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Chris Froome’s Israel-Premier Tech given 2023 Tour de France wild card along with debutants Uno-X

Published 04/01/2023 at 21:04 GMT

Four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome could make his 11th appearance at the race this year after his Israel-Premier Tech team were given a wild card, along with Scandinavian outfit Uno-X. Having been relegated from the WorldTour at the end of last season, Israel-Premier Tech will not be given automatic places for any of the Grand Tours. However, they will be at the Tour.

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Team israel scoops tour de france stage win in 'one of the best days ever'.

Canadian rider Michael Woods became one of the oldest riders to ever win a stage of cycling's biggest race

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Israel - Premier Tech's Canadian rider Michael Woods (R) celebrates winning the 9th stage of the 110th edition of the Tour de France cycling race, 182,5 km between Saint-Leonard-de-Noblat and Puy de Dome, in the Massif Central volcanic mountains in central France, on July 9, 2023. (Photo by MICHAEL STEELE / POOL / AFP) (Photo by MICHAEL STEELE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Canadian cyclist Michael Woods has won Israel-Premier Tech’s first Tour de France stage of the 2023 race, becoming one of the oldest men to ever take a stage victory.

Woods, who only turned to cycling nine years ago at the late age of 27, won the ninth stage of the famous race atop the mythical Puy de Dôme, an 11,000-year-old dormant volcano in the Massif Central region of France becoming the first athlete ever to have both run a four-minute mile and won a stage of the Tour de France.

Israel-Premier Tech’s team owner, the Israeli-Canadian billionaire Sylvan Adams, said that while there would be celebrations at the team hotel that evening, the team would be looking to not just equal last year’s record of two Tour stage wins but eclipse their previous best race result.

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Canadian Michael Woods of Israel-Premier Tech celebrates on the podium after winning stage 9 of the Tour de France cycling race, a 182,4 km race from Saint-Leonard-de-Noblat to Puy de Dome, France, Sunday 09 July 2023. This year's Tour de France takes place from 01 to 23 July 2023. BELGA PHOTO DIRK WAEM (Photo by DIRK WAEM / BELGA MAG / Belga via AFP)

“I’m so happy for Mike,” Adams said. “It’s a great feeling to finish the first week of the Tour with a victory. There will be quite a nice celebration at the hotel tonight, and the rest day tomorrow will certainly be festive. And, we have two more weeks to hunt for more success. We won two stages last year. How nice would it be to exceed that lofty result?

L'chaim: Sylvan Adams (centre) with the Israel team

"Due to my long personal relationship with Mike and the other Canadians on our team, I couldn’t be more proud. One of the best days ever for the team. Y’alla!”

Woods was part of a large group that escaped up the road to fight for the stage win, who then had to successfully claw back and catch the lone leader American Matteo Jorgenson.

In Woods’ support car behind as he climbed the volcano, the team’s sports director Rik Verbrugghe bluffed and told the Canadian he was only one minute behind Jorgenson, not the actual two minutes, to avoid the 36-year-old losing hope.

Israel - Premier Tech arrived at the Tour this year with the goal of winning at least one stage, no easy feat for a relatively new team.

“I’m still having a pinch-myself moment,” Woods said after the finish, a less busy affair than usual as the narrow road leading up to the summit restricted the number of cars and fans allowed up. “I can’t believe I made it. I’m really proud of myself and proud of my team. It’s special.”

“I’m 36 years old, 37 this year, not getting any younger,” Woods continued of finally achieving his dream of a Tour stage win.

“I’ve always talked about winning a stage at the Tour de France and I finally achieved it. So fortunate to have so many good people behind me – my family, my team, Sylvan Adams, my parents, my wife, my kids, they’ve all supported me, I’ve had some tough times the past few years. I’m back on top and really proud.”

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Tour de France tech choices with Chris Froome’s team, Israel-PremierTech: tubeless tyres, big chainrings, foam inserts, handlebar width and more

BikeRadar chats to Dr. Ciarán O’Grady, performance coach and aero specialist for Israel-PremierTech

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The Tour de France tests both riders and equipment to their limits, with countless hours and millions spent behind the scenes ensuring cycling's top teams are running the fastest setups in the sport's greatest race.

Equipment choices are more significant than ever, with teams – and their sponsors – fighting it out to gain an advantage before a pedal is turned.

The backroom staff of the world's top teams now includes personnel tasked with ensuring each rider's setup is as fast as possible, from 'performance engineer' Dan Bigham at Ineos-Grenadiers, to Dr. Ciarán O’Grady at Chris Froome's team, Israel-PremierTech.

As the team's performance coach and aerodynamics specialist, O’Grady is tasked with helping Israel-PremierTech's riders make smart equipment choices, while also working with sponsors to develop the latest products.

We grabbed 10 minutes with O’Grady ahead of stage one of the Tour de France in Copenhagen, while Israel-PremierTech's mechanics were putting the finishing touches to the team's Factor Hanzo time trial bikes for the opening stage.

