Vincent Lavenu
«A splendid battle in the mountains»
«The 2023 Tour de France has a fairly balanced profile, with stages for sprinters but also a great playground for climbers. There won't be many kilometres of time trials, which suggests there will be some great battles in the mountains. Our Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region will be in the spotlight. It's always an unmissable event, but there are a few new features, such as the return to Puy de Dome. It's symbolic. The AG2R CITROËN team is well suited to this type of Tour de France with riders such as Ben O'Connor and Aurélien Paret-Peintre. The 2022 edition was not easy with crashes and Covid-19. We hope to regain our potential next year and have a Tour similar to that of 2021.»
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The AG2R CITROËN team has won 21 stages of the Tour de France since its first participation in 1993. It has also finished on the podium three times in the final general classification: Jean-Christophe Péraud came second in 2014, Romain Bardet came second in 2016 and third in 2017.
