Bardet doing a Bardet
Chapeau Romain!
I didnāt think they had a chance there
Wow, what a finish
That was great
Yup. Brilliant stuff!!!
What a great opening stage. Hope Bardet holds yellow into France
Bardet looked too old to enjoy the win.
Iām wondering though, with so many sprint stage opportunities has the tour design ruined some racing with Jakobson and Cav fucked on day one?
One of Cavās strengths always used to be his ability to get through a stage like that and still sprint well the next day.
I donāt know whether heās still got that now that heās older
Personally I would have chosen to be off the back as far as possible to minimise the ādamageā of stage 1, while they clearly werenāt taking it easy I do wonder how much was taken out of the other sprinters that chose to keep up.
Heās done this every year for 16 years.
Theyāre just focussing on it now, as itās a bigger story for 35
Donāt worry dude. Fabio will be sweet, too.
Ooh bit of a crash, WVA down but back up and chasing. One of Ineos riders back up but looks like heās been through a shredder.
Breakaway is a long way in the lead with 68km to go. 9ā29ā. Ten riders I think.
Theyāre practically sprinting up the Bologna TT course. Mental stuff
Bardet wonāt be riding into France in yellow
According to the commentator, Kevin is going to beat off his competitors.
Remco looking good
Roglic too
Mega day this. Pog and Vinegar absolutely smashing it up
But not enough to stop Remco dragging Carapaz back to them on the line
Another dramatic stage
Glad that Vinge is up for it so far.
French cyclists must be over the moon with this start, maybe they should delay the revolution?
Great music to open the highlights for Bardetās win, donāt know what itās called:
Bar-det bar-det bar-watta-dy-day
(Rude boy!)