SAINT-LO, France (AP) — Featuring two individual time trials and a lot of mountains, the Tour de France route suits titleholder Chris Froome very well. The British allrounder, however, believes pure climbing specialists will excel in the heat of the French summer.
"It's a route that is very much a climbers' route," Froome told The Associated Press in a TV interview ahead of the Tour starting at Mont Saint-Michel on Saturday. "Even though we have two time trials, they are very hilly time trials."
Those two stages take place in the second half of the 3,519-kilometer three-week race.