Ineos 'confident' ahead of Tour de France after Carapaz seals team's fifth 2021 stage race win at Tour de Suisse

The British team head to France with a squad containing the winners of this year's Dauphiné, Tour de Suisse and Tour de Romandie

Richard Carapaz lifts the Tour de Suisse trophy aloft while wearing the leaders yellow jersey
(Image credit: Tim de Waele/Getty Images)

Richard Carapaz recorded Ineos' fifth WorldTour stage race victory of the season after claiming the overall at the Tour de Suisse 2021, underlying his and the team's confidence ahead of the Tour de France and the Olympics.

Carapaz (Ineos Grenadiers) took the overall title by 17 seconds over Colombian Rigoberto Uran (EF Education-Nippo) with Danish rider Jakob Fuglsang (Astana-Premier Tech) third.

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