O’Grady provides a fascinating insight into the team’s tech choices for the 2022 Tour, including tubeless tyres, big chainrings, foam inserts, handlebar width and more.

You can listen to the podcast below – or read on for the full Q&A.

BikeRadar: Great to meet you, Ciarán. Can you tell me a bit about your role with the team?

Ciarán O’Grady: I’m performance coach for Israel-PremierTech. One of my key roles is to be in charge of all the TT equipment and performance. That’s why I’m here in Denmark, looking after our new Factor Hanzo [time trial] bikes, making sure they’re all set up for [stage one].

BikeRadar: We’ve got 10 minutes before you need to dash off to the pre-race team meeting. Let’s start with the bikes. You’ve got the Hanzo as you mentioned, but you’ve also got the Factor Ostro VAM for the road. Will all riders be on the Ostro VAM for road stages?

Ciarán O’Grady: Yes, that’s our real weapon of choice for road stages. Factor does have a few other bikes – the One and the O2 – but the Ostro is a jack-of-all-trades. It’s aero enough to be competitive enough on the flat stages and we’ve got bikes down to – or below – the UCI weight limit. Some riders are riding deeper wheels than you might otherwise choose, or would be logical on a climbing stage, just to get them up to the weight, which is a nice problem to have.

BikeRadar: We’ll come onto the Ostro in a second, but we’ll start with the Hanzo. This podcast will go out after the time trial has happened, so our listeners will know the result by that stage, but can you tell us a bit more about the Hanzo, because it’s only just become publicly available.

Ciarán O’Grady: Yeah, it was a big development project when I joined the team a year-and-a-half ago. I worked closely with Factor and the key time trial riders on the team to really make the fastest bike we could within the new revamped UCI regulations. That’s a big reason why there are really narrow tubes and very unconventional shapes on the bikes.

We were developing it all the way through last year and trialled it in the [2021] Giro, then it started to move towards being a production model before being launched this year. We’ve got most of the guys on the Hanzo and it’s a machine.

BikeRadar: Can you tell me a bit more about the work you do behind the scenes with riders to get them ready for a Tour de France time trial?

Ciarán O’Grady: I’ll be going through the time trial with each rider, doing course recon and prep – letting them know pacing and keeping them up-to-date on weather conditions, equipment selection, tyre pressures, gearing. We’ve got two riders on 1x chainrings, so that has an aerodynamic benefit and a bit of a drivetrain efficiency benefit. All of our riders are using treated chains [for the stage one time trial], which is another boost for the Tour de France.

BikeRadar: How much do you try to influence equipment decisions from a performance perspective versus the preferences of individual riders?

Ciarán O’Grady: I try to make as much of it as evidence-based as I can. The feeling of the riders and the choice of the riders, essentially it comes down to that in a lot of cases. You can show them what you think is best, but if they don’t have a good feeling then they’re not going to continue using it. We have plenty of options here at Israel, so there are certainly plenty of individual changes we can make in that regard.

BikeRadar: A big talking point at this year’s Tour de France – and through this year generally – is the move towards tubeless tyres in the pro peloton. It looks like most of your riders are on tubeless throughout?

Ciarán O’Grady: Yeah, we’ve had a lot of riders choosing tubeless, but there are still some stalwarts using tubulars, even on the flat stages. We use tubulars for our climbing wheels, just because they are lighter, but on most of the flat stages, the guys will be on tubeless for the aerodynamic and rolling resistance benefits.

BikeRadar: What kind of tyre widths are you looking at across the time trials and road stages?

Ciarán O’Grady: Time trials are 25mm clinchers with latex tubes. For tubeless, we have 25mm and 28mm versions, and tubulars we have 26mm.

BikeRadar: Another big talking point for the Tour de France this year is the cobbled stage [stage five]. Can you give us some insight as to what we might see from the team on that stage?

Ciarán O’Grady: With our team selection, it’s a stage for survival, so we’ve gone with tubulars for the majority, just because we know that’s tried and tested. We do have a very good tubeless option, but the tubulars will be mounted on the race bikes for that day.

B ikeRadar: Talking earlier today, you mentioned a lot of riders will be using foam tyre inserts throughout the race. What’s the thinking behind that?

Ciarán O’Grady: You’re looking at the priority of the rider. If it’s a rider who’s a domestique, in a supporting role, you want to make sure they’re able to continue riding and get to a point when they can be serviced at an optimal point of the race, not necessarily leaving a team leader floundering without any support. [With inserts] they can still potentially ride for a little bit, then the team car can come up. Whereas if it’s a team leader, that process is going to be a lot quicker, because of their priority [so they don’t run inserts]. Usually it’s just down to that, having a bit of insurance.

BikeRadar: I can imagine wheel choice – and the development of wheels from your sponsor Black Inc – is quite a big part of your role, being focused on aerodynamics. Can you talk through some of the wheel selections you will be using throughout the Tour?

