Australian road cyclist Ben O'Connor hopes to go one better after fourth-place finish in Tour de France

Sport Australian road cyclist Ben O'Connor hopes to go one better after fourth-place finish in Tour de France

Australian cyclist Ben O'Connor of AG2R Citröen Team gives a thumbs up on the the podium after the Criterium du Dauphine 2022.

Australian road cyclist Ben O'Connor says he believes he can ride to a dream podium finish at the Tour de France and potentially become the third Aussie to achieve the feat. 

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  • Australian cyclist Ben O'Connor finished fourth in last year's Tour de France on debut
  • The 26-year old hopes to become the third Australian man to reach the podium
  • Australia will have nine men's cyclists competing at the start line on July 1 in Copenhagen

The AG2R Citroën Team rider is in a rich vein of form off the back of a third-place finish at Critérium du Dauphiné , and will lead Australia's contingent of at least nine cyclists — though none are his teammates — on July 1 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

After a fourth-place finish at last year's Tour de France on debut , the 26-year-old from Perth says he has a burning desire to reach the podium if not this year, then in the future.

"I would love to finish on the podium of the Tour. That would be an absolute dream," O'Connor said.

"After Dauphiné, finishing on the podium there really makes you believe you can do it."

But with Critérium du Dauphiné completed, converting a week-long UCI World Tour into another podium result at the Tour de France is much harder than it sounds.

O'Connor wants to be measured by riding with the best for a consistent and sustained period of time.

"To be at the front of the race with the best guys, that would just be the dream," he said.

"I think it would be possible to do another top five at the Tour again. I feel like that's the level I'm at and what I'm capable of. But if I don't do it, it's not going to kill me … I just want to know that I'm up there racing with the best boys in the world.

"It'd be really cool if on this outdoor stage you could be at the front with the maillot jaune, with all the flags and all the shouting and the cheering, and being there with them. That would be a really special moment.

"It's not specifically a figure per se … you just want to make the most of it."

The top three riders stand on the podium at the end of a stage race, with Australia's Ben O'Connor in third.

O'Connor mixing it with the best in the world

Luck will play its part, as it always does, in the prestigious three-week event.

"With a one-week stage race like Critérium du Dauphiné, there's not so many things that kind of go wrong because it is eight days," he said.

"So it's more or less the physical part which gets you to the podium, whilst in the Tour de France or the Grand Tour, it's 21 days, it's super stressful, there's always big crashes and guys get sick because it's three weeks long."

"There's always guys that are just like, 'Out you go, and out you go,' … it might be me as well at some point.

Almost a year ago on Le Tour, O'Connor battled through for fourth place, just over 10 minutes behind general classification winner Tadej Pogačar.

The ride included a gruelling 144.9km-stage-nine win from Cluses to Tignes along the way .

Aside from Richie Porte's podium finish in 2020, it was the closest any Australian had got to the top of the world's largest annual sporting event since Cadel Evans's win in 2011.

"To say you can win the Tour, I don't really believe that until you get close enough to realistically be able to compete with those best guys," O'Connor said.

"Primož Roglič is still, you know, a level ahead of me. So is Jonas Vingegaard and so is Tadej Pogačar — especially Tadej. He's somewhere else."

With top-10 finishes at Tour de Romandie, Volta a Catalunya, Vuelta a Andalucía and a win at Tour du Jura, O'Connor wants to remain an aggressive rider at the front of the pack as part of his tactical style.

"You have to realistically look at what you think can be possible," he said.

"That podium spot stands on the Champs-Élysées at the end of the race, and [if you] know that you've earned that reward — even though fourth or fifth or sixth or seventh is still enough — the physical, ceremonial kind of part of it would be a special part that would be really cool to achieve one day."

Australia's golden era a 'special period'

With road cycling compatriots including Richie Porte, Jai Hindley, Jack Haig, Michael Storer, Michael Matthews and Simon Clarke among the placegetters in multiple categories in recent seasons, it is clear Australian men's cycling is experiencing a golden era with success on the road.

"I think it's a great circle that we have," O'Connor said.

"For the GC, and even for the sprint team, you've got Kaden Groves who's really improving. He was really, really good earlier in the year.

"It's interesting because we all came from different parts of Australia, but [through] different pathways.

"Jack was with the Australian team for a long time. I came through the Australian continental team, and Jai [Hindley] did racing with a small Italian team before becoming professional.

"It's cool seeing how everyone's gone from different pathways into Europe and then make it work. And then to have Jai winning the Giro and Jack won a podium on Vuelta a España.

"It's a pretty special little period for Aussie cycling."

