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 24th, 2012.
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 24th, 2012.