PARIS (AP) β Tour de France organizers have announced a route for the 2016 race that should suit the all-around riding skills of defending champion Chris Froome.
Two individual time trials and 28 tough climbs will be on the schedule in July.
The 3,519-kilometer (2,186-mile) trek will scale the Pyrenees before the Alps, just as the Tour did this year, again going counter-clockwise around France. That breaks with tradition, because generally the Tour alternates between clockwise and counter-clockwise.
Froome, the British rider who won in 2013 and ’15, is a contender both on climbs and in individual time trials, making him an early favorite for 2016.
