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Judas Priest Announce New North American 'Firepower' Tour Dates

The band will head out on the road with Uriah Heep beginning in May.

Judas Priest have announced a new North American leg of their ongoing Firepower world tour. The 32-date run, which kicks off May 3 in Hollywood, Florida, and wraps  June 29 in Las Vegas, will feature support from Uriah Heep.

Said Judas Priest in a statement: "Metal maniacs—Judas Priest is roaring back to the USA for one more blast of Firepower ! 

"Firepower  2019 charges forth with new first time performances born out of  Firepower , as well as fresh classic cuts across the decades from the Priest world metalsphere. Our visual stage set and light show will be scorching a unique, hot, fresh vibe—mixing in headline festivals, as well as the in-your-face venue close ups. We can't wait to reunite and reignite our maniacs... The Priest is back!"

Check out the new dates below.

Judas Priest 2019 tour dates:

May 03 - Hollywood, FL - Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino 

May 06 - Nashville, TN - Nashville Municipal Auditorium 

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May 08 - Atlanta, GA - Fox Theatre 

May 09 - Biloxi, MS - Beau Rivage Resort & Casino 

May 12 - Washington, DC - The Anthem 

May 14 - Huntington, NY - The Paramount 

May 15 - Huntington, NY - The Paramount 

May 16 - Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Arena 

May 18 - Albany, NY - Palace Theatre 

May 19 - Albany, NY - Palace Theatre 

May 22 - Milwaukee, WI - Riverside Theater 

May 23 - Milwaukee, WI - Riverside Theater 

May 25 - Rosemont, IL - Rosemont Theatre 

May 28 - Austin, TX - ACL Live at The Moody Theater 

May 29 - Austin, TX - ACL Live at The Moody Theater 

May 31 - Dallas, TX - The Bomb Factory 

Jun. 01 - Little Rock, AR - First Security Amphitheater 

Jun. 03 - St. Louis, MO - Stifel Theatre 

Jun. 05 - Colorado Springs, CO - Broadmoor World Arena 

Jun. 08 - Saskatoon, SK - SaskTel Centre 

Jun. 10 - Lethbridge, AB - ENMAX Centre 

Jun. 11 - Edmonton, AB - Rogers Place 

Jun. 13 - Dawson Creek, BC - Encana Events Centre 

Jun. 14 - Prince George, BC - CN Centre 

Jun. 16 - Kelowna, BC - Prospera Place 

Jun. 17 - Abbotsford, BC - Abbotsford Centre 

Jun. 19 - Airway Heights, WA - Northern Quest Resort and Casino 

Jun. 21 - Kent, WA - Accesso Showare Center 

Jun. 22 - Portland, OR - Moda Theatre of the Clouds 

Jun. 24 - San Francisco, CA - Warfield Theatre 

Jun. 25 - San Francisco, CA - Warfield Theatre 

Jun. 27 - Los Angeles, CA - Microsoft Theater 

Jun. 29 - Las Vegas, NV - The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel

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Judas Priest Announce New Album 'Firepower,' Plot Massive Tour

Judas Priest have announced a new album. Firepower , the legends' highly-anticipated follow-up to 2014's Redeemer of Souls , is due out early next year. They recorded it with longtime producer Tom Allom — who manned the boards for every LP Judas Priest released from 1979–1998, including the seminal British Steel (1980) and Screaming for Vengeance (1982). Sabbat's Andy Sneap (Megadeth, Exodus, Kreator) and engineer Mike Exeter (Black Sabbath) are also involved with the project.

Additionally, Judas Priest have announced a massive run of North American shows behind the album. The trek, which features support from power-metal vanguards Saxon and Thin Lizzy offshoot Black Star Riders, kicks off March 13th in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, and concludes May 1st in San Antonio, Texas. Tickets go on pre-sale October 25th with the fan password "FIREPOWER." Check out a full list of stops below.

Priest recently made the shortlist of nominees for the 2018 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, putting Rob Halford and Co. in competition with Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Depeche Mode and others. Cast your ballot here .

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Mar. 13 – Wilkes Barre, PA – Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza Mar. 15 – Youngstown, OH – Covelli Centre Mar. 17 – Uniondale, NY – Nassau Coliseum Mar. 18 – Washington, DC – The Anthem Mar. 20 – Newark, NJ – Prudential Center Mar. 22 – Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena Mar. 25 – Ottawa, ON – The Arena at TD Place Mar. 27 – London, ON – Budweiser Gardens Mar. 28 – Oshawa, ON – Tribute Communities Centre Mar. 30 – Orillia, ON – Casino Rama Mar. 31 – Detroit, MI – Detroit Masonic Temple Apr. 03 – Milwaukee, WI – Riverside Theater Apr. 05 – Green Bay, WI – Resch Center Apr. 08 – Bloomington, IL – Grossinger Motors Arena Apr. 10 – Casper, WY – Casper Events Center Apr. 11 – Loveland, CO – Budweiser Events Center Apr. 15 – Kent, WA – ShoWare Center Apr. 17 – Portland, OR – Veterans Memorial Coliseum Apr. 19 – San Francisco – The Warfield Apr. 22 – Los Angeles, CA – Microsoft Theater Apr. 24 – Phoenix, AZ – Comerica Theatre Apr. 26 – Tulsa, OK – BOK Center Apr. 28 – Dallas, TX – The Bomb Factory Apr. 29 – Sugarland, TX – Smart Financial Centre May 01 – San Antonio, TX – Freeman Coliseum

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JUDAS PRIEST Drummer SCOTT TRAVIS Talks New Album: “We Did Record In A Much More Organic Way Than I’d Done Since Painkiller”

On the latest episode of Talking Metal , host Mark Strigl interviews drummer Scott Travis of JUDAS PRIEST . You can now listen to the chat using the Spreaker widget below. The chat starts 11:40 into the podcast and topics include the new album Firepower , Scott’s musical history, Fight, Racer X, Les Binks, KK Downing, Rob Halford, Richie Faulkner, and much more.

JUDAS PRIEST could easily rest on their laurels at this stage of their highly successful and influential career. However, the legendary metal band – singer Rob Halford , guitarists Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner , bassist Ian Hill , and drummer Scott Travis – refuse to do so as evidenced by the arrival of their eighteenth studio album overall, Firepower , which can be pre-ordered here .

Set for release on Friday, March 9th via Epic Records , the album is comprised of fourteen tracks of pure and highly inspired metal. And to mark the occasion Priest has reunited with producer Tom Allom (the man behind the board for all of the band’s releases from 1979-1988, including such stellar classics as Unleashed In The East, British Steel, Screaming For Vengeance and Defenders Of The Faith) and with Grammy Award-winning producer Andy Sneap also helping to raise the sonic bar even higher.

“ Tom Allom has got this classic metal thing ,” explains Halford. “ And Andy is a bit more of a ‘modern metal producer’ but his thinking is a little bit different to Tom’s. And I think to get this balance between that classic old school metal to what Andy’s world is was just a remarkable coalescence. ”  “ Tom Allom has been with us since 1979, so his knowledge of ourselves and our music in general is immense, ” adds Hill.

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And according to Travis Priest returned back to a recording method that worked incredibly well on the band’s earlier classics. “ We went back to the organic way of recording where it’s all of us in a room and we got to play together. ” When asked about his favorite song on “Firepower” Travis said:

“ It’s interesting you should ask that, ’cause Rob and I were doing an interview earlier today and I made the point that I’ve moved around a bit on my favorites on this record. Meaning that when I first heard some of the early demos, you have favorites and you like certain hooks or verses or choruses or whatever, and then, as a drummer, I’m in the studio playing the songs, and then again, there may be some different songs. Like, ‘Wow! I really love this groove,’ or, ‘I love playing this, slamming through this with Richie and playing the double-bass part.’ And then, full circle, you hear quote-unquote the finished product, after more layers of guitars and vocals have been put on, it’s been mixed and produced a little bit, and then, obviously, me, I’m listening to the finished product and then I have new favorites at that point. So, to answer your question, after that long-winded intro, I really like ‘Rising From Ruins’ . If you put a gun to my head and said, ‘What’s your favorite?’ that would be on there. ‘Lone Wolf’ … ‘Evil Never Dies’ is just a cool, simple straight-ahead rock PRIEST tune. ‘Never The Heroes’ , I think, is a great, meaningful song in the sense just lyrically, even though I had nothing to do with the lyrics, but it’s a great song [with]a great hook. The record does have a lot of ebbs and flows and, hopefully, it has some movement to it where the first song doesn’t like the fifth song sounds like the eighth song. Hopefully there’s some different sounds and just vibes that people are gonna get when they listen to it. ”

On whether he would agree that the production on “Firepower” is bigger and warmer than that on 2014’s “Redeemer Of Souls” :

“ Well, obviously, we have two different producers on this record that we didn’t have on ‘Redeemer’ , so anytime you change producers, you’re automatically gonna get a different sound. And that’s usually what bands are looking for — that’s why you hire different producers. We did record in a much more organic way than I’d certainly done since ‘Painkiller’ ; I have to say that. So, again, hopefully that translates and comes through on the recording that you and the fans will be able to hear and appreciate and hopefully like. And, like I said, Andy is great and he knows how to get great modern sounds — drums, guitars and yada yada. He’s a guitar player himself, so that’s why the guitars are so goddamn loud, but that’s just me. [Laughs] I’m kidding. But anyways… So, yeah, the proof is in the pudding. You have new producers, you’re gonna have a new sound. ”

“Firepower” will be released on March 9 via Epic . The cover artwork for the disc was created by the Chilean/Italian digital artist and photographer Claudio Bergamin . The album final tracklist is as follows:

01. Firepower 02. Lightning Strike 03. Evil Never Dies 04. Never The Heroes 05. Necromancer 06. Children of the Sun 07. Guardians 08. Rising From Ruins 09. Flame Thrower 10. Spectre 11. Traitors Gate 12. No Surrender 13. Lone Wolf 14. Sea Of Red

The North American leg of the “Firepower” tour will kick off on March 13 in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania and will wrap on May 1 in San Antonio, Texas. Support on the trek will come from SAXON and BLACK STAR RIDERS .

