Wave the yellow flag Christian Prudhomme on the streets of Florence (Italy) and begins one of the most anticipated editions of the Tour in recent years, the Fantastic Four Tour –Pogacar, Vingegaard, Evenepoel and Roglic-, which for the first time started rolling on Italian soil and had a dangerous first stage of 206 kilometers, 3,600 meters of elevation gain and seven scoring mountain passes. A first attack that started with many news, such as fall of Jan Hirt after the signature control where he lost three teeth, with difficulties of Mark Cavendish to keep pace with the best on the first climb and which would end up seeing the Frenchman’s struggling victory Romain Bardet in the streets of Rimini, after riding many kilometers with his DSM colleague Frank Van Den Broekand who he pointed to as a show of gratitude as he crossed the finish line.
This first stage is a first analysis to see what the conditions of Danish Jonas Vingegaardwho reappeared in Tour competition after the terrible collapse of Itzuliaand to check whether the UAE Team Emirates by Tadej Pogacar He tried the Dane, winner of the last two editions of the race.
On earth, the practice of Arab Emirates He moved shyly 72 kilometers from the finish line, leading a peloton chasing the six cyclists leading the day and among them Ion Izagirre. This movement was answered by no problem of Vingegaard’s Team Vismawho on the radio reassured all his people by pointing out that he was fine.
In fact, 50 kilometers from the finish line, Team Visma He began to control the group of favorites, while the leader only had Madomas and Abrahamsenin the following close ones Bardet and Van den Broek. Both runners of DSM group They will end up being tied and going to lead the first stage of the Grande Boucleenjoying a distance of 1’24” with 16 kilometers to go and passing with enough margin to dream of the final limit of the day, San Marino.
Visma and UAE They stepped aside to see that the stage was gone and the teams were on their way EF Education and Lidl-Trek those who began to lead the chasing group of two escapees, thinking to break the escape and position their fastest runner in a massive sprint. They tightened the rope as much as they could. With 1.8 km to go, the two escapees had just a 12-second margin on the lead.
Naa streets of Rimini The outcome was skewed in their favor and Bardet and Van den Broek They were able to shower the masses and celebrate a great victory in style. in the back, Van Aert enter at 3rd and Pogacar he returned to the sprinter to finish 4th, first Alex Aranburu.
Bardet became the 103rd French cyclist to lead the Tour de France after he did so Julian Alaphilippe in 2021 and this Sunday in the second stage he will wear the yellow jersey in what will be his last Tour.
Source: La Verdad
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