The return of Alberto Contador and Lance Armstrong to the Tour are the main attraction of the 96th edition starting tomorrow at Monaco.The favorite to win is the 26 years old Contador, part of the Astrana team; partner of the 7 times Tour winner Lance Armstrong. But with Armstrong in the same team, this two athletes are going to established a strong competition to show who is the best.

Contador is younger but no doubt about it, Armstorng has all the experience needed to win the tour, although his physical condition is not the same when he won 7 straights tours.

Silence and confident, based on his last year win, there is also a strong competitor, the defendig champion Carlos Sastre, riding along with a team made to fit his conditions, he has now more experience and skills to have a better performance and win the tour for the second time in a row.

Starting for the very first time at Monaco, the first stage is a individual time trial, which will mark the conditions of every athlete since the very first day.

Another subject to be on top of is, the doping, organization is clear that they will be really though and they will be testing every single athlete to avoid use of drugs, Lance by the way, is in the eye of the tiger and he will be follow and test several times to know if he is using any irregular sustances.

The tour is always one of the best worldwide competitions, the eyes of the whole world will be on France for the next month.  Hoping to have a healthy clear tour, let’s start cycling all together tomorrow.

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