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Judas Priest begin their 2018 North American tour in support of new album Firepower

Last night, Judas Priest kicked off their 2018 North American tour in support of their new album Firepower .

They took to the stage at the Wilkes Barre Mohegan Sun Arena At Casey Plaza, Pennsylvania, and footage of the show has appeared online.

It was also the first show with guitarist Andy Sneap, who stepped into the fold after Glenn Tipton was forced to take a step back after his Parkinson’s diagnosis came to light.

Watch some of the video footage below.

Speaking with the Metal Hammer podcast earlier this month, frontman Rob Halford said he couldn’t see the band calling it a day any time soon.

“I cannot conceive of us ever saying, in 2022, at 3 o’clock, on a Wednesday afternoon, July, we’re gonna end,” he said. “I think more than ever now, we’re so joyed and grateful that we’ve been able to get this far from the support of our fans that you don’t say a farewell tour, you don’t say retire.

“I think slowly but surely we’ll just play less and less and less, but I can’t see that for the foreseeable future.”

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Priest’s Firepower tour will continue on March 15 when they play Youngstown’s Covelli Centre. Following their run of North American shows, the band will return to the UK for a headline performance at Bloodstock .

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Travis recently told NJArts.net that he is confident fans will find plenty to like on PRIEST 's latest album, "Firepower" . "It's 14 tracks and people have the leisure to listen to it if they want to, and in what capacity they want to," he said. "They should live with this one for a while, because it's a lot to take in at first, but there is a lot of good, different stuff on there. [Guitarist] Richie [ Faulkner ] hasn't done 15 or 18 PRIEST records like the other guys, so he obviously has a lot of ideas and input. We re-employed Tom Allom and he produced some of the most respectable and successful PRIEST records, 'Screaming For Vengeance' and 'British Steel' , so he's rejoined us and is back on board. And then Andy Sneap , who is more of a modern producer. So it is the best of both worlds, and everything came together."

Travis added that PRIEST employed a slightly different approach on "Firepower" than it did on 2014's "Redeemer Of Souls" .

"This time around, we went back to a more organic recording state. We went in a room with a guy with the guitar plugged in and a bass player plugged in and Rob [ Halford ] in the booth doing some scratch vocals or something, but we actually were playing with the guys that we were making the record with. We had gotten away from that a bit, but we brought it all back with fury."

He continued: "There's going to be ebbs and flows with the timing and/or togetherness, but rather than correct everything on a computer with Pro Tools , where you're 'mixing with your eyes' — which is a phrase that I'd never heard; it means that you make sure everything is lined up perfectly but then it sounds like it was done by a robot — we mixed with our ears. And there's nuances in there, but we're gonna leave them because that's how it came across when we recorded it."

"Firepower" was released on March 9 via Epic .

The North American leg of the "Firepower" tour kicked off on March 13 in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania and wrapped on May 1 in San Antonio, Texas.

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Judas Priest Confirm Title of New ‘Firepower’ LP, Announce Tour

Judas Priest  are calling their upcoming 18th studio album  Firepower . They've also announced a series of supporting shows for next year.

The appropriately titled Firepower 2018 Tour is set to begin in March. A complete list of dates, cities and venues is below. Pre-sales will begin on Wednesday at 10AM local time; check with venues for additional information.

Firepower , due in early 2018, follows 2014's Top 10 Billboard hit Redeemer of Souls . This new project was co-produced by Andy Sneap and Tom Allom. An engineer on Black Sabbath 's first three albums, Allom has a history with Judas Priest going back to the '70s. Their work together includes British Steel , Screaming for Vengeance and Defenders of the Faith .

Allom's most recent project with Judas Priest was the 2009 concert recording A Touch of Evil . Sneap has worked as a mixer and engineer for Megadeth , Slayer and Saxon , among others.

Judas Priest Firepower 2018 Tour Dates 3/13 - Wilkes Barre, PA, Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza 3/15 - Youngstown, OH, Covelli Centre 3/17 - Uniondale, NY, Nassau Coliseum 3/18 - Washington, DC, The Anthem 3/20 - Newark, NJ, Prudential Center 3/22 - Uncasville, CT, Mohegan Sun Arena 3/25 - Ottawa, ON, The Arena at TD Place 3/27 - London, ON, Budweiser Gardens 3/28 - Oshawa, ON, Tribute Communities Centre 3/30 - Orillia, ON, Casino Rama 3/31 - Detroit, MI, Detroit Masonic Temple 4/3 - Milwaukee, WI, Riverside Theater 4/5 - Green Bay, WI, Resch Center 4/8 - Bloomington, IL, Grossinger Motors Arena 4/10 - Casper, WY, Casper Events Center 4/11 - Loveland, CO, Budweiser Events Center 4/15 - Kent, WA, ShoWare Center 4/17 - Portland, OR, Veterans Memorial Coliseum 4/19 - San Francisco, CA, The Warfield 4/22 - Los Angeles, CA, Microsoft Theater 4/24 - Phoenix, AZ, Comerica Theatre 4/26 - Tulsa, OK, BOK Center 4/28 - Dallas, TX, The Bomb Factory 4/29 - Sugarland, TX, Smart Financial Centre 5/1 - San Antonio, TX, Freeman Coliseum

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A Nightly Dose of Firepower

Heavy metal legends Judas Priest are back on the road in support of their critically acclaimed March, 2018 album release, Firepower . For a band approaching their 50th anniversary, Judas Priest are still as potent as ever, and their recent arena tour across North America has impressed fans, particularly with a set list full of rarely heard tunes like “Bloodstone” and “Running Wild,” and the concert debut of “Saints In Hell.” Guitarist Glenn Tipton, a member of the classic lineup, has been unable to join the rest for most of the dates due to his decade-long battle with Parkinson’s. Firepower co-producer Andy Sneap, an agile axeman from the bands Sabbat and Hell, has been performing in his place and ceded the spotlight during the select shows where Tipton appeared for the final three songs.

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‡‡         Big Energy, Big Sound

Make no mistake: The band is as intense as ever. They are still one of the loudest bands in the world, and FOH engineer Martin Walker makes sure audiences get the sonic kick they crave without obliterating them. He’s been with the British rockers for two decades and has seen their concert evolution. “Over the years, the band has gotten less demanding in what they need on stage,” Walker reports, “and the speaker technology has gotten better.” Even so, your earplugs will still come in handy.

A DiGiCo SD7 forms the centerpiece of Martin Walker’s FOH mix position.

Walker’s sonic weapon of choice is the DiGiCo SD7. He used to be a big fan of Yamaha analog desks, but eventually went to the digital side. He originally tried the PM5D before Major Tom principal Lars Brogaard convinced Walker to give the D5 a try.

Rather than work the digital domain as hard as possible as he did with the PM5D, Walker decided, “I’m just going to use it analog fashion, and I’ll just mix it live and mix with my fingers. Mix with the faders and not the buttons. I immediately felt it was a lot easier, and the sound of the DiGiCo was more of what I was looking for than the Yamaha. So it just progressed from there.” He used the D5s then switched to the SD7s when they came out and “fell in love with them. I think they sound great.” He also loves the 24-hour support he gets from DiGiCo, which he feels he would not get from any other manufacturer.

For the Firepower tour, Walker is running about 48 inputs on the desk. He says half of them are for Scott Travis’ drums, a quarter of them are guitars (Sneap, Richie Faulkner, and occasionally Tipton), and the rest are Ian Hill’s bass and bass pedals, Rob Halford’s vocals, backing vocals, and for playback, mainly just intros and outros for songs. “The playback occasionally provides some clicks for Scott to keep the songs in the right time,” says Walker. Most of the time the clicks are not needed, “but there are a couple of songs that the band feel the need to have a click to play along to.”

The stage left P.A. hang. Major Tom provided a Meyer speaker system. Photo by Todd Kaplan

‡‡         The System

For the main P.A., the band has 12 Meyer LEOs and three Meyer LYONs for under hang, with 12 MILOs per side for side hang. “We are flying three 1100 LFC subs per side in a cardioid configuration,” says systems tech Kyle Carter, who previously worked with Walker while touring with Iron Maiden. “Each 1100 Stack has one JM-1P per side on top of it to fill in underneath the main hang. In the center of the stage, we have three Meyer 700 HPs per side also in a cardioid configuration to ensure an even spread of sub all across the floor. Also, there are three UPA-1Ps on top of the 700 for extra fill in the front row.” The P.A. is driven by three Galaxy 816 speaker processors per sides with a Galaxy 816-AES3 at the FOH position controlling input to all of the processors.

The all-Meyer mains rig consisted of L/R hangs, each with 12 Meyer Leo and three Meyer Lyon for underhang, along with flown 1100 LFC subs and sidehangs of 12 Milo line arrays. Additional ground-stacked subs added to the punch.

