how to beat back Wiggins' Sky train

Hincapie thinks it's a good thing that Evans has started off the season slower than last year and discusses working with young BMC talent

TV maker Sharp joins Garmin as new co-title sponsor, while Tinkoff Bank partners with Saxo Bank

Sicilian readies for the Tour at altitude after disappointing Critérium du Dauphiné

Arnold Jeannesson, 14th last year, will miss the 2012 edition due to health issues.

The first Aussie team to race the Tour will look to Goss, Gerrans, Weening and Albasini for stage victories

Nicolas Roche, of Irish-French lineage, is the half-Frenchman on the Tour team

In an exclusive interview, Tejay van Garderen tells VeloNews that he fits better in the Tour de France plans at BMC Racing than High Road and that he looks forward to learning to be a GC leader from defending champ Cadel Evans

RadioShack manager skips Tour after USADA allegations leak

The all-new 780g frame will will be in the Lotto stable for the Tour and available to the public this fall

Vinokourov aims for a Tour stage win, says he'll find his place in the team after a third likely retirement

Hesjedal is the point man, but Vande Velde is ready and willing to step in if need be

Arygle Armada will focus on yellow for Hesjedal while hunting stage wins for Farrar

Dutch hardman was struck by a car and thrown through a barbed-wire fence in 2011 Tour

Cavendish says hunt for green jersey will be more difficult with team focused on Wiggins and yellow

Lefevre selects balanced roster aimed at stage wins and the overall

Cadel Evans says he is better prepared for the 2012 Tour because of his slow start, not in spite of it, and carries a new confidence

BMC Racing heads to France with just one objective: to repeat Cadel Evans GC win from 2011

Milan-San Remo winner Simon Gerrans heads to France with an eye toward adding a fourth grand tour stage win

German sprinter leads Dutch squad into its first Tour de France, aimed squarely at world champion Mark Cavendish

Dutch squad announces Tour nine, with Aussie sprinter getting his first shot at a Tour stage win

Bradley Wiggins set a new mark for wins this spring, becoming the first rider to ever score a treble in the pre-Tour stage races

The messy business of reassigning Lance Armstrong's Tour titles

Andy Schleck says he would rather finish last than miss the 2012 Tour de France with injuries suffered at the Dauphine

Struggling Luxembourger has broken vertebra from Dauphine crash and is RadioShack's second star to miss the start in Liege

American says he has not heard from RadioShack management in weeks and won't allow the team to impact his Olympics selection

American misses RadioShack's long list for the Tour

Giro champ will go into the Tour de France with the team first on his mind after historic Giro win

Young German duo will head to France in the hunt for the big one

Richie Porte will be back in a supporting role at the Tour de France for team Sky if all goes to plan

Milan-San Remo winner putting a sharp tip on his pre-Tour form at the Dauphine

Evans looks ahead to Dauphine and Tour de France time trials and says the former will be won or lost against the clock on Thursday

Former Giro mountains jersey winner is back from his blowout at Omega Pharma and aiming for a shot at polka dots in July

Norwegian former world champion recovering from viral infection that plagued him during his spring campaign

Omega Pharma director, Brian Holm says a TT win for Martin is bigger than 11th overall at the Tour and the German will focus on winning stages in July

A peek inside the official North American guide to the 2012 Tour de France

Valverde, Cobo set to lead Spanish squad in July after two-week training camp

Thrice second, Andy Schleck inherits yellow

Several Tour de France favorites including Evans spent the week putting in recon miles on the upcoming Tour’s course

German ace Marcel Kittel will get his wish to try to win a stage inthe Tour de France after his Argos-Shimano team on Friday joined three French squads as four wildcard selections

Time trials to be 5 km longer than originally announced and system for calculating eliminations also changed

The Belgian believes he can make a run for the podium

"We have an opportunity to do something special in the Tour," —Wiggins

The French island of Corsica will host the first three stages of the centenary edition of the Tour de France in 2013.

Tour de France officials confirmed Thursday that the centenary edition of the French race will begin on Corsica in 2013

With everyone talking that the 2012 Tour de France is a route ideal for time trialists who can climb, there's one name that's missing from the early hype: Fabian Cancellara.

Still riding the vapors of its most successful Tour de France ever, Garmin-Cervélo will take on next year's grande boucle with even higher ambitions.

Cadel Evans says his race schedule will remain largely unchanged, with a focus on one-week stage races and the Ardennes classics for early season goals before reloading with a likely start at the Dauphiné ahead of the Tour.

PARIS (VN) — Alberto Contador was doubly optimistic Tuesday after getting a glimpse of what's waiting for the peloton in next year's Tour de France.

PARIS (AFP) - Defending champion Cadel Evans was cautiously optimistic over his chances of defending the Tour de France yellow jersey in 2012 after the race route was unveiled here on Tuesday.

PARIS, Oct 18, 2011 (AFP) - Route for the 2012 Tour de France confirmed by organizers on Tuesday.

PARIS, Oct 10, 2011 (AFP) - Tour de France organisers inadvertently published next year's route on their official website according to several specialist cycling websites on Monday.

How did the USA Pro Challenge attract the Tour podium?

BERLIN (AFP) - Germany's capital Berlin is set to bid to host the prologue of the Tour de France in either 2016 or 2017, it was confirmed on Monday.

PARIS (VN) ― Alberto Contador's rough and tumble Tour de France nearly ended early.

After a week in France, Velo editor in chief Ben Delaney wrote about his choice for the top-10 moments of the first week. Now with the great gift of hindsight, we'll pick the top 10 most impressive moments of weeks 2 and 3.

With the Tour de France numbers added in, Tour winner Cadel Evans has moved from fourth place to the lead of the UCI's WorldTour individual rankings.

PARIS (VN) — World champion Thor Hushovd strongly hinted that he is exploring his options for a new team in 2012.

Brian Holcombe and Andrew Hood look back at the 2011 Tour

Contador's young teammates finished the Tour with a strong time trial. Andy Hood talks to him in Paris.

In today’s final 2011 Tour de France edition of The Livestream Diaries we honor the best of the rest by presenting the first annual LSD Awards.

For Australians, Cadel Evans’ time-trial trouncing of the Schleck brothers on Saturday to clinch a first Tour de France victory for his country was one of those “where were you when” moments.

After Cadel Evans won the Tour de France Sunday, wearing a champion's yellow over the black and red of BMC Racing on the Champs-Élysées, BMC owner Andy Rihs called his victory honorable – and a world apart from Floyd Landis’ since-overturned victory for his Phonak squad in 2006.

Eleven North Americans started the 2011 Tour de France and 10 of them made it to Paris — although one of them used a body double.

Cadel Evans credits Miguel Indurain for inspiration and says his victory is for Australia.

Alberto Contador says he's through with the Giro d'Italia, but not with the Tour de France.

George Hincapie is proud of his record-tying 16 Tours and having played a role in nine victories.

Graham Watson captures the drama of the finale in Paris.