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Tour de France | Tour de France 2009 | Tour de France starts from July 4 2009 |  Lance Armstrong in Tour de France 2009

The 96th Tour de france this year, which will be starting from Monaco from July 4. This year the bicycle race will tour six nations namely Monaco, France, Spain, Andorra, Switzerland and Italy. For the first time since 2005, the race will have a time trail besides having seven mountain stages.

Tour de France this year will see a competition between 20 teams. These teams will comprise of 9 riders each bringing the total of 180 participants competing against each other.

Though the star attraction of the tournament were the former champions of the race namely Carlos Sastre, Alberto Contador and Cadel Evans who are the 2008, 2007 and present runner up respectively, all media attention has been shifted to Lance Armstrong, who has decided to come out of his retirement and decided to compete this year. He last participated in year 2005. He participated from 1999 to 2005 and had been a winner of the tour de france championship seven times.