{"id":709841,"date":"2026-07-25T02:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709841\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T02:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:15:11","slug":"zoe-backstedt-to-make-tour-de-france-femmes-debut-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709841\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoe Backstedt to make Tour de France Femmes debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Backstedt is not to be the first member of her family to ride a Tour de France. Father&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-709841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}