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Key roles ahead for kiwis Smith and Strong in 2023 Tour de France

Two kiwis, one a season professional and the other a rookie, line-up in the 110th edition of cycling’s famed Tour de France which sets off from the port city of Bilbao in northern Spain at the weekend.

Dion Smith from Intermache-Circus-Wanty and Corbin Strong from Israel-Premier Tech line-up among the 176 starters from 22 teams to compete over 3,407kms – the equivalent of riding from Whangarei to Queenstown and return – over 21 stages with two rest days.

Smith is a seasoned professional who will start in his fourth Grand Tour – his third time at the Tour de France along with the Vuelta a Espana in 2019, while Strong will make his debut in just his second year on cycling’s grand stage.

His Belgian-based team, who reached WorldTour status for the first time this year 15 years after they were formed, have their eyes on a stage win for the Eritrean star Biniam Girmay, with Smith one of the key experienced riders to set-up the sprint.

Strong has tasted success on the track, a World and Commonwealth Games gold medallist, who is in his second year of an initial three-year contract with Israel Premier-Tech. While the high profile team were relegated from the WorldTour, they have competed in basically all the major races under invitation.

The Southlander, who turned 23 recently, has turned heads after winning the opening stage of the Tour of Britain last year.

"It's always been the dream. It's like every kid growing up wanting to be an All Black, that's how it felt for me," Strong said.

Strong said that he has learned to get the balance right between endurance to last long distance stages but to be able to retain his explosive speed for sprint finishes.

He showed that this year with second placing on the La Route d’Occitanie and third in a stage in the Volta á Catalunya.

The kiwi pair will attempt to become the first New Zealanders to win an individual stage of the Tour de France, although four kiwis have won stages as part of the Team Time Trial – Chris Jenner in 2001, Julian Dean in 2011, Patrick Bevin in 2018 and George Bennett in 2019.

The Tour de France begins on Sunday (NZ Time) with two hilly stages in Spain before crossing into France and early climbs in the Pyrenees, heading north before a mountain climb in the Massif Central ahead of the first rest day.

The second week is sprint mostly going uphill with only one flat stage and mountain climbs including Grand Colombier, Morzine and Mont Blanc.

The final week is a mix with the pivotal individual time trial, mountain stages of Courchevel and pivotal penultimate stage in a ski resort in the Vosges Mountains near the German border ahead of the famed final day into Paris.

New Zealand interest will be with Smith and Strong, and with cycling New Zealand’s Director Sportif for road racing, Craig Geater who will be honoured in his 20 th   Tour de France in his role as a senior WorldTour team mechanic.

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Tour de France 2023 - Comprehensive team-by-team guide

A full rundown of all the teams, their leaders, and riders to watch at this year's race

This is your comprehensive team-by-team guide of all 22 teams and 176 riders competing in the 2023 Tour de France, which starts in Bilbao on Saturday, July 1.

All 18 WorldTour teams and the two best-ranked ProTeams, Lotto Dstny and TotalEnergies, are automatically invited. Race organisers ASO also gave wildcard entries to Israel-Premier Tech and Uno-X.

Budgets, calibre of riders and pre-race goals vary immensely. UAE-Team Emirates, led by their superstar Tadej Pogačar, are squarely focused on Tour de France glory.

Other teams, such as Lidl-Trek and Alpecin-Deceuninck, are gunning for stage victories. There are those, like Uno-X and Cofidis, who will regularly be up the road in breakaways, dreaming of an unlikely Tour stage triumph. Then there’s Jumbo-Visma, the team of defending champion Jonas Vingegaard and green jersey winner Wout van Aert, who could feasibly challenge for every stage.

Circumstances such as crashes, COVID-19 positive and mechanical problems can quickly change pre-race ambitions.

Whatever happens on the road between Bilbao and Paris, every team will want to make an impression and enjoy success. We look through every squad, assessing their leaders, objectives and chances of success.

AG2R-Citroën

• Team leader: Ben O’Connor
• Objective: GC and stage wins
• Rider to watch: Benoît Cosnefroy

It’s a big test for Ben O’Connor as he seeks to back-up his breakthrough fourth place from 2021. Last year’s Tour was crash-addled, most damagingly for his ambitions on the cobbled stage to Arenberg where he dropped over three minutes to his fellow contenders. He abandoned before stage 10 with a torn glute.

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This season has gone more smoothly. The man from Perth was sixth at the Tour Down Under and finished third at June’s Critérium du Dauphiné, coming into form at the right time.

The 27-year-old will be shepherded in the winds and on the flat by Belgian bodyguard Oliver Naesen but Greg Van Avermaet, who was not selected for a final Tour de France ride before he retires.

Giro d'Italia stage winner Aurélien Paret-Peintre doubles up while there is a Tour debut for former junior world champion Felix Gall. The Austrian climber shone at the Tour de Suisse, winning a stage.

In the French team’s 30th Tour appearance, stage wins will not be sacrificed in the name of GC ambitions. A triumph in the race’s final week, on a stage close to their Alpine base in Chambéry, would send them into raptures.

Alpecin-Deceuninck

• Team leaders: Jasper Philipsen, Mathieu van der Poel
• Objective: Stage wins
• Riders to watch: The leaders

Alpecin-Deceuninck only joined the WorldTour this season but they’ve been outperforming most top-tier teams for years, including in their two previous Tour de France performances.

No GC rider? No worries. In Jasper Philipsen and Mathieu van der Poel, they have two of the sport’s stars and prime candidates for stage wins.

The flying Dutchman was the man of the spring with his Milan-San Remo and Paris-Roubaix triumphs. He was unusually off colour at last year’s Tour but after a lighter racing schedule this time round, missing out on the Giro d'Italia, we can expect a different Van der Poel. He will be hoping for another stage win or spell in the yellow jersey to match his 2021 performance.

Additionally, Van der Poel can be an ultimate domestique deluxe and lead-out supporter for Philipsen. The Belgian sprinter has six wins in the bag this year, including a recent one outgunning rival Fabio Jakobsen at the Baloise Belgium Tour. In a closely-matched field of fast men, he’s a nose ahead of the rest.

Philipsen broke his Tour duck with sprint wins in Carcassonne and on the Champs-Elysées last year. There ought to be more victories this time round and a clearer shot at the green jersey, given Wout van Aert’s uncertainty about finishing the Tour due to the forthcoming birth of his second child.

New to the team this season, Søren Kragh Andersen could also threaten on rolling breakaway days. His paymasters would no doubt love a repeat of his Tour stage brace from 2020.

Astana Qazaqstan

• Team leaders: Mark Cavendish, Alexey Lutsenko

It’s the last dance for Mark Cavendish, a final Tour de France before retiring, one more chance to add to his prolific tally of stage wins. 

Twelve months ago, few would have expected his partner to be the Kazakhstani boys in blue but the team has a new jersey and new ambitions in the sprints.

Cees Bol will serve as a guiding light in the hectic bunch sprint finales. If the Giro d’Italia is anything to go by, there will be times the “Manx Missile” is surfing other lead-out trains in the final kilometres too.

Cavendish took a hard-fought stage win in Rome after fighting over the mountains. There ought to be more opportunities for sprint success at the Tour than the Giro, but an even higher level of rivals too. 

Taking a 35th Tour de France stage win to move above Eddy Merckx in the all-time list would be a fairytale achievement for Cavendish, fourteen years since his first triumph. 

The 38-year-old is just as determined as day one, even if the super-powered lead-out and devastating acceleration of his heyday are not quite there. Whether Cavendish achieves it or not will likely define Astana Qazaqstan’s race.

Alexey Lutsenko will be the team’s GC man, looking to improve on his seventh and eighth place finishes in 2021 and 2022.

Things surely can’t go worse than last year’s anonymous performance. Astana Qazaqstan featured in few breakaways or stage top-10s. They finished bottom of the race-ending prize list, earning a meagre €15,000 – barely enough to cover the team bus petrol expenses.

Bahrain Victorious

• Team leaders: Mikel Landa, Pello Bilbao
• Riders to watch: Fred Wright, Matej Mohoric

Bahrain Victorious have a variety of different options in their well-rounded line-up. 

Experienced Basque climber Mikel Landa will be leading their challenge. A fourth place finisher in 2017 and 2020, he will surely be in the fight for a similar finish this time round. The lack of time-trial kilometres plays massively in his favour.

Bahrain Victorious won the team classification in 2021 and they have one of the most formidable climbing line-ups here. Landa’s fellow Basque, Pello Bilbao, offers back-up and a Plan B, showing his good legs at the Tour de Suisse.

They’ll be gunning for a stage win or two, having gone away empty-handed from a 2022 edition damaged by Jack Haig’s race-ending crash on the cobbles.

Affected by COVID-19 last summer, Matej Mohorič is back to his best and attacking Briton Fred Wright offers another versatile option for breakaways.

Bahrain Victorious are still grieving the loss of Gino Mäder. They will be riding for him after his death following a crash at the Tour de Suisse, determined to dedicate him at least a stage victory.

Bora-Hansgrohe

• Team leader: Jai Hindley
• Rider to watch: The leader

A year after winning the Giro d’Italia, Jai Hindley heads to the 2023 Tour de France with ambitions of adding a maillot jaune to his maglia rosa. He will lead the German team, Bora-Hansgrohe, on a mountainous route that suits his qualities perfectly.

Hindley narrowly missed out on a podium place at the Critérium du Dauphiné, finishing 20 seconds behind Australian compatriot Ben O’Connor (AG2R-Citroën), but he was pleased with his form leading into his main goal of the season.

Acting as key mountain domestiques will be Bob Jungels, winner of stage 9 at last year’s Tour and Emanuel Buchmann, who finished fourth overall at the 2019 edition of the race. 

Bora-Hansgrohe will also be hunting sprint stages with Jungels, Nils Politt and Jordi Meeus. He has surprisingly been given the nod as the sprint option, ahead of former two-time stage winner at the Tour and green jersey winner, Sam Bennett.

Meeus will make his debut at the Tour and will benefit from the luxury of having Danny van Poppel, one of the best lead-out riders in the world, working to launch him to the line on the eight possible sprint stages. 

Van Poppel has succeeded at delivering Bennett into winning positions throughout the last two seasons, but the Irishman has failed to deliver consistent results since claiming a brace of wins at last year’s Vuelta a España.