“Traditionally, we never used to fly the subs with Priest, but this is the first year I’m doing it,” adds Walker. “It’s just for the arenas. It helps to get more of an even coverage. Sometimes in arenas, just ground stacking subs can cause a lot of lobing issues, so we fly three per side and we ground stack three per side.” He adds that there are not many speakers onstage anymore. With most members using in-ears, Faulkner and Tipton are the ones using live speakers these days.”

Carter says the most challenging venue on the first part of the tour was the Armory in Minneapolis. The rear part of the venue was literally a straight brick wall. “There was a straight, narrow balcony, and the sound went straight into the wall, so bounce back was a problem that day,” he recalls. “Apart from that, everything’s really been okay.”

‡‡         Capturing That JP Sound

Priest’s audio team is using Shure microphones — 58s on Halford’s vocals and an array on Travis’ drums, including Beta-91s on the kick, Beta 56As on the kit, standard 57s on the snare, 98As on the toms, 137s on the crash mics (which are miked underneath), Beta 181s on the hi-hats, and KSM44s as overheads. Both Faulkner and Tipton have three mics on their cabs: Shure KSM 313 ribbon mics, KSM 27s and KSM32s. Sneap, who’s filling in for Tipton, is playing through two Kemper amps.

“I’m miking Andy as well to get something a little warmer,” says Walker. “The Kempers sound okay, but to me they sound a little brittle when you just use the DI, so he’s leaking some sound into another cab. If Andy had the choice, he would just use two DIs, but I’m just trying to bolster him a bit. I’m on a learning curve with it. It’s the first time I’ve used Kempers, and it’s a daily task for me to try to get a little bit more out of them each day.”

Use of playback is minimal. There is the opening scream for “Firepower,” some vocal effects for “Evil Never Dies,” the police siren in “Breaking The Law,” a laser sound for a line in “Metal Gods,” as well as the shaking tray of cutlery that simulates the marching sound for that song’s coda, and keyboard swirls for “Turbo Lover.”

As far as his outboard gear, Walker’s “show saver” is the TC Electronic D-2 delay, which he uses for numerous vocal delay cues throughout the show. Unlike past Priest tours, there are no guitar delays this time out. He is also using an Eventide Harmonizer on Rob Halford’s vocals. “I don’t like it to sound too processed, so it’s really just in the background,” says Walker. “I have a Yamaha SPX-2000, which I use for the classic reverb and gate programs from the original SPX90. I use it on Scott’s snare and use it in just the background, but I do boost it on ‘Turbo Lover’ to get that almost ‘80s, slightly pop snare sound. Then I’ve got an SPX990 for Rob’s ‘devil’ vocal effects. I use it in ‘Metal Gods’ and ‘Electric Eye.’ They’re really short bits, and if you blink you miss them.”

He is using the SPL Transient Designer plug-in on the kicks and snares. “It takes a signal and you can stretch it a little, so if your snare is really sharp and short you can sustain it,” explains Walker. “It has an attack control and a sustain control. It’s kind of messing with the drums without having samples. It’s pure analog.”

There is a Neve 5045 on Rob’s vocal mics, “so when he walks across the stage, it ducks the gain down on his mic,” says Walker. “I’m having issues with his vocal mic when he’s on certain parts of the stage on this tour. Somebody’s put a water bottle on the set with a little pipe that comes up so he can get a drink without having to go offstage, and it’s right in front of Richie’s cabs. So when he goes over for a drink, Richie’s guitar comes screaming down Rob’s mic. The ducker helps, but it doesn’t perform miracles. I have to watch Rob every moment he’s up there and switch his mic off when he goes for the drink and when he goes too close to Richie’s cabs.”

Bradley Johnson’s choice for monitor console was this 24-fader DiGiCo SD10.

‡‡         Meanwhile, in Monitorworld

Monitor engineer Bradley Johnson spent the last five years with Megadeth and understands the sonics (and tour rigors) of metal. It gave him the experience to tackle this trek. “It’s a little bit tricky,” admits Johnson, “because most of the time with bands nowadays, you’ll have a band that’s either all on in-ears, or rarely you’ll get a band that is just wedges and side fills and whatnot. With this, we have a combination of both. Glenn and Richie are both non in-ear type guys, and so it is almost like two battleships pointing at each other from across the stage with the side fills. It’s like a war going on, and then all the guys with in-ears aren’t really aware of what is happening. You’re very isolated and can have exactly what you want in your head, whereas you’ve got this other thing going on where it’s just a blitzkrieg. You can’t stay inside your own head on an ear mix all night. You’ve got to have a wedge down there as well and listen to that. It’s difficult monitoring what’s happening, because you’re going back and forth between the two things.”

Travis, Hill, Halford and Sneap use in-ears, and with the drummer and bassist, once they settle in, they rarely want changes. On the flip side, Halford’s mix is completely dynamic. “It’s a front of house mix from beginning to end with all the guitar solos, panning, and vocal effects happening where they need to happen,” says Johnson. “It’s a mix that you can’t get away from for very long — audience reaction and all kinds of stuff — so his mix is extremely busy. Normally, this is probably the only monitor job that I still do — everything else is front of house — so I think having a front of house background helps me give somebody that kind of mix because I’m already used to all the bells and whistles.”

From his monitor mix position at stage left, Johnson is running 56 inputs on a 24-fader DiGiCo SD-10 with a Wave server. Monitors onstage include three pairs of Meyer MJF212 self-powered wedges, with three JM-1P side fills per side along with two HP700s per side. “It’s a pretty hefty side fill,” he says.

Johnson notes that a rising challenge for monitor engineers is radio frequency management, and every year it gets more and more complicated. “You’ve gotta be part computer programmer with all the new consoles, and you’ve gotta be part IT guy and then part radio jockey,” he says. “Whereas before, all we did was come up and try to get things as loud as we could. That was an art form in itself, having tons of EQ and having power amplifiers on everything. Now it’s more precise. You are dealing with technologies that didn’t exist and you had no need for. That’s probably the most challenging part of my day, wrangling frequencies, making sure everything’s solid throughout the night.”

The audio crew, from left: Bradley Johnson, David ‘Dribble’ Poynter, Martin Walker, Eoin O’Cinnseala and Kyle Carter.

‡‡         Teamwork!

Walker is very pleased with the Firepower tour audio team. He and audio tech David Poynter met 20 years ago and used to be the P.A. crew for Foo Fighters in Europe. Both Carter and stage audio tech Eoin O’Cinnseala were his assistants on Iron Maiden for the last two years. “We worked together, and they learned their stuff,” he recalls. “Kyle is a thick-spoken Scotsman and Eoin is thick-spoken Irishman, so when the two of them talk to each other it’s hilarious, because half of the time they don’t understand each other.”

Joking aside, adds Walker, “We’ve got a great working relationship, and they both know their LEO stuff as well. It’s actually a very happy and good crew across the board on this tour. There are no inter-departmental issues, and everybody plays well together. We go from arenas to tiny theaters and try to fit as much of the arena show in as we can [into the smaller places], so there has to be a lot of cooperation between departments.”

The U.S. shows wrapped up on May 1, 2018 at the 11,700-seat Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio, TX. After their slated appearance on Cinco de Mayo at the Corona Heaven & Hell Festival in Mexico City, the Firepower tour is set to continue through Europe until June 19.

Judas Priest Firepower Tour

• Sound Company: Major Tom
• FOH Engineer/Production Manager: Martin Walker
• Monitor Engineer/RF Coordinator: Bradley Johnson
• Stage Audio Tech: Eoin O’Cinnseala
• Systems Tech: Kyle Carter
• Audio Tech: David Poynter
• Main PA: (12) Meyer LEOs and (3) Meyer LYONs for underhang per side
• Side Hangs: (12) Meyer Milo
• Flown Subs: (6) 1100 LFC
• Ground Subs: (6) 1100 LFC, (3) HP 700’s
• Side Fills: (4) 700 HP, (6) JM-1P’s
• In/out Fills: (6) UPA-1P, (2) JM-1P’s
• Drive: Meyer Galaxy 816-AES3, (6) Galaxy 816 speaker processors
• FOH Console: DiGiCo SD7
• Outboard: (2) TC Electronic D-2 delays; Yamaha SPX2000, SPX990; Neve 5045 Primary Source Enhancer, SPL Transient Designer plug-in, Eventide Eclipse
• Recording/Playback: JoeCo Blackbox recorder for multi-track recording & virtual sound checks
• Near Field Monitoring: (2) Meyer UPJ’s
• Stage Cabling/Interconnect: Whirlwind W4, W1 and 12-way sub-snakes
• Monitor Console: DiGiCo SD10/24
• Outboard: Waves Server and Pro Live bundle
• Interfacing: All Whirlwind interfacing
• Wireless: (6) Shure PSM-1000 for band IEM mixes, (2) Shure PSM-900 for tech mixes, Shure AD4D handhelds with Beta 58 caps, Shure ATX-600 scanner, Wireless Workbench RF software
• IEMs: Jerry Harvey Audio JH16
• Mics: Shure SM58s (vocals), Beta-91s (kick), Beta 56As (drums), SM57 (snare top/bottom), SM-98As (toms), KSM137 (crash cymbals — miked underneath), Beta 181 (hi-hat), KSM44 (overheads); KSM 27, KSM32 and KSM 313 ribbon mics (guitar cabinets)

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Judas Priest “Firepower” 2018 world tour

All hail to the mighty Judas Priest!   \M/   By Anthony Notte

Judas Priest kicked things off with the title track from their newest studio album Firepower and it was full throttle awesomeness from the first note. The twin guitars of Richie Faulkner and Andy Sneap roared loudly and got the crowd pumped and ready for a magnificent metal onslaught that would not relent until the end of the set. Firepower is Priest’s newest studio album and the band was not shy in showing off some prime cuts from this record during their set. A few songs that stood out were the title track “Firepower”, “Lightning Strike” and “Rising From Ruins.”   …….More of the review at the bottom of the photos….