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Tour de France 2022: Michael Matthews wins stage 14 in Mende – as it happened

The Australian known as “Bling” put on a tactical masterclass to record his first Tour de France stage victory for five years

  • 16 Jul 2022 Caleb Ewan finishes the stage ...
  • 16 Jul 2022 Top 10 on GC after stage 14
  • 16 Jul 2022 Michael Matthews speaks ...
  • 16 Jul 2022 Michael Matthews wins stage 14!
  • 16 Jul 2022 Today's breakaway is formed
  • 16 Jul 2022 Roglic and Ewan among the early toilers
  • 16 Jul 2022 Top 10 on General Classification after stage 13
  • 16 Jul 2022 Pedersen wins amid crowd and Covid concerns
  • 16 Jul 2022 Stage 14: Saint-Étienne to Mende (192.5km)

Team Bikeexchange-Jayco's Michael Matthews celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win stage 14.

102km to go: The breakaway group is on a long stretch of uphill road with Michael Matthews doing a turn on the front. Back in the peloton, the Jumbo Visma riders of race leader Jonas Vingegaard are controlling the pace at the front of the bunch. In the green jersey, Wout van Aert is on fourth wheel, with Vingegaard two places back.

104km to go: The gap from the leaders to the peloton is 9min 10sec and in the polka dot jersey, Simon Gecshke has dropped back to his team car to replenish his supplies of water. It would be intriguing to know how many bidons individual riders quaff their way through on a scorching hot day like today, not including the ones they pour over themselves in an effort to cool down.

Simon Geschke in his polka-dot jersey.

110km to go: South African Intermarché–Wanty–Gobert Matériaux rider Louis Meintjes is the highest ranked GC rider in today’s breakaway. He started this morning in 14th place at 15min 46sec.

113km to go: Our 23 leaders are now 8min 37sec ahead of the chasing peloton, with Caleb Ewan and his three chaperones a further eight minutes back.

122km to go: The gap from the leaders to the peloton is out to 7min 26sec. Caleb Ewan is over 16 minutes off the pace but at least has his Lotto Soudal teammates Frederik Frison, Reinhardt Janse Van Rensburg and Tim Wellens for company.

123km to go: During a long overdue and welcome lull in today’s stage, we bring you news that Team Alpecin-Deceuninck received two fines yesterday. The first was for aiding Lotto-Soudal rider Caleb Ewan who drafted behind one of their cars as he tried to rejoin the peloton following his crash and the second was for “failing to respect the instructions of the organiser or commissaires” - specifically the commisaire who pulled alongside them on a motorbike to remonstrate and gesticulate furiously when he saw what they were up to.

“I don’t know why that man was making such a fuss,” said Michel Cornelisse directeur sportif of Alpecin-Deceuninck. “I see crashes happen all week and riders are allowed to return behind the car, so I thought ‘Why not?’ There was no team car around [for Ewan] so I wanted to take him.

“Then the commissaire came and I tried to accelerate but there were two police motorbikes in front of me. I was already going at 80kph. I couldn’t drive faster there. Ewan was almost at the cars, so I don’t know why the guy was so upset.”

To add insult to the knee and shoulder injuries he suffered in his crash, Ewan was also fined and received a time penalty for illegal drafting behind a team car.

132km to go: Our large breakaway group have a lead of 6min 51sec on the peloton.

After a 40km battle at 43.7km/h, 23 riders have made the break @BORAhansgrohe , @EFprocycling , @IsraelPremTech , @GroupamaFDJ & @TrekSegafredo managed to put multiple riders at the front to chase victory towards Mende #TDFdata #TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/15SSEAfqQG — letourdata (@letourdata) July 16, 2022

140km to go: Following the intermediate sprint, the breakaway group briefly sheds four riders including Simmons and Fuglsang, who have to work hard to catch up. Caleb Ewan watch: he is 14min 09sec behind the leaders.

142km to go: As the yellow jersey group assimilates the Roglic group, which has caught up with them, the gap goes out to 4min 35sec. The riders in the main bunch are sorting themselves out, taking time to stock up on water bottles and have a drink. At the front of the race, Michael Matthews takes the intermediate sprint points.

Today's breakaway is formed

144km to go: Having welcomed five blow-ins including Michael Matthews into the fold, our breakaway group is now 23-strong. They are – deep breath – Marc Soler (UAE Team Emirates), Daniel Martínez (Ineos Grenadiers), Benoît Cosnefroy (Ag2r-Citröen), Felix Grossschartner, Lennard Kämna and Patrick Konrad (Bora-Hansgrohe), Gregor Mühlberger (Movistar), Simon Geschke (Cofidis), Luis Leon Sanchez (Bahrain Victorious), Stefan Küng and Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ), Louis Meintjes (Intermarché-Wanty Gobert), Alberto Bettiol, Neilson Powless and Rigoberto Urán (EF Education-EasyPost), Andreas Kron (Lotto-Soudal), Bauke Mollema and Quinn Simmons (Trek-Segafredo), Jakob Fuglsang, Krists Neilands and Michael Woods (Israel-Premier Tech), Michael Matthews (BikeExchange-Jayco) and Franck Bonnamour (B&B Hotels-KTM)

148km to go: Our 18-strong breakaway quickly open a gap of 2min 20sec on the yellow jersey group. The Roglic group are a further minute behind. There is another group of 14 riders, including Chris Froome, a minute-and-a-half behind them. Caleb Ewan is riding alone, seven minutes behind the group of stragglers and over 11 minutes off the general pace.

