Bicycling Australia

2022 Tour de France: Rewriting the rulebook

THE MODERN ERA OF CYCLING has arrived.

Well, actually, it came with Team Sky in 2010, who brought in the philosophy of “marginal gains” as team principal Dave Brailsford coined it. Their primary focus was to win the Tour de France with a British rider within five years and they did it in two – then over the next seven seasons they won another six Tours as well as the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España (twice).

Whether it was more money than anyone, which allowed them to buy the best riders and best of everything else, or better sports science or all of the above, when their Colombian superstar Egan Bernal won their seventh Grande Boucle in 2019, cycling purists decried what was forecasted to be an extended period of domination by what was now Team Ineos,

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