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The Team-by-Team Guide to Who Will Win the 2022 Tour de France

From Ag2r to UAE, here are all the ways the 22 teams in this year’s edition will stuff up a chance for victory.

Someone’s gotta win the 2022 Tour de France, right? But that means 175 guys, and 21 teams, won’t. It turns out the Tour is really hard to win. You’ve gotta get everything right for 21 days: no major crashes or injuries; no bonks or bad days; and of course no badly timed mechanical failures except inside three kilometers to go on flat stages, where mechanicals and mishaps do get mulligans.

And not every team in the Tour is here to win it. They understand that the math of ultimate victory just kind of sucks. So they have other objectives: stage wins, other jersey competitions, or just getting in the break. That doesn’t make for a boring race. In fact, it can make it even crazier as some overall contender’s best laid plans get put on their ear by a team that doesn’t even give a damn about Paris. Here are all 22 teams in this year’s race, what they’re here for, and why despite months of training and prep, they’re still gonna manage to ball it up.

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Ineos grenadiers.

Top Riders : Dani Martinez, Geraint Thomas, Adam Yates

Why They’re Here : To bring back the glory days

What To Watch For: Triple threat! Start with Thomas, the 2018 Tour winner who’s freshly back on good form; Yates, fourth at last year’s Tour of Spain; and Martinez, who had his best spring ever, capped by a win at Itzulia Basque Country. Bench? Super deep: from young talents Tom Pidcock and Ethan Hayter to rouleurs like Filippo Ganna and Dylan van Baarle. With the biggest budget in the WorldTour, these guys come to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and they’re all outta bubblegum.

Why They’ll Lose : Unfortunately they may be all outta kick ass too. Ineos is bike racing’s equivalent of an ‘80s super group: went triple platinum, had its own display at Tower Records, sold-out stadium shows everywhere. Now they’re opening for Winger at HairNation in Cleveland. A triple threat GC strategy is what you do when you don’t have a true leader, and they pretty much never work. Thomas is 36, that 2018 Tour win a golden, glorious outlier. Yates? No one is afraid of a Yates. Martinez is intriguing but has exactly one high overall finish in a Grand Tour to his name. Super group? Maybe a really good cover band.

Jumbo-Visma

Top Riders : Primož Roglič, Jonas Vingegaard, Wout van Aert

Why They’re Here : Revenge for Omi and Opi

What To Watch For : With all the hype around Rog v. Pog, it’s a little astounding that the two top stage racers in the sport have only ever faced off to the finish in two multi-day events, the first being Pog’s come-from-behind stunner in the 2020 Tour. Last year, of course, Roglič was all primed to avenge that crazy loss until he ran into (literally) the infamous fan holding the Opi-Omi sign on Stage One and abandoned later with injuries. That, of course, did open the door for Vingegaard’s debutante ball and van Aert’s Ventoux heroics. More recently, Jumbo was looking good, Billy Ray, with a 1-2 finish by Rog and Jonas at the Criterium du Dauphiné and a pile of stage wins by van Aert.

Why They’ll Lose : Roglič has three straight Vuelta a España titles but Tour Troubles live rent-free in his head. Short of major trouble early, team brass will hold Vingegaard back, and he’s a Good Boy so he’ll comply. Elsewhere, van Aert picked up a mysterious knee injury in training camp, and the whole Tour de Suisse team had to bail with COVID. Just the kind of relaxing few weeks you want pre-Tour.

UAE Team Emirates

Top Riders : All about Tadej Pogačar

Why They’re Here : Win No. 3

What To Watch For : Pog’s first win was via surprise; in taking the lead only in the Stage 20 TT, his team was never tested. Last season it was and passed. Barely. But this offseason was like the scene from The Matrix Reloaded where Neo fights three Agents and stops for a moment to observe, “Hmm. Upgrades.” UAE picked up a bunch of new climber-support guys that significantly boosts team depth. They’re made, and paid, to defend.

Why They’ll Lose : I mean, probably not? But luck has a funny way of evening things out, and the first week of this year’s race holds plenty of chances for the bad kind. Stage 2’s crosswind potential recalls 2020, when Pog lost time on Stage 7 in a similar situation. Stage 5 has cobbles. Roubaix cobbles. Pog has never raced them. He’s a fine bike handler and had fun at the Ronde van Vlaanderen last spring. But Roubaix cobbles are…different.

Outside GC Contenders

Outside of the top three teams, there are several others that have a legitimate shot at a yellow jersey. All have flaws that the Big 3 don’t: they lack depth, or have unproved leaders, or some other issue. Everything has to go right for one of them to get the upset win. But never say never.

Ag2r-Citroën

Top Riders : Ben O’Connor

Why They’re Here : To get on the Tour podium

What To Watch For : A lot of observers wrote off O’Connor’s fourth-place finish last year as a fluke, since it was sparked by a winning break on Stage 9 that gave him big time on the chase. But that ignores the 26-year-old Aussie’s steady rise as a stage racer. He was the best not-Jumbo guy at the Dauphiné, for example. Not only can he climb, he’s durable, with just two DNFs in stage races the past two and a half seasons.

Why They’ll Lose : Three things hold O’Connor back. One: Ineos, Jumbo, and UAE would take Ag2r apart if O’Connor has to defend yellow. Second, almost zero experience on cobbles: his last race on them was six years ago, on Flanders cobbles, not the Roubaix kind. Sure, he reconned the stage, but with Ag2r leaving former Paris-Roubaix winner Greg van Avermaet home, O’Connor loses an incomparable cobbles pilot for a crucial stage where he’s openly praying for dry weather . Last, Rog and Pog don’t fear O’Connor in any TT, much less the 40km monster at the end of this race.

Bora-Hansgrohe

Top Riders : Aleksandr Vlasov

Why They’re Here : To add to that Grand Tour win streak

What To Watch For : Peter who? Bora has moved on from the Sagan era to become maybe the odds-on fave to challenge the UAE-Jumbo-Ineos triumvirate in stage racing (see: Jai Hindley, 2022 Giro d’Italia). Next up: Vlasov, who was scary good at the Tour de Suisse. With climbing support from Max Schachmann, Patrick Konrad, and Lennard Kämna, they could be a sleeper threat.

Why They’ll Lose : In Grand Tours, Vlasov’s either top 10 or a DNF, no in-betweens. After getting COVID at Suisse, his form is a question mark, bold, in 48-point type. And Vlasov—a Russian—in yellow would be a PR disaster for a sport that’s been almost capriciously inconsistent with its response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. If he takes the lead, the press conferences could be more vicious than the road.

Bahrain Victorious

Top Riders : Jack Haig, Matej Mohorič, Damiano Caruso

Why They’re Here : A sneaky yellow jersey push?

What To Watch For : Bahrain’s my other pick for an outside challenge to Pogačar’s third title. Usually they’re stage hunters at the Tour, and damn good ones too: three last year alone. And they usually have not one, but two riders up high in the overall in Grand Tours. Here it’ll be the Caruso-Haig pair, backed by Dylan Teuns. And there’s always Mohorič for stages if things go pear-shaped early.

