Sunday's Stage 1 flat sprinters' stage starts and finishes in Strasbourg, with a 30km incursion into Germany midway through the stage. It will be a tight, tense day with plenty of crashes and a big battle between Boonen's Quick.Step, McEwen's Davitamon-Lotto and Zabel's Milram teams to win the first en ligne stage at Le Tour 2006.
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Paris-Nice stage 6 LIVE - Breakaway finally forms after fearsome fight throughout start of the stage
More hills on the menu and a late second-category test on the road to Apt -
Tirreno-Adriatico stage 5 LIVE - Break of eight clear on 'Muri' stage in the Marche region
The peloton starts from Marotta-Mondolfo with four classified climbs packed into the latter half of the 186km run to Mombaroccio -
'Not the smartest thing to do' – Wout van Aert rues another missed opportunity at Tirreno-Adriatico
'I reacted too quickly to that late attack from Christen, and I'd already completed my sprint' says Belgian, who finished fifth in Martinsicuro -
Oscar Onley pulls out of Paris-Nice
Ineos Grenadiers riders was lying 10th overall at time of DNS on stage 6
