OLYMPIC gold medalist Bradley Wiggins revealed he will train on Kent's roads this winter ahead of the Tour de France stage from London to Canterbury on July 8 2007.

Speaking at the launch party in Paris for this year's Tour de France, Wiggins said: "I will probably check out the Kent stage in December or January. We'll definitely do one day in Kent. I don't think any of the other teams will be checking it out."

Wiggins, who rides for the French team Cofidis, is tipped to do well in the previous day's prologue trial in London, played down his chances of winning the stage, saying: "I think it's really a stage for the sprinters but you never know - someone might be able to get away in the final few kilometres."

There were few surprises at Thursday's press conference. The race organisers confirmed that the Kent stage would start in Greenwich before heading along the north Kent coast, through Erith, Dartford and Gravesend to Gillingham.

The riders will then travel through the Medway tunnel, usually closed to cyclists, before heading over Blue Bell Hill and passing through Maidstone, Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells and Ashford, on their way to the stage finish in Cantebury.