Why They’ll Lose : Bahrain can’t close the deal in a GT. Never has. “The road will decide” is a dumb strategy in week three of a Grand Tour, as each co-leader rides for himself. That dynamic could easily play out here, with 34-year-old Caruso, always the lieutenant, looking for that one breakthrough result to cap his career, and 28-year-old Haig looking to confirm that he’s the team’s immediate future. Add to that a pre-Tour police raid , and it’s worth wondering whether Bahrain cracks up well before Paris.

Groupama-FDJ

Top Riders : Thibaut Pinot, David Gaudu

Why They’re Here : A fresh strategy for success?

What To Watch For : Who doesn’t cheer for Pinot? One of France’s best stage racers in a generation, and a disarmingly honest, refreshingly down-to-earth human (his Instagram features pictures of him with his goats as much as racing). And just in time, he’s looking like a threat, with a stage win at the Tour de Suisse. Gaudu got another at the Dauphiné, and they have Valentin Madouas and Michael Storer for support. Could this be Thibaut’s year?

Why They’ll Lose : Nope, it could not. No one has a more complicated relationship with the Tour than Pinot, who’s had more than his fair share of heartache; who could forget that wrenching DNF in 2019 from a freak knee injury, just as he looked ready to rip the race apart? Pinot’s a pure climber, so week one and the final TT will be his undoing. This lineup would be far better off focusing on stage wins, and the team’s been cagey about whether its goals are GC or stages. Good plan.

Top Riders : Romain Bardet

Why They’re Here : A mulligan from the Giro

What To Watch For : Bardet, a serious Grand Tours rider by any measure, was sitting fourth overall at the Giro when illness knocked him out near the end of the second week. The Tour is a second chance, and the form he had at the Giro, combined with the break from not having to go deep in the arduous third week there, could make him a serious threat here.

Why They’ll Lose : Bardet’s best Grand Tour results are behind him. He sucks at flat time trials. DSM isn’t deep enough to support him, partly because they keep losing good riders due to their inflexible management style. To paraphrase Tolstoy, all dysfunctional teams are unhappy in their own way, and DSM—which is leaving Soren Kragh Andersen, one of its best stage hunters, home because he’s switching teams next year—is a particularly miserable outfit.

Surefire Stage Winners

Not every team is here to chase the podium in Paris. Many teams are hunting stage wins, the coin of the realm for non-GC relevance at the Tour. We’ve divided them into two groups. The first consists of the teams that are almost guaranteed to win a stage. In fact, their Tour will be a disappointment if they don’t.

BikeExchange-Jayco

Top Riders : Dylan Groenewegen, Michael Matthews

Why They’re Here : To knock off as many Ws as possible

What To Watch For : The Groenewegen-Matthews tandem has seven Tour stage wins between them, plus Matthews’ green jersey in 2017. They’re the best shots for a stage win, and both have shown encouraging form lately. Past that, Nick Schultz is an outside shot for a climbing stage.

Why They’ll Lose : Their best rider, Simon Yates, is staying home after a mixed Giro campaign. Groenewegen looked to be a breakout star after his 2019 Tour but hasn’t been the same rider since getting DQ’d at the 2020 Tour of Poland for his role in the crash that almost ended Fabio Jakobsen’s career. Matthews is, and remains, a kind of mercurial mess: great talent, constantly top 5 or top 10, but rarely a winner at the Tour, where his last stage win was in 2017.

Intermarché-Wanty

Top Riders : Alexander Kristoff

Why They’re Here : Arrgh! It’s a pirate’s life for us!

What To Watch For : The most recent addition to the WorldTour ranks, Intermarché was supposed to just take up some space in the pack: get in the early break, vie for top fives in sprints, but generally be wallpaper. They didn’t get the memo: 13 wins already this year, including two Giro stages and Gent-Wevelgem. The center is sprinter Kristoff, a four-time Tour stage winner who can Classics a bit too. And then there’s breakaway specialist Taco van der Hoorn, who we love for his never-say-die attitude and because, whenever he’s in the break, we get to think about tacos for hours on end.

Why They’ll Lose : It was a great spring, but reversion to the mean is a bitch. There is no race harsher and more sharp-elbowed than the Tour, and without top riders Biniam Girmay and Jan Hirt (both of whom did the Giro), they’re pretty thin for the biggest race in the world. What about Louis Meintjes? What about him, indeed: likely racing defensively for another 12th place overall.

Alpecin-Deceuninck

Top Riders : Mathieu van der Poel, Jasper Philipsen

Why They’re Here : Sprints, baby

What To Watch For : Alpecin will give Quick-Step a run for best sprint team this Tour. That starts with Mathieu van der Poel, one of the most phenomenal, unclassifiable riders racing today. Van der Poel can win sprints, can win hilly courses, can handle a bike so beautifully it makes Danny MacAskill cry. He’s here for stages, not the green jersey, so he’ll be aggressive. Philipsen is a pure field sprinter. Can’t climb so much as a ladder, but point him in a straight line and there are few who can beat him.

Why They’ll Lose : Two sprinters? That’s a recipe for a mess. If Alpecin is smart, they’ll back Philipsen in sprints and van der Poel will go for breakaways and the Roubaix stage. But for all his talents and the hype, van der Poel has weaknesses, especially tactics. Philipsen is still searching for that breakout win/season that establishes him as one of the premier speedsters in the pack.

Trek-Segafredo

Top Riders : Bauke Mollema, Mads Pedersen, Jasper Stuyven

Why They’re Here : To win on the hardest of days

What To Watch For : Trek is a deep, experienced team of vets, and has no illusions about going for GC. Mollema just missed stage wins several times at the Giro, but last year’s win on the Tour’s Stage 14 was a virtuoso performance of strength and tactics on a wickedly hard day. That’s Trek’s sweet spot. Whether it’s medium mountain stages for Mollema, bad weather and long grinds for 2019 World Champion Pedersen, or cobbles and crosswinds for classics specialist Stuyven, they’re made for days when other guys just want to get to the finish.

Why They’ll Lose : It’s unknown how well Mollema will go in his second full GT this season. Pedersen is at his best on very long days: 200km plus, lumpy profile, and there simply aren’t many of those at this year’s Tour. Stuyven has always seemed One Big Win from a breakout. But when he gets them, like last year’s Milano-Sanremo, the streak never comes. At 30, he is who he is: talented but not transformative.

Quick-Step-Alpha Vinyl

Top Riders : Fabio Jakobsen, Kasper Asgreen

Why They’re Here : Stage wins galore

What To Watch For : Quick-Step is that friend who always marches to her own beat. They haven’t mounted a real GC attempt at the Tour in years, and they’re not starting now. They’re built for stage wins, starting with sprinter Jakobsen and the best leadout in bike racing, Michael Mørkøv. They’ve won at least one stage every year since 2012, and it’s the surest bet in the Tour that streak continues.

