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First Norwegian team in Tour de France

For the first time ever, Norway has its own team in the Tour de France. They suffered injury on the first day but still have high hopes for the rest of the marathon cycling race.

The team, sponsored by the petrol station chain Uno-X, got off to a good start when the first 184.5-km stage began Saturday in Bilbao, Spain before the riders cross over the border to France on Monday. State broadcaster NRK reported how the Norwegians were up front for a long time, but 10 kilometers before the finish line, the twin brothers Adam and Simon Yates pulled ahead and finished first and second respectively.

Norway’s Tobias Halland Johannessen ended with the Norwegian team’s best finish, in 30th place and 33 seconds behind the winner. His teammate Torstein Træen fell midway through the first race, suffering an elbow fracture, but that wasn’t keeping Træen out of the rest of Tour de France. Træen started the second lap on Sunday, with doctors monitoring his progress. All the Norwegian riders finished far behind Sunday’s winner, Victor Lafay.

Norway’s team also includes Tour de France veterans Edvald Boasson Hagen and Alexander Kristoff, who’s serving as captain, plus with six others. The race ends in Paris on July 23.

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Norwegian ace tobias foss: ‘winning the tour de france is what i am working on every day’, budding jumbo-visma star hoping to top ninth in 2021 as well as help teammate tom dumoulin race for pink at giro d'italia..

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CATANIA, Italy (VN) — By recent historical trends, Tobias Foss should win the Tour de France this summer.

Tour de l’Avenir has long been a harbinger of future Tour success, and two recent Avenir winners — Egan Bernal in 2017 and Tadej Pogačar in 2018 — won the yellow jersey after just two seasons in the WorldTour ranks.

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So do the math, and the 2019 Avenir winner Foss should be in the pole position to win the yellow jersey, right?

A big smile creased across Foss’s face when VeloNews asked him about this emerging trend, but didn’t hide yellow jersey intentions.

“The Tour has always been my dream, and winning the Tour is such a big dream,” Foss told VeloNews . “It’s such a hard goal to chase, and I do not know if I will ever win it, but that’s what I am working for every day.”

It’s all but certain Foss won’t be winning the Tour this summer because he won’t be going.

Instead, he’s here in Sicily ready to take on Mount Etna and the first major mountain summit of the Giro d’Italia .

The highly regarded Foss is hoping to top his ninth place overall in last year’s Giro in what’s his third trip kicking along the spine of Italy’s boot.

Foss started the Giro sharing leadership with Tom Dumoulin and Sam Oomen. Foss and Dumoulin left Budapest with their GC options fully intact, with Dumoulin third and Foss seventh. Oomen gave up some time against the clock and was 27th at 47 seconds back.

Foss said he knows his place in the team hierarchy.

“I think we will be around each other, Dumoulin is a big champion, and he’s won this race before. If he is going well, I will fully support him,” Foss said “If not then we see and we will try our best every day. It will be our best option.

“I get a free role also, it’s a huge opportunity for me and it will be a really cool experience,” he said. “It’s hard to say how this course suits me, I would like to see more TTs, but we’ll see how it goes.”

Foss did not finish his Giro debut in 2020, but confirmed his potential by hanging with the “bigs” deep into the third week last year. He punched into the top-10 midway through the race, and defended it all the way to Milano, with ninth overall.

“I’ve been a couple of weeks on Teide, and I am ready to race,” he told VeloNews . “I’ve been a bit unlucky with crashes and COVID this year. I am a guy who doesn’t need a lot of racing, and I am coming off an altitude camp, so I am feeling good.”

Foss’s steady rise is big news back in Norway, which has produced a steady string of stage-hunters, sprinters, and classics stars, but only a handful of GC riders over the decades.

So much so, that Norwegian TV sent a crew to Budapest to document the opening stages of the Giro.

The 6-foot-3 rider admits he’ll never beat the pure climbers in the high mountains, but on the right course with more time trials, some believe he can develop into a grand tour contender along the lines of Bradley Wiggins.

Right now, he’s focused on the task at hand. The first challenge is to get up Mount Etna with the front group. The rest will come later.

“The first week is really hard. After Blockhaus we will see where everything is going,” Foss said. “It’s not necessary to think too much about the situation because the race will put everyone in their correct place. We have to go day by day, and do the best we can.”

Foss will be easy to spot in this year’s Giro, as he’s racing as the Norwegian national champion in both road racing and time trial.

