Cycling - Tour de France cycling race - The 146 km (90 miles) Stage 19 from Albertville to Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc, France - 22/07/2016 - AG2R La Mondiale rider Romain Bardet of France wins on the finish line. REUTERS/Juan Medina
DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) - The Tour de France has not had a home champion since 1985, but after Romain Bardet's second-placed finish last year there are high hopes that the wine-loving 26-year-old could be sipping champagne on the Champs Elysees in three weeks' time.
The AG2R-La Mondiale rider is one of the most attack-minded in the peloton and is likely to find this year's route, which Bardet describes as "quite treacherous", to his taste.
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