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THE OFFICIAL TOUR DE FRANCE GUIDE 2007

The VeloNews 2007 Official Tour de France Guide is many things. It’s the best way to follow the race, with comprehensive maps, complete stage information, and detailed team information. It’s the first place to turn to for rider profiles and predictions. It’s the richest source of Tour history, with stories and statistics on past winners.

And this year it is the biggest Tour Guide ever. At 228 pages, the 2007 Tour Guide is nothing less than massive, with more photos, more maps, more team news, more features, and more in-depth coverage of the world’s greatest sports event.

The 2007 Tour starts in London, on July 7, with a special prologue that will take each of the 189 starters past the Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace. It continues the next day with a road stage to Canterbury, before reaching Dunkirk, France, on July 9. Encompassing 3,547 kilometers, the 2007 Tour will feature 6 mountain stages, 3 mountain finishes, and 2 individual time trials on its clockwise route through the Alps and Pyrenees before its finish in Paris on July 29.

OFFICIAL TOUR GUIDE CONTENTS

• Race Overview
• Course Map
• Tour 101
• Riders Missing in Action
• TV and Web schedules
• The Fan from Hell
• The Race Caravan
• Q&A with the Race Director
• London Calling
• Podium Candidates
• What They Win
• Team Directors: A Day in the Life

Details for each stage of the Tour de France including course description, route map, course profile, history and favorites.

RIDER PROFILES

• Levi Leipheimer
• Alexander Vinokourov
• Andreas Klöden
• Oscar Pereiro
• Alejandro Valverde
• Carlos Sastre and Fränk Schleck
• Cadel Evans
• Michael Rogers

• Michael Barry & Tom Danielson
• Dave Zabriskie
• Chris Horner
• George Hincapie
• Fred Rodriguez
• Bobby Julich
• Christian Vande Velde

• AG2R
• Agritubel
• Astana
• Barloworld
• Bouygues Télécom
• Caisse D’Épargne
• Cofidis
• Crédit Agricole
• CSC
• Discovery Channel
• Euskaltel-Euskadi
• Française des Jeux
• Gerolsteiner
• Lampre-Fondital
• Liquigas
• Milram
• Predictor-Lotto
• Quick Step-Innergetic
• Rabobank
• Saunier Duval-Prodir
• T-Mobile

• Ten Roadside Places to See the Tour
• Secrets of the Gruppetto
• A Decade Battling Doping
• Silver Anniversary: Jacques Anquetil
• Gold Anniversary: Petit-Breton

• One Rider’s Arsenal
• Tour Tech

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