Why They’ll Lose : They’re limping into the Tour, almost literally. Classics star Kasper Asgreen is banged up from a Tour de Suisse crash. World Champion Julian Alaphilippe isn’t here at all, thanks to crash injuries. Plus there’s weird vibes: Yves Lampaert was disqualified from the Tour of Belgium for physically blocking another rider racing for the overall win. And how do you not bring Mark Cavendish to the Tour? If there’s any karma for those two outrages, QS will get goose-egged this year.

Wild Cards and Stage Hunters

One of the unifying factors among these teams is they don’t win that much at the WorldTour. Another is they’re typically among the lower-budget teams, unable to sign the big-name riders who would give them those headline victories. A third: several of them are fighting possible relegation from the sport’s top level. A Tour stage is far from assured, but would also help a lot in that competition.

Top Riders : Enric Mas, Carlos Verona

Why They’re Here : All about avoiding disaster

What To Watch For : As anyone who’s watched their Netflix documentary series The Most Unexpected Day can attest, no one does drama like Movistar. There’s always something going on and this year it’s relegation. New UCI rules will drop the two lowest-point teams out of the 2023 WorldTour, and Movistar—with a four-decade history in the sport—is on the bubble. So look for them to race with a certain desperation. Their best hope is Mas, a top climber. But Verona is in excellent form, and young American rider Matteo Jorgenson bears watching in his first Tour.

Why They’ll Lose : Mas was looking strong at the Dauphiné, but a bad crash knocked him out. Several of their top riders, like Alejandro Valverde, aren’t racing the Tour, which limits their potential. Movistar has never been a sprint team, so they’re mostly confined to breakaway hopes. Movistar has never been big on team cohesion, and if success doesn’t come in the first half of the race, the second could be a slog.

Arkea-Samsic

Top Riders : Nairo Quintana, Warren Barguil

Why They’re Here : To the mountains they must go

What To Watch For : Arkea needs to pick opportunities wisely. Its best shots will be with climbers Quintana and Barguil in the mountains. Both have a track record of success at the Grand Tours, and although Quintana is no longer the GC rider he was 5-10 years ago, he’s also not a guy you let build a big lead before a final climb.

Why They’ll Lose : As is his style the past few years, Quintana started the season hot and then fell off. Back through 2020, he hasn’t won a single race after May. The past 3-4 years Barguil has focused on GC at the Tour, which he really shouldn’t do, because it means he rides defensively when he should be attacking. There are a couple of other outside stage shots on Arkea, like the Classics rider Connor Swift. But they need to race smart, and instead, I expect to see them in every early break, no matter the chances.

Total Energies

Top Riders : Peter Sagan

Why They’re Here : Sagz and breaks

What To Watch For : Sagan’s move from Bora to Total Energies over the offseason basically re-made the team. Sagz doesn’t travel light, bringing three of his Bora teammates (including bestie Daniel Oss) and Specialized as a sponsor. For that, Sagan has given them a stage win at the recent Tour de Suisse, and hopes to add to his 12 Tour stages. Anthony Turgis, second at Milano-Sanremo, is maybe the most underrated Classics rider in the pack and could be a threat for the Roubaix stage.

Why They’ll Lose : If Sagan was supposed to raise TE’s game, it hasn’t worked out so far. Instead, he DNF’d out of Suisse with his third bout of COVID after reportedly fighting off long COVID from his second round with the disease. He hasn’t won a Tour stage in his last two outings. Turgis never seems to quite get over the hump with a big result. This is not a terribly deep team and if Sagan, their center, is not on good form they’ll struggle to adapt.

Lotto-Soudal

Top Riders : Caleb Ewan, Tim Wellens

Why They’re Here : Sprints and breaks

What To Watch For : Ewan, a five-time Tour stage winner, would like a mulligan for his unfortunate crash on Stage 1 of the Giro as he was fighting it out for the win. Wellens, a deeply experienced vet, was excellent at the Belgium Tour, losing the overall only due to foul play by Quick-Step. And in Florian Vermeersch and Philippe Gilbert they have two very good Classics riders, albeit at opposite ends of the age/experience spectrum.

Why They’ll Lose : Lotto’s leadout simply isn’t on par with Quick-Step or Alpecin. Ewan will be forced to freelance. He’s also usually an early DNF in Grand Tours. If he strikes out early, that might be it. For all of Wellens’ experience he attacks at weirdly inopportune moments (called “Wellensing”). Gilbert has a fabulous palmares but hasn’t added much to it the past few years. And Vermeersch, the breakout revelation of last year’s Paris-Roubaix, is almost anonymous this year, including a terrible Classics season.

B&B Hotels-KTM

Top Riders : Pierre Rolland

Why They’re Here : So you’re sayin’ there’s a chance!

What To Watch For : Among “wild cards,” Alpecin gets an automatic invite for leading the sport’s second division. TotalEnergies gets in because Sagan. That leaves B&B, which is in because they’re French. Their best shot is clearly Rolland, three times a top-10 finisher at the Tour and the team’s only Tour stage winner. Rolland, an old school race-by-feel guy, is definitely feeling it right now, barely missing a stage win at the Dauphiné and taking home the mountains jersey. He’s a solid pick for a win on one of those lumpy transitional courses, and there are several chances, including Stages 8 and 9, and 13 and 14.

Why They’ll Lose : Rolland is 35. In 16 seasons, he’s won 12 races, and just once in the last five seasons. Those GC campaigns were a long time ago now. And there’s a lot of pressure on him. This is a thin team, thanks to running on a meager budget compared to WorldTour teams. A stage win would be a fantastic triumph, but the team hasn’t won anything near this level in its six-year existence. Don’t bet on a breakthrough here.

Top Riders : Guillaume Martin, Bryan Coquard

Why They’re Here : To break a long winless streak

What To Watch For : After racing the full Giro d’Italia, Martin is likely at the Tour searching for stage wins rather than the overall. That’s a smart strategy for the peloton’s smartest rider (with a master’s in philosophy, he’s the only WorldTour rider we know of with an advanced degree). A number of medium mountain days are well-suited to him. Coquard, a kind of all-around sprinter/classics guy, could be one to watch for the first week.

Why They’ll Lose : Martin has a knack for getting in breaks that gain a lot of time. But he also sometimes uses his strength at odd, inopportune times. It shows in the results: just seven wins in seven seasons, none on the WorldTour. He’s a good climber, but a stage win will require luck, not just legs. Coquard is a conventionally successful racer with 47 wins, but also none on the WorldTour. Cofidis hasn’t won a Tour stage since 2008, despite being in the race every year. It’s the longest dry streak of any team here, and chances are it continues this Tour.

