Tour de France: Frenchmen Thibaut Pinot, Julian Alaphilippe emerge as contenders as Daryl Impey takes ...
(WorldNews France)

BRIOUDE, France — Like a lost love, the Tour de France gains in value for riders who can`t race in it.That was the lesson Thibaut Pinot learned last year when the French rider, who`d fallen sick at the Giro d`Italia in May, then missed the Tour and watched on TV as others wrote history at cycling`s showcase race.`It was no fun,` he recalls. `I realized how important the Tour is for a French rider.`This year, he`s making amends.With the race shifting its [...] ......