Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador to battle for Tour de France Win
Lance Armstrong is going to participate in the Tour de France one more time, and Alberto Contador, who has won the race twice, is the man he will have to beat. The two competitors are former teammates, and their rivalry will be a big deal during the race. The 3-week cycling marathon will start tomorrow (Saturday).
Armstrong knows that this Tour will be hard to win. With his age, his own struggles with the time trials in the past couple years and the explosiveness of the other cyclists, he said, he will have to be smart, a little lucky and play the team card some. There are a handful of others who are bigger favorites to win that him, he added.
Contador said that he prefers it where everyone has his own place. He and Armstrong were in the same team last year with the same objectives, but it’s not right to do it that way, he continued. Armstrong finished third last year, and his team is awesome this year - the most powerful, Contador noted. He has experience like no one else and showed his exceptional form in the Tour of Switzerland, he added, so he is a candidate and the most dangerous rival to win.
The are almost 200 competitors that will start the Tour de France, which doesn’t actually start in France but in the Netherlands in the city of Rotterdam. The cyclists will ride across a 3,642km trek across Belgium. Then they will head clockwise around the north, east and then south of France before riding into Paris for the July 25 finish.