Procycling’s Tour de France preview is out

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Tadej Pogačar on the cover of Procycling magazine, July 2021 (Image credit: Future)

The grand départ of the 2021 Tour de France is just a few weeks away, with the race due to get underway on Saturday June 26 in Brittany. Among those on the start line will be defending champion Tadej Pogačar, who will be hoping to retain his yellow jersey in Paris again this year. The Slovenian is interviewed as part of Procycling magazine’s race preview edition, which also comes with a 36-page guide complete with all you need to know about the race route and teams.

Having become the youngest Tour winner since 1904 last September, the then 21-year-old Pogačar beat Primoz Roglič last year in a dramatic final day turnaround in the Planche des Belles Filles time trial. He will return to France as the leader of his UAE Emirates team this summer, after a spring campaign that’s seen him win the UAE Tour, Tirreno-Adriatico and a first monument title at Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

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Sophie Hurcom is Procycling’s deputy editor. She joined the magazine in 2017, after working at Cycling Weekly where she started on work experience before becoming a sub editor, and then news and features writer. Prior to that, she graduated from City University London with a Masters degree in magazine journalism. Sophie has since reported from races all over the world, including multiple  Tours de France, where she was thrown in at the deep end by making her race debut in 2014 on the stage that Chris Froome crashed out on the Roubaix cobbles.