'I've just won a stage of the Tour de France, mate!': Hindley grabs yellow jersey as Aussie blows Tour apart
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Australian team ORICA-GreenEDGE have announced a raw nine-man team without a frontline sprinter for the Tour de France.
The squad for the race starting on Saturday in the English city of Leeds England was named on Tuesday and includes five riders who will make their Tour debuts.
Australians Luke Durbridge, Mathew Hayman and Michael Matthews will take on the iconic race for the first time, as will 25-year-old Belgian Jens Keukeleire and 21-year-old Brit Simon Yates.
Simon Gerrans, Simon Clarke, Michael Albasini and Canadian road and time trial champion Svein Tuft were part of last year’s team that scored two Tour stage wins and led to Gerrans enjoying a surprise four-day stint in the yellow jersey.
“This year we are going to the Tour without a sprinter for the flat stages and will be targeting numerous stages,” said ORICA-GreenEDGE sport director Matt White.
“The goal for the team is to walk away with a stage win.”
“I am very happy with the roster… it’s a good mix of youth and experience.”
The team will be spearheaded by Gerrans, who scored ORICA-GreenEDGE’s first Tour de France stage win last year when he won stage three from a bunch sprint.
The following day he pulled on the yellow jersey when ORICA-GreenEDGE won the team time trial.
Gerrans is in good form having won the Australian national road title, his third Tour Down Under title and his second monument at Liege-Bastogne-Liege this season.
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