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Tour de France 2010 route unveiled

Source: The Guardian

Oct 14, 2009

Summary

• Graphic: Route features range of tough natural challenges
• Tour director admits: 'This is going to be a big fight'

Alberto Contador will have to contend with treacherous cobblestones and blustery North Sea winds before reaching next year's Tour de France mountain stages.

But the newly unveiled route for 2010 also gives the Spaniard, Tour champion in 2007 and 2009 and arguably the best climber in the world, the prospect of stretching his rivals in the Pyrenees, which will be the highlight of next year's event.

Four stages, including a gruelling 16th stage with four daunting climbs, will be held in the mountains that form the border between France and Spain.

"The route is better than last year's because there are more mountains, and finishing with the Tourmalet is great for me," said Contador, referring to the last mountain stage which ends at the top of the 2,115-metre high Col du Tourmalet.

His arch rival Lance Armstrong said: "It is not your traditional Tour. [But] I was never one to say I like this Tour, I dislike this Tour. It's the Tour. The best man always

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