AG2R takes pride in being the most popular team in France. That’s hard to measure of course, but based on the results they are a likely candidate for the title of best performing team in the country. For two years in a row team manager Vincent Lavenu has made some very clever transfers. The cooperation with La Mondiale helped a lot with that, but again the Frenchman has managed to create a team with possibilities on every terrain.


It’s not likely that the Tour winner 2008 will be amongst them, or Vladimir Efimkin must have a big surprise for us. The Russian rider was really looking for a...