Benson Bulletin: Tour de France stage 10 🇫🇷
A stunning day for Healy, Ireland and EF Education-EasyPost 🇮🇪 🇺🇸
Hi Subscribers,
There’s a lot to unpack from the first mountain stage of this year’s Tour de France, and rather than try to condense everything into one email, I’m going to write two newsletters: the first focusing on new yellow jersey, Ben Healy, and his EF Education-EasyPost team, and the second newsletter concentrating on the GC landscape and Simon Yates’s memorable stage win.
There’s a 2-3 hour drive to fit into the plan, and a likely dinner in a service station somewhere outside Toulouse, so it’s time to pull an all-nighter! (Pray for me).
We’ll start with Ben Healy, who transformed an already successful Tour de France for himself and EF Education-EasyPost into a landmark day for him and the American team. Healy may not have won his second stage of this year’s race, but he became just the fourth Irishman to pull on the coveted yellow jersey, after a gripping day of breakaway racing to Le Mont-Dore Puy de Sancy.
We’ll hear from Healy and his team boss, Jonathan Vaughters, but it’s also worth noting that the foundations of the rider’s success were laid by a complete team effort, with half the team’s Tour roster successfully infiltrating the main break. Healy was accompanied by Neilson Powless, Alex Baudin, and Harry Sweeny, and the quartet set about creating a sizeable gap over Tadej Pogačar’s yellow jersey group.
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