Fred Wright ‘gutted’ but still smiling after second place on Tour de France stage 13

Londoner missed out to classics specialist Mads Pedersen

Fred Wright at Tour de France 2022 stage 13
(Image credit: Alex Broadway / Stringer)

It is difficult to stop Fred Wright smiling. Even after he came second at his first chance of winning a stage of the Tour de France, he still had enough energy to raise a wry smile.

The Londoner spent the entire day in the break on the Tour’s 192km thirteenth stage to Saint-Étienne and was second in the final three-up sprint behind Mads Pedersen (Trek-Segafredo) and ahead of Hugo Houle (Israel-Premier Tech).

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