Riders making their way through the stage.

151km to go: We appear to have our breakaway, a gaggle of 18 riders who have opened a gap of 47 seconds on the yellow jersey group on the second climb of the day.

153km to go: In the polka-dot jersey, Simon Geschke leads the chase to hunt down Bonnampour to try and be first over the climb but is narrowly beaten by a determined Quinn Simmons, who pedals for all he’s worth despite not being in the hunt for the King of the Mountains jersey.

154km to go: Caruso is reeled in and B&B Hotels-KTM rider Franck Bonnampour, the winner of last year’s combativity award, launches an attack on the Cat 3 Côte de Châtaignier.

155km to go: Spare a thought for Caleb Ewan, who is soldiering on despite being almost 10 minutes and eight kilometres down on the stage leaders.

159km to go: Following the withdrawal of Warren Barguil, who tested positive for Covid and didn’t start yesterday’s stage, his compatriot Victor Lafay abandoned during stage 13, leaving 157 of the original 176 starters to sign on for today’s stage.

162km to go: The peloton is seriously strung out and Bahrain Victorious rider Damiano Caruso launches an escape bid and opens a gap of a few seconds.

Roglic and Ewan among the early toilers

163km to go: The attacks are coming thick and fast at the front of the main bunch, while the Roglic group of 35 riders toils almost two minutes behind. Cycling alone, Caleb Ewan is now almost seven minutes behind and surely enduring the mother of all existential crises.

169km to go: The bunch is travelling at a ferocious lick, which is bad news for Caleb Ewan. Nursing an injured knee, he’s now 5min 26sec behind. “I felt really good today actually,” he said foillowing yesterday’s staghe. “That’s why we started to commit our guys to controlling the breakaway and they were doing a really good job. They never got too far ahead, but yeah, I don’t know what happened in the corner.

“My knee is really sore and my shoulder is pretty sore. I broke my collarbone last year, so hopefully that’s alright. Once I went down I didn’t feel so good anymore, and after a big chase to get back on before the final climb, I had nothing left really.”

Caleb Ewan

175km to go: We join today’s stage 17 kilometres in and there are already several talking points after a fast and slightly chaotic start. Following his crash yesterday, Caleb Ewan has already been dropped and is already nearly five minutes off the pace. One suspects the Autralian sprinter is not long for this year’s Tour.

Primoz Roglic has been dropped from the main group and isin a group 1min 40sec behind the main bunch. Nils Powless and Juul Jensen launched a break but have been reeled in following an attack by Tadaj Pogacar.

Today’s weather: The mercury is expected to hit 40 degrees celsius on today’s stage to Mende, with extra measures being taken to help riders cope with the searing heat on this long, extremely testing stage.

Following his second place finish in yesterday’s stage, Fred Wright said it was easier being in the seven-man breakaway as there was an endless supply of cold water and ice available for he and his fellow escapees to help keep themselves cool.

The sight of cyclists stuffing ice socks down the back of their jerseys has been a common one and in the wake of warnings from the French met office that a heat wave is expected in the south-west until Tuesday, race organisers and local fire services will be pulling out all the stops to help keep the riders and the melting roads on which they are travelling as cool as possible with tens of thousands of gallons of water.

Tour de France 2022

5 years later, the peloton is back in Mende! The finish at the summit of the Côte de la Croix Neuve should guarentee spectacle!😍 5 ans après, le peloton est de retour à Mende ! L'arrivée au sommet de la Côte de la Croix Neuve devrait nous garantir du spectacle !😍 #TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/7BMSrqmZGH — Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 16, 2022

Tadej Pogacar

Top 10 on General Classification after stage 13

  • 1. Jonas Vingegaard (Den/Jumbo-Visma) 50hrs 47mins 34secs
  • 2. Tadej Pogacar (Slo/UAE Team Emirates) +2mins 22secs
  • 3. Geraint Thomas (GB/Ineos Grenadiers) +2mins 26secs
  • 4. Romain Bardet (Fra/DSM) +2mins 35secs
  • 5. Adam Yates (GB/Ineos Grenadiers) +3mins 44secs
  • 6. Nairo Quintana (Col/Arkea Samsic) +3mins 58secs
  • 7. David Gaudu (Fra/Groupama-FDJ) +4mins 07secs
  • 8. Tom Pidcock (GB/Ineos Grenadiers) +7mins 39secs
  • 9. Enric Mas (Spa/Movistar) +9mins 32secs
  • 10. Aleksandr Vlasov (Rus/Bora-Hansgrohe) +10mins 06secs

Jonas Vingegaard

Pedersen wins amid crowd and Covid concerns

Danish sprinter Mads Pedersen, of Trek-Segafredo, took victory in the 13th stage from Le Bourg d’Oisans to Saint-Étienne, after a high-powered seven-rider breakaway dissolved on the rolling roads west of the Rhône. Jeremy Whittle reports from Saint-Étienne.

