2007 UCI ProTour

The 2007 ProTour is the third year of the UCI ProTour system, in which the ProTour teams are guaranteed, and obliged to, participate in the series of ProTour races.

After numerous doping scandals in previous years, culminating with Floyd Landis' doping scandal in the 2006 Tour de France, the Phonak Hearing Systems team was disbanded when the new title sponsor, iShares, decided to cease sponsoring and pull out of cycling. As of December, 2006, the ProTour license abandoned by Phonak has been granted to the Unibet.com Cycling Team, and the Active Bay group of Manolo Saiz has lost its license, which was given to the Astana Team. The links between the ProTour and the organisers of the three Grand Tours (ASO, RCS Sport and Unipublic) remain strained.

The 2007 Paris-Nice race was the focus of a dispute between (ASO) and the UCI. ASO have requested that the 2007 edition be downgraded from ProTour status to NE (national calendar status), therefore lacking UCI world-ranking points and threatening the participation of the ProTeams. This was resolved to an extent though and Paris-Nice took place as the first ProTour race of the season, although without Unibet.com.

2007 ProTour races

As of January 16, 2007.

Dates	Race	Country	Winner	Nationality	Team
March 11-18	Paris-Nice	France	Alberto Contador	Spain	Discovery Channel
March 14-20	Tirreno-Adriatico	Italy	Andreas Klöden	Germany	Team Astana
March 24	Milan-Sanremo	Italy	Óscar Freire	Spain	Rabobank
April 8	Ronde van Vlaanderen	Belgium
April 9-14	Vuelta al País Vasco	Spain
April 11	Gent-Wevelgem	Belgium
April 15	Paris-Roubaix	France
April 21	Amstel Gold Race	Netherlands
April 25	La Flèche Wallonne	Belgium
April 29	Liège-Bastogne-Liège	Belgium
May 1-6	Tour de Romandie	Switzerland
May 12-June 3	Giro d'Italia	Italy
May 21-27	Volta a Catalunya	Spain
June 10-17	Dauphiné Libéré	France
June 16-24	Tour de Suisse	Switzerland
June 24	TTT Eindhoven	Netherlands	team event
July 7-29	Tour de France	France
August 4	Clásica de San Sebastián	Spain
August 10-18	Deutschland Tour	Germany
August 19	Vattenfall Cyclassics	Germany
August 22-29	Eneco Tour of Benelux	Belgium Netherlands
September 2	GP Ouest-France	France
September 1-23	Vuelta a España	Spain
September 9-15	Tour de Pologne	Poland
October 7	Züri-Metzgete	Switzerland
October 14	Paris-Tours	France
October 20	Giro di Lombardia	Italy

Teams

As of January 16, 2007.

Code	Official Team Name	Country	Website
AGR	Ag2r Prévoyance	France	[1]
AST	Astana Team	Switzerland	[2]
BTL	Bouygues Télécom	France	[3]
GCE	Caisse d'Epargne	Spain	[4]
COF	Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone	France	[5]
C.A	Crédit Agricole	France	[6]
CSC	Team CSC	Denmark	[7]
DSC	Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team	United States	[8]
PRL	Predictor-Lotto (formerly Davitamon-Lotto)	Belgium	[9]
EUS	Euskaltel-Euskadi	Spain	[10]
FDJ	Française des Jeux	France	[11]
GST	Gerolsteiner	Germany	[12]
LAM	Lampre-Fondital	Italy	[13]
LIQ	Liquigas	Italy	[14]
MRM	Team Milram	Italy	[15]
QSI	Quick Step-Innergetic	Belgium	[16]
RAB	Rabobank	Template:NET	[17] Template:Nl icon
SDV	Saunier Duval-Prodir	Spain	[18]
TMO	T-Mobile Team	Germany	[19]
UNI	Unibet.com Cycling Team	Sweden	[20]

Individual standings

As of 2007-03-24

Rank	Previous Rank	Name	Nationality	Team	Points
1	1	Alberto Contador Velasco	Spain	Discovery Channel	56
2	2	Andreas Klöden	Germany	Astana Team	53
3	29	Oscar Freire Gomez	Spain	Rabobank	52
4	3	Davide Rebellin	Spain	Gerolsteiner	42
5	4	Kim Kirchen	Luxembourg	T-Mobile Team	41
6	–	Allan Davis	Australia	Discovery Channel	40
7	5	Alexandre Vinokourov	Kazakhstan	Team Astana	38
8	6	Luis León Sánchez Gil	Spain	Caisse d'Epargne	38
9	31	Tom Boonen	Belgium	Quick Step-Innergetic	37
10	7	Stefan Schumacher	Germany	Gerolsteiner	35
11	20	Robbie McEwen	Australia	Predictor-Lotto	33
12	8	Tadej Valjavec	Slovenia	Lampre-Fondital	30
13	9	Franco Pellizotti	Italy	Liquigas	28
14	27	Stuart O'Grady	Australia	Team CSC	27
15	10	Janez Brajkovic	Slovenia	Discovery Channel	25

46 riders have scored at least one (1) point on the 2007 UCI ProTour.

Team standings

As of 2007-03-24

Rank	Previous Rank	Team	Nationality	Points
1	2	Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears	Spain	53
2	3	Discovery Channel	United States	52
3	2	Team CSC	Denmark	49
4	4	Liquigas	Italy	46
5	8	AG2R Prévoyance	France	39
6	9	T-Mobile Team	Germany	36
7	6	Saunier Duval-Prodir	Spain	35
8	15	Team Milram	Germany	33
9	5	Astana	Switzerland	31
10	7	Predictor-Lotto	Belgium	29
11	16	Rabobank	Netherlands	27
12	12	Lampre-Fondital	Italy	27
13	17	Quick Step-Innergetic	Belgium	23
14	19	Unibet.com	Sweden	20
15	14	Crédit Agricole	France	20
16	10	Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone	France	19
17	19	Gerolsteiner	Germany	16
18	13	Française des Jeux	France	15
19	11	Euskaltel-Euskadi	Spain	15
20	18	Bouygues Télécom	France	12

Nation standings

As of 2007-03-24

	Nation	Points
1	Spain	174
2	Germany	130
3	Australia	116
4	Italy	89
5	Slovenia	55
6	Luxembourg	51
7	Kazakhstan	38
8	Belgium	37
9	France	6
10	Ukraine	3

• Riders from 15 nations scored at least one UCI ProTour point.

2007 ProTour Points System

Place	Tour de France	Giro d'Italia Vuelta a España	Milano-Sanremo Ronde van Vlaanderen Paris-Roubaix Liège-Bastogne-Liège Giro di Lombardia Lesser stageraces	Lesser one-day races
Overall Classification
1st	100	85	50	40
2nd	75	65	40	30
3rd	60	50	35	25
4th	55	45	30	20
5th	50	40	25	15
6th	45	35	20	11
7th	40	30	15	7
8th	35	26	10	5
9th	30	22	5	3
10th	25	19	2	1
11th	20	16
12th	15	13
13th	12	11
14th	10	9
15th	8	7
16th	6	5
17th	5	4
18th	4	3
19th	3	2
20th	2	1
Stage wins (if applicable)
1st	10	8	3
2nd	5	4	2
3rd	3	2	1

• If a rider is not part of UCI ProTour, no points are given. The points corresponding to the place are not awarded
• Top 20 teams get points in scale 20-19-18...-1.
• Team time trial doesn't give points for riders.
• In country ranking, top 5 riders of each country count towards the ranking.

External links

• Official Website