With such Tour de France veterans as Magnus Bäckstedt, Julian Dean, David Millar, Christian Vande Velde and Dave Zabriskie on its 2008 roster, Slipstream-Chipotle appears to be a certain starter at next year’s Tour — taking over the role as “the American team” previously played by Discovery Channel, U.S. Postal, Motorola and 7-Eleven. At the Tour presentation in Paris, both Slipstream’s American team manager Jonathan Vaughters and Danish directeur sportif Johnny Weltz were confident of performing well.

Excerpt from "Slipstream-Chipotle bosses plan Tour debut"