• Team leaders: Guillaume Martin, Bryan Coquard
• Rider to watch: Simon Geschke

The French squad are part of the race furniture at the Tour, making their 27th appearance. But it’s 15 years and counting since their last Tour de France stage win, a breakaway by Sylvain Chavanel.

Last year, they came close. Solo attacker Benjamin Thomas was caught 400 metres from the finish in Carcassonne and Simon Geschke lost the King of the Mountains jersey to Jonas Vingegaard on the last significant mountain stage.

Who can end the drought and heartache? Guillaume Martin is a trusty candidate for a top-10 finish. He has a history of following breakaways and yo-yoing up and down the general classification, gaining time one day, losing it the next. A stage win would arguably be more valuable than a peripheral GC finish.

This is a team geared for breakaways. Veteran climbers Simon Geschke and Ion Izaguirre have won past Tour stages up the road.

There’s also Bryan Coquard to mix it in the punchier bunch sprints. He’s got unfinished business after missing out last year due to a COVID-19 positive.

EF Education-EasyPost

• Team leader: Richard Carapaz
• Rider to watch: Neilson Powless

Olympic Champion Richard Carapaz joined EF Education-EasyPost as a proven Grand Tour winner and contender for 2023. The Ecuadorian finished third at the Tour in 2021 behind Pogačar and Vingegaard, and can live with the very best on his day.

Carapaz will ride in the Ecuadorian national champion’s jersey after winning it on his debut for Jonathan Vaughters' team but hasn’t been in the best form throughout 2023. He has only won two races and, despite trying to race aggressively at the Dauphiné, wasn’t able to follow Vingegaard or the rest.

He’ll be backed up by a team focused on solidifying his GC position alongside trying to get into breakaways and capture stages. Alberto Bettiol, Magnus Cort and Neilson Powless are capable of winning on a multitude of parcours.

Cort took a wonderful win into Megève in 2022 and always seems to perform at the biggest races when his team needs it most. 

Powless rode a great Classics, finishing in the top seven of Milan-San Remo and the Tour of Flanders and will be eyeing up a maiden stage win at the Tour and perhaps an early spell in the yellow jersey. 

The American also has great memories in the Basque Country, having won the Clásica San Sebastián in 2021, so should be on show in the first week.

Groupama-FDJ

• Team leader: David Gaudu
• Rider to watch: Thibaut Pinot

Groupama-FDJ had a controversial initial roster announcement for the Tour de France, due to the omission of top French sprinter, Arnaud Démare, and the focus placed primarily on David Gaudu’s general classification hopes. 

Team manager Marc Madiot’s decision to leave Démare out was curious given how there could be as many as eight chances for the sprinters.

Gaudu finished a career-best fourth in last year’s Tour and will be hoping to go one better and reach the podium. His form has, however, fluctuated throughout 2023 with an impressive second place finish at Paris-Nice being offset by an underwhelming 30th at the recent Critérium du Dauphiné.

Stefan Küng will be on domestique duty as a rouleur and versatile puncheur and new French national champion Valentin Madouas will play a key support role in the mountains.

The French team will still hunt stages through the likes of Quentin Pacher, who was excellent at last year’s Vuelta a España and finished in the top six on four stages.

Thibaut Pinot will start his final Tour de France after announcing his retirement in January. 

Cycling fans will be willing him to chase stages with the hope he strikes at the Tour one final time. Despite narrowly falling to win a stage at the Giro d’Italia, Pinot won the mountains classification and finished fifth overall on GC, showing he’s more than capable of performing well in the Tour.

If Pinot is unable to achieve a fairytale ending and Gaudu doesn’t replicate his top-four finish, Madiot may rue the decision to snub Démare.

Ineos Grenadiers

• Team leader: Dani Martínez and Carlos Rodríguez.
• Objective: GC
• Rider to watch: Tom Pidcock

We’ve reached a strange moment in the British team’s history as they again lack a clear leader or a top-five favourite. They line-up for the Grand Depart in the Basque Country with former winner Egan Bernal after his long journey back to recovery following his life-threatening crash in 2022, but it’s still too soon to expect a charge for the yellow jersey from the Colombian.

He has performed well in the lead-up, despite recurring knee issues and crashes plaguing his 2023 season, and it was a delight to see Bernal back in the front group in at the Dauphiné where he finished 12th overall.

Bernal’s compatriot Dani Martínez is likely the strongest overall candidate for Ineos despite a lack of form and 23rd overall at the Critérium du Dauphiné.

Ineos will experiment and look to learn for the future with young GC hopes in Tom Pidcock and Carlos Rodríguez. 

Pidcock rode an exciting debut Tour last year with the highlight his victory atop the legendary Alpe d’Huez. He and Ineos want even more this year with another stage win and a top ten overall possible for Pidcock.

Rodríguez finished ninth and Best Young Rider at the Dauphiné and has Grand Tour talent. He has been linked to a move to Movistar for 2024 but a strong ride with Ineos at the Tour could change everything.

Team manager Rod Ellingworth and lead directeur sportif Steve Cummings can count on the experienced Michał Kwiatkowski and Jonathan Castroviejo to protect the leaders across the three weeks. The latter two won their respective national time trial championships in Poland and Spain a week before the start in Bilbao.

Also in the Ineos final eight at Omar Fraile and debutant Ben Turner. 

Intermarché - Circus - Wanty

• Team leaders: Biniam Girmay and Louis Meintjes
• Rider to watch: Biniam Girmay

Biniam Girmay is perhaps the most eagerly anticipated debutant at this year’s Tour de France. 

The Eritrean made history for African cycling by winning Gent-Wevelgem and a stage of the Giro d’Italia last year, and it would be no surprise if he were to write another chapter at this year's Tour.

A rapid finisher with the ability to hang tough on some rugged terrain, Girmay won’t lack opportunities on this Tour, and he warmed up for the main event with a stage victory at the Tour de Suisse. It was a reassuring win for the 23-year-old after a Classics campaign beset by bad luck, and he travels to France with justifiable confidence.

Louis Meintjes quietly rode himself into seventh overall at last year’s Tour, the third top-ten finish of his career, and the South African has the ability and the form to replicate that showing in 2023. His last outing before the Tour came at the Dauphiné, where his consistency carried him to seventh overall again.

Georg Zimmerman, a stage winner at the Dauphiné, also features, alongside former World Champion Rui Costa and Lilian Calmejane. Mike Teunissen, winner on the opening day in 2019, lines up as part of Girmay’s lead-out train with Adrien Petit.

Jumbo-Visma

• Team leader: Jonas Vingegaard, Wout van Aert
• Objective: Win the Tour
• Riders to watch: Christophe Laporte, Sepp Kuss

It was a surprise when Jonas Vingegaard decisively cracked Tadej Pogačar on the Col du Granon last year but he went on to show that he was the strongest in the Tour. 

The Dane was steely, sportsmanlike and unbending in the face of the Slovenian’s numerous attacks. Is there yet more to come from the defending champion this summer?

He has kicked on from his victory, dominating at O Gran Camino and Itzulia Basque Country. Confidence will be high after two stage wins and an emphatic victory at the recent Critérium du Dauphiné. The only blot on his copybook this year is his third place at Paris-Nice, beaten by Pogačar, who could be affected by his fractured wrist.

The Dutch-registered team were the stand-out performers at last year’s race. They became the first team in 25 years to win both the yellow and green jersey. While they have gone from being the hunters to the hunted after their first Tour de France title, the same core team returns in 2023.

Wout van Aert is on board as a Mr. Do-It-All, a leader for bunch sprints, time-trials, punchy hill finishes and key helper for Vingegaard.

As the recent Netflix Tour de France documentary Unchained showed, it’s not always easy for this star-studded squad to accommodate multiple lofty ambitions. However, the Belgian has suggested he won't target the green jersey and could even abandon the race to be present for the birth of his second child.

Fresh off his lieutenant role to Primož Roglič at the Giro d’Italia, American Sepp Kuss will offer invaluable support as last man in the mountains, aided in support by Tiesj Benoot.

Christophe Laporte was a candidate for most improved rider last season. He can climb in the hills, protect on the flat, ride in the wind, sprint and attack to victory, as we saw with his poacher’s stage win in Cahors. A powerful new face in the engine room for Jumbo-Visma is 2022 Paris-Roubaix winner Dylan van Baarle.

Overall, Jumbo-Visma can win on several fronts. Rather than sitting back, they will likely look to capitalise on their strength-in-depth with race-making, proactive moves.

• Team leader: Enric Mas
• Rider to watch: Matteo Jorgenson

It will be a special 41st appearance for the long-running Spanish squad with the Grand Depart in the Basque Country, and they will be hoping Mas can bounce back from his underwhelming performance at the 2022 Tour that eventually ended in him abandoning due to COVID-19.

Mas has been far from his best in one-week stages throughout 2023, but he’s rarely entered a Grand Tour with a whole host of big results behind him and tends to bring it together in the three-week tests.

The 28-year-old has on three occasions been runner-up at the Vuelta a España and has finished in the top six of the Tour twice. Mas will be relishing a great chance to podium the Tour with the only time trial being 22km and hilly. 

Alongside Mas will be the versatile Matteo Jorgenson. The young American has been a stand-out in 2023, taking his first professional wins at the Tour of Oman, securing a top ten at the Tour of Flanders and coming second at the Tour de Romandie.

Jorgenson came painstakingly close to a stage win at last year’s Tour, finishing in the top five three times from the break. He could play a support role for Mas while hunting stages if given the freedom.

Movistar will race in a special white ‘iceberg’ kit for the 2023 race which will be auctioned to raise funds for ocean protection, with Gorka Izagirre, Alex Aranburu and Ruben Guerreiro also key riders.

Soudal-QuickStep

• Team leader: Fabio Jakobsen and Julian Alaphilippe
• Rider to watch: the leaders

The Belgian team have long been a stage-hunting side at the Tour, often lining up with the best sprinter in the world, be that Mark Cavendish or Marcel Kittel. 

Fabio Jakobsen is the latest sprinter to take up the mantle and he secured his first win at the Tour on debut last year after coming back from a life-threatening crash in 2020.

Jakobsen is one of the fastest sprinters in the peloton but hasn’t quite clicked with the Quickstep lead-out, perhaps due to Michael Mørkøv long absence in the spring due to injury. However the Dane is back for the Tour and is renowned as one of the best in the lead-out business.

