The 104th edition of the Tour de France is shaping up as a battle royale for the yellow jersey.
Three-time winner Chris Froome is yet to win a race in 2017 and the recent gap to the Team Sky rider appears to have decreased in the first six-months of the year, with Richie Porte (BMC), Nairo Quintana (Movistar) and Romain Bardet (AG2R-La Mondiale) now also considered potential winners.
Not only is the general classification looking wide open, so too is the daily battle for stage wins and for the other three classification leader's jersey: the polka-dot climber's jersey, the green points jersey - where Peter Sagan is chasing a sixth success, and the best young rider's white jersey.
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The 2017 Tour de France will start in Dusseldorf with a 14km individual time trial before an opening week suited to the bunch sprints. Stage 5 to La Planche des Belles Filles is the exception, as the summit finish will test the legs of the climbers.
The parcours includes three mountain top finishes but has been designed to create an open race before the penultimate stage in Marseille. The 22.5km time trial will start and finish a time trial in the football stadium as the final decider of the general classification.
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