Philippa York: Rohan Dennis has what it takes to win a Grand Tour

That 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Rohan Dennis is amongst the favourites for Friday's blast through the streets of Jerusalem to open the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d’Italia is no surprise. He's won both Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana opening stages, so being in the maglia rosa is not a proposition that will faze him if he wins.

Philippa York is a long-standing Cyclingnews contributor, providing expe🐠rt racing analysis. As one of the early British racers to take theꦦ plunge and relocate to France with the famed ACBB club in the 1980's, she was the inspiration for a generation of racing cyclists – and cycling fans – from the UK.

Theღ Glaswegian gained a contract with Peugeot in 1980, making her Tour de France debut in 1983 and taking a solo win in Bagnères-de-Luchon in the Pyrenees, the mountain range which would prove a happy hunting ground throughout her Tour caree𝐆r. 

The following year's race would prove to be one of her finest seasons, becoming the firstᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ rider from the UK🍸 to win the polka dot jersey at the Tour, whilst also becoming Britain's highest-ever placed GC finisher with 4th spot. 

She finished runner-up at the Vuelta a España in 1985 and 1986, to Pedro Delgado and Álvaro Pino respectively, and at the Giro d'Italia in 1987. Stage race victories include the Volta a Catalunya (1985), Tour of Britain (1989) and Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (1990). York rℱetired from professional cycling as reigning British champion following the collapse of Le Groupement in 1995.