Stage 14: Saint-Étienne to Mende (192.5km)

Another day for the breakaway specialists, writes WIlliam Fotheringham in his stage-by-stage guide , with a monstrously steep uphill finish on the airfield at Mende, where the Briton Steve Cummings won in 2015. The same large group of riders as the day before will try to make the winning move; the winner will be a strong climber such as Adam Yates.

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The Australians racing the 2022 Tour de France Femmes

It is the week the cycling world has been looking forward to all year - Le Tour Femmes has arrived!

Team start lists for the 2022 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift have been locked in ahead of Stage 1 action in Paris on July 24, with several Australians, including both our national road race and time trial champions, set to feature in the inaugural eight-stage women's edition of cycling's most prestigious race.

Find out who will be on the start line in Paris below.

Grace Brown (FDJ – SUEZ – Futuroscope)

Over the past few years, St Kilda Cycling Club product Grace Brown has risen through the ranks to be one of Australia's best on the road.

The 30-year-old is a bona fide race winner on the UCI Women's WorldTour (WWT) and came within one second of picking up her first WWT stage race win at The Women's Tour in Great Britain in early June.

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The two-time national time trial champion 's FDJ – SUEZ – Futuroscope squad will receive plenty of attention as the only WWT French team at the 2022 Le Tour Femmes, with Italian Marta Cavalli the team's designated general classification leader.

Brown has a busy two weeks ahead of her, with her debut appearance at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham set to come just four days after Le Tour Femmes finishes up La Super Planche des Belles Filles on July 31.

Anya Louw (AG Insurance – NXTG Team)

Three weeks ago, Devonport's Anya Louw signed with AG Insurance – NXTG, a Dutch U23 focussed UCI Women's Continental Team.

This Sunday, she will start in the most anticipated race of the year in her debut for the Le Tour Femmes wildcard team – quite the welcome.

The 21-year-old has been quietly chipping away at a professional career over the past two years with ARA Pro Racing Sunshine Coast, and was finally able to return to Europe in May with the Queensland-based UCI Continental Team.

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That opportunity came at the right time for the current U23 Oceania and national time trial champion, with the Tasmanian stating conversations with AG Insurance – NXTG Team had been happening since the beginning of the year.

"Then things settled in place after I arrived in Europe this year," Louw said. "To be lining up for the TDF Femmes next week is an absolute dream come true!

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"I'm prepared to give it my all, and fulfill my role to the best of my ability for my team.

"The women’s peloton is well beyond ready for this race to start."

Rachel Neylan (Cofidis)

Australian veteran Rachel Neylan adds another chapter to her storied career over the next week in France, and she will do it with the full support of her French-based Cofidis team.

The 40-year-old from Sydney will be right at home on the final two mountain-top finishes up Col du Grand Balloon and La Super Planche des Belles Filles.

"The women's Tour de France will certainly be a highlight of the calendar and a tremendous lever for the development and influence of women's cycling," Neylan said in a Cofidis media release.

Une équipe pour écrire l'histoire. La sienne, et celle du cyclisme féminin. #TDFF 🎥 @MathildeLAzou pic.twitter.com/itCgyEHUVm — Team Cofidis (@TeamCOFIDIS) July 18, 2022

"There is a lot of expectation around this race and I'm convinced that this event will help to raise the level of the whole peloton.

"It will be special to race it as it is Cofidis' first season and wearing the colours of a French team in this event will be incredible!

"The stages will certainly be very competitive and we will do everything to seize the opportunities each day.

"I really want to give everything to get good results and help my teammates.

"We have an eclectic, mature team that is improving race after race."

Tiffany Cromwell (Canyon//SRAM Racing)

A figure of immense strength and experience in the women's peloton, Adelaide's Tiffany Cromwell will direct a strong Canyon//SRAM Racing squad as their road captain in pursuit of stage wins and a high general classification finish.

The 34-year-old will play a large role in assisting leading Canyon//SRAM duo Kasia Niewiadoma and Pauliena Rooijakkers over the eight stages, and is understandably proud and excited to be part of an historic moment for women's cycling.

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"I’ve had a long block of training since The Women’s Tour," Cromwell said in a team media release.

"I also did some course recon during this period, so I know what’s in store for the hardest stages.

"In the last two weeks, things have started to click. My form is strong, and I feel good on the bike and ready to go.

"My goal overall is to have a strong tour. My main role will be team support and road captain.

We're proud to confirm our team for @LeTourFemmes avec @GoZwift . A strong, experienced, versatile lineup to handle the demands of a race from the Champs-Élysées to La Super Planche des Belles Filles 🇫🇷 Read about our ambitions: https://t.co/WfhjrfsUY7 #TDFF pic.twitter.com/fk3vbxQeK0 — CANYON//SRAM Racing & CANYON//SRAM Generation (@WMNcycling) July 18, 2022

"We have an incredibly strong team for the race, especially for the demanding and climb-heavy stages.

