Veteran South African bike owner Daryl Impey was on Wedneday named in Israel Premier-Tech’s staff for subsequent month’s Tour de France.
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Impey, who will flip 38 in December this 12 months, will type a part of a powerful eight-man line-up for the Israel-based staff for the 109th version of the famed race.
In 2013 Impey memorably 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 received a stage of the race in 2019
Six years later he received his first particular person stage at the race, profitable Stage 9 in Brioude.
Impey has beforehand represented plenty of different groups, together with Barloworld, Radioshack, MTN-Qhubeka, Team NetApp and GreenEDGE.
He joined the Israel Premier-Tech staff in 2021 on a two-year contract.
This 12 months’s race shall be Impey’s ninth Tour de France having first taken half in 2012.
He has a greatest end of thirty eighth general 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 in a while 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 12 months in Louis Meintjes representing the Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux staff.
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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)
