GC Update Tour de France 2024 stage 1 | Romain Bardet takes historic yellow jersey; David Gaudu and Lenny Martínez out of GC on day 1

Saturday, 29 June 2024 at 18:28

The Tour de France 2024 started this Saturday, June 29, with an inaugural stage whose Grand Départ was held in Florence. With a very hilly day, with several categorized climbs throughout the day, a first battle was expected in the fight for the general classification, although there would also be a chance for victories from the breakaway. In the end, Romain Bardet took the yellow jersey with a thrilling victory, whilst a few GC riders suffered.

What nobody expected was that this first stage would be as epic as it ended up being. The whole stage was very exciting, but the best, as almost always, was saved for last. The Team DSM-Firmenich PostNL duo of Romain Bardet and Frank van den Broek crossed the finish line together after withstanding the peloton that seemed to be hunting them down in the final kilometers.

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As a result, Bardet is the first yellow jersey of the Tour de France 2024, 4 seconds ahead of teammate Van den Broek (2nd), and 11 seconds ahead of Wout van Aert, third in the first gc update after winning the bunch sprint for third behind. Tadej Pogacar, meanwhile, is 4th, 15 seconds behind the yellow jersey.

Behind, in the end the positions have no real values, as the rest of the Top 10 overall maintains the same 15-second gap over Romain Bardet: Maxim van Gils is 5th, Alex Aranburu is 6th, Mads Pedersen is 7th, Remco Evenepoel 8th, Pello Bilbao 9th and Alberto Bettiol closes in 10th position after his first race with the Italian champion's jersey.

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2024 Tour de France overall classification after stage 1:

