French Tour rosters complete

French teams Française des Jeux and Cofidis have finalised their 'Grande Boucle' rosters after the National Championships on the week-end. FDJ riders Christophe Mengin and Francis Mourey earned the two remaining tickets to the world's biggest cycling race through Sunday's road race. The full Francaise des Jeux line-up is therefore: Bradley McGee, Baden Cooke, Bernhard Eisel, Philippe Gilbert, Thomas Lövkvist, Sandy Casar and Carlos Da Cruz, Christophe Mengin and Francis Mourey. Reserve man is Frédéric Finot.

At Cofidis, Frédéric Bessy and Stéphane Augé are the ones completing the already selected Cédric Vasseur, Sylvain Chavanel, David Moncoutié, Stuart O'Grady, Matt White, Janek Tombak and Thierry Marichal.

As for Pro Continental team Ag2r, the final line-up is as follows: Mikel Astarloza, Sylvain Calzati, Samuel Dumoulin, Simon Gerrans, Stéphane Goubert, Yuriy Krivtsov, Jean-Patrick Nazon, Nicolas Portal and Ludovic Turpin. Cyril Dessel could not be included as he is recovering from an appendicitis surgery, which was performed last week. Aliaksandr Usau will be the team's reserve.