Démare relishing Tour de France sprints

Almost all of the focus for Tour de France stage one has been on sprinting big guns Mark Cavendish, Marcel Kittel and André Greipel, but keep any eye out too for newly crowned French champion Arnaud Démare.

Peter Cossins has written about professional cycling since 1993 and is a contributing editor to Procycling. He is the author of The Monuments: The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races (Bloomsbury, March 2014) and has translated Christophe Bassons' autobiography, A Clean Break (Bloomsbury, July 2014). 

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