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James Moultrie

'I don't want to say I've stopped caring but I've learned to stop beating myself up' –Quinn Simmons takes new mindset into pursuit of career-defining Tour de France stage win

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Quinn Simmons of Lidl-Trek competes during Stage 2, Tarragona to Barcelona (168.5 km), of the Tour de France 2026, UCI World Tour cycling event on July 5, 2026, in Tarragona, Spain. (Photo by Gongora/NurPhoto via Getty Images).

At the end of the 2023 season, Quinn Simmons was unsure if he would ever truly reach the potential he showed after becoming junior road world champion in Yorkshire in 2019, but fast forward to this year's Tour de France and he has the confidence to say he "knows he can" win a stage.

So what's changed in the time since telling Cyclingnews that "it kind of feels like all these other super talents have maybe realised that super talent, and I just haven't yet"? That was off the back of a 2023 season where, yes, he did become senior national champion, but had his second Tour appearance undone by a crash and nasty concussion.

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