The Tour de France bought off to a searing begin with a brutally sizzling and hilly stage 1 by means of Tuscany that spelled the top of the final classification hopes of at the least one rider.
Romain Bardet (Staff DSM-Firmenich-PostNL) delivered a surprising stage victory to take the primary general lead of the Tour de France in Rimini on Saturday.
The Frenchman, in his ultimate Tour, bridged throughout to the day’s breakaway to affix teammate Frank Van den Broek, then the pair fought their solution to the end, holding off the charging peloton by simply 5 seconds.
Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) received the dash for third and holds the identical place within the general standings 11 seconds behind Hardet.
UAE Staff Emirates’ Tadej Pogačar completed fourth on the stage and is fourth general at 15 seconds.
Lotto Dstny’s Maxim Van Gils is fifth on the identical time as Pogačar, with sprinters Alex Aranburu (Movistar) and Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) occupying sixth and seventh general.
Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quickstep) regarded a lot stronger than on the Critérium du Dauphiné and got here by means of in eighth.
Pello Bilbao (Bahrain Victorious) is ninth simply forward of Alberto Bettiol (EF Schooling-EasyPost). Bilbao’s teammate Santiago Buitrago struggled on the climbs however fought his means again to the primary chasing group to carry onto his hopes.
Ineos Grenadiers’ GC hopefuls Carlos Rodriguez and Tom Pidcock are simply outdoors the highest 10, all at 15 seconds.
Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) stayed out of hassle and completed in the identical time in sixteenth together with Primož Roglič (Bora-Hansgrohe), Simon Yates (Jayco-AlUla), Richard Carapaz (EF Schooling-EasyPost) and Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek).
The principle loser on the day was David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ) who misplaced contact with the general Tour de France contenders‘ group on the primary of 4 climbs within the ultimate 70 kilometres and noticed his hopes vanish when he completed in a gaggle 29 minutes behind together with Israel-Premier Tech’s Stevie Williams.
Astana, along with having to child Mark Cavendish to the end, noticed their GC riders Harold Tejada and Alexey Lutsenko dropping over 18 minutes.
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Tour de France 2024 GC standings
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Tour de France 2024 classifications
Here is a rundown of all the continued competitions on the Tour de France. Click on right here for a extra complete explainer, together with minor competitions such because the intermediate sprints prize and the combating spirit prize. Talking of prizes, click on right here to learn how a lot the riders can win throughout the Tour de France.
Yellow Jersey/Maillot Jaune – The yellow jersey is worn by the general race chief on the final classification who has accomplished the levels up to now within the lowest gathered time.
Inexperienced Jersey – The inexperienced jersey is the factors classification. Riders accrue factors at one of many two intermediate sprints throughout levels and in addition at stage finishes, and the person with essentially the most factors leads the rating.
Polka Dot Jersey – The crimson and white polka dot jersey is the mountain classification. Factors are handed out to the primary riders over sure hills and climbs throughout the Tour de France, with the toughest mountains giving essentially the most factors. As soon as once more, the person with essentially the most factors leads the rating.
White jersey – The white jersey is the very best younger rider classification. It really works the identical means because the yellow jersey, however solely riders aged 25 or beneath are eligible to win.
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Tour de France 2024 schedule
Date
Stage
Begin-finish
Distance
Begin/End instances (CET)
29-Jun
Stage 1
Florence – Rimini
206km
12:00 – 17:34
30-Jun
Stage 2
Cesenatico – Bologna
198.7km
12:15 – 17:06
1-Jul
Stage 3
Piacenza – Turin
230.5km
11:15 – 16:57
2-Jul
Stage 4
Pinerolo – Valloire
139.6km
13:05 – 17:05
3-Jul
Stage 5
Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne – Saint-Vulbas Plaine de l’Ain