"I know the last two stages aren’t suited to me, but everything up until then, I believe I can go deep into the final of the stages.

"I aim to be there for my teammates to help set us up for stage victories or the overall and of course, if there are opportunities along the way on the non-GC days, I’ll be willing to put my hand up if it fits with the team plan."

Nicole Frain (Parkhotel Valkenburg Cycling Team)

Our national road race champion Nicole Frain will be in Paris this Sunday for the Le Tour Femmes depart in her new Parkhotel Valkenburg colours – with a splash of green and gold of course.

The 2022 elite women’s national road race champion was unveiled as a new signing for the Dutch UCI Women’s Continental Team earlier this month on an 18-month contract, in a mid-season transfer from Australian UCI Women’s Continental Team Roxsolt Liv SRAM.

The opportunity to race full-time in Europe is a deserved opportunity for the 29-year-old, who has continued to log consistent, front-of-field results with Roxsolt Liv SRAM in the past two months across Europe.

The revelation Frain would jump straight into the most anticipated women’s race of the year in Tour de France Femmes was a shock, but the Tasmanian always had it as a goal in the back of her mind over the past month to drive her on.

“I didn’t expect to get a start in it, knowing that I’m coming on late into a team of really strong girls,” Frain said.

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“But I knew it was a chance especially after I raced strong at Lotto Thüringen Ladies Tour, so I kept training with that goal in mind until they made the team selection - so I was pretty happy to get the call to say I was starting that’s for sure.

“I got to start the first Paris-Roubaix last year (with TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank) also so I know I’m super lucky with these opportunities and hope I can race well and just learn a lot through the process.

“Plus, doing so in the national champion kit - it’s really special.”

Amanda Spratt (Team BikeExchange – Jayco)

One of the leading women of Australian cycling over the past decade, Amanda Spratt will be a rider to watch when the parcours start heading upwards.

The 34-year-old is synonymous with Australian cycling fans as a three-time national road race champion, a two-time Giro d'Italia Donne podium finisher, and a silver and bronze medallist at the elite women's UCI Road World Championships in 2018 and 2019 respectively.

Spratt was thrust into a much different lead-in to the Le Tour Femmes than originally planned due to contracting COVID earlier this month at the 2022 Giro d'Italia Donne and is likely to target stages later in the week.

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"There is so much excitement building before the start of Tour de France Femmes," Spratt said in a team media release.

"It really feels like an amazing moment is coming for our sport and it’s just going to be such a special day standing on the Champs Élysées and starting our Tour de France. In this moment so many of us will begin living out a childhood dream! "Obviously I had to stop the Giro because of COVID when I was in a really high GC place and the form was the best it’s been.

"Unfortunately, it knocked me out good so I had 11 days where I couldn’t train – I’ve just started again now.

"This of course has had a big impact on what my original goals were at Tour de France, so I will just take it day by day and hope to ride into it and be the best support possible for my team. "Nonetheless, we have a really strong team. I’m looking forward to supporting Kristen and seeing what she can do as our GC leader.

"Alex has been stepping up in every race so I think she can surprise some people as well. I think we can look for opportunities in every stage and we will be ready to fight every day!”

Ruby Roseman-Gannon (Team BikeExchange – Jayco)

A neo-pro glistening with potential, Ruby Roseman-Gannon is one of several young Australian women leading the charge of the next generation breaking through at the top level.

The 23-year-old was nigh on unstoppable in the 2021 AusCycling National Road Series for ARA Pro Racing Sunshine Coast , which started with a third-place GC finish at the Santos Festival of Cycling.

The Victorian's growing list of achievements had Team BikeExchange-Jayco come calling, with Roseman-Gannon winning from the get-go at the 2022 edition of the Santos Festival of Cycling and the 2022 AusCycling Federation University Criterium National Championship.

The good form has continued over in Europe where she has been logging top-20 finishes for fun.

Roseman-Gannon enters Le Tour Femmes has a major asset for the flatter stages as either the protected sprinter or in service of Alexandra Manly.

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Like Spratt, Roseman-Gannon also suffered a hiccup leading into Le Tour Femmes, crashing in Andorra last month while training when her chain derailed while out of the saddle.

The result was four of her front teeth knocked out and a deep laceration above her lip, however, this has not stopped the Brunswick Cycling Club product from starting the biggest race of the year.

Roseman-Gannon will head straight to the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games following Le Tour Femmes to compete in the road race .

Alexandra Manly (Team BikeExchange – Jayco)

An Australian coming in hot to Le Tour Femmes, Alexandra Manly will be right in the mix on the flat stage finishes and intermediate sprints in pursuit of the points classification (green jersey).