Jakobsen took two wins at the Baloise Belgium Tour ahead of the Tour against a top-tier sprint field and will be hoping for much more than his solitary win at the 2022 race.

Soudal-QuickStep will also look to Julian Alaphilippe for stage wins after he missed last year's race due to his terrible Liege-Bastogne-Liege crash. 

The two-time World Champion returned to winning ways at World Tour level at the Dauphiné and sent a message to everyone with his celebration: Calm down, I'm back, he signalled after sprinting easily to victory.

The swashbuckling Frenchman should light up the opening stage in the Basque Country with dreams of another early stint in the yellow jersey.

Arkéa-Samsic

• Team leader: Warren Barguil
• Rider to watch: Clement Champoussin

The French team have long been a recipient of one of the wildcard invitations to the Tour de France but after being awarded WorldTour status at the end of the 2022 season, they have automatically qualified for their home race.

Significant moves were made in their ambitions after signing French rider Warren Barguil to lead them at the Tour from 2018 onwards, but the talented climber hasn’t yet won them a stage. He’s more than capable and twice finished in the top-four of stages at the Giro d’Italia this season, so there’s still hope for 'Wawa.'

Clément Champoussin and Luca Mozzato will be hoping to use their consistent ability to finish in the top ten and extend that to a win.

Champoussin won a memorable stage at the Vuelta two years ago after attacking from the GC group and if he is present during the break on a hilly day, could have a great chance of victory.

Jayco-AlUla

• Team leader: Simon Yates, Dylan Groenewegen

Altitude training is de rigueur for any serious Tour de France contender, but Simon Yates took it to an extreme this year. When he lines up in Bilbao on July 1, he will have not raced since stage two of the Tour de Romandie in late April, much of it spent high at altitude at his home in Andorra.

The 30-year-old will hope less is more in his challenge for the podium. His busier spring ticked all the boxes, with a stage win and second at the Tour Down Under and fourth in Paris-Nice.

He’ll be sharing some limelight with sprinter Dylan Groenewegen, an early stage winner last year.

With six victories so far, including a brace at the recent Tour of Slovenia, he’ll have the belief that he can add to his Tour tally. Luka Mezgec can help guide the Dutchman and Luke Durbridge will call the shots as road captain.

DSM-Firmenich

• Team leader: Romain Bardet
• Rider to watch: Sam Welsford

The Dutch team comes to the Tour with a new team name - Team DSM-Firmenich - and potentially new stars to be made. 

In his second season on the WorldTour, bunch sprinter Sam Welsford has gone up a level, winning two races and regularly featuring on the podium. It would be a whistlestop journey to the top if he can taste glory in France.

DSM-Firmenich have a reputation for bringing through new talent, as well as a challenging leadership style.

Theirs is a young team with a savvy, battle-hardened leader in Romain Bardet. The 32-year-old has been inside the top ten of every stage race he’s completed this season.

Last summer, he finished sixth at the Tour. It might have been more, had he not lost several minutes on a sweltering stage to Foix. 

Extra motivation comes in the shape of stage finishes in his home city of Clermont-Ferrand and on the nearby Puy de Dôme.

• Team leader: Giulio Ciccone and Mads Pedersen
• Objective: Stage wins and green jersey
• Rider to watch: Mattias Skjelmose

Having missed the Giro d'Italia due to a COVID-19 positive, Giulio Ciccone will lead a talented Lidl-Trek side riding under that name for the first time. 

The Italian recently extended his contract with the US-registered team until 2027 and has more than earned the leadership spot with a blistering start to the season.

Ciccone won the final stage of the Criterium du Dauphiné and has consistently performed on GC at each race this season. The 28-year-old is very punchy and could also snap up bonus seconds in the first week.

Mattias Skjelmose should be there as support and after his mature ride that saw him take victory at the Tour de Suisse, the 22-year-old could also challenge for stage wins on some of the hardest days from the break if given the opportunity by his team.

The real push for stages in the Lidl-Trek camp will come from former World Champion, Mads Pedersen. The powerful Dane took his first Tour de France win from the break in 2022, and he may have to adopt similar tactics if he is to claim another.

The sprint field is set to be stacked with as many as eight possible chances for a bunch sprint. Pedersen is no slouch in a sprint, but his top-end speed may not be as high as Jakobsen, Philipsen or Groenewegen. 

• UAE Team Emirates
• Team leader: Tadej Pogačar
• Objective: Yellow jersey

UAE Team Emirates have one clear goal: winning the Tour de France with Pogačar. 

The Slovenian superstar was denied his third yellow jersey in as many years after being well-beaten by Vingegaard in the high mountains and will be looking to bounce back at the 2023 Tour.

Pogačar produced a spring classics campaign for the ages and dominated with an air of invincibility. Paris-Nice, The Tour of Flanders, Fleche Wallonne and Amstel Gold Race. 

His onslaught of wins was halted however, by a crash at Liège-Bastogne-Liège where he fractured the scaphoid bone in his hand and was forced to take time off the bike. This may have been timely after such an arduous spring and his training schedule hasn’t been overly disrupted.

It’s difficult to find a parcours that doesn't suit Pogačar’s abilities and he will want to maximise his bonus seconds on the punchier stages, especially in the first week.

Pogačar returned to racing at the Slovenian national time trial championships where he took an emphatic victory, albeit against a weak field, 5:14 ahead of the runner up on a 15.7km route. He then dominated the road race too.

UAE Emirates have named a strong team that includes Adam Yates - a co-leader according to team manager Mauro Gianetti, plus Marc Soler and Rafał Majka to provide the final pull for Pogačar on the toughest climbing days.

The Polish super-domestique has worked well with Adam Yates in 2023, helping the Brit win the Tour de Romandie and finish second at the Critérium du Dauphiné, behind only Vingegaard.

Mikkel Bjerg, Felix Großschartner, Matteo Trentin and Vegard Stake Laengen form the core of the team to protect Pogačar.

Lotto-Dstny

• Team leader: Caleb Ewan
• Rider to watch: Maxim Van Gils

The Belgian team were relegated from the UCI WorldTour at the end of 2022 but still received an invitation as one of the two top-ranked ProTeams. 

They haven’t won a stage of the Tour de France since 2020 and will be desperately trying to rectify that in 2023 with their headline sprinter Caleb Ewan.

It’s no surprise to see Ewan backed up by Jasper de Buyst, who will be his last man in the lead-out and veteran lead-out specialist, Jacopo Guarnieri, who they signed from Groupama-FDJ at the end of the season to bolster their train.

Ewan won three stages in 2019 and two in 2020. Since then, he’s been without luck or a consistent lead-out but doesn’t appear to have lost his top-end speed. 

The Australian fast man had a tough 2022 season, crashing in the opening stage of the Giro and on the gruelling cobbled stage at the Tour. He suffered another setback at the Baloise Belgium Tour after crashing and staying down for some time before getting back on his bike.

Outside of Ewan, one of their riders to watch is young star Maxim Van Gils, who has impressed throughout 2023. The 23-year-old finished in the top eleven of all three Ardennes Classics and fifth in stages one and two of the Dauphiné. Look to see him feature in the punchy days or alongside another of Lotto Dstny’s new signings, Pascal Eenkhoorn, in the breakaway.

Victor Campenaerts was also a late selection and will surely go on the attack on multiple stages. 

TotalEnergies

• Team leader: Peter Sagan
• Objective: stage wins
• Rider to watch: Anthony Turgis

This is one of the oldest line-ups in the race. Several squad members have Tour de France success in their past and will be looking to show that they aren’t yesterday’s men: Alexis Vuillermoz, Maciej Bodnar, Edvald Boasson Hagen and, last but certainly not least, Peter Sagan.

It will be the last Tour de France for the retiring, but never shy, Slovakian. He has seven points jerseys and a dozen stage wins to his name. While his best days are behind him, you can never write off Sagan. Several fourth and fifth places in bunch sprints at the 2022 race showed the legs are still there.

TotalEnergies will be active in breakaways, but a stage win would make their year. They need a pick-me-up after a fallow year too, with only one victory in Europe so far.

Uno-X Pro Cycling

• Team leader: Alexander Kristoff
• Rider to watch: Torsten Traæn

The Norwegian squad are the fresh-faced debutants in the pack. Gaining a wild card from the race organisers in January was a first victory for them.

They are on a journey of discovery at the sport’s top level and there is no more brutal testing ground than the Tour de France to show where they belong.

Expect these underdogs to light up the race with many attacks while also working to set up veteran sprinter Alexander Kristoff.

Uno-X have several promising youngsters, waiting to make a name for themselves. 

U23 TT world champion Søren Wærenskjold packs a powerful sprint. Then there’s mountain men Tobias Halland Johannessen, who won the 2021 Tour de l’Avenir and Torsten Træen, who was eighth at the Critérium du Dauphiné. They could surprise a fair few observers.

Israel-Premier Tech

• Team leader: Michael Woods and Dylan Teuns
• Rider to watch: Corbin Strong

Despite their relegation from the UCI WorldTour at the end of the 2022 season, Israel-Premier Tech were one of the two teams that received an invitation to the Tour de France as a wildcard. It’s their fourth participation at the Tour and they will have high expectations after securing two emotional and inspiring victories in 2022 through Simon Clarke and Hugo Houle.

As a whole, the Israeli team impressed fans at the Giro d’Italia with their mainly young squad riding an attacking race where they targeted the majority of breakaways. Their Tour team features much of their older contingent, but hopefully, the same style of racing will be adopted. Clarke and Houle have both been selected again to get into breaks.

Michael Woods and Dylan Teuns have shown the best climbing form in recent weeks with Woods winning the Route d'Occitanie and Teuns finishing ninth at the Tour de Suisse, despite barely figuring on the radar for much of the race.

Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome was expected to start, ten years after he won his first Grand Boucle for Team Sky but he was left out for a squad the team believed was better suited to their goals.

Stage hunting will be the agenda for the whole three weeks with Corbin Strong and Nick Schultz making the eight-man roster. 

Strong is a quick finisher with a great track-racing background and could be very dangerous from a break, while Schultz came agonisingly close to a stage win in Megève at last year’s Tour, so he’ll be hoping for another chance at victory here.

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Ally Wollaston’s friends – the ones who don’t know too much about cycling – have always asked her the same thing before she heads overseas on another trip.

“Are you doing the Tour de France this year?” they’d say.

Her answer was always the same.

“Well, no. The Tour de France is just for the men,” she’d replied.

