From 1 to 23 July on the roads of France, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg will be the main race of the year, the legendary Tour de France.
In three weeks, 198 riders from 22 teams will pass 21 stages with a total length of 3540 km. The organizers of the Tour de France has prepared a non-standard race profile two individual stages (14 and 22.5 km), plain nine segments, five mountain stages and five mountain stages with binding.
The current winner of the Tour de France Chris froome will attempt to become the first since 1993 driver to win the “Big loop” three times in a row. Bookmakers believe the British main favorite of the upcoming three-week marathon.
The main competitor froome promises to be his former domestique Richie Port. With claims on the yellow Jersey to France arrived stellar the Spaniards Alberto Contador and Alejandro Valverde. Nair Quintana and Thibaut Pinot, who rode the Giro, I will try to show good results on the Tour. Fabio Aru, Esteban Chaves, Jacob Fulsang, Dan Martin, Roman bard and many others will become a serious stimuli for the favorites in the General classification.
The only representative of Ukraine in the Tour de France will be the racer of “Astana” Andrey Grivko, whose main task will be to work on the team leaders – Aru and Fulsang.
Live every moment of the 104th version of the Tour de France will show the channel “Eurosport”.
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