Tour de France: Kristoff predicts chaotic sprints

Alexander Kristoff (UAE Team Emirates) heads into the Tour de France full of optimism as he searches for his first stage win since 2014, but the experienced sprinter is well aware of the difficult task in front of him. The pure sprinters have descended on the Vendée for the start of the race en masse, while the profiles of the first nine stages are fraught with potential pitfalls

Daniel Benson

Daniel Benson was the Editor in Chief at Cyclingnews.com between 2008 and 2022. Based in the UK, he joined the Cyclingnews team in 2008 as the site's first UK-based Managing Editor. In that time, he reported on over a dozen editions of the Tour de France, several World Championships, the Tour Down Under, Spring Classics, and the London 2012 Olympic Games. With the help of the excellent editorial team, he ran the coverage on Cyclingnews and has interviewed leading figures in the sport including UCI Presidents and Tour de France winners.