 Twenty @-@ two teams participated in the 2008 Giro . These included 16 UCI ProTour teams , and six UCI Professional Continental teams . Of the 18 ProTour teams , the two left out were Bouygues <unk> and Crédit Agricole . Two other ProTour teams , Astana and Team High Road , were left off the first list of teams announced by RCS Sport , the organizers of the Giro . This list also included a further Professional Continental team , NGC Medical – OTC Industria Porte , which was later excluded . Astana and Team High Road were both later added , with Astana 's invitation coming just six days before the event began . 
