VIDEO: Tour de France 2023 week 1 highlights

The Tour de France has witnessed one of it's most dramatic opening weeks in modern cycling. Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard have so far delivered quite a spectacle in the mountains, whilst other figures have surged to the top over the first nine days of racing.

The Tour de France have wrapped up the first week in a nine minute video which highlights the big moments of the opening week. These do include dramatic moments such as the emotional abandon of Mark Cavendish after a crash on stage 8, or how on the opening day both Enric Mas and Richard Carapaz immediately lost their GC ambitions - and eventually abandoned - because of a tough downhill crash.

Equally it highlights glorious moments of breakthrough such as Victor Lafay's performances in the Basque Country and his spectacular victory on stage 2, the stage 5 win and yellow jersey for Tour de France debutant Jai Hindley who currently sits in third place, the maiden Tour win of Michael Woods at 36 years of age in the return to the Puy de Dôme, and the sprint stage dominance of Alpecin-Deceuninck who have seen Mathieu van der Poel shine in the leadouts for Jasper Philipsen.

The main topic of the week has however been the fight for the yellow jersey, which was held by Adam Yates after the GC fight exploded on the first day of the race, passed on to Jai Hindley after a superb breakaway raid on the first Pyreneen day, but eventually after stage 6's long-distance attack of Jonas Vingegaard, belongs in the reigning champion's shoulders. On five of the opening nine days there have been attacks from either him and Tadej Pogacar, with the two achieving almost equal results which see them enter the second week only apart by 17 seconds.