Tour de France 2023 Tour de France, Stage 1: Bilbao - Bilbao, 182 km (Spain, Saturday, July 1)

[TourOfSardinia]

Lol Pog celebrates

 

[Swiss Tony]

LANCASHIRE!!! Love it

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Jumbo also lost time to G3 on the flat, really bad showing given their numbers. Vingegaard should have pushed on in retrospect.

 

[meat puppet]

Van Aert terrible

He should not be as good as last tdf, if worlds are the goal

 

[Gigs_98]

How sure are we Pogacar celebrated because he knew his teammate had won?

 

[Andy262]

Ha, Simon set that up for Adam at the bottom of the climb.

 

[Netserk]

Yep, Van Aert should have attacked the group, then watch who would do the chasing.

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

Congrats to Adam Yates, would’ve rather Simon to win though.

 

[Salvarani]

How sure are we Pogacar celebrated because he knew his teammate had won?

100%?

 

[Red Rick]

Nobody can convince me that Adam and Simon Yates didn't swap their identity over the winter.

Adam Yates hasn't had enough implosions this year to secretly be Simon Yates

 

[dazaau]

Too bad they didn't keep that 20 second buffer. But that was not bad at all.

 

[StryderHells]

People mad

What?

 

[Boehmand]

Lol Pog celebrates

Of course he does, his teammate just won and the team took yellow, while positioning Yates as someone Vingegaard will have to cover, AND he took 4 seconds on Vingegaard himself.

It's a perfect scenario for UAE.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Pinot getting 4th here is mad as well.

 

[titan31]

God, Kirby is so insufferable

 

[Red Rick]

Just how unaero was Adam's beard?

 

[Lequack]

This was exciting, especially for the first stage. I was doubting the Yates bros making it, but they showed their class. Great riding.
It almost looked like Adam was unsure to celebrate or not, maybe he wanted Simon to win it.

 

[StryderHells]

Ha, Simon set that up for Adam at the bottom of the climb.

He sat up because he didn’t have the legs

 

[RobertCrawley]

Yep, Van Aert should have attacked the group, then watch who would do the chasing.

WVA didn't go to the front and drill it, as he is certainly capable of doing. His goals are a mystery at the moment.

 

[KZD]

UAE having a perfect day, Yates winning the stage and Pogačar taking 4 bonus seconds on Vingegård.

Simon Yates and Lafay looked impressive today and while Van Aert was strong he ended up being useless for Vingegård.

 

[Gigs_98]

At least one thing is clear now. Putting a proper hilly stage on day 1 really delivered.

 

[Panda Claws]

UAE bike diff

 

[Poursuivant]

Pog thought he won for sure

 

[Rackham]

Great entertainment there & great performance by the winner (nice to see the Yates brothers riding solo like that to the line together as well). And Adam Yates doing exactly what UAE wanted, i.e. he's given Jumbo something to chase.

 

[rokovski]

Jumbo in a really annoying position here. Gift time to the Yates's or gift Pogacar bonus seconds. I think they should still try to chase this down.

And they did both 😆