Cycling betting fans demand more of their bookmaker than Tour de France odds for three weeks of the year. The world's best road cyclists compete in UCI Pro Tour events from March to October, with all of the tough sport's most prestigious races included in the schedule. The Tour de France tops the UCI ProTour list but the Giro d'Italia, Tour de Suisse and Vuelta a Espana also attract high-class fields. The same goes for the classic competitions.
As far as cycling betting for the 2005 Tour de France goes, many sports bettors will not look past Lance Armstrong, given that the American superstar is bidding to win the event for the seventh year in a row. Specialist sprinters take out many of the classic races. Names for which to look out in 2005 include Australian riders Baden Cooke, Robbie McEwen and Stuart O'Grady.
This new Tour for 2005 has some new and different challenges for the eventual winner. The Prologue time trial will be longer and more significant as the next individual time trial will not occur until the last stage before Paris. There are only 3 mountaintop finishes in the mountain stages and in addition
to Alpes and Pyrenees the smaller but yet challenging mountains of the Vosges and Massif Central will factor.
2005 Tour De France Results
The top 10 in the general classification of the 2005 Tour de France is:
| 1. Lance Armstrong (USA) DSC - 3,608.0km in 86h15’02" (41.654km/h) |
| 2. Ivan Basso (Italy) CSC - at 4’40" |
| 3. Jan Ullrich (Germany) TMO - at 6’21" |
| 4. Francisco Mancebo (Spain) IBA - at 9’59" |
| 5. Alexandre Vinokourov (Kazakstahn) TMO at 11’01" |
| 6. Levi Leipheimer (USA) GST - at 11’21" |
| 7. Mickael Rasmussen (Denmark) RAB - at 11’33" |
| 8. Cadel Evans (Australia) DVL - at 11’55" |
| 9. Floyd Landis (USA) PHO - at 12’44" |
| 10. Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spain) PHO - 16’14" |
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