These songs sound killer on the record and sounded even better when played live. What I like best about Firepower as a studio album is that it has everything that fans want and expect from classic Priest offerings like British Steel, Screaming for Vengeance and Painkiller with a fresh and exhilarating feel to it. Richie Faulkner has really come into his own as a member of Judas Priest. Since he joined the band in 2011 following original lead guitar player K. K. Downing’s retirement, Faulkner has given Priest a big shot in the arm and has provided tons of energy along with tremendous musical talent that is not only on display within the bands newest studio album Firepower, but he can also perform extraordinarily well live on stage. Richie is, without doubt, the total package as far as guitar players go. Andy Sneap was on point as the co-lead guitar player alongside Richie Faulkner. Having co-produced Firepower with longtime Priest record producer Tom Allom, he was able to take what is already great about a band like Judas Priest and add a few of his own touches to what would become a great record in Firepower. Let us not forget that Sneap also deserves huge credit for covering co-original lead guitar player Glenn Tipton’s live stage guitar parts following Tipton’s retirement from active touring due to his ongoing battle with Parkinson’s disease. It is certainly not easy to replicate Glenn’s parts since he is an extraordinary guitar player, but Andy is doing a hell of a job flying the Priest flag in Tipton’s absence. Ian Hill was great on bass for this show. Having played with Judas Priest since the release of their debut studio album Rocka Rolla back in 1974, Hill still has the same fiery feel to playing the big bad bass now, just as he did then. I loved hearing him cut through the twin guitars of Richie Faulkner and Andy Sneap with that bold rich and super heavy bass tone while headbanging his way through every song with a big smile on his face. Rob Halford also known as “The Metal God” displayed pure power from a vocal standpoint during this show. Whether he is singing in the high, middle or low range, Halford has such a great understanding of how to get the very best out of his voice without overdoing it. This is not easy for any rock or heavy metal singer, but Rob Halford is one of the best in the music business and he can prove it night after night with ease. It is not a complete Priest show without “The Metal God” looking his best in true heavy metal fashion. The crowd went wild when he came out on stage wearing an awesome leather jacket sitting atop an excellent fire painted Harley-Davidson motorcycle. Seeing and hearing that engine rev right before the band ripped into “Hell Bent for Leather” gave me goosebumps. It was a moment of pure rock and roll euphoria. Scott Travis who celebrated his birthday that night was on fire for this gig. At 57 years old the veteran drummer showed no signs of slowing down. Travis is the band’s longest active-serving drummer since 1989. It is clear how much he loves to play drums, loves Priest and loves the band’s fans greatly. I was very happy to see and hear him pound away on that great looking DW drum kit with such power, passion, and joy. He performed flawlessly on all the classic songs and his explosive drum intro on “Painkiller” was most excellent. Priest’s setlist was a nice mix of killer tracks from Firepower, fan favorites like “Delivering the Goods”, “Hell Bent for Leather” and “Turbo Lover”, along with a couple hidden gems such as “Sinner” and “Desert Plains.” I feel that Priest put out a great record in Firepower. They are more than able to deliver killer shows nightly and all the band members are at the top of their game musically speaking. It is perfectly clear that the metal gods still love to bring the rock and roll to the fans and have an absolute blast doing it.

  Set list from PNC Art Center in Holmdel New Jersey on September 26.

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Richie Faulkner talks about his Rock Scene

Richie Faulkner got his first guitar when he was around 8 years old. His father played guitar and was into bands like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple & Jimi Hendrix. When Richie was about thirteen years old, he connected with the owner of a local music shop who played in a cover band, covering material from Iron Maiden to Thin Lizzy to UFO. He asked Richie to play a couple songs with him at some gigs, and that was his introduction to the world of gigging. His first signed band was a band called Dirty Deeds, and they recorded an album that was produced by Steve Harris from Iron Maiden. In 2011 he got the call from Judas Priest’s management to arrange a meeting with the band after guitarist K.K. Downing left the group. Richie met with Rob Halford and Glenn Tipton. “We discussed what they wanted, what they didn’t want, and they also discussed what I wanted and didn’t want” he says. “They wanted someone in the band, they didn’t want a hired gun. They wanted someone who’d give a thousand percent to the band and they’d give a thousand percent back.”

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Judas Priest Announce Firepower Tour Ahead of New Album

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Judas Priest will embark on a North American tour in 2018 in support of their upcoming album Firepower .

The 25-date arena trek launches March 13th in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania and concludes May 1st in San Antonio, Texas. A “ Judas Priest Fan Presale” for tickets begins October 25th; check out the band’s website for ticket information.

Firepower , the heavy metal legends’ first LP since 2014’s Redeemer of Souls , is due out in early 2018. Judas Priest, who landed several albums on Rolling Stone ‘s list of the 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time , were also nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame earlier this month.

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Exploring the Songs on Judas Priest's "Firepower Tour" Setlist

Hannah cotter / photography by: dave simpson / may 28, 2019.

"That’s the room where Glenn [Tipton] woke me up, because my bedroom was above that room, and Glenn was clanging out the chords to ‘Living After Midnight’ at 4 o’clock in the morning. He woke me up, I came downstairs, and said, ‘Glenn, it seems like you’re living after midnight down here.’ And he said, ‘That’s a great title for this song!'"

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Ineos grenadiers backs carlos rodríguez for unified gc tour de france push, 'carlos will be leading the ineos grenadiers’ charge' : pidcock, bernal, and thomas to back spain's rodríguez to corral forces to try to take on the 'big 4.'.

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FLORENCE, Italy (Velo) — Ineos Grenadiers confirmed it will pile everything into supporting Carlos Rodríguez in a bid to check egos and corral forces going into the Tour de France .

The UK super team brings a stacked roster for the Tour de France , and the once-mighty yellow jersey kings vow to race as a collective force to take on the “Big 4.”

Backing Rodríguez will be 2019 winner Egan Bernal and Tom Pidcock, with 2018 champ Geraint Thomas taking on a road captain role.

“After a strong and consistent season, Carlos will be leading the Ineos Grenadiers’ charge across France,” said Scott Drawer, performance director at Ineos Grenadiers. “Carlos has continued to impress us with his racing as well as his professionalism and attitude on and off the bike.

“Right beside him will be the strength and Tour experience of Egan, with Tom and Geraint providing support but also looking to race aggressively, disrupt and take the race to our competition.”

That’s a lot of firepower and big vote of confidence for Rodríguez.

Team management will also be trying to corral egos and ambitions right from the start to create a singular focus to challenge the likes of Tadej Pogačar , Primož Roglič, and Jonas Vingegaard.

Other starters include Jonathan Castroviejo, Laurens De Plus, Michel Kwiatkowski, and Ben Turner.

“In cycling, you get individual results but it’s a team sport,” Rodríguez said. “The help from these teammates and from the staff will be what makes all the difference, especially when the level of racing is going to be so high. Having such a strong group of riders around me is what is going to help us get the best result possible as a team.”

Thomas already confirmed he won’t be racing for yellow in what could be his final Tour, and is content to play road captain and help try to steer the Ineos ship in one direction.

Bernal and Pidcock appear to line up behind Rodríguez, at least according to team officials. Yet as the Netflix docuseries revealed, Pidcock seemed to not to be so keen to work for his Spanish teammate during last year’s Tour.

If Ineos Grenadiers comes apart at the seams, it will stand no chance to take on the unified block of UAE Team Emirates or Bora-Hansgohe.

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Rodríguez raced the Critérium du Dauphiné, where he gained strength and momentum by the day to win the final stage and finished fourth overall just 24 seconds off the final podium.

Even if the young Spanish rider is tapped as the leader, the team will want to keep all three within striking distance for as long as possible.

Bernal, who continues his steady progression from his career-altering crash to open 2022, punched his Tour ticket with a solid showing at the Tour de Suisse , also with fourth overall.

“My ambition is to be really competitive and to be someone who can make a real difference in the race,” Bernal said. “As a team we want to win and we have a few riders who can do really well. It is going to be important to have different options especially in the second and third week.

“If we can reach that point with a number of riders high on GC it can become a bit of a strategic game, and having various cards to play is going to be important.”

Bernal, who became Colombia’s first Tour winner in 2019, says he’s posting his best numbers ever, but will it be enough to stay with Pogačar and Vingegaard when they turn on the afterburners? So far, he doesn’t seem to have the same lethal power in the climbs that he packed in 2019.

Pidcock was racing mountain bikes last week in an approach that reveals the UK superstar will be defending his Olympic gold medal in mountain biking in Paris after the Tour concludes. Pidcock was also riding a wave of momentum, coming out of the Swiss tour with sixth overall.

And a bigger question for Pidcock is what exactly will he be chasing during this Tour?

With the Olympics on the back of his mind, another stage victory and a step forward in his GC progression to improve on last year’s 13th overall could be enough.

