Continuing our preview of the 2009 Tour de France, we’ll take a look at the field of riders and let you know whom you should watch. You may recognize this guy. He’s actually kind of famous, and now he’s back in the Tour de France. Obviously the big story of this year’s Tour is the return of Lance Armstrong. There are tons of questions surrounding his return, not the least of which is “Does he still have anything left?” Armstrong has competed in a few events since his return to cycling, but hasn’t won anything. This isn’t surprising as Armstrong’s modus operandi was always to build up to the Tour de France, and he never won many of the preparation races. After three consecutive Tours without a former champion in the field (other than Oscar Pereiro, eventual winner of the Floyd Landis scandal-plagued 2006 Tour), this year there are 4 former champions competing (Armstrong, Carlos Sastre, Alberto Contador, and Pereiro), with two of them on the same team. The dynamics of the ...
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