Agritubel, Barloworld and Astana get wild cards for Tour
Tour de France organizers on Wednesday announced the three wild-card teams that will join 18 others for this year's race. Agritubel and Barloworld will join 19 of the 20 teams from the UCI ProTour series for the three-week epic, which begins July 7 in London. Astana, which competes in the Pro Tour, was the third team to be handed a wild-card invitation although its invitation was at the discretion of the organizers as Astana was not ranked on the ProTour last season. It means there will be no place in the Tour de France peloton for the Swedish-registered team Unibet, which this season