Milan San Remo 2008

The first major classic race of the 2008 season is the Milan San Remo to be held on March 22. As you can expect it has attracted most of the big hitters, but not Astana, who are excluded.

The leading contenders are Oscar Friere (Rabobank), Tom Boonen (Quickstep), Fillipo Pozzato (Liquigas), Robbie McEwen (Silence Lotto), Erik Zabel and Alessandro Petecchi (Both Milram). Also in the hunt could be Phillipe Gilbert (FDJ), Garcia Acosta and Jose Rojas (Caisse D'epargne). Riding for the Italian Continental Team, Danilo Di Luca could spring a surprise.

The question is, is whether a big lead group will form and from it the sprinters will make hay, or a small group or solo rider will go up the road and stay there.

UK riders are Jeremy Hunt (Agricole), Roger Hammond (High Rd) and David Millar (Slipstream)

After a sluggish start that saw Tom Boonen as the race favourite in our Milan San Remo poll, you are currently voting Oscar Frieire as favourite (You still time to vote)

Freire 34% - Boonen 25% - Petacchi 20% - Pozzato 13% - Zabel 7%

Rabobank
1 Freire Gomez Oscar
2 Flecha Giannoni Juan Antonio
3 Hayman Mathew
4 Horrillo Munoz Pedro
5 Langeveld Sebastian
6 Tankink Bram
7 Löwik Gerben
8 Martens Paul

Ag2r
9 Elmiger Martin
10 Calzati Sylvain
11 Dion Renaud
12 Krivtsov Yuriy
13 Mandri Rene
14 Mondory Lloyd
15 Nocentini Rinaldo
16 Usov Alexandre

Barloworld
17 Calcagni Patrick
18 Cheula Giampaolo
19 Cooke Baden
20 Gasparotto Enrico
21 Hunter Robert
22 Longo Borghini Paolo
23 Scognamiglio Carlo
24 Soler Juan

Bouygues Telecom
25 Champion Dimitri
26 Florencio Cabre Xavier
27 Geslin Anthony
28 Jerome Vincent
29 Labbe Arnaud
30 Martias Rony
31 Pichot Alexandre
32 Turgot Sebastien

Caisse D'epargne
33 Rojas Gil Jose Joaquin
34 Erviti Imanol
35 Gutierrez Palacios José Ivan
36 Garcia Acosta José Vicente
37 Lastras Garcia Pablo
38 Pasamontes Rodriguez Luis
39 Perez Arango Marlon Alirio
40 Rodriguez Oliver Joaquin

Cofidis
41 Chavanel Sylvain
42 De Weert Kevin
43 Monfort Maxime
44 Hoj Frank
45 Minard Sébastien
46 Nuyens Nick
47 Scheirlinckx Staf
48 Valentin Tristan

Credit Agricole
49 Berthou Eric
50 Botcharov Alexandre
51 Fofonov Dmitriy
52 Gerrans Simon
53 Hinault Sébastien
54 Hunt Jeremy
55 Hushovd Thor
56 Rasch Gabriel

CSF Group - Navigare
57 Sella Emanuele
58 Tomei Francesco
59 Laverde Jimenez Luis Felipe
60 Dall'antonia Tiziano
61 Priamo Matteo
62 Richeze Ariel Maximiliano
63 Savini Filippo
64 Richeze Mauro Abel

Diquigiovanni - Androni Gioc.
65 Bertolini Alessandro
66 Ginanni Francesco
67 Hondo Danilo
68 Nardello Daniele
69 Axelsson Niklas
70 Missaglia Gabriele
71 Illiano Raffaele
72 Serpa Perez Jose Rodolfo

Euskaltel - Euskadi
73 Aramendia Llorente Javier
74 Galdos Alonso Aitor
75 Landaluze Intxaurraga Inigo
76 Fernandez Koldo -
77 Martinez De Esteban Egoi
78 Oroz Ugalde Juan Jose
79 Perez Moreno Ruben
80 Perez Lezaun Alan

