Riders out

Today on this, the first rest day of the 2011 Tour de France, the race has lost yet another cyclist.

Up until this point 18 riders have either withdrawn, missed the time cut off or been removed from the race by the doctors. However today, Russian national champion Alexandr Kolobnev looks to have been removed due to doping offences.

He failed a drugs test in the first week of the tour for a diuretic and known masking agent used in blood doping.

His Katusha squad is now down to just 7 riders, though as you can see from the list below some teams are worse off heading into the first week in the mountains.

Astana - Alexandre Vinokourov/Stage 9/Fractured Femur

Euskaltel Euskadi - Amets Txurruka/Stage 9/Broken Collarbone

Euskaltel Euskadi - Ivan Velasco/Stage 5/Broken Collarbone

FDJ - Remi Pauriol/Stage 7/Broken Collarbone

Garmin Cervelo - David Zabriske/Stage 9/Broken wrist

Katusha - Alexandr Kolobnev/Rest Day/Drugs

Katusha - Pavel Brutt/Stage 9

Movistar - Benat Intxausti/Stage 8/Elbow

Movistar - Vasil Kiryenka/Stage 6/Time Limit

Omega Pharma - Jurgen Van Den Broeck/Stage 9/Collapsed Lung, broken ribs

Omega Pharma - Frederick Willems/Stage 9/Broken Collarbone

Omega Pharma - Jurgen Van De Valle/Stage 4/Broken Collarbone

Quickstep - Tom Boonen/Stage 7/Broken Collarbone

Rabobank - Juan Manuel Garate/Stage 8

Radioshack - Christopher Horner/Stage 7/Broken Nose and concussion

Radioshack - Janez Brajkovic/Stage 5

Team Europcar - Christophe Kern/Stage 4/Knee injury

Team Sky - Bradley Wiggins/Stage 7/Broken Collarbone

Vacansolei-DCM - Wout Poels/Stage 9

Many teams will be down men heading into the mountains, some down team leaders. The only thing we can say for sure is everyone is tired and most teams, even if riders did not have to abandon, still suffered injuries during the first week.

The Schleck's, Nicholas Roche and Cadel Evans might be the only riders in the whole peleton who have a full strength team still behind them heading into the Pyrenees.