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Bet Tour de France Odds - 2009 Tour de France

The 96th Tour de France will start on July 4th in Brittany with last year's champion, Spaniard Carlos Sastre, heading the betting.

Not only is The Tour de France the most recognisable name in world cycling it is one of the world's leading sporting events.

These 21 stages have the following profiles:

* 10 flat stages,
* 5 mountain stages,
* 4 medium mountain stages,
* 2 individual time-trial stages.

The 96th Tour de France will start on July 5th in Brittany with last year's champion, Spaniard Alberto Contador, heading the betting.

Not only is The Tour de France the most recognisable name in world cycling it is one of the world's leading sporting events.

The time that each rider achieves per stage is combined to determine the overall winner of the event.

There are smaller titles competed for within the race with the holders being awarded a specific jersey.

Examples of Tour de France jerseys include: The Yellow Jersey (overall time leader), Green Jersey (points leader), Polka Dot Jersey (King of the Mountains) and the White Jersey (best performing rider under 25).

Lance Armstrong is the most successful rider in the history of the race, winning it seven consecutive times from 1999 to 2005, setting a whole host of new records.

Statistics for past Tours are:

Raymond Poulidor may not have won the Yellow Jersey, but he is the rider who stepped the highest number of times on the podium of the Tour (he finished 8 times in the Top 3!), more than Hinault, Zoetemelk, Ullrich and Armstrong (7), Garrigou, Anquetil and Merckx (6), LeMond and Indurain (5), Van Impe and L. Bobet (4).

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2009 Tour de France Schedule, Route, and Dates

Tour de France 2009 Results

The winner of 2009 Tour de France cycling race, Kazakh cycling team Astana (AST)'s leader Alberto Contador of Spain, second placed in the overall standings, Danish cycling team Team Saxo Bank (SAX)'s leader Andy Schleck of Luxemburg (L) and third placed, seven-time Tour de France winner and Kazakh cycling team Astana (AST)'s Lance Armstrong of the United States pose on the podium on July 26, 2009 on the famous Champs-Elysees Avenue in Paris, at the end of the 160 km and last stage run between Montereau and Paris Champs-Elysees.

Contador cruised down the Champs-Elysees to win the Tour for a second time Sunday after 2,141 miles over three weeks of racing. He repelled many challenges in the mountains, excelled in the two time-trials -- winning a pivotal race against the clock in the 18th stage -- and won the first Alpine stage.

2008 Tour de France Winner

Sastre victory

The 2008 Tour de France cycling race is now over, won by Spain's Carlos Sastre, with a time of 87h 52m 52s. Sastre beat second-place finisher Cadel Evans of Australia by only 58 seconds, over a 21 stage course that added up to over 3,500 kilometers (2,175 miles).

On the eve of this year’s Tour de France in the heart of Brittany, all the talk was of the possibility of a clean Tour.

As it transpired, it was not to be although the general consensus was that the quartet of riders to fail drugs tests, the latest being Dmitriy Fofonov after stage 18, were now the exception rather than the rule in the peloton.

Barring Riccardo Ricco, who was a too high profile rider to ignore, the remaining trio caused little if no stir on the back pages of the French newspapers.

Instead, a rider known as Don Limpio (Mr Clean) in his native Spain effectively won the race over the solitary climb up Alpe d’Huez, the stage where Fofonov was exposed as a drugs cheat.

Carlos Sastre would not have been most pundits’ pick to win the Tour – in fact, most doubted he had it in him to maintain his one-and-a-half minute advantage in the penultimate stage time trial.

But the quiet man of the peloton, who was virtually like a ghost for all but the Alpe d’Huez climb, finally got his say on the winner’s podium on the Champs-Elysees.

However, the 2008 Tour was not just about Sastre and, as well as cycling cleaning up its act still further, the 2008 race saw the dawn of the new faces in cycling.

2007 Tour de France Winner

Three years ago, Alberto Contador was lying in a hospital bed recovering from a brain aneurism. He drew inspiration from reading a book about Lance Armstrong, the cancer survivor and seven-time Tour de France champion. Now Contador has his own inspiring comeback story that, like Armstrong's, ended with a victory in the Tour de France on Sunday. "It's an extraordinary joy," said Contador, who collapsed with the aneurism during a race in Spain in 2004. The Spaniard kissed his winner's yellow jersey on the podium against the backdrop of the Arc de Triomphe.  Contador, 24, was this year's unlikely winner for Discovery Channel after former race leader Michael Rasmussen was sent home earlier in the Tour for allegedly lying to his team and the pre-race favorite Alexandre Vinokourov failed a doping test. Contador high-fived and hugged his teammates at the end. His original goal was to take the white jersey for the best young rider. In the end, he got both white and yellow. Asked on French television about his surgery, Contador took off his yellow cap and showed a large scar running down the side of his head.

"It really marked me for life," Contador said, "but allowed me to better savor this moment.  "This year, I hoped to win the white jersey. I did not know that with the white jersey, the yellow one would come, too."  From its start in London on July 7, when millions of spectators turned out, fans' signs like "No to Doping" increasingly lined the course.  Even for an event whose winners since 1996 have either battled doping claims or admitted to them, this Tour's fallout from doping was instantaneous -- often overshadowing the racing itself.   "Suspicion is everywhere," Tour president Christian Prudhomme said Sunday on France-2 television. "We could have doubts about everyone."  Organizers hoped this would be the year of rebirth after 2006 winner Floyd Landis' positive doping test. In the end, they may have settled for simply keeping the race going amid unending doping scandals.

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