Alex Dowsett doesn't expect Tour de France selection despite national time trial success

Alex Dowsett doesn't expect Movistar to select him to race this year's Tour de France, with the team announcing their team on Monday

Alex Dowsett on stage two of the 2015 Tour de France

(Image credit: Watson)

Alex Dowsett isn't expecting to be part of the nine man Movistar team that takes to the Tour de France startline in Mont Saint-Michel on Saturday, July 2.

The Essex rider is on the Spanish outfit's long-list of 12 aiming to support Nairo Quintana but his poor performances at the Tour of Switzerland will count against him, he fears.

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Chris Marshall-Bell

A freelance sports journalist and podcaster, you'll mostly find Chris's byline attached to news scoops, profile interviews and feature writing across a variety of different publications. He has been writing regularly for Cycling Weekly since 2013.


Previously a ski, hiking and cycling guide in a number of places, but mostly in the Canadian Rockies and Spanish Pyrenees, he almost certainly holds the record for the most number of interviews conducted from snowy mountains.


He lives in Valencia, Spain.