Today the Tour de France begins in Dusseldorf, Germany, starting off threeweeks of grueling daily stage races. The Tour starts two days in Germany, and tomorrow afternoon passes into Belgium, and then after a brief foray into Luxembourg, enters France definitively in a couple of days. Mark Cavendish, this space's most famousManxman, has made a return to this year's tour with the boast that he is thegreatest sprinter of all time. Now thatTom Boonen has retired, he could maybe be considered as the greatest sprinterof this time, but time, as always, will tell. Alberto Contador, perrenial powerhouse, returns to this year's Tour, alongwith last year's champion Chris Froome. Peter Sagan, of Slovakia, will certainly do well, along with his team,German Squad Bora Hansgrohe. Three American Teams are featured in this year's Tour, Trek-Sangfredo, Cannondale-Drapac, andBMC Racing. Only one of them featuresany American riders, and all three Americans in the peloton this year ride forCannondale-Drapac. Canada features noCanadian riders this year. Italy, whichhas many riders in the peloton, this year, unbelievably, has no Italian teams in the pro peloton, nordoes Russia. 39 French riders begin thisyear's Tour. The 2017 Tour de France starts today, July 1st, andcontinues in 21 stages through over 3500 kilometers, wrapping up in Paris onJuly 23rd. Today's stage is anindividual time trial, as well as the next to the last stage, in Marseilles onJuly 22nd. The Tour likes to keep upsuspense until the very end. -- Posted By Rex to SR at 7/01/2017 02:23:00 AM -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "omnisport" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/omnisport. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