Not anymore.

Wollaston and her Kiwi compatriot Henrietta Christie will line up in the Tour de France Femmes on Monday, an eight-day race that finally gives women’s cycling the grand stage it so desperately deserves.

The event starts in Paris as the men’s Tour de France finishes, with both races sprinting over the iconic Champs-Élysées circuit on the same day.

In total, the women will ride over 1000km, before ultimately arriving at the summit of the unforgiving La Super Planche des Belles Filles climb. The race has worldwide television coverage – often a luxury for women’s cycling – and over $400,000 (NZ) of prizemoney up for grabs.

“I feel like I’m a little kid talking about her crush or something, it’s ridiculous,” laughs Wollaston, as she sizes up the significance of the Tour. 

If she can’t quite believe it, then neither can Christie.

“You’ve got to pinch yourself every now and again that we finally have a women’s Tour de France,” says Christie, who hails from Christchurch. 

There have been various iterations of a women’s event before. Between 1984-1989, an 18-day race was held at the same time as the men along a similar, but shortened, route. Then there was La Course by Le Tour de France, which was a one-or-two stage event from 2014-2021.

This time is different.

“Everyone knows the Tour de France, even if you’re not into cycling, and to have the women’s version of that and to be televised, it’s helping close that gap which is really cool,” Christie says.

Wollaston agrees. “You can see from all the live streams of the racing now that these women in Europe are just amazing. The way that they’re racing, the aggressiveness of it, the shape that all these women are in is just unbelievable. I think the Tour de France Femmes just raises awareness of women’s sport in general,” she says.

The two Kiwis grew up with the Tour de France. Wollaston would watch the highlights with her dad the next morning, while Christie used to view it religiously with her parents, even before she started cycling.

And now they’ll be transported from their lounges in New Zealand to the famous roads of France. Wollaston is riding the first three stages for her AG Insurance–NXTG team, before leaving early so she can compete on the track for her country at the Commonwealth Games. She’s a former world junior 2000m individual pursuit champion.

“I am expecting it to be a little bit overwhelming. I’ve only ever done one Women’s WorldTour race – Ride London – and even that was such a big step for me. I don’t know if I’m ready for the Tour de France, but I’m doing it anyway,” she laughs.

The 21-year-old is downplaying her ability, especially after a rollicking second season with her Dutch development team. She collected podium positions at the Tour de Bretagne in May, before outsprinting a pair of WorldTour riders to claim an incredible victory at GP Morbihan later that month.

“The results really came through thick and fast, and I think they were really surprising. I knew I was capable of doing well over here, but I just didn’t know it would be so soon,” she says.

Wollaston, a part-time law student, initially struggled to get used to navigating the bunch when she first arrived in Europe, transitioning from riding with 30 riders in New Zealand, to over 100 on foreign overseas roads.

Her first season was all about getting comfortable in the washing machine-like chaos of the peloton. When she arrived at Bretagne earlier this year, she told herself that whatever happened, she just wanted to get involved in one bunch sprint.

On the opening day she did, and she came third.

“I think that first result for me was a really big wakeup call to actually just try and get in amongst the racing, and to stop being a passenger and back myself a little bit more,” she says.

The first two stages, and potentially the third, of the Tour de France Femmes are likely to provide her with a similar opportunity to drive to the front. They should finish in a sprint, allowing Wollaston to do what she does best.

While Wollaston is targeting the flat roads, Christie is waiting for the vertical ones. The skillful climber is racing the entirety of the tour for American team Human Powered Health.

At just 20, she didn’t expect to be selected and thought for sure they’d be taking some of the older girls.

“The team said they’re backing me and they think I can climb well, so I’m quite excited to see how I can go,” she says.

Christie’s been preparing in Andorra, soaking up the sun and the altitude after a bumpy season.

“My health has been up and down recently with Covid and a stomach bug…so I think it’ll be good going into the Tour with good health and good legs after a hard block of training. I’m just going to push as hard as I can and see what I’m capable of doing,” she says.

Christie is planning to help her team-mates as much as possible during the eight days, and is also likely to get a look at riding for her own ambitions, depending on the terrain each stage.

“I think because it’s something new, everyone is really determined for this Tour. Everyone is going into it with their best-possible fitness, so I expect it to be really hard, honest racing,” she says.

Like Wollaston, Christie will also end up in Birmingham for the Commonwealth Games, competing in the road race.

For now though, Paris is the focus. And before they both get to the start-line, Wollaston can finally send a message to those friends in New Zealand again.

Yes, I’m riding the Tour de France. It’s for women now too.

Henry Rounce

Henry Rounce is a freelance sports journalist/producer based in London, who's covered New Zealand cycling extensively for the last five years. More by Henry Rounce

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Tour de france: nz rider makes cycling history.

A piece of cycling history has been created in the Tour de France with Auckland rider Dion Smith becoming the first New Zealander to wear the polka dot King of the Mountain jersey.

Smith, riding for the Wanty-Groupe Gobert team is competing in just his second Tour de France and pulled on jersey at the end of the second stage of this year's tour after he grabbed the only point on offer for a small hill climb.

Dion Smith. Photo: Tour de France

The point put him tied at the top of the mountain classification with Kevin Ledanois, but because Smith is better placed on the general classification, he gets to wear the jersey.

"It's pretty special to be on the podium. I'm the first Kiwi for the polka dot jersey. To represent the country and Wanty-Groupe Gobert this way, it's very big," he said.

"The plan this morning was to get the jersey or at least score a point, then sit up and wait for the bunch to save some energy for the coming days".

"For sure I'll keep it tomorrow after the team time trial and the next stage I should keep it too. Whatever happens from there, we'll see. We have a GC rider, Guillaume Martin, so the team time trial is pretty important for the team.

With tomorrow's stage being a 35km time trial and barring a crash Smith should also get to waer the polka dot jersey for at least another couple of days.

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Meanwhile a year after being kicked out of the Tour de France, world champion Peter Sagan was back with a bang as he claimed victory in the second stage to take the overall leader's yellow jersey.

Sagan was thrown out after the fourth stage 12 months ago for sending Mark Cavendish crashing in a chaotic sprint, but the Slovak won it clean this time to beat Italian Sonny Colbrelli and France's Arnaud Demare into second and third places.

"It's a perfect day, I was a bit scared because Sonny was coming back strong," said Sagan, who also wore the yellow jersey in 2016.

"It's a very good start. I'm really back."

Colombian Fernando Gaviria, who won the opening stage on Saturday and wore the yellow jersey during the 182.5-km ride from Mouilleron-Saint-Germain, crashed in the finale and was unable to contest the sprint.

Defending champion Chris Froome, who lost 51 seconds to some of his main rivals after crashing on Saturday, had an uneventful day on the bike and finished safely in the peloton.

The Briton, hoping to become the first rider since Marco Pantani in 1998 to achieve a Giro d'Italia-Tour double, was booed by the French crowd ahead of the start.

Froome has been cleared of any wrongdoing after testing positive for excessive levels of the anti-asthma drug Salbutamol, but the locals have been jeering and whistling the four-times champion.

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Kiwis handling heat and nerves ahead of racing Tour de Femmes

Three Kiwis will line up for this year's women's edition of the world's biggest cycling race.

Three Kiwis will line up for this year's Tour De France Femmes - the women's edition of the world's biggest cycling race.

Henrietta Christie, Ella Wyllie and Georgia Williams are all lining up in different teams for the event which begins at Clermont-Ferrand.

"You soak in the atmosphere when you're racing. You hear people screaming... it lifts you up... you're living your dream pretty much," said Christie.

The 21-year-old will line up for team Human Powered Health after racing in last year's tour, the first since its monumental rebirth but for Wyllie, riding for LifePlus Wahoo, and Williams with EF Education, it'll be their first.

"When I first started cycling everyone used to ask if I was riding in the Tour De France and I always had to say, 'no, that's for the men'," said Williams.

"So now it shows we're almost on the same level... and can do what they do."

It's a sentiment Wyllie echoed, having grown up watching the Tour De France with her brothers.

Both newbies on the Tour are grateful to have their families join them.

"It's the pinnacle," Wyllie said.

"Because of its reputation everyone's riding their best, this is one of your biggest peaks of the year so everyone's in top shape which means it'll be a hard race, but an exciting race."

This year's Tour is 956 kilometres long across eight stages. Riders will tour through three regions and two mountain ranges in Southern France. The 2023 edition features more climbing and for the first time, a time trial.

With the addition of temperatures near 40 degrees thanks to a heatwave it's no easy feat, though all three riders said living in Spain has helped with conditioning.

"It hit 42 degrees in Girona yesterday," said Wyllie.

"We do heat stress training indoors so it's always even hotter and then just making sure we ride at the hot part of the day too," she added.

And with the stakes so high, so too is the risk.

Last year's Tour featured a number of crashes including one where fellow Kiwi cyclist Ally Wollaston broke her wrist. Wollaston isn't riding the Tour this year, instead prioritising the World Championships in Glasgow early next month.

She'll be joined in Scotland by both Wyllie and Williams - if all goes smoothly on the Tour.

"The nerves in the peloton are so high, everyone's determined to do well and so they take risks," said Williams.

"That's on my mind but you just have to focus on the day ahead."

Because it's not lost on the Kiwis what it means to be apart of the Tour De France Femmes which is "more than just a bike race".

"We've got teams paying riders liveable salaries, doing everything they can to support their riders - you're going into a second family rather than a race team," said Christie.

"I think the Tour is a really nice symbol of all the hard work and everything women's cycling's overcome over the years."

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Our in-depth look at every team, the main riders to watch and the cast of characters racing through France this summer

• Stage-by-stage guide to this year’s Tour de France

Ag2R-Citroën

Veteran French Tour battlers notorious for wearing brown shorts. Their Australian climber Ben O’Connor had a nightmare in 2022, ripping a muscle in a crash, but O’Connor is back on form this season so they need a repeat of his 2021 feats, with Paret-Peintre and Cosnefroy likely to target hilly stages.

