French riders have future Tour success in their sights


  • Cycling
  • Thursday, 17 Jul 2014

OYONNAX France (Reuters) - After years of competing for stage wins and the occasional spell in yellow, the door is now ajar for a Frenchman to win the Tour de France.

It should not be this year, as Italian Vincenzo Nibali is still a cut above, but veteran Jean-Christophe Peraud and youngsters Romain Bardet and Thibaut Pinot lie in wait.

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