Sprinters have chance to shine on Tour de France stage 1

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The opening stage is set up for the sprinters to do battle in Brussels

The route from Brussels to Paris, via the Pyrenees and the Alps, in what has been dubbed"the highest race in history".Sixty-one years after Brussels' first Grand Depart, the Tour returns for a flat opening stage which begins and ends in the Belgian capital via a loop south to Charleroi and west via Mur de Grammont. A breakaway is likely to be reeled in by the sprint teams, with finishers like the Australian Caleb Ewan and the Colombian Fernando Gaviria eyeing victory.

 

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