Kristen Faulkner is ready to take BikeExchange-Jayco to a yellow jersey feature on the 8-day Women’France Tour. The first women’s Tour de France since the 1980s kicks off on Sunday in Paris for 8 days of highly anticipated racing.
“It’s going to be the most iconic race of my life, and being part of the power of fans, cyclists and everyone else, it’s going to be contagious,” Faulkner said in a phone interview with Cyclingnews from Barcelona airport. friday afternoon.
“From a career perspective, I can’t wait to see what I can do from a leadership perspective. It’s going to be exciting to open the curtain and see what I can do. “
The American achieved incredible success at the Giro Donne this month, winning two stages and the mountain classification. But she almost missed the Women’France Tour after a case of COVID-19 in the days after the race. He felt healthy and admitted that she was lucky enough to have tested negative for the virus at the last imaginable cut-off point so she could start the race on Sunday.
“I had COVID last week and just tested negative last night, which was the last night imaginable I can test negative for running. I had to delay my flight for two days, so I was late, but the good news is that I’m taking the cut to run,” Faulkner said.
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Kirsten Frattini graduated with honors in Kinesiology and Health Sciences from York University in Toronto, Canada. She has been concerned about cycling from the network and the local point to the professional cycling WorldTour. He has worked in print and virtual publications, and with Cyclingnews as a correspondent in North America in 2006. Becoming production editor in 2014, she produces and publishes foreign racing policy for all men’s and women’s races, adds Spring Classics, Grand Tours, World Championships and Olympics, and writes and edits news and reports. As Kirsten, Women’s Editor-in-Chief of Cyclingnews, she also coordinates and oversees the global policy of races, news, reports and podcasts on women’s professional cycling.
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