Julian Dean: This is Le Tour of unpredictabilityREUTERS Julian Dean feels Nairo Quintana could win his maiden Tour de France this year. In today's era of professional cycling, Le Tour is big business with many of the world's teams having annual budgets upwards of 30 million euro ($47 million). In an environment where the media coverage is the currency that fuels the teams' existence, Le Tour will generate 80 per cent of the total media coverage for a given season. He can go deep into the mountain stages in support of his teammate, young Dutch star Wilco Kelderman​. There are many key stages, including the infamous Mont Ventoux, always one of the Tour de France's toughest challenges, followed by back-to-back tough mountain stages in the Swiss and French Alps.

Source: Stuff July 02, 2016 17:03 UTC