Tashkent on Tour - The Uzbek team at the Tour de France Femmes 2024
Tashkent City Women's PCT are making history as the first team from Uzbekistan at the Tour de France. Global Peloton spoke to the team's coach to find out more about them
Throughout the first half of the 1990s, one man from Uzbekistan ruled the sprints at the men’s Tour de France. Known as the Tashkent Terror, Djamolidine Abdoujaparov won three green jerseys, nine Tour de France stages and seven more at the Vuelta.
Since then, cycling headlines have been sparse for the nation nestled in the centre of Central Asia. But that is all changing.
On Monday, as the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift rolls out of Rotterdam, the peloton will have among its number Tashkent City Women PCT, Uzbekistan’s first team to make it to the Tour de France - Femmes or Hommes.
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