Team Stan Dewulf, Clément Berthet, Felix Gall, Aurélien Paret-Peintre, Ben O’Connor, Benoît Cosnefroy, Oliver Naesen, Nans Peters

Main man Ben O’Connor – Aussie mountain man still out to prove 2021’s fourth overall was not a fluke

Alpecin-Deceuninck

From a relatively small cyclo-cross squad this cannily managed Dutch team has grown into a force to be reckoned with, mainly due to the presence of Mathieu van der Poel, the most charismatic racer in the bunch, but also because the team has recruited wisely around him. At the Tour they focus on Jasper Philipsen for the sprints and perhaps the green points jersey, with VdP targeting everything bar the high mountains; he will be a favourite on stage one’s short steep hills. Van der Poel took a long rest after his Classics campaign which seems to have paid off given his form in late June.

Team Silvain Dillier, Michael Gogl, Søren Kragh Andersen, Mathieu van der Poel, Quinten Hermans, Jasper Philipsen, Jonas Rickaert, Ramon Sinkeldam

Main man Mathieu van der Poel – flying this year, with two major Classic wins and a dominant display in the Tour of Belgium: expect fireworks.

Arkea-Samsic

This Breton-centred squad don’t have enough firepower to thrive in cycling’s most competitive milieu. Leader Warren Barguil was the future once but now looks like just another plucky contender. They will put riders in the daily daring moves but it’s hard to foresee a great deal more.

Team Warren Barguil, Clément Champoussin, Simone Guglielmi, Anthony Delaplace, Luca Mozzato, Jenthe Biermans, Matîs Louvel, Laurent Pichon

Main man Warren Barguil. “Wawa” was King of the Mountains and double stage winner in 2017, but there’s only so long you can live off past glories.

Astana Qazaqstan

Kakakhstan’s finest have changed tack by hiring Mark Cavendish; a stage win for the Manxman is the obvious target but there’s not a lot of sprint support here apart from Cees Bol, with Moscon for the grunt work beforehand. To hedge their bets, Federov and Lutsenko will target mountain stages.

Team Mark Cavendish, Aleksei Lutsenko, Cees Bol, David de la Cruz, Yevgeniy Federov, Luis Leon Sanchez, Gianni Moscon, Harold Tejada

Main man Mark Cavendish – the greatest sprinter of all needs one Tour stage win for the absolute record but it won’t be simple given the dearth of sprint stages.

Bahrain Victorious

Likely to be scarred mentally by the shocking death of Gino Mäder in the Tour of Switzerland, but if that tragedy brings them together, most of the riders look to be coming to form and they have a raft of chances to be “victorious” with new British champion Wright, Poels, Bilbao and Mohoric.

Team Niklas Arndt, Phil Bauhaus, Jack Haig, Pello Bilbao, Fred Wright, Mikel Landa, Matej Mohoric, Wout Poels

Main man Mikel Landa – the Basque climber is a cult figure due to his enigmatic, tragic mien; he could make the top five or fall apart. That’s “Landismo”.

Bora-Hansgrohe

Multiple opportunities for Germany’s finest, who pulled an excellently crafted Giro d’Italia win out of the bag last year with Australian climber Jai Hindley – quite the progression since their humble beginnings as team NetApp more than 10 years ago. Once again there is no place for the sprinter Sam Bennett, who has not ridden the Tour since winning two stages and the points prize in 2020. Around Hindley there’s plenty of climbing strength with Konrad, Buchman and Higuita plus a 2022 stage winner in Jungels, and a sprinter who can look after himself in Meeus.

Team Emanuel Buchman, Marco Haller, Jai Hindley, Bob Jungels, Patrick Konrad, Nils Politt, Jordi Meeus, Danny van Poppel, plus one to be named by Friday 30 June

Main man Jai Hindley. Fourth in the recent Criterium du Dauphiné bodes well but can he step up into cycling’s most hostile environment?

A team of options and caveats. Zingle, Martin, Lafay, Izaguirre and Geschke can hope for an opportunistic stage win, while Coquard is competitive in a small group finish. But they will struggle to rival the heavyweights so will probably end up with the French fallback: the daily suicide break.

Team Bryan Coquard, Simon Geschke, Ion Izaguirre, Victor Lafay, Guillaume Martin, Anthony Perez, Alexis Renard, Axel Zingle

Main man: Guillaume Martin – a cerebral climber who has written a book on philosophy; he could scrape into the top 10 overall but that looks like his limit.

DSM-Firmenich

This squad doesn’t have the biggest budget but it has a knack of landing key wins when it matters. They split neatly into a climbing half around the evergreen Romain Bardet, and Degenkolb, Edmondson and Eeckhoff in the sprint half in support of Sam Welsford – one of the surprises of this season.

Team Nils Eeckhoff, John Degenkolb, Kevin Vermaerke, Alex Edmondson, Sam Welsford, Matthew Dinham, Chris Hamilton, Romain Bardet.

Main man Romain Bardet. No longer the force he was when he finished second in the 2016 Tour but still capable of a solid top 10 overall.

EF Education-Easypost

The American team that loves to act the kooky underdogs but the facts belie this. They had a great Tour in 2022 thanks to Magnus Cort’s stage win; this year they had notched up 20 race wins by late June. The Olympic champion Carapaz, Bettiol, Uran and Powless could all land a stage.

Team Richard Carapaz, Rigoberto Uran, Neilson Powless, Alberto Bettiol, Esteban Chaves, Magnus Cort, James Shaw, Andrey Amador

Main man Magnus Cort – behind the (sponsored) fighter pilot moustache is a ruthless stage hunter chasing his 10th Grand Tour stage win.

Groupama-FDJ

In their 27th Tour, as usual it’s going to be fly or flop, with a bit more pressure after leader David Gaudu’s spat with sprinter Arnaud Démare sidelined this proven winner. Much loved Thibaut Pinot starts his final Tour; expect tears aplenty, hopefully on the Champs Elysées rather than before.

Team David Gaudu, Kevin Geniets, Stefan Küng, Olivier Le Gac, Valentin Madouas, Quentin Pacher, Thibaut Pinot, Lars Van den Berg

Main man David Gaudu – is France’s best hope for a podium finish but can he bear the weight of a nation?

Ineos Grenadiers

Once upon a time, the squad reputed to be the richest in cycling were the ones to beat in the Tour, but they have lost direction since Chris Froome’s departure and Egan Bernal’s horrific crash in 2022, and are now scrabbling to keep up with Jumbo and UAE. That’s reflected in a victory haul this season of around half that of the Big Two. A lot hangs on Tom Pidcock, winner at l’Alpe d’Huez last year; with Bernal struggling to return to his best, this line-up prompts a mild chin stroke rather than a sense of shock and awe.

Team Dani Martínez, Tom Pidcock, Michal Kwiatkowski, Jonathan Castroviejo, Carlos Rodriguez, Egan Bernal, Omar Fraile, Ben Turner

Main man Tom Pidcock. Super talented and a terrifyingly good bike handler, the 23-year-old Yorkshireman needs to build on a great 2022 race.

Intermarché-Circus-Wanty

Seamless progress for the Walloon team since their Tour debut in 2018. No Belgians in their squad which won’t go down well at home, but they have a real stage win hope in Girmay, a potential top 10 finisher in Meintjes and wildcards such as Calmejane, Costa and Teunissen.

Team Lilian Calmejane, Rui Costa, Biniam Girmay, Louis Meintjes, Adrien Petit, Dion Smith, Mike Teunissen, Georg Zimmerman.

Main man Biniam Girmay – after landing a sprint stage of the Giro last year, the Eritrean is a good bet to become the first black African Tour stage winner.

Israel-PremierTech

With only five wins this year, they need to buck that trend with climber Woods, the punchy Teuns, sprinter Strong or all-rounder Clarke. They will have to box clever, because none of these is the very best at their speciality. No place for Chris Froome after his poor start to 2023.

Team Guillaume Boivin, Simon Clarke, Hugo Houle, Krists Neilands, Nick Schultz, Corbin Strong, Dylan Teuns, Michael Woods

Main man Michael Woods – 36 years old and a four-minute miler in the past, the Canadian is a decent outside bet on any steep uphill finish.

Jayco-AlUla

All in for sprinter Groenewegen and climber Yates. Yates has had a lean 2023, but he’s notched up 10 Grand Tour stages since 2018 and will have plenty of chances in a very hard Tour. Harper and Craddock support him in the mountains; Mezgec will deliver Groenewegen in the sprints.

Lawson Craddock, Luke Durbridge, Dylan Groenewegen, Chris Harper, Chris Juul-Jensen, Luka Mezgec, Elmar Reinders, Simon Yates

Main man Dylan Groenewegen. Looking for his sixth career Tour stage win, the Dutchman has had a strong season with half a dozen wins to his name already.

Jumbo-Visma

One of the two “superteams” in the race; there are times when Jumbo seem to win when, how and where they want. Here it’s all in for Vingegaard with Küss, Van Baarle and Kelderman his mountain support crew. The biggest asset is Wout van Aert, the most powerful all-rounder in cycling, who could probably hope to win half a dozen stages if he was the team leader. What’s disconcerting is that Jumbo put out a strong squad to win this year’s Giro with Primoz Roglic, and they can afford to leave all of them out of the Tour including the Slovene.

Team Wilco Kelderman, Dylan van Baarle, Wout van Aert, Tiesj Benoot, Christopher Laporte, Nathan van Hooydonck, Sep Küss, Jonas Vingegaard

Main man Jonas Vingegaard – wraith-like Dane who had the climbing legs to break Tadej Pogacar when it mattered last year, but the second Tour win never comes easy

There’s plenty of value for money here. It’s all about stage wins. The 2019 world champion Mads Pedersen is the best bet, but Skjelmose took the recent Tour of Switzerland while Ciccone landed stages in Catalonia and the Dauphiné. They boast three newly crowned national champions in Skjelmose, Kirsch and Simmons.

Giulio Ciccone, Tony Gallopin, Alex Kirsch, Juan Pedro Lopez, Mads Pedersen, Quinn Simmons, Mattias Skjelmose, Jesper Stuyven

Main man Mads Pedersen – he has stage wins at the Giro and Paris-Nice to his name this year, and will have a good chance on the hillier days at the Tour

Lotto-Dstny

Relegated to the second division last season, Belgium’s oldest team put most of their eggs in a basket labelled Caleb Ewan. Most of the team will be dedicated to ensuring he is in the right place at sprint finishes; strongmen Vermeersch and Campenaerts may be let off the leash on the non-sprint days.

Team Caleb Ewan, Jasper de Buyst, Jacopo Guarnieri, Florian Vermeersch, Frederik Frison, Victor Campenaerts, Pascal Eenkhorn, Maxim van Gils

Main man Caleb Ewan – five Tour stages to his name so far, one more would make Lotto’s Tour.