Ciarán O’Grady: We’ve got three or four main options. We’ve got the Black Inc 60, our deeper-section wheel in both tubeless and tubular. We also have the Black Inc 45 and Black Inc 30. We have a tubeless version of it [the Black Inc 30] but we’ll be pretty much only using tubulars on that as it’s our climbing wheel.

We’ve got plenty of different options for different stages and different rider roles. So on some of the mountain stages we have riders on deep-section wheels because their role will be over by the time the climbs start.

BikeRadar: Just to go back to tyres, earlier today you mentioned there’s a prototype Maxxis tubeless tyre that you’re using at the Tour. What’s the story behind that one?

Ciarán O’Grady: That’s our 28mm tubeless tyre. It was developed this year. We’ve been testing it at the cobbled Classics as well, so it is a cobble-ready tyre, and it’s going to be one of our fastest-rolling tyres. It sits really nicely with the aerodynamic properties of the Black Inc 60s, and Black Inc wheel selection as a whole, so we’re going to be slowly moving toward this.

BikeRadar: On drivetrain choices, we’ve certainly noticed this year that gearing is getting bigger at both ends. It looks like no-one is running less than a 54-tooth chainring on your team. What are the benefits there?

Ciarán O’Grady: The speeds are getting higher, so going from a 53t to a 54t chainring is a fairly easy one to make. Over the years to come, you’re going to see bigger and bigger chainrings, moving up to 55t or 56t, and you already see that on some key sprint stages or windy stages.

For example, at the Tour of Norway, we had bigger chainrings than the other guys and they were wondering why they weren’t able to follow us on descents. So it’s definitely a tactical choice that can pay off if you get it right.

BikeRadar: Who has the biggest chainrings on the team?

Ciarán O’Grady: For the stage one TT, it’s Jakob Fuglsang and Hugo Houle. On the road, usually most of our guys ride a 54t chainring but they might change it up if there’s a massive tailwind or they are a sprinter. Usually, a sprinter would use a 55t or 56t chainring.

BikeRadar: Have there been any component availability issues for you this year?

Ciarán O’Grady: Availability issues are everywhere this year. We had some bikes that were built up with 12-speed but we made a decision as a team to stay on 11-speed for the whole year, just to make sure all the spares – and spare bikes – are interchangeable.

You don’t want to have one set of race bikes that can't be used, because you don’t have any spare wheels, so we’ve stuck with 11-speed and hopefully soon 12-speed will grace our machines.

BikeRadar: The new CeramicSpeed OSPW Aero jockey wheel design is on your bikes. It’s only worth a couple of watts but it does look cool…

Ciarán O’Grady: Yeah, and the Danish flag gave me a surprise when I saw it on Mike Woods’ bike – I thought he had changed nationality – but then he explained it was for the Copenhagen start. It’s a nice piece of development and it was good to have that partnership with CeramicSpeed so we can have it on our machines.

BikeRadar: Are there any quirky details or unusual setups that any of your riders prefer?

Ciarán O’Grady: One of the things I love is the difference between handlebar tape with our riders. Some of the riders run it pretty close to the stem and there are others who cut it, partly for weight saving, but there’s also an aerodynamic benefit for having it closer to the grips. We’ve got some riders who enjoy it, and some who don’t, but our bikes are pretty lovely and there’s not much tinkering our guys need to do to them.

BikeRadar: Handlebar width is certainly coming down. We’ve measured a few bars from different teams [at the Grand Départ] – 40cm seems to be the maximum, but most riders are in the 30s. Is that the same on your team?

Ciarán O’Grady: Exactly. We’ve got a new handlebar from Black Inc, which has a dropped flare, so we’re running them narrower at the hoods to get the same width on the drops as the previous handlebar, and the riders have been loving that. They’re able to get aero on the tops and still have the leverage on the drops for sprinting and downhills.

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Canadians Mike Woods, Riley Pickrell to race in Giro d'Italia for Israel-Premier Tech

Canadian rider Michael Woods is headed to his third Giro d'Italia and 11th Grand Tour race.

The 37-year-old from Ottawa, who won a stage at last year's Tour de France, will be joined by fellow Canadian Riley Pickrell on the Israel-Premier Tech team for the Giro. Pickrell, a 22-year-old from Victoria, will be appearing in his first Grand Tour event.

But Canadian Derek Gee, who posted four second-place and two fourth-place finishes at last year's Giro, "will focus on other objectives this year," according to Israel-Premier Tech.

The 107th edition of the Giro starts Saturday in Turin and ends May 26 in Rome some 3,400 kilometres later. The Tour de France and Spanish Vuelta, the other two Grand Tour events, begin June 29 and Aug. 17, respectively.

