Youngest Tour rider Lövkvist: "Watch and learn"

By Hedwig Kröner in Pau

The youngest rider of this year's Tour de France is Francaise des Jeux' Thomas Lövkvist. The 21 year-old Swede is also riding his very first Tour, and as expected, he finds it difficult. "It's hard, really hard," he told Cyclingnews before stage 16's start in Mourenx. "Everything is just more than in any other race; more people, higher speed... I expected it to be this hard, but now I realize how hard it actually is and that's still a different feeling."

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