Zoe Backstedt: British champion targets Tour de France Femmes debut after wonder week

Zoe Backstedt, a 21-year-old Welsh cyclist, won a double at the British National Road Championships, successfully defending her elite time-trial title on Thursday before claiming her first British road race title on Sunday in Aberystwyth. The multiple world junior champion, who has previously won 15 gold medals across road, track, and cyclo-cross at junior and under-23 level, is now targeting her debut at the Tour de France Femmes in August.