PARIS -- For the first time in 25 years, all five mountain ranges of continental France will be featured in next years Tour de France, in a stretched-out endurance test of racing that smiles on the climbing strengths of defending champion Chris Froome and his Colombian rival, Nairo Quintana.In their quest to keep the 113-year-old race young, Tour organizers have again unearthed fresh challenges from the geography of France for the three-week slog, with new climbs and, on stage 18, an unprecedented mountain-top finish on the punishing Col dIzoard high in the Alps -- a rocky, hostile and lunar terrain that could be the final big battleground for the winners check of 500,000 euros ($550,000).Thats going to be one of the really decisive stages, said Froome, the race winner for Team Sky in 2013, 2015 and again this year.Before that, on stage 12 in the Pyrenees, the Tour climbs to the Peyragudes ski station where parts of the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies were filmed in 1997.From its July 1 start in Dusseldorf, Germany, to the July 23 finish on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, the 3,516-kilometer (2,185-mile) route will wind over climbs in the Vosges, Jura, Massif Central, Pyrenees and Alps. Not since the Tour of 1992 have organizers made riders take on all five mountain ranges.It looks hard, said Australian rider Richie Porte, who finished fifth for the BMC Racing team this year.The toughest climbs -- graded two, one and unclassified on cyclings rising scale of difficulty -- will be slightly fewer next year: 23 in total compared to 28 this year and 25 in both 2015 and 2014. But they will be scattered across a 14 day-spread, rather than being concentrated in two blocks in the Alps and Pyrenees, and will include six especially teeth-grindingly steep ascents. The Col du Grand Colombier in the Jura has 22-percent gradients. Riders will have to arrive at the Tour in good climbing form, and maintain that strength, to compete for the title.With just three mountain-top finishes, including the Izoard, that are so often decisive on the Tour, title contenders like Froome may have to also race hard on other terrains to shake off their rivals.Its definitely going to be a climbers race from what I can tell, Froome, who was at the route unveiling in Paris, told cyclingnews.com. Its very light on time-trial kilometres but thats all part of the race and thats something Im going to have to focus my training on, being the best I can be on the climbs.Certainly, from my first reaction there were quite a few stages going up over 2,000 metres. The Izoard goes up to 2,300 metres; thats going to be an absolute beast of a stage. Initial feelings are that its going to be a race that is won or lost in the mountains. Of course, its the Tour and anything can happen so we have to be ready for all eventualities.Just five days in, the 198 riders will face the relatively short but very sharp shock of climbing to the Planche des Belles Filles ski station in the Vosges, with leg-searing 20-percent gradients, in eastern France.The first big shake-up, Porte said.With little time for riders to catch their breath, the Tour then swings south for more climbs on stages eight and nine in the Jura, before crossing France to the west.The peloton will spend one very long day -- 214 kilometers (133 miles) -- followed by one short one -- 100 kilometers (62 miles) -- in the Pyrenees. The race then heads north again to the Massif Central range, where climbs and possible strong winds up high could catch out unwitting riders on stage 15 to Le Puy-en-Velay, part of it on roads so off the beaten track that they dont appear on some maps.The sort of stage where we can hope for unusual things to happen, said race director Thierry Gouvenou, who helped draw up the route.Two individual time trials -- the first over 13 kilometers (8 miles) on day one in Dusseldorf; the last, over 23 kilometers (14 miles), on the penultimate stage in Marseille -- will bookend the Tour before the finish in Paris but promise to be too short to be decisive in the overall outcome.Its very light on time trials, so, for sure, the race is going to be won or lost depending on what happens in the mountains, said Froome, who named two-time runner-up Quintana first among his list of expected rivals. Im going to have to be as good as I can be in the mountains. 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PHOENIX -- Jake Lamb and Phil Gosselin each hit two-run homers during a five-run fifth inning to help the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Milwaukee Brewers 9-3 on Sunday.Lamb got his 24th homer for a 5-3 lead against starter Jimmy Nelson, and Gosselin delivered a pinch-hit homer off reliever Michael Blazek to make it 8-3. The Diamondbacks matched the single-inning club record for extra-base hits with five.Daniel Hudson (2-2) won by getting the final out in the the fifth in relief of starter Archie Bradley.Nelson (6-11) allowed six earned runs and seven hits in 4 1/3 innings. 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