The opening stage of the 2025
Volta ao Algarve is one that will be remembered and talked about for a long while to come. Sadly for race organisers, not necessarily in a good way, after the farcically chaotic scenes in the finish town of Lagos.
Due to some confusion, more than half the peloton went the wrong way on a roundabout, leaving them helplessly on the wrong side of the barriers as INEOS Grenadiers'
Filippo Ganna crossed the line solo on the right side on the road.
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe's
Jordi Meeus was among the group to get lost, much to his own frustration. "I think they sent us to the extraction of the cars,"
he pondered in post-stage quotes collected by Sporza. "The last 600 meters we were no longer on the course. I didn't realize it right away."