2013 Tour de France route unveiled

PanARMENIAN.Net - While the sports world comes to terms with the Lance Armstrong doping scandal, Tour de France organisers unveiled a mountainous, prestigious route for the 100th edition of the world’s greatest cycling race today, October 24, IrishTimes said.

The 2013 Tour, which will start from Corsica, will take l’Alpe d’Huez’s 21 hairpins twice in the same stage, go up the grueling Mont Ventoux and end at dusk on the Champs Elysees.

But with nine of the last 14 title wins wiped out due to doping, it remains to be seen whether this year’s race will have any credibility. Seven of those titles belonged to Armstrong, who was stripped of his 1999-2005 victories when the International Cycling Union (UCI) ratified the USADA’s decision to nullify the American's results from August 1998 onward.