“I’ve won a Tour stage before and that’s really something I would love to do again, it was one of the best days on the bike,” Pidcock said. “The opening few stages this year presents a real opportunity but of course there are many riders with eyes on the yellow jersey.”

Rodríguez is coming off fifth place last year and a stage victory, and told Velo during the Dauphiné that he’s hoping to at least match that.

The team will count on the steadying influence of Thomas, who rode to third at the Giro d’Italia in May.

“I didn’t know how I would feel after the Giro and getting back to training as I have never done the Giro-Tour double before, but it’s been a solid block and the legs are feeling pretty good,” Thomas said.

“It’s going to be a super competitive and hard race, but we’ve got a super strong team with plenty of experience and Carlos is clearly on the up this season. Personally, I am looking forward to racing with a bit less pressure and more freedom to mix it up and try to get really stuck in.”

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All 18 WorldTour teams, plus the two best-ranked ProTeams – Israel-Premier Tech and Lotto-Dstny – got their automatic invitations to race while organisers ASO handed out wild card entries to Uno-X Mobility and TotalEnergies.

Crashes, form and Olympic goals have shaped the selections and ambitions for the teams but regardless all will be fighting to make an impression as the 21 days of racing over 3497.3km from Tuscany to Nice in the south of France unfolds.

Cyclingnews has pored through every squad, assessing their leaders, objectives and chances of success to bring you this comprehensive team-by-team guide.

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• Objective: Stage wins, points classification
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In the bunch sprints of the Grand Tours of recent years, one team has stood out above the rest as masters of the lead-out train: Alpecin-Deceuninck .

They were a prominent presence throughout the bunch finishes at the recent Giro d’Italia, but Kaden Groves wasn’t able to ride them to victory. However, at the Tour de France, the team will have Jasper Philipsen , the quickest sprinter in the peloton.

Philipsen was one of the stars of last year’s Tour, storming to four stage wins (as many as any sprinter has managed at a single Tour since the 2011 edition), as well as riding consistently enough to claim the green jersey. He didn't slow down this spring, either, with victories at Milan-San Remo and the Classic Brugge-De Panne, as well as a second place at Paris-Roubaix, among his very impressive results.

Not only is Philipsen the quickest sprinter in the race, but he’ll also have the quickest lead-out man riding for him in Mathieu van der Poel . The pair work brilliantly together, as seen not just at last year’s Tour sprints, but also during the spring, when Van der Poel helped Philipsen to triumph at Milan-San Remo, and vice versa at Paris-Roubaix.

Van der Poel will also go hunting for stage wins on appropriate stages, most likely on days with punchy parcours too hard for sprinters but not hard enough for climbers. For a man so untouchable in the Classics, it’s perhaps surprising that he only has one stage win to his name from three Tour appearances, but he has often ridden here with a future goal in mind, as will be the case this year as he builds towards the Olympics.

• Team leader: Arnaud Démare
• Objective: Stage wins
• Rider to watch: Kévin Vauquelin

With Warren Barguil having followed Nairo Quintana out the door, Arkéa-B&B Hotels are going in a fresh direction for the 2024 Tour with sprinter Arnaud Démare as their new talisman.

Having grown increasingly frustrated with the lack of opportunities provided him by his former Groupama-FDJ team, who selected him for only one Tour de France start in the last five years, Démare has moved to a team where he won’t just be picked but will command unified support behind him.

It’s hoped that as a winner of two Tour stages in the past, Démare can deliver the team their long-awaited first-ever following ten winless Tours, but does the Frenchman have the shape to do so? He hasn’t made the top ten of any race for almost four months, and recently fractured a finger at the 4 Jours de Dunkerque, plunging his Tour preparations into doubt.

It could therefore be up to others in the line-up to deliver, from which Kévin Vauquelin has shown particular potential. The 23-year-old has done everything this year, from making the top 10 at both Itzulia Basque Country and Tirreno-Adriatico, finishing second on the Mur de Huy at La Flèche Wallonne and winning a time trial at Etoile de Bessèges. He could be a contender for a variety of different stages though specialises in climbing hills and mountains.

• Team leader: Mark Cavendish
• Rider to watch: Alexey Lutsenko

At last, it's nearly time for the race that Astana Qazaqstan 's whole season has been building up towards.

Since signing Mark Cavendish in January 2023, they've made it their foremost mission to deliver the Manxman to the elusive win number 35, move clear of Eddy Merckx, and thereby become the outright record holder for most stage wins at the Tour de France.

It had initially been intended as a one-year plan, but after the heartbreak of last year’s race, where Cavendish crashed out at the end of the first week , he and the team have decided to have one last shot at history this July.

Unlike last year, when he went into the Tour off the back of a final-day victory in Rome at the Giro d’Italia, Cavendish has shown only sporadic signs of form this season, confined to smaller races. He won a stage during his first race of the season at the Tour of Colombia in February but had to wait another three months for a first victory on European roads at the Tour of Hongrie. His recent participation at the Tour de Suisse was mainly to sharpen his climbing form ahead of the Tour de France.

The Astana team is set to be built entirely around him. Veteran lead-out master Michael Mørkøv was signed exclusively to deliver him in the sprints, while Cees Bol and Davide Ballerini will sacrifice their own sprinting ambitions to form part of his lead-out train.

One rider who might be granted some freedom to ride for himself is Alexey Lutsenko . He showed great form by winning Il Giro d’Abruzzo before abandoning the Giro d’Italia and finishing seventh and eighth on GC in 2021 and 2022, respectively. He has two Tour de France GC top 10s, as well as a stage win in 2020, on his palmarès, so another top showing isn't out of the question.

• Team leaders: Pello Bilbao
• Objective: GC, stage wins
• Riders to watch: Santiago Buitrago, Matej Mohorič

What Bahrain Victorious lacks in a single stand-out GC contender, they make up for in strength in depth. Following Antonio Tiberi’s fifth place at the Giro d’Italia, they’re hoping to extend their run of top-six finishes on GC to a fifth consecutive Grand Tour and have several riders potentially capable of doing so.

Their best candidate is Pello Bilbao , based on his performance at the Tour last year and in stage races so far in 2024. He was sixth place last year and has been building nicely towards that level again this year with sixth-place finishes at Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana and Itzulia Basque Country, plus third at the UAE Tour in between. He was also second overall at the Tour of Slovenia, and while the field was not the same level as what he will face at the Tour de France, the results undoubtedly helped to build confidence.

Santiago Buitrago is poised to make his Tour debut. He brings with him considerable expectations off the back of his stage wins and top-ten finish at the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España, respectively, as well as his impressive showing at Paris-Nice earlier this year.

It’s also hoped that Jack Haig can rediscover some form ahead of the race, while even veteran Wout Poels could post a high GC finish based on his recent third and sixth-place finishes at the Tour de Hongrie and Tour of the Alps, respectively.

Poels and Bilbao were two of the three different riders to win a stage at last year’s Tour, along with Matej Mohorič, who will again be using his nous and engine to target breakaways. The Slovenian has three Tour stage wins on his career palmarès, and it wouldn't be a surprise to see him add another win here.

With Phil Bauhaus , a debutant last summer, also posing a threat in the bunch sprints, Bahrain Victorious has the resources to target a win on almost every stage.

• Team leaders: Guillaume Martin
• Riders to watch: Bryan Coquard, Ion Izagirre.

For the first time in many years, Cofidis can go into a Tour de France without being badgered about questions of whether this will be the year they at last manage to claim a stage win.

By triumphing on stage 2 of last year’s edition, Victor Lafay ended the team’s 15-year drought, and then Ion Izagirre added another stage a week later.

Lafay has since left for Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale, but Izagirre remains and is set to ride, with stage wins on hilly and mountainous days again likely to be the target.

Guillaume Martin will ride his eighth consecutive Tour de France and will be the team’s leading GC hope. He’s placed eighth, 10th, 11th and 12th in past appearances but has never won a stage, so he may prioritise trying to take one from a breakaway. He recently finished 19th overall at the Critérium du Dauphiné with a top 10 in a stage, but will be aiming to improve on that at the Tour.

Bryan Coquard is another rider without a Tour stage win to his name despite many near misses, including a couple of fourth-place finishes last year. He’ll be the team’s man for the bunch sprints, especially on hillier days that weaken the specialists.

While these riders bring experience, 25-year-old Axel Zingle has form and potential . He’s been consistently in contention for multiple semi-Classics over the last few months and could win from a breakaway if he picks the right move.

• Team leader: Felix Gall
• Rider to watch: Sam Bennett

In the middle of an exceptional season, in which they have already racked up more victories than they managed in the last two seasons combined, expectations are high for Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale as they head into the biggest race of the year.

Although the men who delivered stage wins (Valentin Paret-Peintre and Andrea Vendrame) and fourth overall (Ben O’Connor) at the Giro d’Italia will sit this one out as they rest and recover, the core of the other names who have made 2024 such a success are set to be present. Benoît Cosnefroy will also miss out on the Tour to focus on the Olympics.

Dorion Godon will be a candidate in reduced bunch sprints, having won two sprint finishes at the Tour de Romandie in late April.

In the pure flat finishes, Sam Bennett will still be their main candidate , having recently shown signs of returning to form with a haul of wins and GC at the 4 Jours de Dunkerque.

Felix Gall might have had a quieter season to date, but he'll still be the team’s main man for the mountains and their GC candidate, and is looking to be on target with a 10th overall at the Tour de Suisse. He finished eighth overall last year after breaking through with a series of good performances in the spring, while he'll also be hoping to replicate his breakaway stage win at Courchevel.

