The biggest Cycling Gala, Tour de France 2012 Part 3
The Young Rider Classification is the fourth individual category of the Tour de France and is identified with the white jersey.
It is almost the same as the general classifications but the only cyclists who are under the age of 26 are eligible for the classifications.
Performances of three best cyclists in terms of best time finishes in each team are added to determine the winner of the Teams Classifications at the contest.
The team with the lowest total time is declared as the winner of the event and the yellow numbers behind the shirts of three cyclists in a side determines the winner of the category.
The Combativity Award is given to a cyclist after the end of each stage and the rider with the most aggressive performance is chose by the judges.
The 2012 edition of the Tour de France included one prologue, the opening Individual Time Trial and 20 stages.
The event includes nine Flat stages, two Individual Time Trials, four medium-mountain and five mountain stages during the three-weeks.
All the World Tour teams automatically qualify for the race and four professional continental are also invited every year by the wild-card entries.
The 18 World Tour teams to ride the Tour include, Team Ag2r-La-Mondiale, Team Lampre-ISD, Team Orica-GreenEdge, Team Sky, Team Euskaltel-Euskadi, Team Liquigas-Cannondale and Team Omega Pharma-QuickStep.
Team Vacansoleil-DCM, Team Astana, Team FDJ-BigMat, Team Lotto-Belisol, Team Rabobank, Team Katusha, Team BMC, Team Garmin-Barracuda, Team Movistar, Team RadioShack-Nissan and Team Saxo Bank.
The four Professional Continental events selected for the Tour de France 2012 are, Team Cofidis, Team Saur-Sojasun, Team Argos-Shimano and Team Europcar.
Tour de France Start List:
A total number of nine cyclists from each side will represent the team at the French Grand Tour and all the 22 teams have announced their final squads for the race.
Team AG2R La Mondiale:
Maxime Bouet (Fra), Jimmy Casper (Fra), Mickaël Cherel (Fra), Hubert Dupont (Fra),Martin Elmiger (Swi), Sébastien Hinault (Fra), Blel Kadri (Fra), Sébastien Minard (Fra), Lloyd Mondory (Fra), Jean Christophe Peraud (Fra), Christophe Riblon (Fra) and Nicholas Roche (Irl).
Team Pro Astana:
Borut Bozic (Slo), Janez Brajkovic (Slo), Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz), Andriy Grivko (Ukr), Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz), Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz), Fredrik Kessiakoff (Swe), Robert Kiserlovski (Cro) and Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz).
Team BMC Racing:
Marcus Burghardt (Ger), Steven Cummings (GBr), Cadel Evans (Aus), Philippe Gilbert (Bel), George Hincapie (USA), Amaël Moinard (Fra), Manuel Quinziato (Ita), Michael Schär (Swi) and Tejay Van Garderen (USA).
Team Euskaltel-Euskadi:
Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa), Jorge Azanza Soto (Spa), Gorka Izaguirre Insausti (Spa), Egoi Martinez De Esteban (Spa), Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa), Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Spa), Amets Txurruka Ansola (Spa), Pablo Urtasun Perez (Spa) and Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui (Spa).
Team FDJ-BigMat:
Sandy Casar (Fra), Mickael Delage (Fra), Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra), Anthony Geslin (Fra), Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr), Arnold Jeannesson (Fra), Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra), Rémi Pauriol (Fra), Cedric Pineau (Fra), Thibaut Pinot (Fra), Anthony Roux (Fra) and Jérémy Roy (Fra).
Team Garmin-Barracuda:
Tom Danielson (USA), Tyler Farrar (USA), Ryder Hesjedal (Can), Robert Hunter (RSA), Daniel Martin (Irl), David Millar (GBr), Johan Van Summeren (Bel), Christian Vandevelde (USA) and David Zabriskie (USA).
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