Here we are again. The greatest cycling race event in the world has started again yesterday. It's time of the year when football pro-players are to be seen fooling around from Vegas to Bahamas, Wimbledon done and only other things to watch are cricket and what turn out to be boring F1 races this season. So running from Saturday July 4th to Sunday July 26th 2009 is the 96th edition of the Tour de France, made up of 21 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,500 kilometres. It is always shown live here but during working hours, although millions of die-hard fans have already made the pilgrimage down to France to line up the hundreds of kilometres of road to follow the tour.
This year's Tour de France is shaping up to be one of the most exciting races in recent years. Yesterday the opening race was won by Fabian Cancellara. He is just ahead of Alberto Contador, one of the favourites.
Three names stand out as possible tour winner - Alberto Cantador, Carlos Sastre and Cadel Evans. Carlos is the defending tour winner, Alberto is the 2007 winner and Cadel has always been a runner-up. Mix with that is the coming back of 7 times winner after an absence of 4 years - Lance Armstrong. The other guy to watch is the outstanding sprint specialist - Mark Chavendish. He won the second stage today after cycling for 4 hours and 30 minutes.
19 stages left and looking forward to the mountain stages where the winner will be decided.
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