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Top Riders: Rigoberto Uran

Why They’re Here : To get in the break almost every day

What To Watch For : There’s no harder team to puzzle out this year than EF. Uran, a former Grand Tour podium finisher, could be a GC threat. But more likely he's going for stage wins. The roster is built to compete on almost any day: Uran for the big mountains. Ruben Guerreiro for the medium ones. Magnus Cort and Alberto Bettiol for the lumpy transitional stuff. All of them could have success.

Why They’ll Lose : EF had an uneven lead-in to the Tour, with half its roster at Tour de Suisse going out with COVID (including Uran and Bettiol). Guerreiro won the recent Ventoux Challenge, a promising result, but against lesser competition than he'll face here. Cort, maybe the team’s best stage-win hope, hasn’t had the kind of season he hoped for so far. Watch American Neilson Powless, 4th overall at Suisse. With EF on the relegation bubble, they’ll race hard, but as we’ve said elsewhere, desperation often isn’t the best motivation for a victory.

Israel-Premier Tech

Top Riders : Michael Woods, Jakob Fuglsang

Why They’re Here : They got automatic entry. Somehow.

What To Watch For : Another WorldTour team on the relegation bubble, Israel-Premier Tech comes in search of results that will boost them to an assured spot in next year’s top tier of teams. Their best bets are Fuglsang, who turned in a strong Tour de Suisse performance (albeit against a COVID-decimated field) and Woods, who won a stage and the overall at the recent Route d’Occitanie.

Why They’ll Lose : There’s no team that’s mismanaged its roster and budget like IPT, sinking big money into riders whose best results are behind them. Just two riders here are under 30 and most of the rest are closer to 40. Four-time former Tour winner Chris Froome has never recovered from that awful 2019 crash that broke his femur. Woods and Fuglsang have both won lesser races this year, but it remains to be seen if they have what it takes against Tour-level competition.

Top Riders : Alexey Lutsenko

Why They’re Here : To rekindle past glories of Vino 4 Ever!

What To Watch For: Once upon a time, Astana was a feared GC team. Vincenzo Nibali at his mid-decade peak, or the heady Alberto Contador years, these guys were a badass bunch. These days they don’t merit much concern. Maybe Lutsenko get a mountain stage. Maybe Gianni Moscon makes news for something other than being a dick. Maybe I’ll wake up a billionaire tomorrow.

Why They’ll Lose : Because Astana is Team Hot Mess. Lutsenko? Wake me when he’s a legit top-5 threat. Moscon’s barely been seen since flatting out of the Paris-Roubaix lead last fall. And with near-constant issues paying staff and riders, and reported criminal investigations about fraud and money laundering, it’s honestly worth wondering how long this team survives, win or no.

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The 2022 Tour de France begins on Friday 1 July, with 176 riders taking to the start line at the Grand Départ in Denmark before finishing, as usual, on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on Sunday 24 July. 

Reigning champion, Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) is returning to try and win the title for the third successive year over the 21 days of racing to Paris, but he and his team will face a tough battle for the Maillot Jaune. 

His compatriot Primož Roglič (Jumbo-Visma) is expected to provide him the most difficult test at the Grand Tour, with Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma), and Daniel Martínez (Ineos Grenadiers) ready and waiting for any opportunities in the general classification. 

Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers), Tour winner from 2018, also lines up, but he will likely ride for his teammates rather than making an attempt at the yellow jersey himself, despite recently winning the Tour de Suisse. After twice finishing second at the Tour de France before, and once in third, Nairo Quintana (Arkéa Samsic) is no doubt desperate to stand on the top step of the podium this time around, though his chances in doing so look slim.

Chris Froome (Israel-Premier Tech) is starting at the 2022 Tour de France, and while a GC challenge is extremely unlikely, the four-time Tour winner will still believe he can produce consistently over the three weeks.

Romain Bardet (Team DSM) perhaps offers France's greatest opportunity at a home win, though he has previously stated stage wins are the main goal at this Tour, rather than the overall victory. 

Plenty of other riders are aiming for stage wins and the different jerseys on offer, too. Wout Van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) and Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) will resume battle in France. While the latter has claimed he is only targeting stage wins, rather than the points classification, it is likely he will still have to beat Van Aert on a few occasions to achieve that goal.  

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Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl are placing their sprint hopes on Fabio Jakobsen, opting not to bring Mark Cavendish into the fold - a stage win for the Manxman would give him the most stage wins in Tour history, allowing him to overtake Eddy Merckx as the pair both sit on 34. 

Peter Sagan (TotalEnergies) and Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers) also join Caleb Ewan (Lotto Soudal) in lining up for the Grands Départs in Denmark, adding their names to an already stellar start list of some of cycling's biggest names.

The full start list for the 2022 Tour de France is below.

Tour de France 2022 start list

UAE Team Emirates

1. POGAČAR Tadej 2. BENNETT George 3. BJERG Mikkel 4. LAENGEN Vegard Stake 5. MAJKA Rafał 6. MCNULTY Brandon 7. SOLER Marc 8. HIRSCHI Marc 

Jumbo-Visma

11. ROGLIČ Primož 12. BENOOT Tiesj 13. KRUIJSWIJK Steven 14. KUSS Sepp 15. LAPORTE Christophe 16. VAN AERT Wout 17. VAN HOOYDONCK Nathan 18. VINGEGAARD Jonas

Ineos Grenadiers

21. THOMAS Geraint 22. MARTÍNEZ Daniel Felipe 23. CASTROVIEJO Jonathan 24. GANNA Filippo 25. PIDCOCK Thomas 26. ROWE Luke 27. VAN BAARLE Dylan 28. YATES Adam  

AG2R Citroën

31. O'CONNOR Ben 32. BOUCHARD Geoffrey 33. CHEREL Mikael 34. COSNEFROY Benoît 35. DEWULF Stan 36. JUNGELS Bob 37. NAESEN Oliver   38. PARET-PEINTRE Aurélien

Bora-Hansgrohe

41. VLASOV Aleksandr 42. GROßSCHARTNER Felix 43. HALLER Marco 44. KÄMNA Lennard 45. KONRAD Patrick 46. POLITT Nils 47. SCHACHMANN Maximilian 48. VAN POPPEL Danny 

Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl

51. JAKOBSEN Fabio 52. ASGREEN Kasper 53. BAGIOLI Andrea 54. CATTANEO Mattia 55. HONORÉ Mikkel Frølich 56. LAMPAERT Yves 57. MØRKØV Michael 58. SÉNÉCHAL Florian

61. MAS Enric 62. ERVITI Imanol 63. IZAGIRRE Gorka 64. JORGENSON Matteo   65. MÜHLBERGER Gregor 66. OLIVEIRA Nelson 67. TORRES Albert 68. VERONA Carlos 

71. MARTIN Guillaume 72. PERICHON Pierre-Luc 73. GESCHKE Simon 74. IZAGIRRE Ion 75. LAFAY Victor 76. PEREZ Anthony 77. THOMAS Benjamin 78. WALSCHEID Max