• Team leader: Fabio Jakobsen, Romain Bardet
• Rider to watch: Warren Barguil

For the Tour de France, DSM-Firmenich PostNL are making the unusual move of deploying the same two leaders as they did at the Giro d’Italia.

In the bunch sprints, Fabio Jakobsen will again line up as he continues to rediscover his mojo. The Dutchman still only has one win to his name (at the Tour of Turkey) since signing for the team this year, and he failed to get involved in the Giro bunch sprints before abandoning during the second week. However, the team still retains faith that he can reach the level that saw him win a stage on his Tour debut two years ago.

Romain Bardet fared better at the Giro than Jakobsen, finishing ninth overall while coming close to a stage win on Bocca della Selva. Though he has made the top 10 in all but two of the eight Tours he has finished throughout his career, his excursions in Italy may mean he targets stage wins this time instead. He revealed that he would not be going for GC, but instead, target stage wins.

With 11 wins to their name – including just one WorldTour race and only three outside the Tour of Turkey – DSM need some big results. That means that another French climber, Warren Barguil , will likely be given the freedom to attack and get into breakaways.

• Team leader: Richard Carapaz
• Rider to watch: Neilson Powless, Ben Healy

Last season was the first in EF Education-Easy Post ’s 16-year history that they did not place a rider in the top 10 of any of the Grand Tours. That run continued at the Giro d’Italia last month, where they aggressively targeted stage wins rather than GC via constant attacks, and were eventually rewarded in the final week with success from Georg Steinhauser in the Dolomites.

Nevertheless, they intend to strive to finish as high as possible at the Tour with Richard Carapaz as their leader. The 2021 podium finisher and 2019 Giro champion was signed in 2023 to do precisely that but he endured an under-par season last year and is only just showing signs of some form recently, with a stage win and seventh overall at the Tour de Romandie. 

However, Carapaz and Alberto Bettiol were forced to abandon the recent Tour de Suisse after crashing on stage 4, but expressed that their 'goal remains the Tour de France'.

Even though Carapaz’s form is still uncertain, the team announced he will lead the team at the Tour, and the team will focus on stage wins.

Tthere ought to be plenty of scope for the rest of the line-up to chase their own personal ambitions. Neilson Powless , for instance, could either chase GC as he did in 2023 (when he finished 12th), or stage wins and the polka-dot jersey as he did last year.

Irish puncheur Ben Healy is set to make his Tour debut, and if his Giro debut from last year and performances in the Classics are anything to go by, we can expect him to attack at every opportunity.

Alberto Bettiol ’s form during the spring suggests he could add a Tour stage win to the one he managed at the 2021 Giro, while Marijn van den Berg has also earned a spot on the team thanks to his impressive early season performances.

• Team leader: David Gaudu
• Rider to watch: Stefan Küng

A new dawn awaits Groupama-FDJ as they embark upon the first Tour de France of the post-Thibaut Pinot era. Before retiring at the end of last year, Pinot had been the fulcrum of the team, appearing for them in all but two of the last 12 editions — sometimes with great success, other times with great heartbreak.

David Gaudu will seek to fill the void left by Pinot, as he has for several years now. Fourth overall in 2022 remains his highest finish at any Grand Tour, and though a repeat of that looks ambitious given his stuttering form this year, he’s still dreaming of a podium finish.

If Gaudu doesn’t have the legs to mount a serious GC challenge, targeting stage wins may be the team’s optimum approach, and they have plenty of riders capable of delivering on that front.

Rising star Lenny Martinez misses the race in favour of the Vuelta a España, but 21-year-old Romain Grégoire is set to make his Tour debut on the back of some very impressive results this year, including a stage win at Itzulia Basque Country

Valentin Madouas has become a recognisable face from recent Tours without quite winning a stage, though he certainly has the talent to do so. Stefan Küng , newly crowned Swiss champion in the time trial, will, as ever, be a candidate for both the time trials as well as select breakaways.

• Team leaders: Carlos Rodríguez, Egan Bernal
• Objective: GC
• Rider to watch: Tom Pidcock, Geraint Thomas

Last year was only the second time in the last decade that Ineos Grenadiers failed to put a rider on the GC podium at the Tour de France. Even since their run of yellow jersey-winning Tours came to an end in 2020, up until then they had still managed to crack the podium through Richard Carapaz (in 2021) and Geraint Thomas (in 2022), but last year their highest finisher, Carlos Rodríguez , finished further down in fifth place.

Still, that result means Rodríguez is one of the more obvious choices to lead the team’s 2024 GC bid, and the 23-year-old has bolstered his status with overall victory at the Tour de Romandie, second place behind Juan Ayuso at Itzulia Basque Country and fourth overall at the Critérium du Dauphiné.

Also in the squad are other, more wildcard options for GC. Geraint Thomas would usually be a dependable candidate, but it’s unclear how fresh he will be, having dug deep to seal third place at the Giro d’Italia .

Egan Bernal and Tom Pidcock showed Tour de France leadership form at Tour de Suisse , finishing fourth and sixth place, respectively.

Pidcock has stated that he intends to concentrate on the GC rather than stage wins, despite failing to make the top ten last year and remained in Switzerland for additional training before heading to the Grand Depart.

And Bernal, the 2019 champion, has for the first time since his horror crash two and a half years ago shown form approaching his best, with third overall at Volta a Catalunya, top tens at Paris-Nice and the Tour de Romandie, and fourth at the Tour de Suisse but it remains to be seen if he can manage a sustained GC bid over three weeks.

Michał Kwiatkowski and Laurens De Plus will be on hand to help the aforementioned trio achieve their GC goals, even if the Belgian could harbour ambitions of his own after racing to an unexpected and impressive fifth overall at the Critérium du Dauphiné. 

• Team leader: Biniam Girmay, Louis Meintjes
• Rider to watch: Georg Zimmermann

Biniam Girmay returns to the Tour de France hoping for a positive turn in fortunes. So far, his season has been blighted by interruptions, with promising form in the early spring classics halted by a crash at Dwars door Vlaanderen and another crash spelling the end of his Giro d’Italia one day after finishing third in Fossano.

He’s since returned to winning ways with victory at the Circuit Franco-Belge , and looks on course to arrive at the Tour in form. As Intermarché-Wanty ’s star, the onus is on the Eritrean to make an impact and he has the chance to make history as the first-ever Black African to win a stage of the Tour de France. His consistency and versatility also make him a candidate for the green jersey.

Like Girmay, who failed to show his best self at last year’s Tour, Louis Meintjes will be hoping to return to the form that saw him finish seventh overall in 2022 rather than crash out last year.

Meintjes will be the team’s GC leader, but the rest of the line-up will have the freedom to get into break and chase stage wins, much as Georg Zimmermann (who was second on stage 10) did last year. Rouleurs like Laurenz Rex and Hugo Page might fancy their chances of winning a stage this way, too.

• Team leader: Stephen Williams, Derek Gee
• Rider to watch: Pascal Ackermann

Israel-Premier Tech 's high ambitions from 2021, when they gambled on signing Chris Froome in the hope that he could recover from his horror crash two years earlier and revive his Tour-winning form of old, have since been significantly tempered.

Now no longer a WorldTour team, they've instead depended upon a wildcard to earn entry into the Tour de France, and their hopes are limited to chasing stage wins rather than mixing it up in the battle for the yellow jersey.

Froome was fighting for selection and eager to avoid a repeat of last year when he was left out of the Tour line-up, but he will once again not start the Tour de France with Israel-Premier Tech .

The team has put their support behind Stephen Williams and Derek Gee with the aim of winning stages at this year's event.

Williams is enjoying a terrific season, having won both La Flèche Wallonne and the Tour Down Under, and recently finished second in a stage at the Tour de Suisse. He'll, therefore, be a top contender for stage wins in the hilly terrain.

Gee, who last year burst onto the scene with a series of breakaway second places at the Giro d'Italia, makes his Tour debut in the form of his life after scoring a stage win and third overall at the Critérium du Dauphné .

The team should have a presence in the sprints, where Tour debutant Pascal Ackermann aims to add to his Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España stage wins and complete the Grand Tour clean sweep. The rest of the line-up will be made up of stage hunters such as Dylan Teuns (who won here in both 2019 and 2021).

• Team leader: Simon Yates, Dylan Groenewegen
• Riders to watch: Michael Matthews

For a second successive season, Jayco-AlUla leader Simon Yates has foregone his usual Giro d’Italia participation in order to concentrate more committedly on the Tour de France.

Last year, this approach turned out to be a success, as he came to the Tour with some of the best legs of his career, eventually finishing fourth overall, and only missing out on a podium finish by 87 seconds to his brother Adam. His build-up to this year’s Tour isn’t so encouraging, however, having not shown much form since winning the AlUla Tour in the winter.

However, he will lead the general classification charge with key support rider Chris Harper alongside, as he hopes to, this year, break Visma-Lease a Bike and UAE Team Emirates' stranglehold on the podium.

Jayco-AlUla aren’t putting all their eggs in the single basket of Yates’ GC bid. Dylan Groenewegen , who recently won a stage at the Tour of Slovenia, will be led out in the sprints by the likes of Luka Mezgec to see if he can add to his five Tour career stage wins, having come close last year with a second and third-place finish at Moulins and Paris, respectively.

