Cycling: Tour de France to unveil 100th race route

Defending champion Bradley Wiggins was set to attend the glitzy presentation in the French capital.

PARIS: Tour de France organisers will unveil the route for the historic 100th edition of cycling’s most famous race today, with celebrations overshadowed by a damaging doping scandal involving former rider Lance Armstrong.

Defending champion Bradley Wiggins – Britain’s first ever winner of the race – was set to attend the glitzy presentation in the French capital, alongside former champions including Alberto Contador of Spain.

The unveiling of the tour route is a much-anticipated annual event, particularly for 2013, 110 years after France’s Maurice Garin won the first edition, which ended with a mammoth 471-kilometre sixth and final stage from the western city of Nantes to Paris.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 24^th, 2012.