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Tour de France 2023: full team-by-team guide

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

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

Ag2R-Citroën

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

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

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

Alpecin-Deceuninck

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

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

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

Arkea-Samsic

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

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

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

Astana Qazaqstan

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

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

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

Bahrain Victorious

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

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

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

Bora-Hansgrohe

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

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

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

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

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

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

DSM-Firmenich

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

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

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

EF Education-Easypost

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

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

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

Groupama-FDJ

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

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

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

Ineos Grenadiers

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

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

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

Intermarché-Circus-Wanty

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

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

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

Israel-PremierTech

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

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

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

Jayco-AlUla

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

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

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

Jumbo-Visma

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lotto-Dstny

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

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

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

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

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

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

Soudal-Quickstep

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

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

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

TotalEnergies

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

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

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

UAE Team Emirates

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'I'm glad I didn't win this year': The trials and tribulations of winning 500kg of salmon at the Arctic Race of Norway

We spoke to previous winners of the 'salmon jersey' on how their life changed after winning a considerable amount of fish

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While the Arctic Race of Norway lauds itself on being the world's northernmost bike race, they would freely admit it isn't the biggest on the calendar.

Sandwiched in between the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España, there is a certain level of fatigue that sets in at this stage of the season.

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However, it still attracts a number of high profile riders, with French champion Warren Barguil (Arkéa-Samsic) and Alexey Lutsenko (Astana) duking it out for the win this year.

Although there's not the half a million euro prize pot up for grabs like there is at the Tour, the Norwegian race offers what is arguably one of the most sought after prizes in cycling.

The winner of the King of the Mountains classification, the salmon jersey as it is referred to, also receives 500kg of Norwegian salmon. With a kilo of the fish currently priced at 50 Norwegian Krone, which equates to around £4.50, a £2,250 prize is certainly not to be sniffed at.

The prize and sponsorship from the Norwegian Seafood Council begun in 2015 under the slogan "Salmon is important for Norway". The deal also includes all KOM points being materialised with salmon-like inflatable structures and each rider receiving a piece of smoked Norwegian salmon at the end of the race.

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Forget your wheels of cheese from the Tour of Britain, cast aside your Tirreno Adriatico tridents, a literal truck load of salmon is the best prize in the professional peloton.

Odd Christian Eiking (Wanty-Gobert) picked up the prize this year, battling hard to overhaul Steve Cummings lead in the climbers' classification, the Dimension Data rider presumably gutted he won't be taking prime cuts of seafood back to Merseyside.

Comments on Eiking's Instagram photo of him on the podium collecting the prize include messages from fellow riders and friends imploring him to give them a place on the list of people who will receive a portion of the prize, while others wish him well and to "enjoy salmon for the next 17 years".

We reached out to former winners of the prize, to find out how their life had changed following the deluge of salmon that supposedly landed on their doorstep, a rather odd outcome for what would normally have just been another day at the office for a rider in the professional peloton.

"When I won, I was contacted by the four different companies that cooperated for the 500kg of salmon," says Sindre Lunke, who rides for Pro-Continental outfit Riwal Readynez and won the salmon jersey in 2018 when he was at Fortuneo-Samsic.

"For me, as a Norwegian, it was a big thing to win the climbers jersey, but it was also an extra bonus that I got 500kg of salmon and not only a jersey."

Despite being a good source of protein, riders often keep a stern eye on their weight, especially those who aspire to go up hills quickly, so what on Earth does a professional cyclist do with that much salmon?

"I have shared a lot of it with friends and family," Lunke says. "I also got a dinner from the organiser of the salmon prize, which was given on a training camp with my new team, cooked by an awesome chef!"

Transporting a decent amount of salmon to a European training camp is easy enough a task, but what about South Africa?

In 2017, Bernie Eisel won the classification for Dimension Data, meaning the race transported fish more than 9,000 miles for the team to enjoy at their training camp.

Lunke says his family and friends were really excited about the prize, which the Norwegian rode himself into contention for after getting into the breakaway on stage two and sweeping up KoM points over a lumpy parcours.

"I think in general Norwegian riders want to show themselves off on home soil," Lunde says. "It is a big motivation with the salmon and the extra attention you receive by winning this prize."

What are his salmon stocks saying currently then? Has he been rinsed by family and friends who have not gone hungry for many months?

"I've still got salmon left,  I can take out small portions at a time and not just the whole 500kg at once," Lunde says, "so I will enjoy it for a long time to come."

Lunde does admit that 'too much salmon' is a concept that exists, saying: "Good thing I didn't win the prize this year," which would result in the 26-year-old finding himself as the proud owner of a metric tonne of fish product.

