The following conditions are contraindicated with this drug. Check with your physician if you have any of the following: Conditions: Spinal Tap; Operation on the Nervous System; malignant tumor or cancer; polycythemia vera; eye surgery; caloric undernutrition; Inadequate Vitamin K; Anemia; increased risk of bleeding due to clotting disorder; increased risk of bleeding
Nairo Quintana is a five-star favorite to win the Tour de France.Doug Pensinger/Getty Images. The world's premier bicycle race, the Tour de France, starts July 4, and there are four big favorites to win it. Three of them have won the Tour before: Spain's Alberto Contador, in 2007 and 2009; Kenyan-born UK rider Chris Froome, in 2013; and Italy's Vincezno Nibali, the defending champion. The fourth favorite has never won the race: Colombia's Nairo Quintana.
Around the Academy: The leader of the young rider category in the Tour de France wears a white jersey. The category began in 1975 and is awarded to the highest placed rider under the age of 25. The young Russian rider Denis Menchov finished 11th overall in the 2003 Tour and won the white jersey in Paris.