Luke Durbridge has achieved a lot in his young cycling career and on Saturday 5 July he will line up for his first Tour de France. The former junior and under-23 TT world champion is part of the Orica-GreenEdge team for the 101st edition of the world’s biggest race. Just after the squad’s press conference in Leeds, he spoke to Rob Arnold about his hopes and expectations for the three weeks that lay ahead of him.

He begins the discussion by talking about the ramifications of a broken collarbone earlier this year and explains that he turned this misfortune into a chance to take some rest…

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Repairing a broken bone... the scars of surgery. Photo: Rob Arnold

Repairing a broken bone… the scars of surgery.
Photo: Rob Arnold