One man who was won the salmon jersey twice, in back-to-back years, is August Jensen, who claimed the classification in both 2014 and 2015.

However, Jensen was too early, with 2015 being the last year before the prize was added to the race. "Too bad for me", he says.

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Alexander Kristoff leads Uno-X for Tour de France debut

On-form Wærenskjold and Træen give Scandinavian team multiple options in July

Uno-X are the first team to name their final eight riders for the Tour de France , with veteran sprinter Alexander Kristoff leading a group of talented young riders that includes Rasmus Tiller, Tobias Halland Johannessen, Søren Wærenskjold and Torstein Træen.  

The eight riders are all from Norway and Denmark as Uno-X make their Tour de France debut after securing a wildcard invitation from race organisers ASO. 

Uno-X will target the sprint finishes with 35-year-old Kristoff, who joined the team for 2023. He has won four Tour stages during his long career, the last of which also gave him the first yellow jersey of the 2020 edition.

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Tiller won the recent Duracell Dwars door het Hageland in the Netherlands, while 2022 Under time trial world champion Søren Wærenskjold won the time trial at last week’s Baloise Belgium Tour and finished second overall.

Halland Johannessen won the 2021 Tour de L’Avenir and was third on a mountain stage at the Critérium du Dauphiné.

Also in the eight-rider squad are Jonas Gregaard, Jonas Abrahamsen and Anthon Charmig. 

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Træen finished eighth overall at the Dauphiné as he continues his impressive recovery from testicular cancer. He discovered the cancer early when anti-doping authorities contacted him on May 13 after the tumour marker Human Chorionic Gonadotropin was discovered in his sample.  

Uno-X stand out in the peloton due to their bright yellow and red colours but they will have a different look for the Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes, having attracted new sponsorship from supermarket chain REMA 1000. 

The logo of REMA 1000, as well as its 'R' range of own-brand products, will feature prominently on a new, predominantly red, jersey design for the world's biggest races. 

Anders Halland Johannessen, Erik Resell and Martin Urianstad are the three official reserves if any of the eight riders are unable to race. 

This team will travel to Bilbao with the goal of representing Norwegian and Danish cycling in an offensive, wholehearted, and very positive way. Uno-X will chase stage victories. That is our big dream for 2023,” team manager Jens Haugland said in a blog post after announcing the team live on Facebook.  

“The team is primarily divided into two groups. We have a "Classics group" that will ensure good opportunities for Alex on pure sprint days, while also having strong breakaway riders in this group. The same goes for the mountains, especially with Torstein and Tobias. Gregaard and Charmig also bring an X-factor that can pay off on breakaway stages. 

“There were many tough discussions but there is a leadership team that is proud of the group. Proud of those going to the Tour and proud of the overall development we have in the team. We have no plans to look back.”

We are ready 🔥Selected riders for Tour de France 2023.Alexander Kristoff (NOR) 🇳🇴Tobias H. Johannessen (NOR) 🇳🇴Torstein Træen (NOR) 🇳🇴Rasmus F. Tiller (NOR) 🇳🇴Søren Wærenskjold (NOR) 🇳🇴Jonas Gregaard W. (DEN) 🇩🇰Jonas Abrahamsen (NOR) 🇳🇴Anthon Charmig (DEN) 🇩🇰… pic.twitter.com/yYZxIZCQt3 June 20, 2023

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Egan Bernal is participating in Tour of Norway 2023.

With 3 days left until the start of tour of norway 2023 on may 26th in bergen, the preliminary start list is ready. the riders will battle through a prologue and three stages, offering opportunities for both time trial specialists, punchers, and sprinters, before crossing the finish line in stavanger on monday, may 29th..

Once again, Tour of Norway presents a world-class field of cyclists.

Former Tour de France winner,  Egan Bernal , is competing in this year's Tour of Norway. Bernal will get strong support from the INEOS Grenadiers team, with riders like  Lucas Plapp  and Norwegian-American  Magnus Sheffield .

Uno-X Pro Cycling Team brings a strong squad led by  Alexander Kristoff  and  Tobias Halland Johannesen . There are high expectations for the Norwegian riders, as Kristoff won the final stage last year, while Halland Johannesen was the challenger to last year's winner, Remco Evenepoel.

Odd Christian Eiking  from Bergen aims to shine on home ground in Bergen. He will be accompanied by the Danish rider  Michael Valgreen  on the EF Education-Easypost team. Valgreen was third in the 2021 UCI Road World Championships in Flanders.