The 26-year-old registered four stage victories and the overall win at the recent Lotto Thüringen Ladies Tour in late May , and came very close to grabbing a stage win at The Women's Tour in June, ultimately finishing fourth overall.

2022 is take two for Manly's professional road career, with her first stint from 2015 to 2019 with GreenEDGE Cycling.

In 2019, the Kalgoorlie-born Manly fully committed to the track after several years in the Australian Cycling Team program in the successful pursuit of a spot at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Manly returned to the squad this year alongside best friend Georgia Baker and Roseman-Gannon.

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Manly is a two-time world champion on the track, taking double honours at the 2019 UCI Track World Championships in the team pursuit and points race.

She too will compete at the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games following in the road race following Le Tour Femmes .

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Aussie veteran wins chaotic Tour de France stage, breaks down after incredible photo finish

Simon Clarke wins his first Tour de France stage

Australian Simon Clarke has won stage five of the Tour de France in a photo finish after a 157km run from Lille to Arenberg featuring 20km of cobbled mining roads.

Belgium’s Wout van Aert of Jumbo retained his overall leader’s yellow jersey despite a nasty fall, but his teammate Primoz Roglic lost around two minutes to defending champion and fellow Slovenian Tadej Pogacar.

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The 35-year-old Australian Clarke, riding for Israel Premier Tech, used a bike throw on the line in a razor thin victory over Taco van der Hoorn after Native American Neilson Powless launched a sprint in a bid for the yellow jersey but fell just short.

Clarke, used to riding as a support rider for others, dropped to the ground after the finish line as he struggled to contain his emotions.

“What a year,” said Clarke, who got a last-minute contract with the IPT team in December after leaving EF. “I’m ever the optimist.

“I just told myself not to panic even when the sprint started almost 1km out,” he said about the finale.

“I sat back in the slipstream, waited and waited and went for the line at the last second,” he said.

Van Aert fell early and hurt a shoulder and was almost run over by his own team car, but rallied to cling on to his overall lead by 13sec from Powless of EF.

The race goes to his native Belgium on Thursday where he can parade through 60km of roads there in the yellow jersey.

“That’s part of why I dug so deep,” he said. “But this wan’t what we had planned this morning.” - Pogacar likes the cobbles - Defending champion Pogacar did the best of the pretenders to the 2022 title when he finished seventh, 51sec off the lead, putting a little time into all his rivals after threatening to pulverise them before fading in the final kilometres.

“I like the cobbles,” smiled the 23-year-old UAE leader.

“I had no bad luck, felt good and played it intelligently at the end when I knew I wouldn’t catch the leaders,” he said.

Pogacar retains the best placed under-26’s white jersey.

Ineos trio Adam yates, Tom Pidcock and Geraint Thomas all hung in and trail Pogacar by 28, 29 and 30sec respectively.

The treacherous stage raced over cobbles was doubly dangerous due to dust billowing from the bone dry surface amongst the corn, wheat and potato fields making it tough to breath and easy to slip.

Eleven cobbled sections totalling almost 20km of bone shaking mining roads caused much of the chaos but not all of it.

Roglic, runner-up in 2020, was brought down after Caleb Ewan collided with a stray hay bale, the Jumbo man then hitting him and struggling thereafter.

He finished 44th on the day, 2min 36sec off the lead.

Embarking from the chic northern city of Lille, good humoured crowds along the roadside thickened as the race hit the cobbles in the finale.

But a grim-faced Mathieu van der Poel, a pre-race favourite, was dropped by the lead group 30km out.

Visible for his polka-dot jersey and handle-bar moustache, Magnus Cort-Nielsen was once again in the thick of the action finishing fifth and retaining the King of the Mountains shirt he took in his native Denmark on stage two.

Thursday’s sixth stage starts in the Belgian town of Binche and returns to France in the Ardennes forest for what should be a splintered finale with two short steep climbs.dmc/lp

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Official Tour de France Guide (2022 Australian edition) – RIDE Media’s 20th anniversary

With the Spring Classics finished for 2022, we are now closing in on Grand Tour season. And, for the 20th consecutive year, RIDE Media will be publishing the Official Tour de France Guide (Australian edition).

The ‘Tour Guide’ by RIDE Media: order before 1 June 2022 for free delivery.

Early in 2003, with preparations for the 100th anniversary of the Tour de France in full swing, RIDE Media was approached by ASO, the company responsible for organising the world’s biggest bike race. The topic was publishing, and the idea was to produce an Australian edition of the Official Tour de France Guide.

It seemed like a good proposition and an accord was struck: to celebrate the édition du Centenaire of Le Tour, we would create a souvenir magazine for the Australian market.

With that conversation the ‘Tour Guide’ was born. And it has been an annual tradition ever since. This year marks the 20th season RIDE Media will publish the Official Tour de France Guide, a comprehensive preview of the race with insights about the riders, their teams, and the route that changes year on year.

