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

[Didinho]

Very strong Alpecin. They waited for Groves to get back, they don’t care about GC. Mathieu as a domestique is a cheat code. Insanely strong. Hope he can take the jersey in the next days.

Philipsen easily the strongest of this group.

 

[Unchained]

OMG, Philipsen with the insane bike handling to avoid that,

What gear did he have to keep pushing on the gas all the way through the line.. And he stayed on the fence!! Wow!!

 

[JosefK]

After stage 1, the GC battle is winnowed down to 2 riders.

 

[armchairclimber]

Lidl and Soudal total balls up.

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

Terrible stage

 

[Tim Cahill]

If we discount Vingegaard/Pogacar then Mas, O'Connor and Jorgenson gain 40 seconds

No word on which group Almeida ended up in

 

[titan31]

After stage 1, the GC battle is winnowed down to 2 riders.

Tbf, it was that before stage 1 too

 

[noob]

Thanks to echelon split no horrible crashes!

 

[Rackham]

I don't usually do this but my god Red Bull Bora had a horrible stage there. Inexplicably passive after the split and Meeus sprinting for peanuts at the end because... reasons?

 

[Faserr]

Red Bull, Quick-Step and Lidl were really sleeping.

 

[Boehmand]

Interesting with Philipsen in yellow for the stage tomorrow.

I wonder how they are going to play that?

 

[scribers]

I’m upset there was no remco-cam for the desperate chase

 

[Cycling111]

Adam Yates 5 minutes behind. Another rider not going for the top 10.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Lol at Bora rather using their guys for a lead out for 20th place instead of pacing the gap down for Roglic and Lipowitz.

Tbf who was up there that's realistically a concern in the fight for 3rd? They are not going to beat either Pog or Vingo. Almeida was also back, as was Remco. Everyone else Roglic should easily beat by minutes if he's on form.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

So Jasper Disaster strikes again! Kinda disappointing that his biggest rivals weren't in the first group. Pogi & Vingo gain 39 seconds over the rest of the GC guys. It was interesting to see them pulling even a few km before the line of a sprint stage. But TBH this gap (given that top2 GC favorites gained) will likely not matter at the end. Few guys crashee today (fortunately) but one crash was absolutely epic and hillarious (brutal battle for one KOM point).

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Terrible stage

All GC contenders still in one piece and some actual racing outside the climbs, Great stage in my book.

 

[Gratemans]

You can definitely split in if it's in the last 40k. But you need multiple teams going full.

Good call

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Nice raceaction in the final 20kms. Congrats to Philipsen.

 

[ppanther92]

Lol at Bora rather using their guys for a lead out for 20th place instead of pacing the gap down for Roglic and Lipowitz.

I was thinking the same - why tf do they ride a leadout for Meeus place 42…

 

[wheresmybrakes]

I’m upset there was no remco-cam for the desperate chase

I wonder if there were any handlebar smashes.

 

[titan31]

Tbf who was up there that's realistically a concern in the fight for 3rd? They are not going to beat either Pog or Vingo. Almeida was also back, as was Remco. Everyone else Roglic should easily beat by minutes if he's on form.

Ya, I think Jorgensen was the only issue. I don't really have much faith in Mas and O'Connor even before he crashed.

 

[Unchained]

Thanks to echelon split no horrible crashes!

That's the bright side for sure..someone made money from online betting that Roglic didn't crash out..

 

[postmanhat]

Need to see Lenny crossing the line please.

 

[Mayomaniac]

So, how much time did Gall loose?

 

[dobrien]

Belgian team with a Belgian captain misses the split in crosswinds, jeezus h. Unbelievable.