There’s a mid-table look to cycling’s oldest team, a far cry from when Miguel Indurain won five Tours in a row. Mas can target the podium, and Jorgensen is one of the most exciting prospects in the sport, but the fact he’s rumoured to be moving on in 2024 speaks volumes.

Team Alex Aranburu, Ruben Guerreiro, Gorka Izaguirre, Matteo Jorgensen, Enric Mas, Gregor Mühlberger, Neilson Oliveira, Antonio Pedrero

Main man Enric Mas – often the bridesmaid never the bride, the Spaniard is one of the big group targeting third place behind the Big Two while aiming for better if they falter.

Soudal-Quickstep

Belgian winning machine have converted themselves to a Grand Tour team led by Remco Evenepoel, who sits this one out. Here it’s about fidgety Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe and sprinter Fabio Jakobsen. “Juju” is under pressure from manager Patrick Lefevère and needs to find his former magic touch, while Jakobsen needs to at least repeat his stage win of last year; his five victories this year suggest that’s on the cards with the support of top lead-out man Mørkøv. Asgreen, Lampaert and Cavagna will support Alaphilippe in the hills and go in the breaks when he’s having a recovery day.

Team Julian Alaphilippe, Yves Lampaert, Tim Decelercq, Dries Devenyns, Fabio Jakobsen, Kasper Asgreen, Michael Mørkøv, Remi Cavagna

Main man Julian Alaphilippe – double world champion endured a torrid 2022 but has won twice this year and will be a favourite for stage one.

TotalEnergies

Once a reservoir of developing French talent, now a home for stars past their sell-by dates such as Boasson-Hagen, Oss and Sagan, while French riders Turgis and Latour are no longer cutting edge. Between them they will deliver various near misses, while a stage win would be a miracle.

Team Edvald Boasson-Hagen, Mathieu Burgaudeau, Steff Cras, Valentin Ferron, Pierre Latour, Daniel Oss, Peter Sagan, Anthony Turgis

Main man Peter Sagan. Once a mega star, the multiple world champion, Tour stage winner and record points winner is now on his farewell Tour.

UAE Team Emirates

Cycling’s other “super team”, with a wealth of strong men to rival Jumbo-Visma in support of double Tour winner Tadej Pogacar, who had taken on another dimension this year with his wins in the Tour of Flanders, Amstel Gold and Flèche Wallonne before his untimely crash in Liège-Bastogne-Liège. Behind “Pog”, Adam Yates has hit form in the Critérium du Dauphiné and won the Tour de Romandie back in May, so should prove a decent understudy. After illness ripped through their ranks in last year’s Tour, arguably contributing to Pogacar’s defeat to Vingegaard, every cough, sniffle and minor headache will be viewed with suspicion.

Team Mikkel Bjerg, Felix Grossschartner, Vejgard Stake Langen, Rafal Majka, Tadej Pogacar, Marc Soler, Matteo Trentin, Adam Yates

Main man Tadej Pogacar – cycling’s biggest winner is targeting a third Tour; wins in his national road and time trial titles suggests the form has returned after a hiatus to nurse a broken wrist.

Invited to their first Tour, the Norwegian squad have a solid reputation for developing new talent and making the most of their resources. They bring a promising line-up fronted by veteran sprinter Kristoff, climbers Johanneson and Traeen, a strong all rounder in Waerenschold, plus the gritty Rasmus Tiller at the helm.

Team Jonas Abrahamsen, Torsten Traeen, Søren Waerenschold, Anton Charmig, Jonas Gregaard, Rasmus Tiller, Tobias Halland Johannesen, Alexander Kristoff

Main man Alexander Kristoff – is long in the tooth but could still snag a stage win; in a team of Tour debutants his experience will be crucial.

Changes can be made until Friday 30 June. Team line-ups correct at time of publication

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The Tour de France 2022 Explained

The Tour de France 2022 is set to begin on the 26th of June. The largest annual sporting event in the world, the 109th edition of the Tour will see 23 teams ride it out each day until a winner is crowned on the 18th of July. The cycling enthusiasts at our bike shop in NZ can’t wait to see the action unfold. Get all the information you need about the top contenders and the route below.

HOW THE TOUR DE FRANCE WORKS

For a quick recap, the Tour de France is a 21-stage race, with various stages occurring on different types of terrain. There are also time trials in the race where cyclists race against the clock. The overall winner of the Tour is the competitor who has completed all stages in the least amount of time, which is referred to as the general classification. Winners are also crowned for every single stage of the competition. The general classification leader wears a yellow jersey, which changes hands as the leaders change throughout the Tour. The cyclists work in teams. Each team has a leader who hopes to take out the title. The teammates support the leader so they can lead the group to victory.

THE TOUR DE FRANCE ROUTE

The tour comprises 21 stages, along with 2 rest days. Let’s take a look at what to expect from the course this year.

Individual time-trial:

Stage 1: Copenhague –   Copenhague   | 13.2 km This year, the individual time trail starts in  Copenhague. Arguably one of the bussiest cycling routes in the world. The riders will head down the time trial start ramp and into the city on a circuit which will take them past the Tivoli Gardens and the Little Mermaid. There are some technical sections which will challenge the riders and set the leaderboard for the next stage which starts in Roskilde.

There will be 21 stages: 6 flat stages 7 hilly stages 6 mountain stages with 5 summit finishes (La super Planche des Belles Filles, Col du Granon, Alpe d’Huez, Peyragudes, Hautacam) 2 individual time trial stages 2 rest days 1 transfer day

There are 9 new stages this year that will be featuring for the first time:

Copenhagen (start and finish of stage 1) Roskilde (start of stage 2) Nyborg (finish of stage 2) Vejle (start of stage 3) Sønderborg (finish of stage 3) Aigle (start of stage 9) Castelnau-Magnoac (start of stage 19) Lacapelle-Marival (start of stage 20) Rocamadour (finish of stage 20)

Flat Stages:

Stage 2: ROSKILDE - NYBORG | 202.5km Stage 3: VEJLE - SØNDERBORG | 182km Stage 13: LE BOURG D'OISANS  - SAINT-ÉTIENNE  | 193km Stage 15: RODEZ - CARCASSONNE | 188.5km Stage 19: CASTELNAU-MAGNOAC - CAHORS | 161km Stage 21: PARIS LA DÉFENSE ARENA - PARIS CHAMPS-ÉLYSÉES | 116km

Hilly Stages:

Mountain stages:.

Stage 7: TOMBLAINE - LA SUPER PLANCHE DES BELLES FILLES | 176.5km Stage 9: AIGLE - CHÂTEL LES PORTES DU SOLEIL | 193km Stage 11: ALBERTVILLE - COL DU GRANON SERRE CHEVALIER | 152km Stage 12: BRIANÇON - ALPE D'HUEZ | 165.5km Stage 17: SAINT-GAUDENS - PEYRAGUDES | 130km Stage 18: LOURDES - HAUTACAM | 143.5km Get ready to see some stunning mountain landscapes on the route this year. With 6 mountain stages and 5 summit finishes, which are on La super Planche des Belles Filles, Col du Granon, Alpe d’Huez, Peyragudes and Hautacam.

The Big Finish:

Stage 21: PARIS LA DÉFENSE ARENA > PARIS CHAMPS-ÉLYSÉES | 116km

The Champs-Elysées is the traditional finishing point for the final stage. This year is additionally exciting with the brand new addition of a Women's edition which kicks off just prior to the sprinting finale. The Women's Tour de France will be held on the final circuit near the heart or Paris.

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The right to broadcast the Tour de France event in New Zealand goes to Sky Sports. There are also multiple live streaming options available online.

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Established in 1988 by  Jorge Sandoval , the tour has given riders a platform to prove themselves and launch into the professional ranks of world tour cycling.

The only Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) 2.2 event staged in New Zealand with four stages in the  Wairarapa , and in 2021, for the first time in 10 years, the fifth and final stage was held in the World's Coolest Little Capital; Wellington !

Tour History

The legends have ridden it.

In 2020, George Bennett, having won the NZ Cycle Classic in 2011, went on to achieve the highest ever position by a New Zealander in a  Cycling Monument , by placing 2nd at Giro Il Lombardia, racing for Team Jumbo-Visma.

Among other famous names counting the NZ Cycle Classic as one of their first major victories are Robbie McEwen, who won in 1995, only a few years before success in the Tour de France and other world class events. Followed by Julian Dean 1999, Chris Jenner in 2001, Matthew Lloyd in 2005, Hayden Roulston in 2006, Travis Meyer in 2008 and Jay McCarthy in 2012.

Over the years, riders from all continents have lined up at the start as potential winners. Many of them have gone on to brilliant careers in professional cycling. The New Zealand Cycle Classic (or Tour of Wellington as it was known until 2012) became a UCI event for the first time in 1997.

Here is a list of some of the riders who have gone on from the New Zealand Cycle Classic to experience success at the highest professional level.

R obbie McEwen (Australia)

• Winner of the 1995 Tour of Wellington
• Participated in the Tour de France 12 times, he had 12 stage wins and three times winner of the points classification of the Tour de France (2002, 2004 and 2006).

Julian Dean (New Zealand)

• Winner of the 1999 Tour of Wellington
• Participated in the Tour de France eight times, five Tours of Italy and three times in the Tour of Spain

Brendon Vesty (New Zealand)

• Winner of the 2000 Tour of Wellington
• Went to join the German Nurberger Pro team and later the USA Navigators Pro team

Chris Jenner (New Zealand)

• Winner of the 2001 Tour of Wellington
• Went to ride professionally for French team Credit Agricole for six years. Until 2009 Chris Jenner remained the only Kiwi cyclist to have won a stage at the Tour de France; a team time trial with Credit Agricole in his only tour, back in 2001

Eric Wohlberg (Canada)

• Winner of the 2004 Tour of Wellington
• Multi race winner in America and Europe and 2006)

Matthew Lloyd (Australia)

• Winner of the 2005 Tour of Wellington
• King of the Mountains winner Giro de Italia 2010, participated in the Giro de Italia four times, Tour de France three times and the Tour of Spain twice

Hayden Roulston (New Zealand)

• Winner of the 2006 and 2007 Tour of Wellington
• Turned pro in 2009 with Cervelo, Team HTC 2010-2011 and Radio Shack 2012-2015

Richie Porte (Australia)

• Came to the tour twice in 2007 and 2008
• Signed pro with Praties in 2008 and later with Team Saxo Bank and in 2012 with Team Sky, Winner 2013 Tour of Italy

Travis Meyer (Australia)

• Winner of the 2008 Tour of Wellington
• Signed pro in 2010 with Garmin-Transitions and later with Green Edge, Rode Tour de France 2013 and Tour of Spain 2012.

