{"id":32759,"date":"2026-07-26T19:03:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T19:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/zoe-backstedt-to-make-tour-de-france-femmes-debut\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T19:03:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T19:03:21","slug":"zoe-backstedt-to-make-tour-de-france-femmes-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/zoe-backstedt-to-make-tour-de-france-femmes-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoe Backstedt to make Tour de France Femmes debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Backstedt is not to be the first member of her family to ride a Tour de France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Father Magnus rode cycling&#8217;s most prestigious Grand Tour seven times between 1998 and 2008 &#8211; winning a stage on his own Le Tour debut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her old sister Elynor is also a professional rider with UAE Team ADQ, while her mum Meg was a British road race champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It really runs in the family to be a cyclist,&#8221; said Backstedt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We always had the choice to go into different sports but everything just led towards cycling and, in the end, I&#8217;m so happy that I pursued it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/cwylnnr4922o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backstedt is not to be the first member of her family to ride a Tour de France. Father Magnus rode cycling&#8217;s most prestigious Grand Tour seven times between 1998 and 2008 &#8211; winning a stage on his own Le Tour debut. Her old sister Elynor is also a professional rider with UAE Team ADQ, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32761,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32759\/revisions\/32761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}