Nicolas Roche has done it all on Le Tour, but still has unfinished business

“I find it all enriching. I gathered so much experience being actually able to do it all. What I do miss, however, is a stage win. I missed out by so little so many times.”

Ireland's Nicolas Roche celebrates on the podium wearing the leader's red jersey after the fourth stage of the 2019 La Vuelta cycling tour of Spain

It’s a homecoming of sorts for Ireland's Nicolas Roche this weekend as he begins his 10th Tour de France in his adopted city of Nice on the Cote d'Azur.

His days of believing he could emulate his father Stephen's 1987 victory in the race may be over, but the 36-year-old still feels he has unfinished business in the sport's toughest event.