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Tour de France 2025: Ben Healy, born on the edges of the lot! Why the Irishman, winner of the 6th stage, has such a special link with Occitania

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The Irishman was born in England Mas his first victory for the Tour of the future left Espalion. This Thursday, July 10, again, he won solo the 6th stage of the 112nd edition.

For us, Ben Healy was born on the edges of the lot! And do not believe that we have finished the stage in a well -frozen Domfront Poiré bathtub or that we entered the Andouilles brotherhood of the arrival city.

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The Irishman, a seventh runner of his country to win a stage of the Tour (after Seamus Elliott, Sean Kelly, Stephen Roche, Martin Earley, Dan Martin and Sam Bennett) disputed the Tour of the future in 2019. He won the Espalion-Saint-Julien stage Chapteuil stage of our favorite river.

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That day, the hero of yesterday had beat his escape companions, the Dabois Hulgaard and the Californian Jorgenson, Tom Pidcock failing at the foot of the podium. He was 18 years old and no younger runner before he had succeeded in this performance.

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From of course, of course, we have got to know him and, on this ground which resembles that of the Ardennes of which he loves, no one was surprised to see him win. “It’s incredible, he said after this new objective achieved (he had already won alone, in 2023, in Fossombrone, the 8th stage of the Giro). It’s so much work, it’s so hard to get there …”

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“When are you retired?”

After highlighting the role of his team EF Education Easy Post, he made a little reminder on last summer where he had taken fifth place in the Troyes stage, that of the white paths removed by Turgis.

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“What I had already succeeded in the Tour, it allowed me to believe in my chances and understand the energy that it takes to win … It was hard to go into the breakaway, I even think that I spent too much energy for that but that’s how I work. I knew anyway that I had to get out of the peloton to get success …”

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In Liège in spring, when he had just finished third behind the untouchable Pogacar and Ciccone, he addressed the Slovenian ogre. “Tell me, retirement, when are you going to take it?” Not before 2030, I had a contract had smiled “pogi”. Dolphin of Bruno Armirail with climbers of the Basque Country, here is Healy, less shaggy than before, in the Grand Book of the Tour.

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