Australian Tour de France team has first local GC hope

Australian Tour de France team has first local GC hope

Ben O'Connor will make Australian cycling history at the Tour de France, as the first general classification contender to race for a team from his own country.

Team Talk: Ben O’Connor on loving the outdoors, missing the sea, and leading an Aussie team at the Tour de France

Ben O’Connor was always destined to have a job that kept him outside. While he didn’t know what he was going to be growing up, he loved being in the outdoors. The 29-year-old Australian grew up close to the Swan River, which cuts right through his home city of Perth, so he was never short of activities to pick from. “We were always on or in the river and that was such a cool thing. It was kind of like your nature escape within the city suburbia,…