Red Bull on Wednesday unveiled its eight-rider cycling team to debut in this week's Tour de France, marking the energy drink maker's latest expansion of its sports empire.The Tour de France starts in Florence on Saturday and is expected to be a four-way struggle spearheaded by bitter rivals Tadej Pogacar from Slovenia and Danish rider Jonas Vingegaard across a route designed to take the world's greatest bike race down to the wire.
With the clock ticking down on the Tour de France start from Florence on Saturday race director Christian Prudhomme told AFP he was expecting an action packed 111th edition."There will be more barriers where the sporting action is expected to be hotly contested," he said of the mountain stages which are traditionally the wildest ones.
A Grand Départ in Florence and a finish in Nice rather than Paris will not please traditionalists, but there is plenty of familiar terrain in between