Tour de France Tour de France 2025, Stage 1: Lille – Lille (184.9k)

[Sorped]

The problem is what happened is against nature and totally backwards.

It should be the challengers who're ranked 3rd and lower in pre-race predictions making the race hard on terrain that can yield time gaps if they play their cards right, not the other way around.

Lose a minute against Pog and Vinge on a climb? Okay. No problemo. But losing it on the flat like giving them a gift was just not proper racing intelligence.

Hasn't that been the trend for years though? If you're not clear cut favourite, the amount of risk taking diminishes so you don't risk losing ground in the fight for secondary places? Not saying that Roglic and Evenpoel were eyeing each other, they lost out to inattention, but I don't think either would have instigated today.

 

[titan31]

Don't seem to have updated O'Connors time. I thought he was under the 5km point when he crashed

 

[veganrob]

Great start to the Tour. Exposed who the teams are that are prepared and expect to win and the fools.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Don't seem to have updated O'Connors time. I thought he was under the 5km point when he crashed

O'Connor's time in the GC has been corrected.

 

[Mayomaniac]

I can't help wondering whether rolling over on the radio is, in some cases if not necessarily this one, a cause of injuries to the back. I can't believe that something less bulky cannot be found.

Yeah, also potentially bad your spine if you hit the ground hard with the back first.