Gee finished 22nd in the final general classification standings of last year's Giro and was runner-up to Italy’s Jonathan Milan in the points race and France’s Thibaut Pinot in the King of the Mountains standings. The 26-year-old from Ottawa was also honoured as the Giro’s “super combative rider.”

Led by Gee, Israel-Premier Tech posted nine top-five finishes in last year's Giro.

Sports director Rene Andrle called the 2023 Giro a "turning point" for the team.

“We may not have won a stage but the way the team rode was nothing short of inspiring and coming so close to a victory on so many occasions has made us even hungrier this year," Andrle said in a statement. "We have a strong team of opportunists and we will be targeting stage wins once again.” 

Woods and Pickrell will be joined at this year's race by Australia's Simon Clarke and Nick Schultz, Italy's Marco Frigo, France's Hugo Hostetter, Israel's Nadav Raisberg and Britain's Ethan Vernon on the Israel-Premier Tech team.

Andrle believes Woods, Clarke and Schultz can all contend for a stage win. 

Raisberg, and Vernon join Pickrell in their first Grand Tour event. Hofstetter will be racing in his first Giro.

“Ethan, Hugo and Riley give us multiple cards to play in the sprint stages and I really think we have a team that can win on all terrain," said Andrle. 

Woods returns to the Giro after a six-year absence, looking to complete a trifecta of Grand Tour stage victories.

In addition to his success in last year's Tour de France, he won a stage in both the 2018 and 2020 editions of the Spanish Vuelta. Woods' best result at the Giro was runner-up in the fourth stage in 2018.

“I’ve had a tough start to the season with some illness but I feel like that is finally behind me and now it’s time for one of the coolest races on the calendar," said Woods. “My big ambition for the race will be stage-hunting. Particularly with the illness that I’ve had in the last few months, I will aim to have a conservative start and then look for stages later on as the race progresses.

"So hopefully I can find some form in the early stages and then be aggressive and bag a stage win by the end of the race.”

Woods, who has recovered from a virus that ruled him out of the Ardennes Classics earlier in April, has largely focused on the Tour de France and Spanish Vuelta since his last ride in the Giro in 2018.

Israel-Premier Tech is co-owned by Canadian-Israeli entrepreneur Sylvan Adams with fellow Canadian Kevin Ham also a partner in the team.

Head sports director Steve Bauer raced in nine editions of the Tour de France, finishing fourth overall in 1988 after winning a stage and spent five days in the leader’s yellow jersey. Bauer, just the second Canadian ever to lead the Tour after Alex Stieda in 1986, also wore the yellow jersey for nine straight days In 1990.

Israel-Premier Tech performance director Paulo Saldanha, coach Christopher Rozdilsky and team nutritionist Vanessa Zoras are also Canadians. And co-title sponsor Premier Tech is a Canadian company.

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Israel-Premier Tech unveils limited edition Tour de France kit

Team launches ‘Field of dreams’ campaign to help kids in Rwanda

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Israel-Premier Tech have unveiled a special edition Tour de France kit alongside a new fundraising campaign to support the youth of Rwanda. 

The kit is designed to promote the charitable campaign. The squad said the design, by Stijn Dossche, was intended to celebrate “the colours of the rich soil and lush greenery that brightens the landscape of the ‘land of a thousand hills’, and features the Rwandan art form, Imigongo, as the hero of the jersey design”.

As part of the campaign the team are calling on cycling fans  to donate to help build a cycling centre, the “Field of Dreams”, in Rwanda. 

Plans for the centre include a pump track, race track and future cycling academy across 16 acres of land in Bugesera, Rwanda. The aim of the completed complex will be to develop and encourage young cycling talent between the ages of six and 18 by providing opportunities to access the sport. 

Four-time Tour de France champion and Israel-Premier Tech rider Chris Froome showed said: “For me, growing up in Kenya, the bike was always about freedom. It was my way of getting around, my transport. The bike was my opportunity to experience the world around me.”  

He added: “We didn’t have pump tracks, velodromes, or anything like that. Growing up and experiencing cycling in that way, with no real infrastructure or support for youngsters growing up, has really made me want to get behind a project like this." 

As well as building the centre, Israel-Premier Tech also plans on establishing a cycling academy to train bike mechanics, coaches and guides- empowering the next generation to excel and develop new skills. 

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The team said that  the centre marks the second step in the "Racing for change" project that Israel-Premier Tech launched last year. This involved “adopting” the only women’s cycling team in Rwanda and starting up a social riding program for young people in the area. 

Israel-Premier Tech owner Sylvan Adams said: “What better way to unveil this ambitious campaign than at the most important event on our cycling calendar, the Tour de France where we can unite all cycling fans to get behind the wonderful Rwandan youth who deserve it so much.” 

The local mayor in Bugesera, Richard Mutabazi, is said he expects the scheme “will drive economic and social progress”. The district consists of 566 villages home to half a million residents. Many of the villages are connected by roads that would benefit from an increase in the local cycling infrastructure. 

