starts from Brest, and military port town in Brittany, 600 km west of Paris, the edition number 95 of the world's most famous cycling race, the Tour de France.
Founded in 1903, the French stage race has crossed the 900, and has over the years, abandoned the purely sporting context to become a cultural phenomenon, social and, of course, economically. You could also talk about political phenomenon, one need only cite the Tour in 1948, Bartali's victory and the bombing in Togliatti, but concentrate on today. The
Tour 2008 does not see any way man beat after the great refusal Aso to convene the Astana and the Kazakh team leader and his last winner of the Grand Boucle, Alberto Contador.
On reflection there are a handful of patrons who would wear the symbol of supremacy on the Champs Elysees in that, whatever one may say fine Italian designers and the Alps, cycling in the yellow is a color that never goes out of fashion.
The main players in this fight to the pinion will be in alphabetical order and pace of bettors: Damiano Cunego, Cadel Evans, Denis Menchov, Samuel Sanchez, Carlos Sastre, Andy Schleck, Frank Schleck, Riccardo Ricco, Alejandro Valverde , Aimar Zubeldia.
In the early stages, exceptionally Walloon these fantastic ten should remain under cover, to remove the veils in the sixth round, with uphill finish at Super-Besse. Some accessories if you are already taken, however, in the first of two time trial this Tour, which comes early this year, already at the stage number 4, with 29 miles of that Cholet.
close this first link on French soil with a little statistic: the 2008 Tour has 3,559 km, is held in 23 days with 21 stages: 10 of the plain, 5 high mountain valley and 2 4 individual time trial, participating 180 runners representing 29 different countries, from 40 Alpine represent its national contingent more numerous. 21 runners Italians present, we are the third in as many as 30 after the Iberian in race 3 and Luxembourg. 4 successes to the dukedom in history, with a Faber, 1 and 2 with Gaul Frantz, 9 Italian ones, with Bottecchia, Bartali, Coppi, Nencini, Gimondi and exactly 10 years ago with the Pirata, Marco Pantani.
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