British champion Backstedt eyes Tour de France debutImage source, SWPixImage caption, Zoe Backstedt won 15 gold medals on the road, track and cyclo-cross at junior and under-23 levelPublished5 hours agoZoe Backstedt is targeting a Tour de France Femmes debut after an “incredible” double title-winning week at the British National Road Championships.First the 21-year-old rider from south Wales successfully defended her elite time-trial crown with a dominant win on Thursday.
Then, on Sunday, the multiple world junior champion won her first British road race title with an equally emphatic victory in Aberystwyth.
Backstedt returns to her European base this week, with sights on the Tour de France Femmes’ Grand Depart in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 1 August.
“The next one for me is going to be a race in Belgium,” Backstedt told the BBC’s Radio Wales Breakfast programme.
“Then hopefully, as long as everything goes well, I’m hoping to be selected for the Tour de France as well this year.
“It would be incredible. It’s giving me goosebumps already to think about it.”