Bahrain-Victorious

81. HAIG Jack 82. CARUSO Damiano 83. GRADEK Kamil 84. MOHORIČ Matej 85. SÁNCHEZ Luis León 86. TEUNS Dylan 87. TRATNIK Jan 88. WRIGHT Fred

Groupama-FDJ

91. GAUDU David 92. DUCHESNE Antoine 93. GENIETS Kevin 94. KÜNG Stefan 95. LE GAC Olivier 96. MADOUAS Valentin 97. PINOT Thibaut 98. STORER Michael  

Alpecin-Deceuninck

101. VAN DER POEL Mathieu 102. DILLIER Silvan 103. GOGL Michael 104. KRIEGER Alexander 105. PHILIPSEN Jasper 106. PLANCKAERT Edward 107. SBARAGLI Kristian 108. VAN KEIRSBULCK Guillaume    

111. BARDET Romain 112. DAINESE Alberto 113. DEGENKOLB John 114. EEKHOFF Nils 115. HAMILTON Chris 116. LEKNESSUND Andreas 117. TUSVELD Martin 118. VERMAEKE Kevin

Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux

121. KRISTOFF Alexander 122. BYSTRØM Sven Erik 123. GOOSSENS Kobe 124. MEINTJES Louis 125. PASQUALON Andrea 126. PETIT Adrien 127. VAN DER HOORN Taco 128. ZIMMERMANN Georg  

Astana Qazaqstan

131. LUTSENKO Alexey 132. RIABUSHENKO Aleksandr 133. DOMBROWSKI Joe 134. FELLINE Fabio 135. GRUZDEV Dmitriy 136. MOSCON Gianni 137. VELASCO Simone 138. ZEITS Andrey

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141. URÁN Rigoberto 142. GUERREIRO Ruben 143. BETTIOL Alberto 144. BISSEGGER Stefan 145. DOULL Owain 146. CORT Magnus 147. POWLESS Neilson 148. RUTSCH Jonas 

Arkéa Samsic

151. QUINTANA Nairo 152. BARGUIL Warren 153. BOUET Maxime 154. CAPIOT Amaury 155. HOFSTETTER Hugo 156. LOUVEL Matis 157. OWSIAN Łukasz 158. SWIFT Connor 

Lotto Soudal

161. EWAN Caleb 162. FRISON Frederik 163. GILBERT Philippe 164. JANSE VAN RENSBURG Reinardt 165. KRON Andreas 166. VAN MOER Brent 167. VERMEERSCH Florian 168. WELLENS Tim

Trek-Segafredo

171. PEDERSEN Mads 172. CICCONNE Giulio 173. GALLOPIN Tony 174. KIRSCH Alex 175. MOLLEMA Bauke 176. SIMMONS Quinn 177. SKUJINS Toms 178. STUYVEN Jasper

TotalEnergies

181. SAGAN Peter 182. BOASSON HAGEN Edvald 183. BODNAR Maciej 184. BURGAUDEAU Mathieu 185. LATOUR Pierre 186. OSS Daniel 187. TURGIS Anthony 188. VUILLERMOZ Alexis  

Israel-Premier Tech

191. FROOME Chris 192. BOIVIN Guillaume 193. CLARKE Simon 194. FUGLSANG Jakob 195. NIV Guy 196. HOULE Hugo 197. NEILANDS Krists 198. WOODS Michael

BikeExchange-Jayco

201. MATTHEWS Michael 202. BAUER Jack 203. DURBRIDGE Luke 204. GROENEWEGEN Dylan 205. JANSEN Amund Grøndahl 206. JUUL-JENSEN Christopher 207. MEZGEC Luka 208. SCHULTZ Nick

B&B Hotels-KTM

211. BONNAMOUR Franck 212. BARTHE Cyril 213. GOUGEARD Alexis 214. LECROQ Jérémy 215. LEMOINE Cyril 216. MOZZATO Luca 217. ROLLAND Pierre 218. SCHÖNBERGER Sebastian

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Ineos Grenadiers—Pinarello

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Lotto Soudal—Ridley

Movistar—Canyon

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Tour de France 2022: Who are the 7 US riders competing this year?

With the 2022 tour de france kicking off with friday’s grand départ in copenhagen, denmark, we take a look at all of the riders representing north america..

Competitive cycling has long been the preserve of the European nations, with notable exceptions such as Colombia in South America , but is a sport that, over the years, has captured the North American imagination.

The field of professional cycling is still largely made up of riders from across Europe, but in the 2022 Tour de France, North America will be represented by ten cyclists , seven from the United States and three from Canada.

What a night. What a show. What a crowd. 🇩🇰 Thank you. See you Friday for stage 1️⃣ #letourdk #TDF2022 @LeTour pic.twitter.com/PBZ4kJ8Bwu — Grand Départ 2022 🇩🇰 (@letourdk) June 29, 2022

We take a look at each of the North American riders who will be on the start line when the race kicks off with the Grand Départ in Copenhagen on Friday.

The US riders

Sepp kuss (jumbo-visma).

Sepp will almost certainly occupy the most television screen time of any of the North American riders, given that he became the first US stage winner in more than a decade during last year’s Tour when he outclimbed everyone in Andorra. One of the best climbers in world cycling, he has also won a stage of the Vuelta de España and after eight Vueltas and two Giro d’Italias, the 27-year old is now in his third Tour de France, shouldering a ton of expectation.

Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost)

Also in his third Tour, Powless, who is a member of the Oneida nation, has made headlines as the first tribally-recognized Native American to compete in the Tour. After last year’s Tour, Powless won the San Sebastian Classic in Spain, and then narrowly missed out a stage win in the Tour de Suisse. Although primarily a support rider, he will be looking to earn points himself to keep his place on the team intact.

Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates)

The Arizona native McNulty is also in his third tour, will be reprising his role as a climbing domestique for team leader, and defending Tour champion, Tadej Pogačar.

While the thought of toting water bidons to help someone else win the tour may not be the most glamorous of roles, any cyclist in the world would jump at the opportunity to gain this experience. The circumstances may not prove to be correct for him to break away, but if that should change, he is certainly capable of winning a stage in his own right.

Joe Dombrowski (Astana Qazaqstan)

The 31-year-old Delaware native has been around so long, winning a stage in last year’s Giro d’Italia, a race which he has appeared seven times, along with four appearances in the Vuelta de España, that it is difficult to believe that he will be a Tour de France debutant this year.

The former Team Sky rider has spent time in support roles with Team Emirates and Slipstream before moving to Astana Qazaqstan, where he will have a chance to ride free and try to win a few maillots jaunes of his own.