“This unprecedented initiative promises to have a huge effect on the new generation of Bugesera and possibly all of Rwanda, well beyond cycling,” said Mutabazi. 

A CALL TO ACTION TO THE GLOBAL CYCLING COMMUNITY 

Riders and staff on the Israel-Premier Tech have already made donations.

The team said they would match every donation to the ‘Field of Dreams’ project, by the public. 

There are also prizes up for grabs for those donating  including a limited-edition Tour de France jersey and a custom painted Factor bike. 

The cost of the first phase of building the "Field of Dreams" centre will be €300,000. Donations beyond this amount will help provide more bikes for the local community, enable maintenance and the development of a future cycling academy. 

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He has reported from some of professional cycling's biggest races and events including the Tour de France and the recent Glasgow World Championships. He has also covered races elsewhere across the world and interviewed some of the sport's top riders. 

When not writing news scoops from the WorldTour, or covering stories from elsewhere in the domestic professional scene, he reports on goings on at bike shops up and down the UK, where he is based when not out on the road at races. He has also appeared on the Radio Cycling podcast. 

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Tour de France bikes: Israel Premier Tech’s ‘Racing for Change’ Factor OSTRO VAM

The bike is part of a campaign to raise funds for a bike center in Rwanda.

Israel–Premier Tech will be racing the Tour de France this year on a special edition Factor OSTRO VAM bike, painted to support the team’s Racing for Change initiative.

The bike coincides with the team’s Field of Dreams campaign launched this week to raise funds to build a bike center in Bugesera, Rwanda. The team previously announced new kits for the Tour to support the intitiative . The new paint scheme on the bikes includes the same Imigongo pattern, a traditional Rwandan art form, as featured on the kit.

Other than the new paint, the OSTRO VAM, an all-around race bike, is built to usual Israel–Premier Tech team spec with Shimano Dura-Ace, Black Inc wheels and cockpit, and CeramicSpeed pulley wheels . Take a look at a full gallery below.

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Other than the new paint, the OSTRO VAM, an all-around race bike, is built to usual Israel–Premier Tech team spec with Shimano Dura-Ace, Black Inc wheels and cockpit, and CeramicSpeed pulley wheels .

The new paint scheme on the bikes includes the same Imigongo pattern, a traditional Rwandan art form, complementing the team’s “Field of Dreams” kit for the Tour

Rotor provides the team with complete with its Aldhlu cranks and INspider power meter.

The OSTRO VAM is an all-around race bike designed to be both aerodynamic and light.

Black Inc provides the team with wheels and cockpit.

The bike paint is to support Israel–Premier Tech’s Racing for Change initiative, specifically the Field of Dreams campaign launched this week.

The OSTRO VAM has aero features like a fork that integrates into the headtube and downtube.

The team uses the Karoo 2 from Hammerhead, a company which team rider Chris Froome has invested in.

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The entire Tour de France roster for Israel–Premier Tech is on the new bikes.

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Canadians Mike Woods, Riley Pickrell to race in Giro d’Italia for Israel-Premier Tech

Canadian rider Michael Woods is headed to his third Giro d’Italia and 11th Grand Tour race.

The 37-year-old from Ottawa, who won a stage at last year’s Tour de France, will be joined by fellow Canadian Riley Pickrell on the Israel-Premier Tech team for the Giro. Pickrell, a 22-year-old from Victoria, will be appearing in his first Grand Tour event.

But Canadian Derek Gee, who posted four second-place and two fourth-place finishes at last year’s Giro, “will focus on other objectives this year,” according to Israel-Premier Tech.

The 107th edition of the Giro starts Saturday in Turin and ends May 26 in Rome some 3,400 kilometres later. The Tour de France and Spanish Vuelta, the other two Grand Tour events, begin June 29 and Aug. 17, respectively.

Gee finished 22nd in the final general classification standings of last year’s Giro and was runner-up to Italy’s Jonathan Milan in the points race and France’s Thibaut Pinot in the King of the Mountains standings. The 26-year-old from Ottawa was also honoured as the Giro’s “super combative rider.”

Led by Gee, Israel-Premier Tech posted nine top-five finishes in last year’s Giro.

Sports director Rene Andrle called the 2023 Giro a “turning point” for the team.

“We may not have won a stage but the way the team rode was nothing short of inspiring and coming so close to a victory on so many occasions has made us even hungrier this year,” Andrle said in a statement. “We have a strong team of opportunists and we will be targeting stage wins once again.” 

Woods and Pickrell will be joined at this year’s race by Australia’s Simon Clarke and Nick Schultz, Italy’s Marco Frigo, France’s Hugo Hostetter, Israel’s Nadav Raisberg and Britain’s Ethan Vernon on the Israel-Premier Tech team.

Andrle believes Woods, Clarke and Schultz can all contend for a stage win. 

Raisberg, and Vernon join Pickrell in their first Grand Tour event. Hofstetter will be racing in his first Giro.

