French sports daily L'Equipe is the place to look for the latest on the Tour de France, the country's big yearly sporting event. The time trial around Annecy has all but decided the winner of this year's Tour, with Spanish rider Alberto Contador winning both the stage and mainting the leader's emblematic yellow jersey. L'Equipe compares Contador's style to that of Miguel Indurain, Spain's last big cycling hero.

So far, this year's Tour de France has been free of any doping controversies. This, of course, could still change. A first critical voice is that of three-time Tour winner Greg LeMond. The American wants Contador to prove we can believe in a rider this good. According to LeMond, writing in Le Monde, Contador's time trial performance was "too good to be true." One thing is for sure, Contador can cycle up a hill quicker than anyone before him.

French daily Aujourd'hui en France is worried the country might not be ready in time for a big outbreak of swine flu. The A (H1N1) flu virus is spreading in France but a vaccine will not be ready until October or November. The paper thinks it is time to "cross our fingers and hope that the expected pandemic doesn’t arrive in France before September."

Another story making the rounds in France today: summer fires in the South and in Southern Corsica. Regional paper Corse-Matin headlines with the one word: "Hell." 4000 hectars of forest and scrubland have been destroyed on the island. Another regional daily, this time Vaucluse from the South East of the country, is titled "Anger and grief." The scrubland fires close to the Southern city of Marseille were started through a firing exercise by the French army.