Onley and Blackmore lead the indictment of the young British at Tour de France | Tour de France 2025

FOr more than a decade, the interest in British drivers at the Tour de France focused on well-known name mark Cavendish, Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas-, but now a new generation of English-language talents is the largest race in the world.

Ben Healy, born in West Midland, but with an Irish heritage, was the revelation of the tour so far and has been completely rewarded for his relentless efforts with the yellow jersey of the racing tour on the Bastille Day stage to Puy de Sancy.

Healy was briefly a Tom Pidcock teammate as a teenager before glowing as a U23 driver. The success in the “Baby Giro” in Italy made him on the American team EF Education-Eieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Differ.

More than its results, Healys approach to racing, free from the risk -in tactics of some predecessors, is refreshing and exciting. His attacking style is sometimes to fail and has sometimes been neglected, the remarkable exception with a stage victory in Giro d'Italia 2023.

On this tour, however, he only fulfilled his promise four days later with the victory in Vire and a yellow jersey. His success was the loss of Ineos Grenadiers because he rejected the opportunity to move to the British team.

For Oscar Onley, currently the seventh overall, his second tour was a world, apart from his debut in 2024, when he took 39th place. The 22-year-old from Kelso admitted that he was overwhelmed during his first appearance in the race. “I really had problems in the first week,” he recalled. “I asked myself: 'What am I doing here?'”

This year, onley is the seventh place overall when the race looks towards the Pyrenees. So far he has dealt much better and has held on a high overall road through one of the hardest and fastest opening weeks in the tour history. “As soon as you run, it's just another bike race,” he said, “but it is the extent of everything that is around it, the expectations, the media.”

His constant progress was characterized by stage victories on the tour of Switzerland in 2025 on the stage winners and overall on the tour of Great Britain and third place on this year's Swiss National Tour. Onley's team expects that there could be a decline in his appearances because he goes deeper into the tour, the longest race he has ever driven, but he is already looking forward.

“I recently drove Mont Ventoux for the first time, which may not be a good thing, but I'm looking forward to going there on the tour.”

The tour debut Joe Blackmore has cut her teeth in Herne Hill Velodrome and is another of those who drive the longest races of his career at the age of 22.

His breakthrough last year in Tour de L'Avenir, where his climbing skills with a stage victory in La Rosière and a performance of Race-Clinching on the Colle Delle Finestre, randomly the platform for Simon Yates' Rennputsch in this year's Giro d'Italia, were in the foreground.

Black. “It's a big, hard, fast race, but as soon as you get started and concentrate on the bike, you are only in the routine,” said Blackmore. “I had a few hard days, but enough days when I felt good. I'm not crashed yet, so I was lucky.”

With the Pyrenean stage on Thursday from also to Hautacam, Blackmore will enter his preferred terrain. “I look forward to pushing the climbs,” he said. “It should be a different kind of race.”