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Opinion: First blood to Tadej Pogacar in bid for Tour de France hat-trick as Jumbo-Visma put up a good fight

Filippo Ganna, Wout van Aert and Tadej Pogacar all leaving the start gate one after the other was always going to provide the key pivot for Friday’s opening 13.2km time trial – although Jumbo-Visma duo Primoz Roglic and Jonas Vingegaard had already got their respective Tours off to an assured start in what proved to be fairly treacherous conditions in Copenhagen. Neither Roglic nor Vingegaard were able to dislodge early leader Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel from the hotseat but both riders – to the delight of the home crowds, in the case of Vingegaard – put in highly respectable times just a few seconds slower than the Alpecin-Deceuninck leader.

Tour de France: Lampaert in yellow as Thomas rallies after clothing error

Geraint Thomas of Ineos Grenadiers survived a clothing error in the Copenhagen rain to make a solid start to the 2022 Tour de France, as the race got under way with an opening individual time trial in the Danish capital.

‘I forgot I had it on!’ – Geraint Thomas accidentally wears gilet over expensive skinsuit at Tour de France

Geraint Thomas confessed he forgot to take off his gilet for the opening stage time trial at the 2022 Tour de France. The Welshman, bidding for a second Tour title after his 2018 heroics, put himself at a big disadvantage after rolling down the starting ramp still wrapped up in his the aero-sapping jacket. Ad/> The 36-year-old was left frustrated at the finish after revealing to Eurosport he had also struggled for rhythm on the 13.2km run around the wet roads of Copenhagen.

Chris Froome is the ‘greatest Tour de France rider of generation’ – Bradley Wiggins

Chris Froome has been hailed as the best Tour de France rider of his generation by Bradley Wiggins. The four-time champion got his 10th Tour campaign underway on Friday in Israel-Premier Tech colours, with the 37-year-old hoping for his best outing since his horror crash at the 2019 Dauphine. Ad/> As Froome rolled around the wet streets of Copenhagen for the short Stage 1 time trial, Wiggins resumed his role on the back of a motorbike for Eurosport and spoke highly of his former team-mate.

Tour de France 2022 – Yves Lampaert stuns big names to win Stage 1 time trial in rainy Copenhagen

The Tour de France has a habit of throwing up surprises on the opening day and that tradition continued on Friday as the most northerly Grand Depart in the race's history took place on the sodden streets of Copenhagen. At the end of a week dominated by headlines surrounding the controversial non-selection of Mark Cavendish, the Belgian Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl team made the news for all the right reasons with an emphatic victory for Yves Lampaert in the Tour’s opening stage, a 13.2km individual time trial around the Danish capital.

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Opinion: First blood to Tadej Pogacar in bid for Tour de France hat-trick as Jumbo-Visma put up a good fight

Tour de France: Lampaert in yellow as Thomas rallies after clothing error

‘I forgot I had it on!’ – Geraint Thomas accidentally wears gilet over expensive skinsuit at Tour de France

Chris Froome is the ‘greatest Tour de France rider of generation’ – Bradley Wiggins

Tour de France 2022 – Yves Lampaert stuns big names to win Stage 1 time trial in rainy Copenhagen

Tour de France 2022: stage one opens race with Copenhagen time trial – live!

Yves Lampaert wins Tour de France opening time trial; Tadej Pogacar leads GC contenders

Yves Lampaert claims victory in Copenhagen on wet opening day of Tour de France