Markus Hoelgaard  returns to the starting line to improve his fourth-place from 2021. He will be joined by  Jasper Stuyven , who has previously won Milano-SanRemo.

Among the Norwegian riders who will do their best to achieve results on home soil are the promising talent  Johannes Staune-Mittet  (Team Jumbo-Visma),  Carl Fredrik Hagen  (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team), as well as  Kristian Aasvold  and  August Jensen  (Human Powered Health).

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By Edward Wyatt

• July 7, 2008

ST.-BRIEUC, France — Although this cycling-mad nation loves the spectacle of the Tour de France, many fans here despair that no Frenchman has won the Tour since 1985, when Bernard Hinault, born near this village on the northern Brittany coast, captured his fifth yellow jersey.

The French console themselves these days with stage victories, and on Sunday, in Stage 2 of the Tour, it seemed for the longest time as if a French rider might win. A long breakaway containing first two, then four French riders stayed away until the final kilometer.

There was a French victory, for the Crédit Agricole team, but it came in the person of Thor Hushovd, a Norwegian who is the team’s sprinter. Hushovd, who won the time trials that started and ended the 2006 Tour, finished the 102.2-mile stage Sunday in 3 hours 45 minutes 13 seconds, averaging 27.2 miles per hour on a blustery and intermittently rainy afternoon.

The first 121 of the 179 finishers were given the same time as Hushovd.

“I knew this morning when I saw the profile of the finish that I could win,” Hushovd said afterward, before speaking of the Brittany region. “I like Bretagne, maybe because it’s a bit like Norway — cold, windy and sometimes some rain.”

Kim Kirchen of Team Columbia was second, starting his sprint up the finishing hill a bit late. In Stage 1 on Saturday, he started too early and was caught by Alejandro Valverde on the first stage in Plumelec before placing fourth.

Kirchen took the green sprinter’s jersey as a consolation prize, the result of his two finishes. Valverde held on to the race leader’s yellow jersey for a second day.

If this year’s race included time bonuses, Kirchen might be in yellow.

But that was one of the modifications this year by the Tour director, Christian Prudhomme, who has said he prefers the purity of measuring the race in real time. Thus, Valverde leads Kirchen and 11 other riders, including Óscar Freire and Cadel Evans, by a second. Another 32 riders are seven seconds back.

The day seemed as if it might provide a reason for a French celebration. Two of the country’s top riders — Thomas Voeckler of the Bouygues Telecom team and Sylvain Chavanel, leader of the Cofidis team — set out on an early breakaway that by the middle of the stage had an advantage of six and a half minutes.

Rolling over a series of small climbs as they traversed the Brittany peninsula, Voeckler and Chavanel were later joined by Christophe Moreau, a former French national champion, and David Lelay, a 28-year-old native of St.-Brieuc.

The four put in a furious effort to keep the charging peloton at bay, but the gap fell steadily to less than a minute about 12 miles from the finish. With two and a half miles left, the four were still 28 seconds in front, and with less than two miles to go, Chavanel attacked and left his countrymen behind.

He remained in front until the final mile, when the peloton closed in and Fabian Cancellara, the world time-trial champion, attacked. Cancellara’s pace slowed as the road climbed a moderate incline to the finish, and the group came back together with 350 yards to go. That was when Hushovd turned on his sprint.

“Since I’m not a pure sprinter,” Hushovd said, “after a day like today with some climbs, maybe I have a bit more energy in my legs” than the sprinters who are faster on flat finishing terrain.

The peloton appeared to have settled down a bit after Saturday’s jittery opening day, resulting in fewer crashes Sunday. Juan Mauricio Soler-Hernández, who crashed Saturday and severely injured his right hand, started Sunday with a splint on his wrist and with bandages on his left knee and left forearm. A wad of gauze was also packed on his left hip, where a wound had begun to bleed even before he mounted his bike for the start in Auray.

Soler-Hernández, whose X-rays were negative for a fracture, noticeably suffered during the stage, finishing last, more than seven minutes behind Hushovd. Riders have competed with worse injuries, but Soler-Hernández seemed close to being spent at the end of the day.

It is unclear if he will start Monday in St.-Malo, a nearby village, for the final day of racing in Brittany. From there, the peloton will travel a more traditional early Tour route, a relatively flat 129.3 miles to Nantes. After two stages with finishes marked by challenging hills in the final miles, the true sprinters will finally have a chance to rev up their jets and contest a finish.

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