Veteran South African bicycle owner Daryl Impey was named on Wednesday in Israel Premier-Tech’s team for subsequent month’s Tour de France.
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Impey, who will flip 38 in December this yr, will type a part of a powerful eight-man line-up for the Israel-based team for the 109th version of the famed race.
Impey memorably in 2013 grew to become the first South African rider to put on the yellow jersey at the Tour de France, doing so for two days.
Daryl Impey gained a stage of the race in 2019
Six years later he gained his first particular person stage at the race, successful the ninth stage in Brioude.
Impey has beforehand represented quite a few UCI groups, together with Barloworld, Radioshack, MTN-Qhubeka, Team NetApp and GreenEDGE.
He joined the Israel Premier-Tech team in 2021 on a two-year contract.
This yr’s race might be Impey’s ninth Tour de France having first taken half in 2012.
He has a greatest end of thirty eighth total in 2016.
Impey will trip alongside, amongst others, four-time winner Chris Froome in addition to Michael Woods and Jakob Fuglsang in a well-rounded line-up.
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The 2022 Tour de France will begin on The 2022 Tour de France will begin with a 13km particular person time trial in Copenhagen and can conclude some 3 328km afterward the Champs-Elysees in Paris on Sunday, 24 July.
At the time of publishing Impey is the second confirmed South African in the race together with Reinardt Janse van Rensburg who was named in the Lotto Soudal line-up.
Although unconfirmed, South Africa is prone to have a third rider this yr in Louis Meintjes representing the Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux team.
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Israel Premier-Tech
Jakob Fuglsang (DEN), Michael Woods (CAN), Chris Froome (GBR), Daryl Impey (RSA), Simon Clarke (AUS), Hugo Houle (CAN), Krists Neilands (LAT), Omer Goldstein (ISR)
