BMC aiming to give Richie Porte programme for Tour success

The Australian will pin all his Grand Tour hopes on the Tour de France in 2016, with BMC aiming to give him a race programme to peak in July

BMC Racing will give Richie Porte a specific programme designed at winning the Tour de France next summer. The American team, which signed Porte after he spent years helping Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome in team Sky, said that it could make the difference in Porte's career.

Porte raced for Sky for the last four years and helped Wiggins and Froome win the Tour de France. When given his own chance to lead, bad luck or illness stopped the Australian from enjoying similar success.

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Gregor Brown

Gregor Brown is an experienced cycling journalist, based in Florence, Italy. He has covered races all over the world for over a decade - following the Giro, Tour de France, and every major race since 2006. His love of cycling began with freestyle and BMX, before the 1998 Tour de France led him to a deep appreciation of the road racing season.