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| Lance Armstrong Looking For Eighth Tour De France Title |
Spain’s Alberto Contador is the defending Tour De France champion, and is a prohibitive betting favorite to win the 2010 edition. Every other rider in field is priced at +500 or higher including the USA’s Lance Armstrong, who is looking for his eighth Tour de France win. Both men are considered the best mountain stage riders in the sport, and history has demonstrated that a strong performance in the mountains is crucial to a winning Tour de France run. Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland is the current race leader after Saturday’s prologue and Sunday’s opening stage. Armstrong and Contador will look to make their move later in the competition and are capable of leaving the early leaders in the dust due to their dominance in the grueling mountain stages of the race. Sunday’s first stage was marred by several crashes near the end, and both Armstrong and Contador were fortunate to escape relatively unscathed. In fact, the primary strategy for both men was to simply avoid crashes which are inevitable in the early going with riders closely packed together. Despite the best effort of both men to avoid the mayhem, Armstrong was the more successful of the two. Contador got caught in a crash late and suffered a scraped knee: "I didn't have a chance with the bikes in front of me. Today was a day that was quite dangerous, but we are in the best race in the world and to win a stage here is something that very few people can do. Everyone goes to the maximum, and the end, these things happen. There were several crashes at the end of the stage, and the one with Fabian Cancellara was right behind me. I didn't have time to brake. I hit the riders that were already on the ground, but I'm more or less happy. I took a big blow on my left leg, but nothing serious…It was scary, because I saw that I did not have time to stop - there were so many bikes in front of me that eventually you run into them." Look for Contador and Armstrong to continue keeping a low profile well back in the field for much of the next week. That’ll change when the field hits the French Pyrénées beginning next Saturday. At that point, Contador and Armstrong will look to make their move and will likely leave many of the early leaders far behind. The Tour de France will conclude on July 25th with the famed run through Paris’ Champs-Élysées.
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The 97th running of the world’s most famous bicycle race, the Tour De France, got underway on Saturday and will continue for three weeks and 3,600 kilometers (2,200 miles). The 2010 course will wind through France and Belgium and include 20 stages with flat course racing, mountain stages and a couple of time trials. A winner is crowned for each stage, and the aggregate performance determines the overall leader and ultimate victor. The current leader of the race can be identified by the iconic yellow jersey he wears.
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