Matteo Jorgenson (Movistar Team)

Matteo Jorgenson 🇺🇸 Plus risqué. Il y a une petite hype autour de lui, il est jeune et franchement bon. Mais je sens que niveau récupération c'est pas ouf, une intuition. Si vous me faites confiance, ne le prenez pas dans votre 8 velogames. pic.twitter.com/WuPSnPh6UI — Le ßeau Vélo (@Le_Beau_Velo) June 29, 2022

Another rider making his debut appearance in the Tour de France, Jorgenson will fulfil a support role for the Spanish Movistar Team and their lead rider Enric Mas. Having turned pro just before the pandemic, this will be his second Grand Tour, after finishing the 2021 Giro d’Italia. Strong as both a climber and a sprinter, he may be able to find a gap to prove his worth.

Kevin Vermaerke (Team DSM)

Kevin Vermaerke (21, 🇺🇸) riding his first Tour de France. Big time. pic.twitter.com/U7FJ0B5N35 — Florida Cycling Nut (@FlaCyclingNut) June 24, 2022

A third Tour first-timer, Vermaerke has previously won the sub-23 Liège-Bastogne-Liège and has had a strong showing, finishing fourth, in the Critérium du Dauphiné. A strong climber, he is riding on an aggressive team who like to push for the lead, which could see the 21-year old involved in a few breakaways.

Quinn Simmons (Trek-Segafredo)

The youngest rider in the Tour de France, Simmons is a former Junior World Championships winner and has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons after social media posts got him benched by his team.

Since reinstatement, Simmons has won a stage and the overall Tour de Wallonie as well as finishing the Vuelta de España where he was pipped to a stage win. After relentless attacking in Tirreno-Adriatico and the Tour de Suisse, Trek-Segafredo will likely encourage the young Coloradan to push forward in the mountain stages.

The Canadian riders

Antoine duchesne (groupama-fdj).

Former Canadian national champion, Duchesne last raced the Tour de France with his old team, Direct Energie, back in 2016 and will be domestique for Thibaut Pinot and David Gaudu, and will be looked at as the anchor of the French team when they push for podium.

Hugo Houle (Israel-Premier Tech)

The main motor for the Israeli team, Houle spent four seasons with Astana as their key domestique. Taking on the same role with Premier Tech, he is a former Canadian time-trial champion and will be looking to get a top ten ride in one of the two individual time trials.

Michael Woods (Israel-Premier Tech)

The 35-year-old Woods is the rider to keep your eye on when the grade starts to incline. A runner who transitioned to cycling relatively late, he will be on the prowl for stage wins in the climbs. He may lose a ton of time in the opening stages hoping to dominate in the mountains, but is a legitimate contender for the Tour de France.

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Stage 21 - Tadej Pogačar punctuates third GC title with dominant ITT win in Nice / As it happened

Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) sealed the third overall Tour victory in his career using a dominant display of power in the hilly stage 21 time trial. It was his sixth stage win of this year's Tour. In the yellow jersey and the last man down the start ramp in Monaco, he completed the 33.7km course in 45:25, 1:03 up on second-placed Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike). World time trial champion Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) was another 11 seconds back in third. 

Vingegaard, who won the last two Tours, finished 6:17 behind Pogačar for second place overall, while Evenepoel took third, 9:18 back. 

Stage 20 - Tadej Pogačar stamps his authority in yellow with victory atop Col de la Couillole ahead of Jonas Vingegaard / As it happened

Tadej Pogačar’s (UAE Team Emirates) outsprinted Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) at the top of the Col de la Couillole to win stage 20 of the Tour de France on Saturday. It was the race leader's fifth stage victory of the Tour.

The duo caught, and passed, the two-rider breakaway of Enric Mas (Movistar) and Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost) with 2.5km on the climb, Carapaz trying to hold their back wheels but fading to third on the stage. Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) would pass Mas and finish fourth, holding on to third overall in the standings.

Stage 19 -  Tour de France: Tadej Pogačar takes stunning solo win on stage 19 to secure yellow jersey / As it happened

Tadej Pogačar tightened his grip on the 2024 Tour de France with yet another stage victory in Isola 2000 after yet another dominant performance.  

UAE Team Emirates controlled the breakaway over the Cime de la Bonette and then Pogačar caught and dropped Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike) just two kilometres from the finish to win his 15th Tour stage and his tenth Grand Tour stage of the year. 

Pogačar took a bow as he crossed the finish line, with Jorgenson 20 seconds behind and dejected in defeat. Remco Evenepoel and Jonas Vingegaard finishing at 1:42, focusing on their battle for second and third rather than trying to match Pogačar. 

Stage 18 -  Tour de France: Victor Campenaerts surges from three-rider breakaway for stage 18 victory / As it happened

Victor Campenaerts (Lotto Dstny) won stage 18 from Gap to Barcelonnette in the low climbs and valleys of the Alps, after a breakaway was finally allowed to fight  for victory. The Belgian rider beat Tour debutant Mattéo Vercher (TotalEnergies) and Michal Kwiatkowski (Ineos Grenadiers) after 36 riders attacked early in the stage. 

The trio worked well together in the final 35 km and then sprinted for the stage victory. 

Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) and the other GC contenders preferred to save their energy for the final mountain stage of this year’s Tour de France that began on Friday, the peloton finishing 13:40 down on Campenaerts.

Stage 17 - Richard Carapaz climbs to stage 17 solo victory as Pogačar fortifies lead / As it happened

Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost) finally claimed a hard-fought stage victory after days of trying in the breakaways. But the news of the day was Tadej Pogačar launching an unexpected attack while his rivals were isolated from their teammates. While his move didn't work, Remco Evenepoel got away to gain 10 seconds.

Stage 16 - Jasper Philipsen nets third win on frantic stage 16 sprint in Nîmes / As it happened

Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) sprinted to his third stage win of the Tour de France, dominating the closing sprint of stage 16 in Nîmes as green jersey Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty) crashed in the final 2km.

The Belgian eased to his ninth career Tour stage win ahead of Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain Victorious) and Alexander Kristoff (Uno-X Mobility) to draw a close to one of the dullest days of this year’s race after a perfect lead-out from Mathieu van der Poel and all the Alpecin-Deceuninck train.

Stage 15 - Tadej Pogačar counters Jonas Vingegaard to win on Plateau de Beille / As it happened

Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) has shown, once again, that he is currently the strongest climber at the 2024 Tour de France. The yellow jersey soloed to victory on stage 15 on the Plateau de Beille. For the second day in a row, Pogačar beat Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) on a mountain finish and increased his lead in the overall classification to 3:09 over the Dane.

Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) finished the day in third place and held onto this third place overall, now at 5:19 back in the GC standings.

Stage 14 - Tadej Pogačar solos to stage 14 victory on Pla d’Adet, consolidates his lead / As it happened

On the first summit finish of the 2024 Tour de France, Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) strengthened his hold on the maillot jaune after a thrilling finish up to Pla d’Adet saw him ride away to a stunning solo victory on stage 14 to extend his lead over Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep).

Pogačar bridged to an earlier attack of teammate Adam Yates before the Brit emptied the tank before the race leader, who then more than honoured the yellow jersey by riding solo through the packed crowds to a second stage win of the 2024 race some 39 seconds ahead of Vingegaard in second and 1:10 to Evenepoel.

