Caleb Yuan (opens in new tab) is eyeing the opportunity to win his first yellow jersey at the 2020 Tour de France (opens in new tab) following an exemplary debut with three stage wins this year. The 107th edition of the race will start in Nice, France, where Australian sprinters will take to the training roads of Europe.

Race organizer ASO announced in October that the route will feature eight mountain stages and four summit finishes.

Sprinters have arguably been denied in ASO's quest to devise a course that would induce a more dynamic race. However, Euan (Lot Soudal) (open in new tab) is not discouraged heading into the new season. He is likely to emulate his 2019 race schedule, which includes the Giro d'Italia, where he won two stages.

"I attended the Tour presentation and the Tour looks really hard, but every team will take their best guys to the Tour and if there is only one sprint stage I can win, the team will take me and hope I win that one stage." Ewan said.

"There should be five or six chances ....... There should be a chance to win the yellow jersey on the first day in Nice. Nice is my training road.

The 25-year-old Australian is the new fresh face of Lotto Soudal in 2019 after a four-year stint with Mitchelton-Scott, which he moved to replace Andre Greipel in the Tour de France. Veteran Greipel offered to work as part of Euan's lead-out at Lotto Soudal, but the German champion said he was not asked and decided to take the opportunity himself at Arkea Sumsic.

Ewan is considering a return to the Giro d'Italia next season.

"I haven't watched the Giro properly yet. He said there are six sprint stages in the first half of the race. I need to look at it more closely and talk to the team, but maybe it will be an option again."

"I really liked the race program this year with the Giro and the Tour.

When asked if he thought ASO was starting to marginalize sprinters on the race route, the seven-time Grand Tour winner said "a little bit," but also saw the lighter side, humoring a joke about French prejudice.

"I don't think they should forget about us. We are still here and it would be a shame to exclude any more sprinters.

"There are a lot of good athletes and no one athlete is dominant. In a sprint finish, you never know who is going to win. When Cav [Mark Cavendish] was dominant, I thought he would win the sprint finish. But now, I don't know who will win.

"It's a shame that they keep reducing the number of sprint stages in the Grand Tours. The Vuelta has reduced most of the stages. Only the Giro has more flat stages.

"Next year's Tour is hard and I hope the following year there will be more sprint stages," he continued. [I think ASO wants more exciting races, and maybe they want a race that a rider like Julien Alaphilippe (Detuninck-Quickstep) can win. Maybe they need a French sprinter.