This years Tour De France begins tomorrow in Holland. Where are national football team have failed could our cyclists succeed ? They seem to think so, Mark Cavendish has said he will definitely get the Green jersey, if everything goes to plan and similarly Bradley Wiggins who finished in 4th place last year says everything is in place this year to ensure his overall victory, if everything goes to plan.

Most probably things won't go quite to plan, the first week includes some coastal sections where the notoriously strong winds could easily cause chaos and as if that wasn't enough there are also stages with miles and miles of cobblestones just to make life really difficult, and dangerous, for everyone. Assuming Bradley emerges unscathed from all of that his biggest test waits in the final week of huge pyreanean mountains where his main rivals, Contador, Armstrong and Schleck will really make him suffer ( at least Contador & Schleck will, who knows how well Armstrong will cope now ). The clear favourite is last years winner Alberto Contador who everyone seems to agree is some sort of genetic freak and more or less unbeatable by anyone else around at the moment, to make things interesting he has been threatening revenge on Armstrong and promising to "destroy and humiliate the old man when they reach the mountains". I am fairly sure Armstrong will not be too happy with people trying it on with him like that so there could be some exciting and random moves going off to liven things up a bit.

A lot of this years British riders are riding for the new British cycling team Team Sky which is ran by the same person who has engineered Britains recent successes in track cycling, he has promised a British win in the Tour De France within ( I think ) 10 years. Or maybe this year if Mr Wiggins plan comes to fruition. Although it's a British team the other top 2 British riders Cavendish & Millar are still riding for their old teams.