Stage 13 - Jasper Philipsen powers to stage 13 victory in Pau ahead of Van Aert / As it happened

It was a hectic day of racing with crosswinds and multiple breakaways and a crash in the final sprint, but Jasper Philipsen prevailed through it all to take his second stage win of the 2024 Tour de France over Wout van Aert. There were no changes in the general classification other than the abandon of Primož Roglič and Juan Ayuso leaving the race .

Stage 12 - Biniam Girmay the new sprint boss, takes third win on stage 12 / As it happened

Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty) won his third stage at the 2024 Tour de France and extended his lead in the green points jersey competition, producing another superb sprint finish in Villeneuve-sur-Lot.

The Eritrean appeared too far back in the final 500 metres but teammate Mike Teunissen dragged him up to Kirstoff’s wheel as the sprint exploded. He then jumped down the middle of the road to beat Wout Van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike).

Arnaud Démare (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) crossed the line in third place but was later relegated for closing Van Aert along the barriers. Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan) finished fifth but was also relegated after he swerved to avoid Démare’s leadout man Dan McLay, who dropped back down the centre of the road.

Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) finished safely in the peloton to retain the race lead but Primož Roglič (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) was involved in a crash with 12 km to go. He finished 2:27 down on the peloton.

Stage 11 - Jonas Vingegaard charges ahead of Tadej Pogačar to win gripping finale / As it happened

Some 98 days after his horror crash at Itzulia Basque country, Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) produced the most important moment of the 2024 Tour de France so far, mounting an incredible comeback ride to both pull back Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) and beat him in the two-up sprint in Le Lioran after being dropped 31.6km from the finish.

In what was a remarkable signal of a complete return to form for Vingegaard, who was a question mark for even starting the 111th edition of the Tour, the two-time defending champion clawed back a 30-second deficit to the race leader on the Col de Pertus, before working together and stunning him in the final sprint.

Pogačar waited until the final 150 metres to launch his explosive charge for home but surprisingly, the yellow jersey never came out of the wheel and the Dane held on with a great break throw, only daring to celebrate his fourth Tour stage win past the line.

Stage 10 - Jasper Philipsen launches well-timed sprint ahead of Girmay for stage victory / As it happened

After all the controversy and disappointment of the first week, Jasper Philipsen got back in the wins at the  Tour de France  on stage 10 following a textbook lead-out from World Champion Mathieu van der Poel and Alpecin-Deceuninck.

Finally, the win came for the best sprinter from last year’s Tour, with him hitting the wind in the final few hundred metres and the difference in power was so obvious, with a clear gap to second-placed Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty) at the line, who continued a great run of form ahead of Pascal Ackermann (Israel-Premier Tech) in third.

Stage 9 - Anthony Turgis wins chaotic and captivating stage 9 / As it happened

As expected, gravel-packed stage 9 delivered hectic racing with the fight for the stage win, and the battle between contenders heated up. Anthony Turgis (TotalEnergies) outsprinted his breakaway companions to take the win ahead of Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers) and Derek Gee (Israel-PremierTech).

Yellow jersey Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) launched numerous attacks and though he managed to briefly distance Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), the reduced peloton regrouped and the contenders finished together with no changes to the top 5 in the general classification.

Stage 8 - Tour de France: Biniam Girmay triumphs with second sprint victory on stage 8 / As it happened  

Biniam Girmay continued a fairytale Tour de France as he took his second stage victory - this time donned in the green jersey, a competition where he now enjoys an 88-point lead.

The Eritrean rider was well protected by his Intermarché-Wanty, who placed him perfectly as he launched an attack from the wheel of Byran Coquard to sprint against Jasper Philipsen in a one-on-one battle to the line in Colombey-les-Deux-Églises. Stage favourite Arnaud De Lie came in third.

Stage 7 - Remco Evenepoel powers to stage 7 time trial victory as Pogačar holds onto yellow / As it happened

Time trial world champion Remco Evenepoel announced his presence in his first Tour de France and won the race against the clock on stage 7. Clad in the Tour's best young rider jersey rather than the rainbow stripes, he was 12 seconds faster than race leader Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates). Primož Roglič (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) took a solid third, 34 seconds down on the Belgian, while Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) finished fourth in the 25.3km route from Nuits-Saint-Georges to Gevrey-Chambertin.

Stage 6 - Dylan Groenewegen wins photo finish at the line in Dijon / As it happened

Dylan Groenewegen (Jayco AlUla) threw his bike across the line in the dark shadows of stage 6 in Dijon and won the first photo finish of the Tour de France. He celebrated with a victory over Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck), who was later relegated from second place to 107th for blocking a Visma-Lease a Bike rider.

Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty) then moved from third to second place, and maintained the green jersey for a third day. Fernando Gaviria (Movistar) moved up to third place on the stage. There were no changes in the GC, with Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) arriving safely in the bunch.

Stage 5 - Mark Cavendish carves history with all-time record-breaking win on stage 5 / As it happened

There was a time when Mark Cavendish stage victories at the Tour de France seemed to come about almost as a matter of routine, like the setting of the sun or the rising of the tides. The road to his record-breaking 35th victory was altogether more complicated, but that only heightened the emotion as the Manxman won stage 5 in Saint Vulbas on Wednesday afternoon.

The sprint finale was a chaotic one, as is so often the case in the modern Tour, but Cavendish has been imposing his order on situations like this since he was barely out of his teens. He delivered a rasping sprint to beat Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Alexander Kristoff (Uno-X Mobility) to the line, breaking the record he had shared with Eddy Merckx since 2021.

Stage 4 - Tour de France stage 4: Tadej Pogačar snares yellow with victory over the Galibier / As it happened

Tadej Pogačar took control of the Tour de France after he attacked near the summit of the Col du Galibier to win stage 4 in Valloire and move back into the yellow jersey. UAE Team Emirates imposed a relentless pace on the Galibier, whittling the front group down before Pogačar attacked 900m from the top.

Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) stayed within ten seconds of Pogačar on the final ramps of the Galibier and on the early, technical part of the descent, but the Slovenian stretched out his advantage on the drop into Valloire. Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) and Primož Roglič (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) were part of a group that joined Vingegaard in the finale, but they came home some 35 seconds down on Pogačar, who is chasing a Giro-Tour double.

Stage 3 - Tour de France stage 3: Biniam Girmay wins bunch sprint in Turin as Richard Carapaz takes yellow / As it happened

The 2024 Tour de France had barely begun before Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty) made a page of cycling history with a bunch sprint victory in Turin, becoming the first ever Black African to win a stage of cycling’s biggest bike race. The Eritrean’s groundbreaking win came after a mass crash inside the final kilometres saw various sprinters blocked and unable to sprint, although as it was inside the ‘safety zone’, all riders were awarded the same time . Following the crash, the better stage placings for Richard Carapaz (EF Education-Easy Post) enabled the former Giro d’Italia winner to become Ecuador’s first ever Tour de France leader, tied on time with previous maillot jaune Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates)   Stage 2 - Tadej Pogačar moves into maillot jaune as Kévin Vauquelin solos to victory on stage 2 / As it happened

Kévin Vauquelin (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) delivered back-to-back glorious breakaway days at the Tour de France for the home nation, in the Italian Grand Départ no less, netting the stage 2 victory to Bologna after attacking away solo from his fellow escapees on the famous San Luca climb with 14km to go.