“Ethan, Hugo and Riley give us multiple cards to play in the sprint stages and I really think we have a team that can win on all terrain,” said Andrle. 

Woods returns to the Giro after a six-year absence, looking to complete a trifecta of Grand Tour stage victories.

In addition to his success in last year’s Tour de France, he won a stage in both the 2018 and 2020 editions of the Spanish Vuelta. Woods’ best result at the Giro was runner-up in the fourth stage in 2018.

“I’ve had a tough start to the season with some illness but I feel like that is finally behind me and now it’s time for one of the coolest races on the calendar,” said Woods. “My big ambition for the race will be stage-hunting. Particularly with the illness that I’ve had in the last few months, I will aim to have a conservative start and then look for stages later on as the race progresses.

“So hopefully I can find some form in the early stages and then be aggressive and bag a stage win by the end of the race.”

Woods, who has recovered from a virus that ruled him out of the Ardennes Classics earlier in April, has largely focused on the Tour de France and Spanish Vuelta since his last ride in the Giro in 2018.

Israel-Premier Tech is co-owned by Canadian-Israeli entrepreneur Sylvan Adams with fellow Canadian Kevin Ham also a partner in the team.

Head sports director Steve Bauer raced in nine editions of the Tour de France, finishing fourth overall in 1988 after winning a stage and spent five days in the leader’s yellow jersey. Bauer, just the second Canadian ever to lead the Tour after Alex Stieda in 1986, also wore the yellow jersey for nine straight days In 1990.

Israel-Premier Tech performance director Paulo Saldanha, coach Christopher Rozdilsky and team nutritionist Vanessa Zoras are also Canadians. And co-title sponsor Premier Tech is a Canadian company.

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This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 30, 2024

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Tour de France: Preview of all the stages

Here, you’ll find previews of all the stages for the Tour de France 2021.

STAGE 1: Brest – Landerneau, 197.8 km

This year’s Tour starts not with a time trial, not with a sprint stage, but with a hilly stage! Hard to believe! And an equally unimaginable six ranked climbs along the way, all cat. 3 and 4. Lots of changes of directions, a good chance of wind and a short but nasty closing climb will make this one for a good puncheur. And we have a good selection of guys ready to take that punch!

STAGE 2: Perros-Guirec – Mur-de-Bretagne Guerledan, 183.5 km

The same fun and games will continue today, with six more cat 3 and 4 ranked climbs. An easy start – (ha ha) — with a sting in the tail: a loop course with two climbs up the Mur-de-Bretagne Guerledan, with the second time atop being the finish line. ASO is really getting things off to a challenging start this year!

STAGE 3: Lorient – Pontivy, 182.9 km

At last one for the sprinters, who have undoubtedly been saving themselves for this first chance at glory. There are a number of bumps along the way, including two cat. 4 climbs, but a nice flat run-in to the finish. There will be a break group for sure, but you know darned well those men with the fast legs aren’t going to let this one get away from them.

STAGE 4: Redon – Fougeres, 150.4 km.

If one flat stage was good, two are better! The puncheurs can put themselves in the service of their sprinters once again. No ranked climbs today at all, and even the bumps look relatively innocent. Again we will probably see a break group but again, we think they will have no chance.

STAGE 5: Change – Laval Espace Mayenne, ITT, 27.2

Time to get rolling along on the longest ITT in the Tour in 13 years (although we see that the stage 20 ITT is actually longer…) Offhand, though, it looks to be more flat than rolling, so how about we put it somewhere in between? It is long enough that we are going to see the GC candidates make their first statements. And of course the ITT specialists want to take advantage of the chance.

STAGE 6: Tours – Chateauroux, 160.6 km

Today we can get all dreamy about the past as we pass by numerous Renaissance Chateaux (which are most likely not nearly as romantic as we imagine). Still, it will be a good way for viewers to pass the time on this flat stage, which will undoubtedly again feature the “breakaway, caught just in time, mass sprint” pattern. With one of our sprinters first across the line, of course!

STAGE 7: Vierzon – Le Creusot, 249.5 km

A whopping long stage, with lots to make it “special”: the longest stage in 21 years, 3000 meters of elevation, and a “spicy finish up the demanding Signal d’Uchon”, making its Tour debut. What more could one ask? Well, maybe the sprinters would prefer something else….

STAGE 8: Oyonnax – Le Grand-Bornand, 150.8 km

The good news is that this stage is about 100 km shorter than the previous day’s stage, and again there is no mountaintop finish. The bad news is that in the last 50 km there are three cat. 1 climbs, giving us just over 20 km of climbing combined, with a gradient of up to 9.4%. Make sure you get those climbing legs screwed on tight today, guys!

STAGE 9: Cluses – Tignes, 144.9 km

Who can forget the stage to Tignes in the 2019 Tour, which was so rudely interrupted by hail, floods and landslides? We certainly assume that the ASO has taken steps to prevent a similar happening this year, and if not, we will be extremely disappointed. And oh yes, there are five climbs between here and there, including two cat. 1s and our first HC!

