{"id":296508,"date":"2025-07-27T18:20:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T18:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/296508\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T18:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T18:20:14","slug":"strong-until-the-end-joe-blackmore-finishes-debut-tour-de-france-in-good-spirits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/296508\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong until the end – Joe Blackmore finishes debut Tour de France in good spirits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not many riders can say their first Grand Tour was the Tour de France. Joe Blackmore is one of the few.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 22-year-old Brit was promoted to IPT\u2019s ProTeam for this season after a stellar 2024, with numerous wins and impressive performances. <\/p>\n

After a strong start to this season, Blackmore was selected for the Tour de France roster and has continued to show his immense talent throughout the race \u2013 whether helping teammates in breakaways or seizing his own opportunity, as he did on stage 10, finishing sixth on the day ahead of the main GC contenders. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe race has definitely met my expectations about how intense and stressful the racing is here,\u201d Blackmore explains ahead of the final stage into Paris. \u201cIt has been a long and hard race. I\u2019ve had good days and not-so-good days, but you\u2019ve just got to keep going every day.<\/p>\n

\u201cStage 10, on Bastille Day, was probably my best day on the bike during this Tour. That was a cool day, being in the breakaway and then suffering the last 25 km on my own [to take sixth place].<\/p>\n

\"Joe<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like I\u2019ve learned a lot during this race, and hopefully, in the coming years, I can come back and be even more at the front of the race. Everyone says that once you\u2019ve got a Grand Tour in the legs, it helps you a lot. So, I hope to take a lot of form and strong legs with me from this Tour to bump me up a level.\u201d<\/p>\n

PT Sporting Manager, Steve Bauer, says he\u2019s impressed by the way Blackmore has handled himself during his first Grand Tour.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Joe did very well. The way he managed his energy and how he rode this race. Sometimes, it was even a little hard to hold him back as he was so eager to push on. Overall, I think he did a very good race, especially that day on stage 10 in the mountains, where he pushed on to finish sixth. That was quite impressive. <\/p>\n

\u201dIt\u2019s clear that he\u2019s extremely talented and I believe with the experience he\u2019s getting from this race, he will be even better in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Joe<\/p>\n

Looking back at IPT\u2019s Tour de France 2025, Bauer highlights the unity of the team, always working well together, while naturally regretting not being able to secure a stage win \u2013 one of the team\u2019s stated goals ahead of the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe highlight, for me, is how this team has really worked well as a unit. We have focused on victories and we worked hard as a group to try to achieve that. We\u2019ve had some bad luck with punctures and crashes for especially Jake [Stewart] in crucial moments and Woodsy having stomach problems when being in a break on a finish that suited him. <\/p>\n

\"IPT,<\/p>\n

\u201dBut I think the team did well, always being in the mix, fighting hard, but of course ultimately, we came up empty. However, I\u2019m happy with how the boys worked together as a unit and that\u2019s definitely something positive to take with us from this Tour.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not many riders can say their first Grand Tour was the Tour de France. Joe Blackmore is one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36,109930,20680],"class_list":{"0":"post-296508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-joe-blackmore","12":"tag-tour-de-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114926585528190107","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296508","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=296508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}