TdF 2010

The course for next year's TdF has just been presented:

• Team time trial has been dropped - a good decision after this year's TTT killed the race;
• Tourmalet twice - two climbs had been rumoured, but it isn't the MTT some had thought. The summit finish on Tourmalet for stage 17 is a fitting tribute for the 100th anniversary of the first climb in 1910;
• Pyrenees - The last week is going to be awesome. Stage 15 takes in Col du Portet d'Aspet, Col des Ares, and Port des Bales, stage 16 Col de Peyresourde, Col d'Aspin, Col du Tourmalet, and Col d'Aubisque, and stage 17 finishing on Tourmalet;
• Cobbles - The route incorporates some of the cobbles of the Spring Classics.

Given the single ITT, this a route that suits the climbers. Likely to be Contador vs A Schleck.