Française Des Jeux
81 Chavanel Sébastien
82 Delage Mickael
83 Gilbert Philippe
84 Guesdon Frédéric
85 Meersman Gianni
86 Mengin Christophe
87 Offredo Yoann
88 Stubbe Tom

Gerolsteiner
89 Rebellin Davide
90 Haussler Heinrich
91 Kohl Bernhard
92 Moletta Andrea
93 Schreck Stephan
94 Schumacher Stefan
95 Wegmann Fabian
96 Wrolich Peter

High Road
97 Ciolek Gerald
98 Eisel Bernhard
99 Hammond Roger
100 Hincapie George
101 Kirchen Kim
102 Klier Andreas
103 Lövkvist Thomas
104 Reynes Mimo Vicente

Lampre
105 Ballan Alessandro
106 Baldato Fabio
107 Bruseghin Marzio
108 Bossoni Paolo
109 Lorenzetto Mirco
110 Murro Christian
111 Napolitano Danilo
112 Vila Errandonea Francisco J.

Liquigas
113 Pozzato Filippo
114 Albasini Michael
115 Carlström Kjell
116 Corioni Claudio
117 Fischer Murilo Antonio
118 Kuschynski Aleksandr
119 Pellizotti Franco
120 Quinziato Manuel

LPR Brakes
121 Di Luca Danilo
122 Savoldelli Paolo
123 Bailetti Paolo
124 Chiarini Riccardo
125 Ermeti Giairo
126 Ferrara Raffaele
127 Ferrari Roberto
128 Pietropolli Daniele

Miche - Silver Cross
129 Niemiec Przemyslaw
130 Szczawinski Krzysztof
131 Giunti Massimo
132 Degano Enrico
133 Muto Pasquale
134 Serri Eddy
135 Cardellini Lorenzo
136 D'andrea Nicola

NGC Medical - Otc Ind. Porte
137 Camussa Piergiorgio
138 Cannone Donato
139 Corsini Marco
140 Maisto Massimiliano
141 Nosotti Diego
142 Reda Francesco
143 Rossi Enrico
144 Signego Alessio

Quickstep
145 Bettini Paolo
146 Barredo Llamazales Carlos
147 Boonen Tom
148 Cretskens Wilfried
149 Facci Mauro
150 Tonti Andrea
151 Tosatto Matteo
152 Visconti Giovanni

Saunier Duval - Scott
153 Ricco' Riccardo
154 Belohvosciks Raivis
155 Benitez Roman Jose Alberto
156 Capecchi Eros
157 Capelli Ermanno
158 Gomez Marchante José Angel
159 Mori Manuele
160 Passeron Aurélien

Silence - Lotto
161 McEwen Robbie
162 Popovych Yaroslav
163 Aerts Mario
164 Hoste Leif
165 Tjallingii Maarten
166 Van Avermaet Greg
167 Vansevenant Wim
168 Van Summeren Johan

Slipstream - Chipotle
169 Backstedt Magnus
170 Dean Julian
171 Farrar Tyler
172 Friedman Michael
173 Frischkorn William
174 Maaskant Martijn
175 Millar David
176 Sutton Christopher

Team CSC
177 Cancellara Fabian
178 Schleck Frank
179 Ljungqvist Marcus
180 O'grady Stuart
181 Breschel Matti
182 Arvesen Kurt-Asle
183 Kroon Karsten
184 Bak Lars Ytting

Team Milram
185 Petacchi Alessandro
186 Zabel Erik
187 Astarloa Ascasibar Igor
188 Knees Christian
189 Lancaster Brett
190 Müller Martin
191 Ongarato Alberto
192 Velo Marco

Tinkoff Credit Systems
193 Contrini Daniele
194 Mazzanti Luca
195 Serrano Gonzalez Ricardo
196 Loddo Alberto
197 Serov Alexander
198 Ignatiev Mikhail
199 Trussov Nikolai
200 Brutt Pavel