The Tour de Georgia announced the teams that have accepted invitation to the race April 16-22. The field includes ProTour teams CSC, Discovery Channel, Saunier Duval-Prodir, Quick Step-Innergetic and Predictor-Lotto.
After breaking his arm in the Tour of California, George Hincapie is expected to make his return in Georgia. As in California the Discovery team is expected to be lead by Levi Leipheimer.
Tyler Hamilton is expected to lead his new team Tinkoff Credit System as he returns to racing in the U.S. after his suspension. It will be interesting to see the reception he gets from fans. I seems like cycling fans are pretty easy to forgive their heroes, and Hamilton maintains he never did anything wrong.
Hamilton’s name did come up in the Operation Puerto scandal, and today WADA announced it will seek civil action in the Puerto case. In my opinion, if the evidence in the Puerto case is substantiated, it would only be related to his doping offense that he has already served a suspension for, so I don’t see how he could be suspended again.
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