Israel’s cycling team notches first-ever stage win at one of the sport’s biggest races Team Israel Start-Up Nation rider Alex Dowsett broke down in tears as he won Stage 8 of the Giro d’Italia.
Guy Niv becomes first Israeli to complete cycling’s Tour de France “I felt shivers when I crossed the finish line on the Champs-Elysees,” the 26-year-old cyclist said.
In a first, an Israeli will race in the Tour de France Guy Niv recalled that at the time of his bar mitzvah, he asked his parents to take him to the Tour de France as a birthday present.