The 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France hub page is packed with news, 21 stage preview൲s, analysis, photos, and rider interviews ahead of the 2016 e✃dition of the race.
With expert opinions from the Cyclingnews team and pundits including Robert Millar, you're🦄 complete coverage for the 2016 Tour de🍸 France starts here.
Chris Froome sealed a third career Tour de France victory and a fourth for Team Sky as the Briton safely negotiated t🧸he final stage into Paris. The Briton enjoyed a relaxed start to the 21st stage, sharing beers then champagne with𒁏 his teammates before the peloton arrived on the Champs-Élysées and the sprint teams took over.
For the second year running, it was Andre Greipel taking the stage win as the German fastman made it stages for Lotto-Soudal. Mechanicals saw Marcel Kittel and Bryan Coquard miss the sprint with world champion Peter Sagan and Alexander Kristoff challenging Greipel for the win but ultimately coming up🎐 short.
The 2016 Tour de France will be the 103rd edition of the oldest Grand Tour on the calendar. After a start in Utrecht in 2015, the race will return to home shores for the opening stages, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:setting ♒off from the🥂 foot of Mont-Saint-Michel in the Man🔥che department. The race last visited the picturesque area for the individual time trial in 2013, which was won by Tony Martin.
The f♐ull race route was announced on October 20 in Paris, with organiser ASO revealing an innovative but mountainous route that visits the Pyrenees, Mont Ventoux and the Alps. The race will not remain entirely in France, with⛎ three days to be spent in the Principality of Andor👍ra and a visit to Berne in Switzerland - the home town of Fabian Cancellara. Chris Froome (Team Sky) is the defe𒁏nding Tour de France champion. Froome won the race in 2013 but crashed out in 2014.
In 2016 Tour de France there will be just 54km of time trials, divided between a twisting 37km between Bourg-Saint-Andéol and La Caverne du Pont-d’Arc on stage 13 and then a hilly, almost mountain time trial on stage 18 between Sallanches and Megève in the Alps. The ra🌄ce will, of course, finish with the traditional stage through the streets of Paris.
The 2016 Tour de France starts on Saturday July 2 an ends on Sunday July 24. There ♏will be two rest days in Andorra and Berne.
The French Tour de France challenge will come from Romain Bardet (AG2R) and Thibault Pinot (FDJ). Both riders won stages in 2015, while Pinot won the white jersey and finished th🅰ird overall in the 2014 Tour de France.
Other riders hoping to contend in🎃 the overall battle at the 2016 Tour de France include Richie Porte (BMC Racing), Tejay van Garderen (BMC Racing), Bauke Mollema (Trek Factory Ra🔯cing) and Robert Gesink (Team LottoNL-Jumbo).
Chris Froome [video below] talks about what it would mean to win the Tour de France in 2016 and how he 🐈plans on defending his title from 2015. Froome has won the Tour de France twice and in 2016 is also targeting the Olympic Games, where he could compete in both the road race and the time trial for Great Britain. He won a silver medal in the 2012 London Olympic Games behind his then teammate Bradley Wiggins.
Froome moved into the yellow jersey on stage 10 when he won at La Pierre-Saint-Martin and never loo🌠ked back. Despite a late rally from Quintana and illness in the third week, Froome hung on for victory.