On days too hilly for Groenewegen, Michael Matthews , recently second in a stage at the Tour de Suisse, will step up and may also try to get into some breakaways as he did to win a stage in 2022. He looked in fantastic form this spring, placing second at Milan-San Remo and, before being relegated for deviating from his line, third at the Tour of Flanders.

• Team leader: Mads Pedersen
• Objective: stage wins
• Rider to watch: Giulio Ciccone

As a team boasting a diverse range of talent, Lidl-Trek could feasibly compete for all a couple of major jerseys .

For the yellow jersey, they had high hopes for Tao Geoghegan Hart , but COVID-19 and a fractured rib due to a crash at the Dauphiné prevented him from toeing the start line . He’s only done the Tour de France once in his career and was eager to target GC here while still in his prime years.

Mads Pedersen finished a distant second to Jasper Philipsen in the points classification last year, though he did score his second stage win in as many years. He's shown the kind of excellent form throughout this year to suggest he could bridge that gap, as well as add to his stage win tally. His victory in the opening stage at the Dauphine suggests that he is in great form heading into this Tour.

As for the king of the mountains, Giulio Ciccone won that classification last year and will now be present to potentially defend that title after saddle sore surgery forced him to skip the Giro d’Italia. Unfortunately, he was also unwell due to the flu following the Dauphiné, and so his form is uncertain.

Lidl-Trek might even have had a prime candidate for the white jersey if Matias Skjelmose had opted to ride, but he plans to skip the Tour and save himself for a Vuelta a España overall bid instead.

• Team leader : Arnaud De Lie
• Rider to watch: Maxim Van Gils

Compared to other teams, Lotto-Dstny have a laser-focussed approach when it comes to the Tour de France. Not only will it be their first Grand Tour of the season, having opted out of the Giro d’Italia, but they have also narrow down their ambitions to focus exclusively on stage wins, having not placed a rider in the top 10 for 14 years.

They haven’t had success on these terms recently, though, with no stage win to their name since Caleb Ewan’s victories in the sprints during the 2020 edition. The Australian has led the team for the past five Tours, bringing much success initially with multiple stage wins in 2019 and 2020, but nothing in the three editions since then.

He’s now left the team for Jayco-AlUla, and taking his place as Lotto’s leader will be Arnaud De Lie . Much is hoped from the 22-year-old debutant based on his rapid rise over the past two years, and he'll be especially threatening on hillier days where the pure sprinters will struggle.

However, the Tour will be a big step up from the level of competition he’s used to, and he’s only recently r eturned to form after suffering from Lyme disease during the spring. A recent podium finish in a stage at the Tour de Suisse suggests that he is taking a step forward ahead of the Tour.

De Lie might be the most hyped name, but another young Belgian, Maxim Van Gils , has been the team’s best performer so far this season. He finished second on the stage to Grand Colombier last year and has since established himself as one of the very best puncheurs in the world following podium finishes at Strade Bianche and La Flèche Wallonne, and a fourth place at Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

2023 super-combativity winner Victor Campanaerts is also set to ride again, though his season to date has been a quiet one.

• Team leader: Enric Mas
• Rider to watch: Alex Aranburu, Oier Lazkano, Davide Formolo

2024 has so far been another difficult season for Movistar , with Pelayo Sánchez’s stage victory at the Giro d’Italia their only win at WorldTour level all year.

That doesn’t bode well for their prospects at the Tour de France, where they have, in recent years, laboured to reach the levels of the past. They’ve now gone two successive Tours without placing a rider in the top 10, having done so in eight of the nine previous editions.

If any of their roster is to break that duck, it’ll be Enric Mas . The Spaniard has generally been one of the most dependable GC riders of his generation , making the top six in six of his last eight Grand Tour appearances.

However, he has been forced to abandon both of his last two Tours de France, with his participation last summer ending on the first day following a crash.

So far, Mas has enjoyed a solid season without causing too much of a stir, finishing fifth overall at Volta a Catalunya, sixth at the Tour de Romandie and seventh at the Tour de Suisse. Considering that he normally ups his game for the Grand Tours, that’s encouraging.

The team also have Alex Aranburu , who recently won a stage and finished third overall at the Baloise Belgium Tour. He could be marking stage wins and a support role. Oier Lazkano and new signing for 2024 Davide Formolo will all have their chances in the breakaways.

Returning star Nairo Quintana won't make the race, meanwhile, after breaking his hand in a crash at the Tour de Suisse.

• Team leaders: Primož Roglič
• Riders to watch: Jai Hindley, Aleksandr Vlasov

For the 2024 season, Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe signed Primož Roglič with the primary objective of winning the Tour de France.

The team might never before have made the podium at any previous edition in their 10-year history, but Roglič has the calibre to challenge for yellow, as well as the desire, having moved from Visma-Lease a Bike for that specific purpose.

The Slovenian has left it to the last minute to show the kind of form he'll need to challenge for the yellow jersey, with his Critérium du Dauphiné victory his best showing of 2024 so far. The week-long warm-up race marked his first race since the heavy crash suffered by him, Remco Evenepoel, and Jonas Vingegaard at Itzulia Basque Country.

His two stage wins at the late summit finishes at Le Collet d'Allevard and Samöens 1600 were his first since the opening day at Itzulia, though a shaky final stage showing – where he shed almost a minute to Matteo Jorgenson and only held onto yellow by eight seconds – could provoke some cause for concern. 

Roglič’s presence means last year’s leader Jai Hindley — who enjoyed a day in the yellow jersey after winning stage five in Laruns before back pain contributed to a slip down to seventh on GC — will be demoted to the role of super-domestique.

While Hindley’s form has tailed away since his impressive third-place finish at Tirreno-Adriatico, Aleksandr Vlasov might believe he has the results to justify potential co-leadership status. With a second place at Tour de Romandie, sixth at Volta a Catalunya and fifth at Paris-Nice, he has been among the team's top performers this year. At the Dauphiné, he proved a reliable and strong deputy for Roglič.

Elsewhere, the rest of the team is geared exclusively towards targeting the yellow jersey, with Champs-Elysées-winning sprinter Jordi Meeus missing out on selection as the team looks to domestiques Danny van Poppel , Nico Denz , Marco Haller , Matteo Sobrero , and Bob Jungels .

• Team leader: Remco Evenepoel
• Rider to watch: Mikel Landa, Ilan Van Wilder

In a drastic change of approach, Soudal-QuickStep have abandoned their usual Tour de France strategy of targeting bunch sprints and stage wins, and instead are going all-in on Remco Evenepoel ’s push for GC.

This is set to be Evenepoel’s debut Tour, and it’s a hugely anticipated one, given the already enormous star profile he’s built for himself through many superb performances and major results, including two Liège–Bastogne–Liège victories, the world title in 2022, and the GC at the Vuelta a España that same year.

His build-up has been compromised after a crash and fractured collarbone at Itzulia Basque Country stalled the momentum that had already seen him win Volta ao Algarve and finish second at Paris-Nice, but the plan remains the same.

His first race back, the Critérium du Dauphiné, saw him score a dominant time trial win. However, he faded hard in the closing three mountain stages, losing 2:25 to Primož Roglič and finishing seventh overall in the GC. That will be a major cause for concern heading into July.

As part of the team building around Evenepoel, Mikel Landa has been signed up as a super-domestique. The Spaniard has performed this role in the past – at Sky to help Chris Froome win the 2017 Tour de France and at Movistar for Richard Carapaz’s 2019 Giro d’Italia triumph. Second at Volta a Catalunya and 10th at the Dauphiné suggests he has the legs to do something similar this year, too

Landa will be joined by Evenepoel’s familiar right-hand man, Ilan Van Wilder . The Belgian has ridden in support of Evenepoel many times, most notably during his triumphant Vuelta a España effort two years ago and should be in solid form, too, having placed fourth at the Tour de Romandie.

The team’s focus on GC means there will be no room for in-form sprinter Tim Merlier, despite his success at the Giro d’Italia, nor even home favourite Julian Alaphilippe, as the remaining spots instead go to domestiques including Yves Lampaert , Casper Pedersen , Louis Vervaeke and Gianni Moscon .

• Team leader: Mathieu Burgaudeau
• Rider to watch: Steff Cras

When TotalEnergies signed Peter Sagan for the 2022 season, they hoped the Slovakian would be the star name to make them protagonists at the Tour de France. His first edition for them was typically consistent, finishing in the top six of five different stages, but lacking the edge of his heyday; by the following year his powers had seriously waned, and he only made the top ten once.

Now that Sagan has retired, the team must embark on a new direction. They’ve struggled at the Tour in recent years and haven’t won a stage since Lilian Calmejane in 2017.

It will be hard for them to break that duck this year. Of the four non-WorldTour entries, they probably have the weakest roster, as reflected by the fact that they’d only won three races this season as of the beginning of June.

Consequently, their strategy will be to buy daily tickets in the lottery that is getting into the breakaway. Mathieu Burgaudeau is a particular specialist at this, having finished second and third on stages of last year’s race, and placed second in the King of the Mountains classification at this year’s Paris-Nice riding similarly aggressively.

The likes of Pierre Latour, Anthony Turgis, Geoffrey Soupe and Alexis Vuillermoz all provide experienced options for TotalEnergies to potentially select. And though the team don’t tend to target GC anymore, Stef Cras ’ 11th place finish at the Vuelta a España last year suggests he could become their first rider to crack the top ten since Pierre Rolland in 2015 — although his participation remains up in the air due to his involvement in the horror crash at Itzulia Basque Country.

