Liverpool, Merseyside, UK 6th September, 2014. Mark Cavendish Omega Pharma - Quick-Step team at the Friends Life Tour of Britain. Team Presentations and introductions on stage at Chavasse Park on Saturday evening as riders prepare for the race proper on Sunday next. The Tour of Britain is the UK's biggest professional cycle race and the country's largest free-to-spectate sporting event. Credit: Mar Photographics/Alamy Live News

Liverpool, Merseyside, UK 6th September, 2014. Mark Cavendish Omega Pharma - Quick-Step team at the Friends Life Tour of Britain. Team Presentations and introductions on stage at Chavasse Park on Saturday evening as riders prepare for the race proper on Sunday next. The Tour of Britain is the UK's biggest professional cycle race and the country's largest free-to-spectate sporting event. Credit: Mar Photographics/Alamy Live News Stock Photo

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"On Sunday, some of the world's finest cyclists line up beside Liverpool's Three Graces for the start of the Tour of Britain. But can the race live up to Yorkshire's successful hosting of the Tour de France? Earlier this year huge crowds cheered riders from city centres to remote hillsides as the greatest cycling race in the world - Le Tour - visited Yorkshire for its Grand Depart. Now the sport is back in the north of England for the increasingly prestigious Tour of Britain and Liverpool is hoping it will prove just as popular. Britain's premier cycling event has been contested every year since 1945 - save for a five-year hiatus from 1999 until 2004 - but the sport has never been more mainstream in the UK."

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