With London now confirmed as the city to host the 2012 Olympics, Het Nieuwsblad said ASO will next week make an announcement about a Tour de France start for the British capital.
However, Jeremy Whittle editor of Procycling magazine said: "The rivalry between Paris and London is said by some in the Tour convoy to have become so intense that, in the event of an Olympic bid victory by the British capital, a visit from the Tour so soon after the award of the Games would be seen to be rubbing salt into French wounds."
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