Aaron Gates (New Zealand)

4-time Gold Medalist & World Champion

Aaron is a world champion cyclist and three-time Olympian who has been a permanent fixture in both the track and road scenes since joining the national high performance squad in 2010.

George Bennet (New Zealand)

• Winner of the 2011 Tour of Wellington
• Same year signed with Trek Livestrong and a year later with Team RadioShack-Leopard
• Achieved the best ever result by a New Zealander in a Cycling Monument, placing 2nd at Il Lombardia

Steele Von Hoff (Australia)

• 7th in the 2011 Tour of Wellington, the following year signed with Garmin-Sharp

Nathan Earle (Australia)

• Winner of the 2013 NZ Cycle Classic Tour of Manawatu
• Signed a few months later by Sky Procycling team

Campbell Flakemore (Australia)

• Stage winner in 2012, finished 3rd on final GC – World ITT U23 champion in 2014
• Signed by BMC for 2015

Ben O'Connor (Australia)

• Winner of the 2016 NZ Cycle Classic with Avanti team, ten months later signed with Pro tour Team Dimension Data.  202 Tour de France stage winner riding for AG2R Citroen Team.

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• Ben O'Connor (Aus)
• Clement Berthet (Fra)
• Benoit Cosnefroy (Fra)
• Stan Dewulf (Bel)
• Felix Gull (Aut)
• Oliver Naesen (Bel)
• Aurélien Paret-Peintre (Fra)
• Nans Peters (Fra)

Alpecin-Deceuninck - Belgium

• Mathieu van der Poel (Ned)
• Jasper Philipsen (Bel)
• Jonas Rickaert (Bel)
• Silvan Dillier (Swi)
• Ramon Sinkeldam (Ned)
• Quinten Hermans (Bel)
• Soren Kragh Andersen (Den)
• Michael Gogl (Aut)

Arkea-Samsic - France

• Warren Barguil (Fra)
• Clement Champoussin (Fra)
• Simon Guglielmi (Fra)
• Anthony Delaplace (Fra)
• Luca Mozzato (Ita)
• Jenthe Biermans (Bel)
• Matis Louvel (Fra)
• Laurent Pichon (Fra)

Mark Cavendish of The United Kingdom and Astana Qazaqstan Team celebrates at podium as stage winner during the 106th Giro d'Italia 2023, Stage 21 a 126km stage from Rome to Rome / #UCIWT / on May 28, 2023 in Rome, Italy.

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Astana Qazaqstan - Kazakhstan

• Alexey Lutsenko (Kaz)
• Yevgeniy Fedorov (Kaz)
• Mark Cavendish (Gbr)
• Cees Bol (Ned)
• David de la Cruz (Esp)
• Luis Leon Sanchez (Esp)
• Gianni Moscon (Ita)
• Harold Tejada (Col)

Bahrain Victorious - Bahrain

• Nikias Arndt (Ger)
• Phil Bauhaus (Ger)
• Pello Bilbao (Esp)
• Jack Haig (Aus)
• Mikel Landa (Esp)
• Matej Mohoric (Svn)
• Wout Poels (Ned)
• Fred Wright (Gbr)

Bora-Hansgrohe - Germany

• Emanuel Buchmann (Ger)
• Marco Haller (Aut)
• Jai Hindley (Aus)
• Bob Jungels (Lux)
• Patrick Konrad (Aut)
• Jordi Meeus (Bel)
• Nils Politt (Ger)
• Danny van Poppel (Ned)

Cofidis - France

• Bryan Coquard (Fra)
• Simon Geschke (Ger)
• Ion Izagirre (Spa)
• Victor Lafay (Fra)
• Guillaume Martin (Fra)
• Anthony Perez (Fra)
• Alexis Renard (Fra)
• Axel Zingle (Fra)

DSM-Firmenich - Germany

• Chris Hamilton (Aus)
• Alex Edmondson (Aus)
• Kevin Vermaerke (USA)
• John Degenkolb (Ger)
• Sam Welsford (Aus)
• Matthew Dinham (Aus)
• Romain Bardet (Fra)
• Nils Eekhoff (Ned)

EF Education-EasyPost - USA

• Richard Carapaz (Ecu)
• Rigoberto Uran (Col)
• Neilson Powless (USA)
• Alberto Bettiol (Ita)
• Magnus Cort (Den)
• James Shaw (Gbr)
• Andrey Amador (Cri)
• Esteban Chaves (Col)

Groupama-FDJ - France

• David Gaudu (Fra)
• Kevin Geniets (Hol)
• Stefan Küng (Swi)
• Valentin Madouas (Fra)
• Thibaut Pinot (Fra)
• Lars van den Berg (Ned)
• Olivier Le Gac (Fra)
• Quentin Pacher (Fra)

Ineos Grenadiers - United Kingdom

• Egan Bernal (Col)
• Jonathan Castroviejo (Esp)
• Omar Fraile (Esp)
• Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol)
• Daniel Martinez (Col)
• Tom Pidcock (Gbr)
• Carlos Rodriguez (Esp)
• Ben Turner (Gbr)

Intermarché-Circus-Wanty - Belgium

• Biniam Girmay (Eri)
• Louis Meintjes (SA)
• Adrien Petit (Fra)
• Loïc Vliegen (Bel)
• Georg Zimmermann (Ger)
• Rui Costa (Por)
• Lilian Calmejane (Fra)
• Mike Teunissen (Ned)

Jayco-Alula - Australia

• Simon Yates (Gbr)
• Dylan Groenewegen (Ned)
• Luka Mezgec (Slo)
• Elmar Reinders (Ned)
• Lawson Craddock (US)
• Luke Durbridge (Aus)
• Chris Harper (Aus)
• Christopher Juul-Jensen (Den)

Jumbo-Visma - Netherlands

• Jonas Vingegaard (Den)
• Wout van Aert (Bel)
• Dylan van Baarle (Ned)
• Tiesj Benoot (Bel)
• Christophe Laporte (Fra)
• Sepp Kuss (USA)
• Wilco Kelderman (Ned)
• Nathan Van Hooydonck (Bel)

Lidl-Trek - USA

• Mads Pedersen (Den)
• Jasper Stuyven (Bel)
• Alex Kirsch (Lux)
• Juanpe Lopez (Esp)
• Giulio Ciccone (Ita)
• Tony Gallopin (Fra)
• Quinn Simmons (USA)
• Mattias Skjelmose (Den)

Movistar - Spain

• Enric Mas (Esp)
• Matteo Jorgenson (USA)
• Nelson Oliveira (Por)
• Antonio Pedrero (Esp)
• Ruben Guerreiro (Por)
• Gregor Muhlberger (Aut)
• Gorka Izagirre (Esp)
• Alex Aranburu (Esp)

Soudal-Quick Step - Beligum

• Julian Alaphilippe (Fra)
• Kasper Asgreen (Den)
• Remi Cavagna (Fra)
• Tim Declercq (Bel)
• Dries Devenyns (Bel)
• Fabio Jakobsen (Nld)
• Yves Lampaert (Bel)
• Michael Morkov (Den)

UAE Team Emirates - UAE

• Tadej Pogacar (Slo)
• Rafal Majka (Pol)
• Mikkel Bjerg (Den)
• Felix Grossschartner (Aus)
• Marc Soler (Spa)
• Matteo Trentin (Ita)
• Vegard Stake Laengen (Nor)
• Adam Yates (GB)

Lotto-Dstny - Belgium

• Victor Campenaerts (Bel)
• Jasper de Buyst (Bel)
• Pascal Ennkhoorn (Ned)
• Frederik Frison (Bel)
• Jacopo Guarnieri (Ita)
• Maxim van Gils (Bel)
• Florian Vermeersch (Bel)
• Caleb Ewan (Aus)

TotalEnergies - France

• Mathieu Burgaudeau (Fra)
• Edvald Boasson-Hagen (Nor)
• Steff Cras (Bel)
• Valentin Ferron (Fra)
• Pierre Latour (Fra)
• Daniel Oss (Ita)
• Peter Sagan (Svk)
• Anthony Turgis (Fra)

Israel-Premier Tech - Israel

• Guillaume Boivin (Can)
• Simon Clarke (Aus)
• Hugo Houle (Can)
• Krists Neilands (Lat)
• Nick Schultz (Aus)
• Corbin Strong (NZ)
• Dylan Teuns (Bel)
• Michael Woods (Can)

Uno-X Pro - Norway

• Torstein Traeen (Nor)
• Soren Waeenskjold (Nor)
• Anthon Charmig (Den)
• Jonas Gregaard (Den)
• Rasmus Tiller (Nor)
• Tobias Halland Johannessen (Nor)
• Alexander Kristoff (Nor)
• Jonas Abrahamsen (Nor)

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Adam Yates of United Kingdom and UAE Team Emirates celebrates at finish line as stage winner ahead of Simon Yates of United Kingdom. Photo / Getty Images.

The Tour de France began with a family celebration in Basque Country.

Adam Yates pulled away from his twin brother Simon Yates to win the Tour’s first stage on Saturday, with race favorites Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard finishing not far behind.

The Yates brothers escaped to the front with about seven kilometers (four miles) to go and Adam had the strongest finish to take the initial yellow jersey in the three-week race that began in Basque Country territory in northern Spain.

Adam and Simon Yates ride for different teams but joined forces to break away from the pack. Adam eventually pulled away in the final uphill stretch with about 400 meters (last quarter of a mile).

“We worked together,” Adam Yates said. “I speak to him every day, we are close. To share this experience with him was really nice. I’m speechless, super happy.”

Adam Yates has never won a Grand Tour race but also held the leader’s yellow jersey during the 2020 Tour de France. Simon Yates won the 2018 Spanish Vuelta.

Cycling’s biggest race is taking place amid continued unrest in France after a fourth night of riots triggered by the deadly shooting of a 17-year-old by police.

Pogacar, the two-time Tour de France champion who is teammates with Adam Yates at UAE Team Emirates, finished third after leading a group of chasers that also included Vingegaard, the defending champion of team Jumbo-Visma.

