Organisers of the Tour de France today unveiled the route for the 2011 race with six mountain stages awaiting the riders.

BENJAMIN RAICH and Michaela Dorfmeister took Alpine gold for Austria in the men’s giant slalom and the women’s super-G respectively.

REIGNING Olympic women’s downhill champion Carole Montillet-Carles was among three racers taken to hospital as a series of spectacular crashes marred the second day of official training.

The wife of a Scottish teacher who shot and killed a 19-year-old girl and then killed himself said she had no idea her husband loved the girl so much that he would take both of their lives, reports said yesterday.