REST DAY 1, TIGNES

A day to lay around doing nothing except whine about how things have gone so far. No wait, that’s not the riders, that is the fans of those who have not yet won. Our guys will be out on the roads for a short spin before devoting themselves to massage, press work and possibly a nice nap.

STAGE 10: Albertville – Valence, 190.7 km

If there is one word which we do not associate with Albertville, it would be “flat”. And yet, this is indeed a flat stage, as the Tour turns its back on the mountains for a day. Sure, there are a few bumps along the way, including a cat. 4 bump, but on the whole we can expect a nice long breakaway and a bunch sprint at the end.

STAGE 11: Sorgues – Malaucene, 198.9 km

That was a nice little flat stage yesterday, right? Time to get back to business today! Three climbs and then we hit the day’s highlight: Mt. Ventoux! TWICE! And we descend both times! Excitement guaranteed! Except for possibly the grupetto, they may wish to express other feelings.

STAGE 12: Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux – Nimes, 159.4 km

In an effort to make up for that monster stage yesterday, the race now gives us two flat stages in a row. There are, as always, a few bumps along the way, but it is definitely one for the sprinters. Oh, and a warning: we can expect wind and echelons!

STAGE 13: Nimes – Carcassonne, 219.9 km.

Flat again. Interestingly enough, although this medieval city has often been used as a finish town, there has never been a bunch sprint. Breakaways rule! How about it, guys? Are you going to let a group get away to fight it out, or dare to make history by marking it for the sprinters? If we had a sprint the day before, we will bet on a break group making it to the end.

STAGE 14: Carcassonne – Quillan, 183.7 km

Welcome to the Pyrenees! There are five ranked climbs, all cat. 2 and 3, so this is officially a “hilly” stage instead of a “mountain” stage. However, with descriptions such as “roller-coaster ride” and “citadel of vertigo”, we wonder! We do have to giggle, however, that they will ride on the Viaduc l’Escargo, presumably at a snail’s pace….

STAGE 15: Ceret – Andorre-La-Vielle, 191.3 km

A nice stroll through the mountains with a finish in lovely Andorra. Four ranked climbs, three of them cat. 1, with the last two in Andorra. Fun climbing and equally fun descending. The legs will for sure get a good workout today!

The second rest day, which will be gratefully appreciated. Nothing to do but loll around and admire the natural beauty of this mountain principality. Well, a bit of training and stuff like that may be on the schedule, too.

STAGE 16: Pas de la Case – Saint-Gaudens, 169 km

Today we say farewell to Andorra and hello to France again. This is again described as a “hilly” stage, despite a cat. 1 climb amongst the four ranked climbs of the day. We predict this will be “that stage” where the GC leaders decide to give themselves and their teams a bit more rest, and let a group get away and into the finish with a sizable gap.

STAGE 17: Muret – Saint-Lary-Soulan Col du Portet, 178.4 km

Enough fun, it’s time to get serious. The Pyrenees are showing themselves from their brutal side today. It starts out innocently enough, with a comfortable ride for the first 100-plus kilometers. Then the guys get hit with two cat. 1 climbs – up, down, up, down – before tackling our first mountain top finish. We predict there will be a lot of suffering today!

STAGE 18: Pau – Luz Ardiden, 129.7 km

Apparently yesterday was not enough of a challenge, so they made today’s course even harder. First a couple of cat. 4 climbs to warm up the legs and then WHAM! The legendary Tourmalet, HC, first used in the Tour 110 years ago. But we need more, so we zoom down and the head directly up the HC ranked Luz Ardiden. If we can mix up our sports metaphors, it is time to strip off the gloves and get down to business. We can probably expect to know our overall winner by the end of this final mountain stage.

STAGE 19: Mourenx – Libourne, 207 km.

Another long stage but a flat one. Possibly a break group today, but also a good chance for the sprinters to test their legs before the Champs-Elysées in only two more days. Assuming, of course, that the sprinters have survived all those climbs and gotten in within the time limits. We are sure our guys will still be there!

STAGE 20: Libourne – Saint-Emilion, ITT, 30.8 km

A flat dash through the vineyards today, which may make the ultimate decision as to the final wearer of the yellow jersey. The top guys won’t be fooling around today, and yes, we all remember that the yellow jersey can very easily change shoulders on a penultimate stage time trial. Will one of them take the win today, or a time trial specialist?

STAGE 21: Chatou – Paris Champs-Elysées, 108.4 km

The traditional closing stage. A relaxed ride with lots of chatting, joking, and a sip of champagne along the way. Until they hit the Champs, though, then it all explodes! After they enter Paris and then cross the beautiful courtyard of the Louvre Museum, the peloton embarks on eight laps of the now-famous circuit, with the dramatic ending of probably the most exciting bunch sprint of the year. Good luck to all, and congratulations to all!

