TEAM SKY is the team that are in the 2014 Tour de France.
there is no national teams at the tour de france, every team is multinational
you have to ride for a team that participates in the tour then your team manager picks 9 riders who he thinks will be good,helpful in the tour.
No. You have to be a part of a team to be allowed to race in the Tour de France
From what I've read so far, it seems like Robbie McEwen is in Team Katusha in the for this years (2009) Tour de France.
There is no official purple jersey in the Tour de France. You might have seen a team jersey in that colour.
First condition in order to participate in Tour de France, you will have to be part of a Pro Tour team (UCI licensed) or a team that recives a wildcard invitation from the organisation. Second condition is that you must be selected as one of the 9 riders of the team. For De Hoog it will be necessary to be part of a Pro Tour team. Then there are chances to participate in Le Tour.
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Teams are only who is sponsoring the team at that time, its very hard to quantify what constitutes the same team when team members change, key members leave, the team changes names. A good example is Lance Armstrongs team...originally USPS, then changed to Discovery and then without Lance became Astana! so is that the same 'team'? a better question is which rider won the tour the most: Lance Armstrong 7 times and the team then was USPS/Discovery so does that answer the question?
The Tour de France isn't raced by nations, it's raced by teams of professional riders usually coming from several countries.There may well be a team based in Germany, racing in the Tour de France though, but even the members of that team will vary from one year to the next. So w/o knowing which year you're asking about there's no way even half answer your question.
He out-cycled everyone else and had the strong support of his team. Basically, he completed the entire Tour De France faster than anyone else, with the help of his team.