Caleb Yuan (Lotto Soudal), winner of three stages in the 2019 Tour de France, including the final stage on the Champs-Elysées in Paris, told Cycling News after the official route announcement today that sprinters' chances will be limited next year.

"The course looks very tough, but you need to look at the full stage profile to really see it. But so far, it looks like there are only three sprint chances out of four," race director Christian Prudhomme told Cycling News' Steven Farrand after the 2020 parcours was announced in Paris.

Ewan's first Tour de France appearance this year (after his former team, Mitchelton-Scott, dropped him from the Tour roster in 2018) proved that the 25-year-old Australian is the fastest finisher in the race, and on stage 11 in Toulouse He took his first win ahead of Jumbo Visma's Dylan Groenewegen.

Ewan won again on stage 16 in Nimes, ahead of Elia Viviani (Deceuninck-Quick Step), Groenewegen, and Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe). Ewan then took the ultimate jewel of sprinters, winning the final Paris stage on the Champs-Elysées to finish his first Tour.

Four-time winner Chris Froome (Team Ineos) described the mountainous route as "brutal" because of the limited opportunities for sprint finishes. Nevertheless, Ewan said the race will once again be his best target. [We need to see what the Giro course is like, but even if we don't have that many chances at the Tour, the Tour is still the biggest race in the world for us.

Ewan's first chance will be on the first day in Nice, and if he wins, it will be his first time wearing the yellow jersey. It will certainly be motivating.

"Yes, but that stage is going to be pretty tough too. But that stage is going to be pretty tough too. I'm pretty sure it's going to be a sprint stage. But it's not going to be as straightforward as a normal flat sprint."

"Yeah, there aren't many chances for us," he lamented again.

Ewan's chances of matching or surpassing last year's results may be ludicrous given his 2020 parkour, but as one of the featured riders in the presentation, he was able to watch his victory with the crowd on the highlight reel and draw positive motivation was elicited.

He admitted to Cycling News that these highlights are still so moving that they give him goosebumps.

"Yeah, it's always nice to relive some of the memories, but that's in the past now, and now we need to look to next year. And like I said earlier, we need to look at the course and see how many stages we can actually run."

In fact, he told Cycling News that the road to the 2020 Tour has already begun.

"I've actually just started training again," he said. I'm going to do the London Six Day and then I'm going to take some more time off and prepare for next season."