Froome not keen on cobbles at Tour de France

Although barely three months have passed since Chris Froome won the Tour de France title, the British rider is already turning his thoughts to the defence of his title in 2014. Even before next week’s official presentation of the route of the 101st Tour, he has been following reports about next year’s parcours.

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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