In his 2019 Tour de France debut, Australian Caleb Yuan has accumulated three wins to go along with three Giro d'Italia stage wins and one Vuelta a España stage win. The Lotto-Soudal rider will be looking for at least one more victory body at this year's Tour de France. However, Ewan, who finished a distant second behind Peter Sagan in last season's points standings, said he has no intention of going for the green jersey.

"To be honest, I'm not obsessed with the green jersey. The way the points system works, it's not really a competition for pure sprinters. I haven't seen a pure sprinter win in the last few years. I don't think it's just Sagan, but also Van Aert, who can climb and sprint. On the days I can't finish, they will finish and get maximum points. Even on the days I can win, they are always in the top five or 10, always getting points."

Ewan's stage win on the Champs-Elysées moves him into second place behind Sagan by 68 points. He said he does not regret not chasing more points in the intermediate sprints.

"Maybe one day I will get closer to the win and go for the intermediate sprint. It's hard enough to go for the stage and I'm going to focus on that."

Based on a cursory examination of the Tour's parcours, Ewan expects to have six chances for a group sprint finish. Now that he has proven himself at the Tour de France, there is more pressure on his shoulders, but he is not overly hopeful of getting his first maillot jaune.

"Obviously, this is not a simple sprint stage. There are two Category 3 climbs, but there are about 40km of downhill and flat to the finish. What's beneficial for the sprinters, I think, is that there's plenty of time to come back if you fall off the bike on the climbs,"

"The valleys at this time of year are headwindy. It's a headwind in the valley this time of year, so it makes it a little easier to come back.

"It depends on how the race unfolds on the climbs and if there are teams that really want to split up, it will be difficult for us. I think there are strong teams and good sprinters here and that always helps. Hopefully the bunch will hold together for a group sprint."

Ewan had a great start to the 2020 season with two stage wins at the Tour Down Under and a stage win and points prize at the UAE Tour, but when racing resumed in July, he lost the Milano-Torino win to Arnaud Demare (Groupama-FDJ) In July, when the race resumed, he lost the win in Milano-Torino to Arnaud Demare (Groupama-FDJ), and in Milano-Sanremo, he was far off the pace. However, he took a stage win in the Tour de Wallonie and led the race for two days. He says that the opening stage of the Tour cannot be compared to Milan-San Remo.

The Italian classic was "my second race back after five months away from racing. Saturday's race was less than seven hours long. When I arrived in Cipressa, I had already been running for seven hours and it was also super hot. I heard it might rain, so the cooler temperatures suited me better." [De Mare, Michael Matthews (Sunweb), and Fernando Gaviria (UAE Team Emirates) will compete in the Giro d'Italia. Ewan believes this is because the Giro has more sprint stages, but he sees a good chance in the Tour as well.

"If you look at the course and look at all the opportunities, there might be one or two less sprints than last year, but there are still good chances," Ewan said. But there are some really good players left, like Elia Viviani (Cofidis), Sam Bennett (Detunink Quickstep), and Andre Greipel (Israel Startup Nation)." As always, it will be super hard to win."

Ewan is looking at six stages, but how many he can win will all depend on his form relative to the other sprinters. Some stages will depend on whether the sprint teams can control the race, and Jumbo Visma, one of the teams that pulled many of the stages this year, will instead watch the overall battle.

"It may be a tough day for the sprint teams, but remember last year there were only three teams controlling the sprint. I think it will be similar to last year. The main support team is Quick Step and last year Jumbo helped us a lot. Obviously, they won't be pulling for the sprint stages this year, but they might (for Wout Van Art). Maybe there will be fewer teams helping out, but hopefully it won't make that big of a difference."

Ewan was modest when comparing himself to his rivals, saying he wanted to be the best among the sprinters, but teammate John Degenkolb was more outspoken and confident in the Australian's abilities.

"I think Caleb is the fastest player at the moment," Degenkolb said. 'But I've seen a lot of fast sprinters and if you compare all of them, his ability is unmatched. He's as fast as Marcel Kittel, but he's half the size, so he can run with half the wattage. This is a huge advantage for him. He's very small, so he's also very good at climbing."

Degenkolb's main job is to put Ewan and the last lead-out man, Yasper de Buist, in position. He has Roger Kluge.

There is no Tour de France stage ending in Roubaix for him to replicate his impressive 2018 Tour stage win, but the German says he may have a chance to target his own result at the Tour.

"I know how great it is to win a stage at the Tour. That feeling will stay with me forever. It's more than worth fighting for," Degenkolb said.

"There are a lot of medium-hard stages. If I have a chance to get a result, I think I can ride some of the stages freely and try to win. My main focus is to support the team, but I will try to get something out of it every day. We are a very balanced team and if we want to win a stage, that's great."