While you can rest assured that no British rider will threaten to win the Tour de France outright in Paris later this month there will be enormous home interest over this coming week as the sprinters and time-trial specialists take the limelight. Pedal power: Mark Cavendish is expected to figure prominently in the bunch finishes during the Tour de France Photo: REUTERS Before the peloton heads for Andorra and the mountains on Saturday there are no less than four stages that could end in a bunch finish – in which case look for Mark Cavendish and his well drilled Columbia lead-out team to continue what they have been doing for two years now, and that is destroy the opposition. Tuesday in Montpellier sees the return, by popular demand, of the team time-trial which was discontinued in 2005. Columbia will again be one of the teams... [read full story]
