The route of the 2010 Tour de France was unveiled 2 days ago and it promises to be really interesting and tough. The Tour de France will be celebrating 100 years of life in 2010, that is why the organizers want to make it very exciting and special...and I am ready for it!!! For example, the third stage for the Paris-Roubaix -the Queen of Classics- will have several sections full with cobblestones that will make that day race quite difficult for some riders, with the exception of Tom Boonen, who absolutely loves cobbled roads -but not sure he will ride the 2010 TdF. "We don't put cobblestones for riders to fall, but to make a selection," Prudhomme said. "There will be 11km of cobblestones in the last 30km. There will be some damage." "I think you have to plan your season according to what you see here, too," Armstrong said. "I think even a race like the Tour of Flanders is interesting now because you don't want your only cobblestone experience to be the day you show up here. You need to practice that so we'll build the season around this, too." There will also be hard and long mountain roads to climb on the Pyrinees and not all the riders will survive them. The 2010 new course will include a total of 23 mountain passes in the Alps, Pyrenees, Jura and Massif Central, three more than this year! The 2010 Tour will start with a 5-mile prologue in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on July 3 with a final stage on the Champs-Elysees  on Sunday July 25th after 20 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,600 kilometres. 1 prologue,9 flat stages,6 mountain stages and 3 summit finishes,4 medium mountain stage,1 individual time-trial stage (51 km).Distinctive aspects of the racele Tourmalet climbed twice,a hint of the Classics and cobblestones,2 rest days,23 level 1, level 2 and highest level mountain passes. "I think it will be much more open than last year because the TTT really eliminated some people last year and you won't have that again," Armstrong said Wednesday after next ...