Welsh cyclist Stevie Williams will miss the 2025 Tour de France and British National Road Race Championships.<\/b><\/p>\n
The 29-year-old, who won the 2024 Tour Down Under in Australia, has a knee problem and is left hoping to “be back on the start line soon”.<\/p>\n
Williams posted on social media: “Since the start of my season in Australia, I’ve had an issue with my right knee, a quadriceps tendonopothy, which is very tricky to manage, and it hasn’t resolved. <\/p>\n
“I was able to come back for Giro d’Abruzzo and the Ardennes but since then, things still aren’t completely right.<\/p>\n
“Unfortunately, this means I won’t be able to race the national championships in Wales, or the Tour de France. I’m gutted to miss them, especially racing Nationals in front of a home crowd.”<\/p>\n
The UK road race title will be on the line between 26-29 June in Ceredigion, west Wales, which includes Williams’ home town Aberystwyth. The Tour de France starts on 5 July in Lille.<\/p>\n
He added: “As a cyclist, the only thing you want to do is race so this season has been incredibly frustrating, but I know that these things can’t be rushed.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welsh cyclist Stevie Williams will miss the 2025 Tour de France and British National Road Race Championships. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-190570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114696432106369154","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}