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    MY FIRST GRAND TOUR

    Dec 03, 2020 5 minutes
    Photos Getty Images, Yuzuru Sunada

    Sixty thrilling stages of three Grand Tours were packed into just 71 days this autumn, with a record seven Britons making their debuts in racing’s most prestigious and longest undertakings.

    Since the turn of the new millennium, 37 Brits have made their Grand Tour debuts. Until 2020 the highest in one year was in 2009, when the Giro d’Italia startlist featured Ben Swift, Ian Stannard and Dan Lloyd. At that year’s Vuelta a España, veteran Roger Hammond made his bow.

    More than a decade later a new peak was reached with seven British riders riding their first Grand Tour. Arkéa Samsic’s Connor Swift made his Tour de France debut and chronicled his journey in CW, and

    he was followed by Lotto-Soudal duo Matt Holmes and Jon Dibben at the Giro d’Italia. At the Vuelta, Bahrain-McLaren pairing Fred Wright and Stevie Williams joined Sunweb’s Mark

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