The ‘Tour Guide’ will be on sale in newsagents around Australia from Thursday 16 June 2022. (We also have a limited number of magazines available to purchase: click here for details .*)

The 109th Tour de France will begin on a Friday in Copenhagen, Denmark on 1 July 2022. There will be a time trial followed by two road stages in the most northerly location the Tour has ever been.

After that opening weekend there’ll be a ‘transfer day’ as riders and all others in the race entourage make their way to France for the beginning of the next stanza of what promises to be a compelling contest this July.

Again, there will be 21 stages – some in familiar locations, others with new destinations and associated challenges. There will be 22 teams of eight riders to create a peloton of 176 riders. And there will be stories that emerge that will form part of the Tour’s rich history.

On the final Sunday the winner will be presented to the crowd on a stage in the centre of the Champs-Élysées and he will receive a yellow jersey for his efforts.

The ‘ maillot jaune ’ is a symbol of success in sport, it is a coveted prize that all pro cyclists dream of wearing. Winning the yellow jersey is a noble concept, a challenge that many pursue but one that only few elite riders have been able to master.

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Over the time that the Tour Guide has appeared in newsagents in Australia, cycling has evolved enormously in this country. The race that was once only shown on TV months after the champion was decided eventually received daily highlights packages, broadcast by SBS TV in the early years of what is another ongoing agreement with ASO.

Eventually the 30-minute highlights program also evolved and, over the past decade, live coverage of an event on the other side of the world has been shown on Australian television. It is a ratings winner for SBS, and the network continues to showcase cycling to an audience of enthusiasts who have come to know and love this sport because of the action they see on the roads of France (and surrounding countries).

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We have seen an Australian win the yellow jersey, with Cadel Evans confirming his talents in 2011. It was a victory that elevated the status of cycling in his home country, something that has inspired many others to get a taste of the cycling life.

The Aussie presence increased a notch in 2012 when the first Australian-registered team appeared at the Grand Départ . The GreenEdge experiment continues in 2022, under the banner of Team Bike Exchange-Jayco, and other Australian riders are vying for victory in Le Tour.

There is now a long list of Australian stage winners and yellow jersey wearers. There has been a trio of Aussie green jersey winners, first Robbie McEwen (2002) then Baden Cooke (2003)… McEwen again (2004 and 2006) and Michael Matthews (2017).

We have watched as Richie Porte rode in support of multiple champions before putting himself on the podium in Paris with a third place on GC. And twice Gerry Ryan’s team has claimed the white jersey for the best young rider in the race – albeit with the British brothers, Simon Yates (2016) then Adam Yates (2017).

Some of ‘our’ riders have become directeurs sportif and helped to guide others to the top step of that Parisian podium, with Scott Sunderland calling the shots from the team car for Carlos Sastre in 2008 and, more recently, Allan Peiper the mastermind behind the first of Tadej Pogacar’s stunning TDF victories.

And in 2022, there are other Australian riders who continue to push the limits and test themselves against the best cyclists in the world.

Our most recent stage winner, Ben O’Connor, was fourth on GC in 2021. While Jack Haig, who unfortunately crashed out of last year’s Tour early in the race, backed up to finish the 2021 Vuelta a España in third place.

Ben and Jack are expected to be at the Grand Départ in Denmark, along with a host of other Australians who will be part of the 109th Tour de France.

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We wait to see what unfolds as the peloton makes its way from Copenhagen to Paris in July 2022. And it’s with great excitement that we recognise another enormous change in cycling that will take place at the end of the race. When the men are finished, the women’s peloton speeds into action, with the inaugural Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift.

The eight-stage race begins in Paris on 24 July 2022 and concludes atop La Super Planches des Belles Filles on the last day of the month.

And RIDE Media’s 20th anniversary edition of the ‘Tour Guide’ will preview it all. It’s currently a work in progress but it’s coming together quickly with stories about the riders and their teams, their hopes and aspirations. There are interviews and profiles, team lists, and features on the history of the race and the route for the 109th edition of the Tour de France, as well as the first edition of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift.

Be sure to get your copy of the Official Tour de France Guide (2022 Australian edition), by RIDE Media. It’s the ideal TV viewing companion and, again, a souvenir magazine that previews the biggest bike race of all.

– By Rob Arnold

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LE GRAND BORNAND, FRANCE - JULY 03: Ben O'connor of Australia and AG2R Citroën Team & Michael Matthews of Australia and Team BikeExchange during the 108th Tour de France 2021, Stage 8 a 150,8km stage from Oyonnax to Le Grand-Bornand / Rain / @LeTour / #TDF2021 / on July 03, 2021 in Le Grand Bornand, France. (Photo by Michael Steele/Getty Images) Credit: Michael Steele/Getty Images

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Chris Froome hopes to get to Tour de France in 'best shape possible' - 'I'd really like to get back there'

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Updated 05/03/2024 at 17:07 GMT

Chris Froome is a four-time Tour de France winner but missed on selection in Israel-Premier Tech's team for the race in 2023. The 38-year-old has said his aim is to be back at the Tour de France this summer and is hoping for a “steady build” towards an 11th appearance. His appearance at Tirreno-Adriatico this week is the first time he has been on the WorldTour this year.

