The Saint Louis Post-Dispatch profiles the two American teams that will take the start line of the 20008 Tour de France on Saturday, July 5 in Brest, France.

“I’m proud that we were a catalyst,” Garmin’s director, Jonathan Vaughters, told reporters Thursday in Brest, France, site of the Tour’s starting line. “I’m also proud of the fact that the sport as a whole has felt that change in the wind.”