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Thor optimistic for Tour green

Graham Watson stage 10 photos

Garmin-Transitions' top GC rider starting Tour with pain and uncertainty

The Garmin-Transitions team has ambitious goals as it heads into its third Tour de France.

Tour de France chief Christian Prudhomme believes the quality of challenger to reigning champion Alberto Contador will make for the most openly competitive race in years.

The Tour de France is about surviving and hanging on for three weeks, but some big names are missing out this year even before the race leaves the start house with Saturday’s prologue in Rotterdam.

Quick Step names Boonen replacement for Tour

Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong announced on Twitter Monday that this year's Tour with his RadioShack teammates will his final one.

Which stages will be critical? How steep is the Tourmalet? And how is Christian Vande Velde doing? These are just a few of the hundreds of questions answered in the Official Guide to the 2010 Tour de France. Subscribe today!

Damiano Cunego and Alessandro Petacchi will be in the hunt for stage victories as the pair leads Lampre-Farnese Vini at the 2010 Tour de France.

Rinaldo Nocentini has battled back from injury to return to the 2010 Tour de France with Ag2r-La Mondiale.

Ivan Basso (Liquigas) says returning to the Tour de France for the first time since 2005 makes him an outsider for victory and insists the favorite will be Alberto Contador.

A crash at the Critérium du Dauphiné will keep former King of the Mountains winner Juan Mauricio Soler sidelined during the 2010 Tour de France.

The French have long given up on trying to win the Tour de France, so it’s no surprise that FDJeux brings a team loaded with opportunists looking for a shot at a stage victory.

Alberto Contador admits that his Astana squad might not be the strongest, but at least he’s not losing sleep over whom it will be backing come July.

Andy Schleck crashes, but OK for Tour

Vande Velde, Farrar lead Garmin into Tour de France

2010 Tour de France stage maps

Injured Haussler won’t race Tour de France

Rodríguez and McEwen in, Pozzato out of Katusha's Tour squad

A strong performance in the Giro d’Italia earned Brent Bookwalter a trip to the Tour de France as he was included among the nine starting riders for BMC.

Defending champion Alberto Contador will saddle up for the Tour de France in a little more than a week's time with more than just the mountains, or former teammate Lance Armstrong, on his mind.

Unsung Spanish team Footon-Servetto will line up in Rotterdam determined to prove it deserves a chance to be in the Tour de France.

Michael Barry will get a long-awaited ticket to the Tour de France after he was named among nine starters for Team Sky.

Barry gets Tour nod with Sky

A conversation with director Jason Berry, whose new film “Chasing Legends,” takes an expansive view of the 2009 Tour de France, primarily through the eyes of Team HTC-Columbia.

Greipel snubbed as Cavendish, Rogers lead HTC-Columbia for Tour de France

Boonen leads Quick Step at Tour

WADA, not AFLD, to monitor Tour de France drug testing

For RadioShack team director Johan Bruyneel, “We Might As Well Win” — the title of his 2008 book — has given way to a more relaxed attitude.

Horner, Brajkovic get Tour nods for Shack

Giro stage-winner Larsson left off Saxo Bank Tour selection

Menchov, Gesink to lead Rabobank at Tour de France

Roberts lands final Milram spot for Tour de France

Although they’ve been racked by bad luck and injuries, all three of Cervélo TestTeam’s top stars — Carlos Sastre, Thor Hushovd and Heinrich Haussler — will line up for the 2010 Tour de France.

Belgian team Omega Pharma-Lotto will race the Tour de France without star rider Philippe Gilbert and French rider Jean-Christophe Péraud.

Olympic champion Samuel Sánchez will lead Euskaltel-Euskadi in the 2010 Tour de France.

Lance Armstrong has played down his chances of winning an eighth Tour de France title despite lining up at the July 3-25 race with a quality-packed RadioShack team.

Contador: ‘Alps won’t decide Tour’

Michael Barry is in the running for the final spot of the Team Sky’s Tour de France team.

Basso readies for Tour de France

With the start of the Tour de France just 15 days away, it’s a reasonable question to wonder which Armstrong will show up in Rotterdam. VeloNews.TV polled several prominent figures in the pro peloton for their opinion, including Michael Rogers, Jens Voigt, and last year’s Tour runner up Andy Schleck.

Despite heavy pressure from the French cycling community, the highly touted Romain Sicard will not be racing this year’s Tour de France.

Norwegian Edvald Boasson Hagen has overcome a potentially serious Achilles problem to virtually secure his place in Team Sky's Tour de France squad, according to his team.

