'If we play our cards right, you never know what could happen' - Ben Healy targets yellow jersey on Tour de France stage one

Irish debutant says the first stage win of the race is firmly in the sights of his team EF Education-EasyPost

Ben Healy
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Ben Healy is not remotely overawed by the prospect of going on the attack on the opening day of the Tour de France on Saturday. 

The Irishman is one of 45 riders lining up for the first time at the race this year, a prospect that, as a Giro d'Italia stage winner on debut, does not faze him. 

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Tom Thewlis
News and Features Writer

After previously working in higher education, Tom joined Cycling Weekly in 2022 and hasn't looked back. He's been covering professional cycling ever since; reporting on the ground from some of the sport's biggest races and events, including the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix and the World Championships. His earliest memory of a bike race is watching the Tour on holiday in the early 2000's in the south of France - he even made it on to the podium in Pau afterwards. His favourite place that cycling has taken him is Montréal in Canada.