• Team leaders: Tadej Pogačar
• Rider to watch: Adam Yates, Juan Ayuso

Phase one of UAE Team Emirates ’ great ambition to win the Giro/Tour double this year with Tadej Pogačar was a success, with the Slovenian waltzing to an enormous victory at the first Grand Tour . Now, it’s time for the hard part.

Pogačar won the Giro at a canter, almost 10 minutes clear of second place as he won a staggering six stages without ever appearing to have to stretch himself. But at the Tour, he’ll be up against a much stronger field of GC candidates, none of whom have the accumulated fatigue of having already completed a Grand Tour this season – even if Evenepoel, Roglič, and Vingegaard are all making comebacks from that brutal Itzulia crash.

UAE Team Emirates provided ample support to him at the Giro, with Rafał Majka and Vegard Stake Laengen impressing in particular, but the team is set to ring in the changes with an all-new line-up at the Tour.

On paper, it’s a much stronger group of riders, and the team have announced that recent winner of the Tour de Suisse Adam Yates , and runner-up João Almeida , along with Juan Ayuso will support Pogačar's bid for victory at the Tour de France .

In Yates, they have the man who finished third last summer, even if his form this year is in more doubt, having performed only in patches since winning the UAE Tour in February. Ayuso provides another potential GC option, making his Tour debut on the back of a podium finish at the Vuelta a España and overall victory at Itzulia Basque Country earlier this year. 

More climbing firepower will come from Almeida, another rider who would slot in as a GC leader at most of the other teams in the peloton. Elsewhere, Pavel Sivakov and Marc Soler bolster the climbing line-up along with Tim Wellens and Nils Politt , the latter pairing set to feature in the engine room during flatter stages.

The team will be hoping Ayuso, Sivakov, Wellens, and Politt recover well from a mass spill at the Critérium du Dauphiné, with Ayuso forced out of the race with pain in both hips as a result.

• Team leader: Alexander Kristoff
• Riders to watch: Andreas Leknessund, Magnus Cort

After making a successful Tour de France debut last year, Uno-X Mobility have been invited back by ASO as a wild card entry again.

Last year, they impressed by being active in the breakaways, with Tobias Halland Johannessen enjoying particular success with three top-six finishes. He’s set to return this year and on the back of some good form, too, having finished sixth at La Flèche Wallonne during the spring.

This time, they’ll have more strings to their bow. In new signing Andreas Leknessund , they have a rider capable of challenging for GC, even if he hasn’t yet shown the form this season that saw him finish eighth overall at the Giro d’Italia last year. And Magnus Cort brings considerable experience as a two-time former stage winner at the Tour, and will be dangerous from an intermediate stage break or reduced bunch sprint.

They will also again have Alexander Kristoff for the bunch sprints, who, though poised to turn 37 during the Tour, has been winning regularly this past month or so and could have it in him to add to his four career Tour stage wins. 

But they are also sure to be one of the main presences in the breakaways, with Jonas Abrahamsen posing a particular threat, having recently won the Brussels Cycling Classic that way.

• Team leader: Jonas Vingegaard
• Rider to watch: Sepp Kuss, Wout van Aert

The final decision arrived just one week before the start of the Tour de France: Jonas Vingegaard  and Wout van Aert were confirmed in Visma-Lease a Bike’s Tour de France line-up, ending weeks of speculation about their fitness and ambitions for the biggest race of the 2024 season.

But as the Tour approaches, however, Visma-Lease a Bike are still cautious on the fitness of Vingegaard. The defending champion’s participation was plunged into doubt when he crashed out of Itzulia Basque Country in April and hasn’t raced since. He has recently returned to training at high altitude, though his exact racing level won't become apparent before the Tour.

Given the severity of that fall, the fact he will return in time for the Tour de France feels miraculous, but doing so with the form to win the yellow jersey again will be an even bigger ask.

Prior to that crash, Vingegaard had started the season in intimidatingly good form, triumphing at both Tirreno-Adriatico and O Gran Camiño while claiming five stage wins in total, and would surely be the overwhelming favourite for yellow were it not for his fitness and form doubts. 

The team has stated that Vingegaard has recovered enough from the crash to achieve a good result, while the Dane himself has said, “The last few months have not always been easy, but I thank my family and Team Visma-Lease a Bike for their unwavering support. We have worked together to get to this moment, and of course, I am very excited to see where I stand. I feel good and very motivated."

The team will also field Sepp Kuss , who could potentially fill a GC role. The peerless climbing super-domestique proved himself as a Grand Tour GC rider by winning the Vuelta a España last year, though he hasn’t shown anything like that form so far this year. On top of that, he abandoned the Critérium du Dauphiné before the final day of racing as he wasn't feeling 100% .

Like Vingegaard, Van Aert, too, was a doubt as he tried to recover in time from the injuries that ruled him out of both the Giro d’Italia and the major spring Classics, though he has returned to racing at the Tour of Norway.

Van Aert has won nine stages at the Tour de France and won the green points jersey in 2022. He was keen to return to the Tour after missing the Giro. He has stated that his main goal is to "ride a top classification with Jonas."

Also on the team will be Tiesj Benoot , Jan Tratnik, Christophe Laporte and Wilco Kelderman . Matteo Jorgenson will make for a very useful addition to the line-up, bringing a diverse range of talents that has this year seen him win Paris-Nice and Dwars door Vlaanderen and score a surprising second overall at the Dauphiné.

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Kylian Mbappé watched from the sidelines as France squandered numerous chances in a 0-0 draw against the Netherlands at Euro 2024 on Friday.

Mbappé's absence, who broke his nose in the victory over Austria last Monday, seemed to blunt France's attack, leading coach Didier Deschamps to acknowledge a lack of 'efficiency.'

"My only regret is that we didn't have enough efficiency," Deschamps said. "We had several good opportunities but couldn't find the net. Without goals, we can't secure wins."

Mbappé trained with a mask on Thursday, raising hopes of his participation. However, Deschamps opted for caution, unwilling to risk his star player in the second group stage match.

"I didn't bluff [ in his press conference Thursday about Mbappé's status]. He is better. Everyday that passes is a day won. If tonight had been a decisive game, I would have maybe thought about it differently," Deschamps said.

"But it's important for me to think about how he feels. He took a nasty blow, and he's going to have to wear a mask. It may change his vision too, but that is also the risk he will take.

Antoine Griezmann , donning the captain's armband in Mbappé's absence and leading an attacking trio alongside Ousmane Dembélé and Marcus Thuram , missed France's best chances.

"I had a couple of opportunities that didn't go my way," admitted Griezmann. "Defensively we were sound, but the goals just weren't there. We need to stay calm, the goals will come."

Real Madrid 's Aurélien Tchouaméni stepped up to fill the void left by Mbappé's absence in the lineup. He nearly made the most of the opportunity, coming close to scoring with a well-directed header that went just over the crossbar.

"We faltered in the final moments, be it the final pass or shot," Tchouaméni admitted. "We need to improve to win these matches. We created chances, so victory was within reach. Now we need to focus on rectifying our mistakes. The top priority is qualification and winning the group."

The draw leaves both France and Netherlands on four points after two matches. Poland 's earlier 3-1 defeat to Austria confirms their elimination, regardless of the result in their final group game against France.

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Scottie Scheffler wins 2024 Travelers Championship, becomes first player since Tiger Woods to win six times in a season

Windy conditions couldn't slow the Scottie Scheffler Express this week in Connecticut.

Despite a blustery Sunday, Scheffler did what he's done through most of the 2024 PGA Tour season — kept mistakes to a minimum en route to another title. Scheffler shot a 65 at TPC River Highlands on Sunday to finish at 22 under, capturing the 2024 Travelers Championship. In the process, the Texas native became the first player since Tiger Woods in 2009 to win six times in a season.

The leaderboard was chock-full of big names as Tony Finau, Tom Kim, Patrick Cantlay and Justin Thomas were all within striking distance down the stretch. Tom Hoge also made a run, using six birdies on the back nine and three in his final four holes to get to 20 under for the tournament by virtue of a Sunday 62.

Kim was vying to be the 12th wire-to-wire winner at the Travelers Championship and the first since Jordan Spieth won in 2017, and although he played well he simply couldn't equal the firepower of Scheffler. He made a tricky six-foot putt on the 17th hole to save par and give himself a shot by coming to the final hole trailing by one. It marked the best finish of the year for the 22-year-old Kim, and just his second top-10 of the season.

But in the end, it was Scheffler, who took command on the back nine by posting three consecutive birdies, starting on No. 13, to continue a season that has been one for the ages. He made par on 18 even after protesters came onto the playing surface before being detained by police.

Kim knocked in a 10-footer for birdie on 18 to force a playoff, but then made bogey on the first playoff hole while Scheffler made par.

Despite his big day, even Hoge knew the chances that Scheffler would falter down the stretch were slim.

"To be honest, I don't know if I really felt like I had a chance to win at any point. Felt like I was trying to make as many birdies as I could," said Hoge, who tied for third with Sungjae Im at 20 under. "There were so many great players ahead of me starting the day, Scottie, Xander, those guys been playing so well all year."

Incredibly, Scheffler has finished in first or second place in eight of his last 10 starts. According to statistician Justin Ray it marks the first time a player has won six Tour titles before July since Arnold Palmer did so in 1962.

Finau, Thomas, Cantlay and Akshay Bhatia all tied for fifth at 18 under.

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