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[b]Tobias Gourlay saddles up for the 2011 Tour de France, which begins in unusual fashion, but might just have a familiar winner on stage one.[/b] The start of the [b]Tour de France[/b] usually brings a prologue and an opportunity to go large on Fabian Cancellara to wear the race's first yellow jersey. Not this year. Le Tour begins in the Vendee with a full 191.5km stage from Passage du Gois to Mont des Alouettes. The peloton might be battered by crosswinds, but the stage profile is pretty flat until the final fourth-category climb. The climb is not hard enough to separate the overall contenders, but it might sort the pure sprinters from more powerful classics specialists like Philippe Gilbert (2.44) and Thor Hushovd (8.2), who lead today's Stage Winner market. Gilbert dominates...