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Froome is hungry to go back-to-back in the Tour de France

It hasn't been done since the 1990s, with Miguel Indurain wining five in a row, but Team Sky's Dave Brailsford has backed 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Chris Froome to defend his Tour title in 2016.

Froome won the Tour in 2013 but crashed ouಌt a year later during the opening week. He returned to the race in 2015 and claimed his second title, and in Paris, for next year's route presentation, Brailsford said the rider'ꩵs hunger to succeed was abundant within the British team's camp.

"Honestly, I think it's probably easier to try and do it the second time rather than the first time. For the first time you come back with all that expectation and pressure. The second time, and you'd have to ask Chris this but you'd take it more in your stride. It's not been done recently because it's a really hard thing to do.ꩲ A lot of it is down to the hunger of the riders, and how much appetite and drive they've got for it. In that sense, he's really hungry and ready to go."

Chris Froome and Andre Greipel attend Tuesday's Tour de France route presentation. (Bettini)

Greipel eyes Tour de France stages before talk of Green challenge can start

He may have won four stages in the 20🌊15 Tour de France, but Andre Greipel (Lotto Soudal) is keeping his feet on the ground and his ambitions modest for next year's race.

The German was the best sprinter in this year's race and enjoyed his best Tour to date, but after seeing next year's Tour route for the first time in Paris on Tuesday he declared that his plan was to start small and build from there.

2016 Tour's first climbing day passes over Bardet's training roads

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:AG2R La Mondiale's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Romain Bardet, winner of stage 18 at the 2015 Tour de Franc🥀e and ninth overall, said Tuesday that he "appreciates"൲ next year's parcours.

"It appear🔜s to be a unique route," said the 2015 Tour's most aggressive🐓 rider. "We are not stuck in the routine of the last Tour routes. Mountain stages will have a major impact this year."

After the 2016 Tour de France route presentation Tuesday in Paris, Bardet pointed out that the first test in the mountains, the stage 5 run f🧔rom Limoges to Le Lioran on July 6, passes close to his home.

"The roads in the department of Ca🍌ntal are my training roads. I love to ride there," he said. "The tour will begin in a spectacular backdrop and the riders will remember, for a long time, this splendid province. That is why I appreciate the 2016 Tour☂ route."

Romain Bardet wins stage 18 of the 2015 Tour. (Getty Images Sport)

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