“It’s a superb team victory and it’s even better than when I win myself,” Pogacar said. “This guy works for me and today I have the pleasure to see him winning. It has worked out very well and Adam attacked and managed to go clear. It’s even better than what we hoped for. We can be proud of this work. We’ve showed that we’re strong and we have a good tactic.”

Pogacar had a strong start to the season but had to undergo wrist injury after a crash two months ago. Vingegaard, the former fish factory worker from Denmark, was runner-up to Pogacar in his first Tour two years ago then came out on top in a thrilling battle with his Slovenian rival last year, building his triumph on two big rides in the Alps and the Pyrenees.

Pogacar appeared to have most of the crowd support in Bilbao after pleasing them in the race presentation with some words praising the city and local club Athletic Bilbao.

The first two stages are taking place in Basque Country, with the opening day taking riders through a hilly 182-kilometer (113-mile) route that started and finished in the city of Bilbao.

Two of the top riders in the race — Enric Mas and Richard Carapaz — crashed with just over 20 kilometers (12 miles) to go and had to be attended by doctors. Carapaz was able to continue despite an apparent left leg injury, but Mas had to withdraw with what looked like a shoulder problem.

The first crash of this year’s edition came nearly 100 kilometers (62 miles) into the race when Torstein Traaen went down.

American Neilson Powless of team EF Education-EasyPost took the red polka dot jersey for best climber.

Former champion Egan Bernal, returning to the Tour for the first time since a life-threatening crash early last year while training in Colombia, finished 23rd with the main pack.

Veteran sprint specialist Mark Cavendish, who needs one more stage victory to break the race record with 35, finished toward the end of the pack. Cavendish is competing in his last Tour before retiring.

Sunday’s second stage will be a hilly route of more than 200 kilometers (124 miles) from Vitoria-Gasteiz to San Sebastian. The Tour will cross into France on Monday with a flat stage that will start in the Spanish city of Amorebieta-Echano.

The 110th edition of the Tour de France has only one time trial and four mountain-top finishes. It will include a record 30 difficult climbs over the 3,405 kilometers (2,116 miles) featuring eight mountain stages across five mountain ranges.

This year, riders who test positive for COVID-19 won’t be automatically expelled from the race.

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The Tour de France, a wild ride for cycling enthusiasts and confused spectators, will soon be back in action. As the peloton weaves through picturesque landscapes and tackles treacherous mountain passes, this year’s race promises a thrilling mix of athleticism, unexpected mishaps, and unflattering cycling shorts.

Rain or shine, the dedicated fans will be there, cheering their hearts out from the comfort of their foldable lawn chairs. Or, more likely, watching it on their TV, from the comfort of their lounge rooms.

Kicking off in Bilboa, the peloton, a colourful whirlwind on wheels, will embark on a three week adventure through France, leaving behind a trail of sweat and empty energy gel packets.

The race will skirt along rugged coastlines and spectators will line the route, armed with homemade signs and unwavering enthusiasm, hoping for a glimpse of their favourite cyclist, or there simply because they have nothing better to do.

The true test will lie in the daunting mountain stages. As the peloton tackles gruelling climbs, some riders will soar like majestic eagles, while others will wheeze like pugs attempting a marathon. Mud-splattered faces and grimaces of pain will be the latest fashion trends, as cyclists try to conquer nature’s obstacles without tumbling headfirst into a cow pasture.

How to stream in New Zealand

In New Zealand, every stage is streaming on Sky Sport Now .

Sky Sport Now offers a week pass for $19.99, a month pass for $44.99, or an annual pass for $399.99. * Note, get in quick as from 1 July 2023 the Annual Pass price will increase to $449.99.

Coverage in New Zealand time

The 110th edition of  The Tour de France will span roughly three weeks (July 1 – 24) with local coverage typically starting around 10pm – 11pm each night. See below for coverage times for each stage.

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How To Watch Tour De France Live In New Zealand (Step-by-Step)

The Tour De France is an annual multi stage cycling race primarily held in France but making regular appearances in neighbouring countries. This is one of the longest cycling races in the world, spread over 23 days with 21 riding days of long stages.

This year the 2023 event is being held from Sat, 1 Jul 2023 – Sun, 23 Jul 2023.

How to watch Tour De France?

There are many TV channels showing the Tour worldwide including: New Zealand: Sky Sports (paid), Eurosports (Highlights) United Kingdom: Eurosport (Live), ITV4 (Highlights) Australia: SBS (free) , Eurosport (Highlights) USA: NBC Sports Gold.

How to watch Tour de France for free?

In other countries such as Australia and UK, all events are live streamed for free online with exclusive replays and cycling shows. One such website is SBS Australia. 

Connect using an Australian VPN ( PureVPN is our #1 ).

Signup for a free SBS account, start watching live streams, full stage replays and daily highlights shows (50-60mins).

Use AU VPN . Then SBS Australia website. 

What is Tour De France?

The tour was originally started in 1903 to increase newspaper sales for the L'Auto and has been held every year since excluding the two World Wars. The event is held every year in July with different routes planned every year to keep things interesting.

Over the course of 23 days, riders complete over 3,500 kilometres of riding throughout the mountain chains of the Pyrenees and the Alps, finishing in Champs-Elysees in Paris. Each day holds different types of race including time trials, hill climbs and standard road riding.

Each year there are 20-22 teams with 8 riders in each and all stages are timed from start to finish with riders times compounded from previous stages. The rider with the lowest time wears the yellow jersey each day, indicating he is the leader of the race.

Winning the tour de france offers a prize fund of over 500,000 euros while winning individual stages is approx 10,000 euros. There are many other prizes for young riders, winners of points classifications and sponsored prizes.

Chris Froome has won the most times in recent years with 4 wins, while Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain have all won the race 5 times over the last 50 years.

While the event is regularly subject to doping allegations and scandals, the cycling race is one of the most popular on the yearly calendar and most watched in the entire world.

How to Watch Tour De France With VPN

Step 1: get a vpn provider.

To watch Tour De France legally for free live or on demand in New Zealand for free you’ll need to use the best VPN provider to pretend you’re in Australia.

SBS Australia is a free to air platform, anyone can live stream with an Australian IP address.

There are many different VPN providers out there on the web, from our experience the cheapest and most affordable option is  PureVPN .

You’ll be able to buy a VPN using your New Zealand credit card/Paypal.

Step 2: Download & Install VPN

You’ll need to decide how you plan on accessing Euro Sports or ITV4. You could use your smart TV, Apple TV or just a computer web browser.

You’ll need to download the PureVPN Application to your device first, then their app or visit their website.

Login with the details you were provided via email during signup.

Step 3: Choose Australian Server

You’ll now need to connect through to a AU based server. If you’re given an option of which city then I’d choose Sydney .

You’ll be advised by the VPN app once your IP has changed and you’re routing your connection via Australia.

You’ll now be able to go to the SBS Australia website and steam for free. 

It’s 100% free to create an account. When asked for a postcode enter a random Australian postcode.

Step 4: Start Watching Tour De France

Search for the race on the website search box, although it’s likely going to be on the homepage . You’ll now be able to play any of the on demand content available.

Keep your account and watch again every night.

Quick Guide - Best VPNs for New Zealand

• PureVPN - High quality, no logs provider offering torrent friendly servers in 142 countries worldwide, at affordable prices. 
• ExpressVPN - Provides excellent speeds and some of the best Netflix servers, ideal for those heavy demand streamers.
• Surfshark - The cheapest provider, offering unlimited devices streaming and various modes for combating geo-restrictions. Probably the fastest vpn. 
• NordVPN - Offers high levels of security combined with torrent friendly servers, but comes at a cost. 

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EF Education-EasyPost Partners U23 Team Aevolo in Hunt for Tour de France Talent

New york-based devo team to feed worldtour squad with future stars: 'if you have the desire to win the tour de france, you need to identify and nurture talent, and build a team around it.'.

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EF Education-EasyPost is partnering U.S. Conti team Aevolo Cycling in its search for future Tour de France champions.

The WorldTour squad of Neilson Powless , Richard Carapaz, and Alberto Bettiol will share resources and a service course with New York-based Aevolo in what will be a two-way beneficial collaboration that starts in 2025.

Alveolo will get insight and expertise, and EF Education-EasyPost CEO Jonathan Vaughters hopes his senior team will get a steady stream of home-grown winners.

“This is our first foray into having our own in-house, proprietary, Continental team, and Aevolo is the obvious team to do this with,” Vaughters said Thursday.

“It’s a sister team in the sense that they’ve been with Cannondale for quite a while and obviously the team has done a great job. But to make that next jump in performance, they needed to have a more international program and to have a foundation with a WorldTour team.”

Ex-pro Mike Creed will retain his long-time role as manager and director of Aevolo in 2025.

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The move will see EF Education-EasyPost joining the mass of WorldTour teams that has its own development program.

Rather than building the squad in-house like Visma-Lease a Bike, Groupama-FDJ, or many others, EF Education-EasyPost is following the path taken by Jayco-AlUla in collaborating with an existing team.

Jayco-AlUla last year linked up with Axel Merckx’s Hagens Berman project for its own U23 program.

“By joining forces, we’re combining resources so that we can build what will hopefully be one of the best, if not the best, continental team in the world and be the most attractive place to go for up-and-coming talent,” Vaughters said in a team statement.

“We’re going to build a true-first class organization that supports the rider in the same way that both our men’s and women’s EF Pro Cycling teams are supported.”

In-house talent pipeline

The average age of the WorldTour has plummeted in recent decades.

Riders like Tadej Pogačar, Juan Ayuso, and Remco Evenepoel are winning big, and doing it earlier than riders ever did before.

Vaughters believes Aevolo and the recently formed EF Education-ONTO junior team will take some of the guesswork out of identifying the next teen mega-talent.

“For a team like us that doesn’t have the biggest budget in the WorldTour, you realize that if you truly have the desire to someday win the Tour de France, the way to do that is to identify the talent, nurture the talent, even build a team around the talent and retain the talent. And then do that for a period of 10 or 15 years and build a Tour de France winner,” Vaughters said.

“That’s why we want to create the best development program in the world and be the most attractive development program in the world,” he said.

Aevolo currently counts nine U.S. riders on its roster, including Tour of the Gila top-10 finisher Ian López and newly crowned national U23 critérium champ Gavin Hlady.

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