Now that Team CSC-Saxo Bank has a pretty strong grip on the overall lead with Carlos Sastre, you may notice that not everyone on that team is wearing the same uniform, and not just because Sastre is wearing a yellow jersey, or Andy Schleck in the all white young rider's jersey. The national road race champion of each country gets to wear its own special racing kit, with the team sponsors' logos displayed a little less prominently, of course. Now that Fränk Schleck is out of the yellow jersey, he gets to wear a different kit as well. How dominant is CSC's team? There are three national champions on the team, riding as subordinates to Carlos Sastre: Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Norway), Fränk Schleck (Luxembourg), and Nicki Sørensen (Denmark). However, during a time trial, the time trial champions get to wear their own special racing kit, so Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland) gets to wear his own set of colors. Although Cancellara is the Swiss champion, he doesn't wear that version of the skin suit, since he is the current world time trial champion, so he wears the all white suit with the tri-color bands.
Well, what about the Americans? Levi Leipheimer is the reigning US road race champion, but as a member of Team Astana, he was famously disinvited from the Tour, so he was winning the Cascade Classic in Oregon and training for the Olympics. And Dave Zabriskie, the American time trial champion, broke a lumbar vertebra during a bad crash in the Giro d'Italia, so he's been healing and also training for the Olympics.
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