As the GC fight unfolded some three minutes down, it was déjà vu from the 2023 edition as Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) exploded into life on the second ascent, forcing Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) into a response. Only Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) and Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost) could catch back on after the descent for home into Bologna. Pogačar moved into the yellow jersey for the first time since the 2022 race after dropping Romain Bardet (DSM-Firmenich PostNL) on the San Luca climb.

Stage 1 - Romain Bardet steals the show on stage 1 as Van den Broek helps power DSM-Firmenich-PostNL to first maillot jaune / As it happened

In what is due to be his  final Tour de France , Romain Bardet (DSM-Firmenich PostNL) rolled back the years to take the most stunning win of his career on stage 1 of the 2024 race, surviving a charging peloton by the barest of margins to net him a first-ever stint in the yellow jersey.

Bardet crossed the line with teammate Frank van den Broek after the DSM duo put on a masterclass on the road from Florence to Rimini, completing a breathless finish with only a few metres to spare from Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) who took third.

How does the Tour de France work?

The 111th edition of the Tour de France starts in Florence, Italy, on Saturday, June 29 and ends three weeks later in Nice on Sunday, July 21. It is the first time the Tour starts in Italy. The Tour de France will not finish in Paris as it usually does. Instead, the finish is in Nice to avoid the preparations for the 2024 Olympics Games, which begin just a week later in Paris.

Riders have to cover the entire 2024 Tour de France route , passing through four nations – Italy, San Marino, France, and Monaco.

The rider who completes the distance in the fastest time wins the race, also known as the 'overall classification'. Each day, the rider who has completed the entire distance raced the quickest is the leader of the Tour de France, and wears a yellow jersey to signify him as such.

Read more about the jerseys of the Tour de France .

There is a second time classification for the best rider under the age of 26, the best young riders' classification, and he wears a white jersey if leading.

Riders also gain points for their position at the end of each day of racing, known as "stages". There is a secondary prize for the rider who gains the most points - the "points classification", and the leader each day wears a green jersey.

There are also points atop a select number of mountains for the first riders to cross the top, with more points available the harder the mountain is to climb. The leader of the mountains classification wears a white jersey with red polka dots.

Most days, the peloton race the distance of the Tour de France stage as a bunch. This year's Tour de France features two individual time trials, where riders race a set distance alone against the clock.

There are other prizes, too. Read about the Souvenir Henri Desgranges and Souvenir Jacques-Goddet .

Who is riding the Tour de France 2024 ? Check out our 2024 Tour de France start list .

Find out how to watch the Tour de France .

Tour de France favourites and contenders : Defending champion  Jonas Vingegaard  (Jumbo-Visma) won his second GC title last year and, if he can recover from his crash injuries in time, will be back to defend his title against top rival Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates), who finished second overall. Vingegaard is likely to face a huge challenge from not just Pogačar, but also Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) and former teammate turned rival Primož Roglič (Bora-Hansgrohe).

Get unlimited access to all of our coverage of the Tour de France - including breaking news and analysis reported by our journalists on the ground from every stage of the race as it happens and more.  Find out more .  

The 2024 Tour de France includes 52,230 metres of vertical gain across 3497.3km of climbs, sprints and time trialling from Italy into France, with fewer high climbs than in the past and shorter stages. 

It is a balanced three weeks of racing that includes eight flat stages, four mountain-top finishes and two individual time trials, the final test against the clock is a hilly time trial to Nice that could create suspense. The race has 25km of racing above 2,000 metres and 27 mountains classified as second, first, or HC.

Florence, Italy, will host the team presentation, and stage 1 will roll out from Piazzale Michelangelo to open the Grand Tour for the first time.

Check out all the details of the 2024 Tour de France route .

Tour de France 2024 Contenders

For the definitive list of Tour de France favourites read: Tour de France 2024 - The GC favourites form guide

Defending Tour de France champion  Jonas Vingegaard will again have a strong Jumbo-Visma team to support his quest for a third title, but this time, former team leader Primož Roglič has turned to rival as he looks to give Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe top billing. Vingegaard will also face huge challenges from Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) and Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep). 

In the flat stages, look for last year's green jersey victor Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) to contest for another title against Fabio Jakobsen , now with Team dsm-firmenich, and Caleb Ewan , now with Jayco-AlUIa. And fastman Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan) is back for an 18th pro season to mix it up in the sprints, on the hunt for a record-breaking 35th Tour de France stage victory.

And there will be opportunities across the three weeks for breakaway riders to shine, including the likes of Julian Alaphilippe (Soudal-QuickStep), Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) and Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck).

Tour de France teams

See Cyclingnews ' complete 2024 Tour de France team guide .

• Alpecin-Deceuninck
• Arkéa-B&B Hotels
• Astana Qazaqstan Team
• Bahrain Victorious
• Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe
• Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale
• EF Education-EasyPost
• Groupama-FDJ
• Ineos Grenadiers
• Intermarché-Wanty
• Israel-Premier Tech
• Lotto Dstny
• Movistar Team
• Soudal-QuickStep
• Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
• Team Jayco-AlUla
• Visma-Lease a Bike
• TotalEnergies
• UAE Team Emirates
• Uno-X Mobility

• Tour de France 2024 route
• Tour de France winners

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The 22 teams

The peloton of the 110th edition of the Tour de France will include 22 teams at the start in the Basque country on 1st July 2023 . 18 UCI WorldTeams and 4 UCI ProTeams , with one unprecedented participation.

Details of the selection:

18 teams UCI WorldTeams: 

• AG2R Citroën Team (Fra)
• Alpecin Deceuninck (Bel)
• Astana Qazaqstan Team (Kaz)
• Bora-Hansgrohe (Ger)
• EF Education-Easypost (Usa)
• Groupama-FDJ (Fra)
• Ineos Grenadiers (Gbr)
• Intermarché-Circus-Wanty (Bel)
• Jumbo-Visma (Ned)
• Movistar Team (Esp)
• Soudal Quick-Step (Bel)
• Team Arkea-Samsic (Fra)
• Team Bahrain Victorious (Brn)
• Team Cofidis (Fra)
• Team DSM (Ned)
• Team Jayco AlUla (Aus)
• Trek-Segafredo (Usa)
• UAE Team Emirates (Uae)

4 teams UCI Proteams:

The two teams qualified by right:

• Lotto dstny (Bel)
• TotalEnergies (Fra)

  The two teams invited by the organiser:

• Israel-Premier Tech (Isr)
• Uno-X Pro Cycling Team (Nor)

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