La députée LFI Mathilde Panot convoquée à son tour par la police pour "apologie du terrorisme"

La députée insoumise Mathilde Panot a annoncé mardi avoir été convoquée par la police dans le cadre d'une enquête pour "apologie du terrorisme" à la suite du communiqué du groupe politique le 7 octobre, après l'attaque du Hamas en Israël. La cheffe de file du parti dénonce une instrumentalisation de la justice visant à bâillonner des expressions politiques.

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Après Rima Hassan, Mathilde Panot. La cheffe de file des députés de La France insoumise a annoncé mardi 23 avril être convoquée par la police dans le cadre d'une enquête pour "apologie du terrorisme" ouverte à la suite d'un communiqué du groupe parlementaire publié le 7 octobre, jour de l'attaque sans précédent menée par le Hamas contre Israël .

"C'est la première fois dans toute l'histoire de la Cinquième République qu'une présidente d'un groupe d'opposition à l'Assemblée nationale est convoquée pour un motif aussi grave", a assuré l'élue dans un communiqué.

"J'alerte solennellement sur cette instrumentalisation grave de la justice visant à bâillonner des expressions politiques", a ajouté la députée du Val-de-Marne.

Deuxième convocation par la police en une semaine

Le 7 octobre, le groupe LFI avait publié un texte qui avait suscité la polémique car il mettait notamment en parallèle l'attaque du Hamas, décrite comme "une offensive armée de forces palestiniennes" et "l'intensification de la politique d'occupation israélienne" dans les territoires palestiniens.

J’ai reçu ce jour une convocation pour être entendue dans le cadre d’une enquête pour « apologie du terrorisme ». Nous ne nous tairons pas. Aucune convocation, aucune intimidation de quelque nature que ce soit ne nous empêchera de protester contre le génocide en cours contre le… pic.twitter.com/E3RCNJZOzx — Mathilde Panot (@MathildePanot) April 23, 2024

Cette nouvelle intervient quatre jours après que la candidate aux élections européennes Rima Hassan, septième sur la liste insoumise de Manon Aubry, a également annoncé sa convocation par la police judiciaire pour "apologie du terrorisme".

"J'estime n'avoir rien à me reprocher, m'être toujours exprimée de manière critique à la fois envers le Hamas et son mode opératoire terroriste mais aussi d'Israël", avait-elle réagi vendredi auprès de l'AFP.

"Instrumentalisation grave de la justice"

Les Insoumis dénoncent une instrumentalisation de la justice, assurant qu'on leur fait payer leur soutien aux Palestiniens et leur utilisation du terme "génocide" pour qualifier la situation à Gaza .

La semaine dernière, deux conférences de Jean-Luc Mélenchon sur la situation au Proche-Orient ont été annulées à Lille, d'abord à l'université puis dans une salle privée. "Un abus de pouvoir de république bananière", avait fustigé le leader des Insoumis.

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Israel Premier-Tech unveil new 'Field of Dreams' Tour de France kit

New 'Racing for Change' kit aims to raise awareness and contributions for a 16-acre bike centre in Rwanda

Israel Premier-Tech, which will be led by Chris Froome at the Tour de France on Friday, has unveiled a special edition kit for the Tour in aid of cycling in Rwanda.

The new outfit forms part of a fundraising campaign in which the team aims to support the construction of the ‘Field of Dreams’ bike centre over 16-acres of land in the Bugesera district of Rwanda. 

It’s hoped that the centre will offer 120,000 students in the region access to a pump track, race track and future cycling academy.

The special edition Racing for Change-inspired Tour de France racing kit is manufactured by clothing brand Jinga, and was designed by Belgium-based Stijn Dossche of Stycle Design. 

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The jersey design is inspired by the Race for Change project and uses the Rwandan art form Imigongo as the hero of the jersey design, while the colours and stylings are an homage to the landscape and greenery of Rwanda.

"For me, growing up in Kenya, the bike was always about freedom," says Chris Froome. "Growing up and experiencing cycling in that way, with no real infrastructure or support for youngsters growing up, has really made me want to get behind a project like this. One that is offering an opportunity like this to youngsters who are interested in cycling to be able to follow their dreams."

"We are hoping to engage the entire global cycling community to donate and help us build this necessary cycling infrastructure in Africa," says team owner Sylvan Adams.

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The first phase of building will include a pump track and a 1.2 km race and training track, and is projected to cost €300,000. The team will also showcase matching bike designs in the coming days, ahead of the Grand Depart in Copenhagen.

Supporters of the team and the initiative can contribute by visiting www.bit.ly/FODIPT , which at the time of writing has raised just under €60,000 of the target €300,000. The team has also pledged to double any donation made from the public.

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Peter Stuart has been editor of Cyclingnews since March 2022, overseeing editorial output across all of Cyclingnews' digital touchpoints.

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