Pezcyclingnews: Eurotrash Tour Thursday!

The Tour de France is set to kick off in Utrecht, it’s the biggest bike race on the planet and we have as much Tour info as we can find with some great video. It’s not all Tour, in other cycling news: Sky end deal with Great Britain national team, Giro’16 to start in Holland, Davide Appollonio has big problems and ‘Pleasure in Pain’ video from South Australia. Caf au lait, monsieur?TOP STORY: The Tour!This year’s Tour looks to be one of the hardest fought for with all the top Grand Tour riders on the Utrecht start line. Nibali, Froome, Contador, Quintana, Rodriguez and Valverde are all primed and ready, barring the possible crashes on the cobbles the battles will be in the high mountains of the Pyrenees and more probably the Alps. The Alpe d’Huez is the last climb of the race and probably won’t be too important to the final overall, so could the Pra Loup be decisive? In 1975 Eddy Merckx was on his way to a record sixth Tour win, but he was put to the sword by Bernard Thvenet on stage 15 to Pra Loup. Merckx was the race leader and went on the attack, but on the final climb Merckx cracked and Thvenet was able to catch and pass Merckx two kilometers from the finish. The Frenchman won by 2 minutes and put a further two and a half minutes into the Belgian on stage 16. It was the end of the Merckx domination...

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