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‘I’d like to get back’ - Tour de France return remains the goal for Chris Froome

Four-time winner lines out at Tirreno-Adriatico for his first WorldTour appearance since April of last year

LIDO DI CAMAIORE ITALY MARCH 04 Christopher Froome of Great Britain and Team IsraelPremier Tech sprints during the 59th TirrenoAdriatico 2024 Stage 1 a 10km individual trial time from Lido di Camaiore to Lido di Camaiore UCIWT on March 04 2024 in Lido di Camaiore Italy Photo by Tim de WaeleGetty Images

Chris Froome 's presence at Tirreno-Adriatico marks his first appearance at WorldTour level since April of last year and the Briton insists his focus is still on returning to the Tour de France in 2024.

Froome was left out of the Israel-Premier Tech Tour squad last season after calling it his “ultimate goal.” while his team justified their selection by describing the eight riders selected as being “best suited to fulfilling our performance objectives”.

It’s been a long journey back to try to reach top form for Froome ever since his horrific life-threatening crash at the Critérium du Dauphiné in 2019 , but the 38-year-old still hopes he can make it back to the race he won four times and dominated in the 2010s.

“The goal for me is to try and get to the Tour in the best shape possible this year,” Froome told Cyclingnews before stage 2 of Tirreno-Adriatico.

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“First of all, get to the Tour after having missed out last year. I'd really like to get back there again this year.” 

Aside from 2019, when he fractured his femur, elbow and ribs, 2023 was the only year Froome failed to start a Grand Tour since 2008, when he made his debut at the Tour.

Tirreno-Adriatico forms part of Froome’s build-up to a possible 11th appearance at the three-week race, with each appearance from now until the start in June in Florence all important for Israel-Premier Tech’s selection process.

The Brit was called up late as a replacement for Derek Gee who broke his collarbone at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad in February.

“Looking forward to getting some WorldTour racing in the legs. This is the first WorldTour event I'm doing this year after Rwanda and some time at altitude as well,” Froome said.

“So just looking forward to getting back into it again and continuing a steady build towards the Tour.

“It basically comes down to team selection, and I imagine looking at the stage races building up to the Tour will be part of that. So this is this is where it starts.”

Froome has faced public backlash for his performances from team owner Sylvan Adams during his time at Israel-Premier Tech, with the billionaire calling him “not value for money” during last year's Tour. 

Adams signed Froome on a five-year contract from Ineos (Team Sky) in 2021 with the hope he could rediscover his form and win a fifth Tour, but Froome has rarely come close to his previous levels. 

He's had moments close to finding success again, with third on L'Alpe d'Huez at the 2022 Tour behind Tom Pidcock, but his last pro win came at the 2018 Giro when he audaciously attacked 80km from the line to snatch overall victory on stage 19..

“How could we say we had value for money? We signed Chris to be the leader of our Tour de France team and he’s not even here so that cannot be considered value for money,” Adams told Cycling Weekly .

“This is not a PR exercise. Chris isn’t a symbol, he isn’t a PR tool, he’s supposed to be our leader at the Tour de France and he’s not even here, so no I couldn’t say he’s value for money.”

Froome told Cyclingnews in November that he has no intention of ending his time in the sport before at least seeing out the two remaining years on his contract, ensuring there was no bad blood with Adams.

"I signed a five-year contract when I joined. I still feel like there’s more in the legs and I want to go out having given it my all. I’m not going to give up on it," Froome said.

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  23. Chris Froome hopes to get to Tour de France in 'best shape possible

    Chris Froome is a four-time Tour de France winner but missed on selection in Israel-Premier Tech's team for the race in 2023. The 38-year-old has said his aim is to be back at the Tour de France ...

  24. 2022

    Online registration closed. Sun, November 27, 2022. 6:00 am AEDT. Add to calendar. Wollongong NSW, Australia. Visit Website. L'Étape Australia (pronounced [etap], French, meaning a stage of the Tour) is the only official Tour de France event in Australia and the largest Tour de France event held outside France.

  25. 'I'd like to get back'

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  26. 2024 Tour de France

    Route and stages. In December 2022, Amaury Sport Organisation announced that Italy will host the Grand Départ, for the first time. 2024 will be the 100th anniversary of the first Italian victory in the Tour, won by Ottavio Bottecchia in 1924. The route will also visit the microstate of San Marino, making it the 14th country to be visited by a Tour stage. ...

  27. Laura Kenny's Olympics hopes fade after British Cycling say she has

    Laura Kenny's Olympics hopes fade after British Cycling say she has 'slim chance' Five-time Olympic champion last raced in 2022 and may have to compete in Nations Cup event in April to earn ...