1	BARDET Romain	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	05:07:12
2	VAN DEN BROEK Frank	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	+ 04
3	VAN AERT Wout	Team Visma \| Lease a Bike	+ 11
4	POGACAR Tadej	UAE Team Emirates	+ 15
5	VAN GILS Maxim	Lotto Dstny	+ 15
6	ARANBURU Alex	Movistar Team	+ 15
7	PEDERSEN Mads	Lidl-Trek	+ 15
8	EVENEPOEL Remco	Soudal Quick-Step	+ 15
9	BILBAO Pello	Bahrain Victorious	+ 15
10	BETTIOL Alberto	EF Education-EasyPost	+ 15
11	PIDCOCK Tom	INEOS Grenadiers	+ 15
12	BERNAL Egan	INEOS Grenadiers	+ 15
13	VAN WILDER Ilan	Soudal Quick-Step	+ 15
14	CAMPENAERTS Victor	Lotto Dstny	+ 15
15	HINDLEY Jai	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	+ 15
16	VINGEGAARD Jonas	Team Visma \| Lease a Bike	+ 15
17	GEE Derek	Israel-Premier Tech	+ 15
18	VLASOV Aleksandr	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	+ 15
19	SKUJINS Toms	Lidl-Trek	+ 15
20	THOMAS Geraint	INEOS Grenadiers	+ 15
21	CRAS Steff	TotalEnergies	+ 15
22	CARAPAZ Richard	EF Education-EasyPost	+ 15
23	JORGENSON Matteo	Team Visma \| Lease a Bike	+ 15
24	JOHANNESSEN Tobias Halland	Uno-X Mobility	+ 15
25	MARTIN Guillaume	Cofidis	+ 15
26	MAS Enric	Movistar Team	+ 15
27	HAIG Jack	Bahrain Victorious	+ 15
28	RODRIGUEZ Carlos	INEOS Grenadiers	+ 15
29	ONLEY Oscar	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	+ 15
30	EIKING Odd Christian	Uno-X Mobility	+ 15
31	CICCONE Giulio	Lidl-Trek	+ 15
32	LANDA Mikel	Soudal Quick-Step	+ 15
33	KULSET Johannes	Uno-X Mobility	+ 15
34	ROGLIC Primoz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	+ 15
35	DE PLUS Laurens	INEOS Grenadiers	+ 15
36	YATES Simon	Team Jayco-AlUla	+ 15
37	AYUSO Juan	UAE Team Emirates	+ 15
38	BARGUIL Warren	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	+ 15
39	COSTA Rui	EF Education-EasyPost	+ 15
40	HARPER Chris	Team Jayco-AlUla	+ 15
41	GALL Felix	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team	+ 15
42	ARMIRAIL Bruno	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team	+ 15
43	ALMEIDA Joao	UAE Team Emirates	+ 15
44	SIVAKOV Pavel	UAE Team Emirates	+ 15
45	YATES Adam	UAE Team Emirates	+ 15
46	ROMO Javier	Movistar Team	+ 15
47	BUITRAGO Santiago	Bahrain Victorious	+ 15
48	MEINTJES Louis	Intermarché-Wanty	+ 15
49	KWIATKOWSKI Michal	INEOS Grenadiers	+ 26
50	HEALY Ben	EF Education-EasyPost	+ 28
51	POWLESS Neilson	EF Education-EasyPost	+ 44
52	KELDERMAN Wilco	Team Visma \| Lease a Bike	+ 48
53	BERNARD Julien	Lidl-Trek	+ 01:34
54	VERONA Carlos	Lidl-Trek	+ 01:34
55	MADOUAS Valentin	Groupama-FDJ	+ 01:51
56	VERVAEKE Louis	Soudal Quick-Step	+ 09:10
57	GIBBONS Ryan	Lidl-Trek	+ 09:10
58	FORMOLO Davide	Movistar Team	+ 14:26
59	TRATNIK Jan	Team Visma \| Lease a Bike	+ 14:26
60	JUNGELS Bob	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	+ 15:13
61	ABRAHAMSEN Jonas	Uno-X Mobility	+ 15:13
62	TEJADA Harold	Astana Qazaqstan Team	+ 15:13
63	BEULLENS Cédric	Lotto Dstny	+ 18:56
64	OLIVEIRA Nelson	Movistar Team	+ 18:56
65	PAGE Hugo	Intermarché-Wanty	+ 18:56
66	LAURANCE Axel	Alpecin-Deceuninck	+ 18:56
67	LAPEIRA Paul	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team	+ 18:56
68	PACHER Quentin	Groupama-FDJ	+ 18:56
69	RODRIGUEZ Cristian	ARKEA-B&B HOTELS	+ 18:56
70	GRELLIER Fabien	TotalEnergies	+ 18:56
71	GENIETS Kevin	Groupama-FDJ	+ 18:56
72	VAN MOER Brent	Lotto Dstny	+ 18:56
73	KRAGH ANDERSEN Søren	Alpecin-Deceuninck	+ 18:56
74	FUGLSANG Jakob	Israel-Premier Tech	+ 18:56
75	NEILANDS Krists	Israel-Premier Tech	+ 18:56
76	GOOSSENS Kobe	Intermarché-Wanty	+ 18:56
77	KÜNG Stefan	Groupama-FDJ	+ 18:56
78	SOLER Marc	UAE Team Emirates	+ 18:56
79	GRÉGOIRE Romain	Groupama-FDJ	+ 18:56
80	MOHORIC Matej	Bahrain Victorious	+ 18:56
81	CASTROVIEJO Jonathan	INEOS Grenadiers	+ 18:56
82	IZAGIRRE Ion	Cofidis	+ 18:56
83	HERRADA Jesus	Cofidis	+ 18:56
84	HOULE Hugo	Israel-Premier Tech	+ 18:56
85	MOSCON Gianni	Soudal Quick-Step	+ 18:56
86	VANHOUCKE Harm	Lotto Dstny	+ 18:56
87	VERMEERSCH Gianni	Alpecin-Deceuninck	+ 18:56
88	VAN DER POEL Mathieu	Alpecin-Deceuninck	+ 18:56
89	BENOOT Tiesj	Team Visma \| Lease a Bike	+ 18:56
90	LEMMEN Bart	Team Visma \| Lease a Bike	+ 18:56
91	LUTSENKO Alexey	Astana Qazaqstan Team	+ 24:50
92	CORT Magnus	Uno-X Mobility	+ 24:50
93	TILLER Rasmus	Uno-X Mobility	+ 24:53
94	STUYVEN Jasper	Lidl-Trek	+ 24:53
95	ARNDT Nikias	Bahrain Victorious	+ 24:53
96	DE LIE Arnaud	Lotto Dstny	+ 29:24

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