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<\/a> photo<\/a> credit: Leucippus<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n

Cory Q of Monkey River Town<\/a> suckered WeatherGirl and I into forming a fantasy team for the Tour de France. We’ve never done something like this before, and had to do it in a hurry, so I’m guessing that we will not be stellar performers :-). Still, it was a lot of fun sifting through the participants putting our team together, and will make it even more interesting to watch the stages. Now we’ll actually care who comes in 11th in a sprint!<\/p>\n

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Our team…<\/p>\n

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• Magnus Backstedt\n<\/li>\n
• Fabian Cancellara\n<\/li>\n
• Sandy Casar\n<\/li>\n
• Sylvain Chavanel\n<\/li>\n
• Juan Antonio Flecha\n<\/li>\n
• Oscar Freire\n<\/li>\n
• Jos\u00e9 Ivan Gutierrez\n<\/li>\n
• Kim Kirchen\n<\/li>\n
• Oscar Pereiro\n<\/li>\n
• Yaroslav Popovych\n<\/li>\n
• Riccardo Ricco\n<\/li>\n
• Carlos Sastre\n<\/li>\n
• Christian Vandevelde\n<\/li>\n
• Jens Voigt\n<\/li>\n
• Haimar Zubeldia\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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