Horner: ‘I will be Lance’s guardian angel’

Former Tour de France King of the Mountains Mauricio Soler is in doubt for next month's race because of a knee problem, his Caisse d'Epargne team said Thursday.

Danny Pate has gone to the Tour de France for the past two years, but he’s not sure if he’s going back for a third.

Cervelo TestTeam directors have released a 12-man pre-selection roster for the Tour de France. The team will make the final nine-man selection before the July 3 Tour start in Rotterdam.

Team Milram on Wednesday, announced six of the nine riders it will bring to the Tour de France next month. The remaining three will be chosen based on their performances at the Criterium du Dauphine, the Tour de Suisse and the riders' respective national championships.

Cervélo TestTeam has ended speculation about Carlos Sastre's inclusion in this year's Tour de France by telling the former champion to get ready for the July 3-25 event.

Contador: 'Tour prep, not Dauphine win, is crucial'

Some teams like to wait as long as possible before selecting their Tour de France squads — but not Rabobank, which announced its lineup Thursday.

The Astana captain completed a four-day reconnaissance of the decisive climbing stages in the mountains along the French-Spanish border and came away convinced that’s where the 2010 Tour will be decided.

Cervélo TestTeam was one of the revelations of last year’s Tour de France, but the team is patiently waiting word whether top stars Carlos Sastre and Thor Hushovd will be lining up July 3 in Rotterdam.

Olympic champion Samuel Sánchez turns his attention to the Tour de France.

"The sniper," Katusha's Alexandr Kolobnev, is taking aim at the Tour — and the worlds.

Alberto Contador might not be racing much between Sunday’s conclusion of Liège-Bastogne-Liège and July’s Tour de France, but that doesn’t mean he won’t be busy.

A reader asks about this year's Tour de France invitations.

The Amaury Sport Organisation has released its list 22 teams invited to participate in this year's edition of the Tour de France.

A reader asks about those riders who have won in their first appearance at the Tour de France.

Jet lag is a word that obviously isn’t part of Lance Armstrong’s vocabulary. While Europe has been gripped by its worst winter in decades, Armstrong’s road to the Tour de France this year has been full of sunny climes that would turn any jet-setting royal blue with envy.

The 2010 Tour won't be a two-man race between Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador, says José Azevedo.

Can world road champ Cadel Evans (BMC) win the Giro d’Italia or Tour de France before it’s too late? He thinks so.

The team time trial will be back for the 2011 Tour de France along with the infamous submerged causeway at Passage du Gois as details of the opening weekend for next year’s race were revealed Tuesday.

Olympic champion Samuel Sánchez is the latest big name to announce he will make an all-out push for the podium at the Tour de France this summer.

Skil-Shimano is hoping to repeat its Tour de France sweepstakes this season as it prepares for an important season to confirm itself among the top ranks of the peloton. Strong performances in the 2008 and 2009 Paris-Nice helped earn Skil-Shimano one of the three wild-card invitations to the 2009 Tour. The team lived up to its end of the bargain in animating the race, putting riders into breakaways, capped by a third-place in stage 3 with Cyril Lemoine.

Team Astana’s Alexander Vinokourov said Friday that winning the Tour de France was a dream for him, but it’s not any longer.

Haimar Zubeldia concedes it will be difficult to beat ex-teammate Alberto Contador in this year’s Tour de France.

This holiday season, VeloNews is bringing you three galleries of some of photographer Graham Watson's best shots from the 2009 Grand Tours. Last week we brought you Watson's Vuelta a Espana gallery and earlier this week we presented his Giro d'Italia gallery. Today you can unwrap a gallery from the Tour de France. Enjoy.

AFP rates the return of Lance Armstrong and his often-tense relationship with teammate Alberto Contador as the top story of the year.

Mark Cavendish says his goals next year will be much as they were this year: win and win a lot.

Euskaltel's Egoi Martínez vows to gain the success at the Tour de France that has so far eluded him.

After weeks of hinting he might skip the Tour de France, Carlos Sastre has confirmed that he will be at the start line in Rotterdam for the 2010 edition.

The brother of Alberto Contador says the two-time winner will likely stay with Astana in 2010, but no longer.

Running from Saturday July 3rd to Sunday July 25th 2010, the 97th Tour de France will be made up of 1 prologue and 20 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,600 km.

American Floyd Landis, who was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France victory after a positive doping test and a public battle to prove his innocence, has told a New Zealand newspaper that he may never compete again in cycling's most important race. Landis, now 34, told the Herald on Sunday newspaper that infighting between cycling's biggest movers and shakers will likely mean he will not be returning to the Tour.