TDF Stage 1: Brest - Plumelec (197.5km)

So its July and it’s the Tour de France and the odd thing about this opening stage is that it is not a prologue. As long as I have been watching the Tour de France the opening stage has been a prologue time-trial so this will make for different but interesting viewing. Everyone will have a shot at Yellow today.

The winner of stage 1 was one of the pre-race favourites, Alejandro Valverde. The race opened with a race and not a prologue time-trial, and it worked. The race finished at the top of a 1.5km climb and it separated the men from the boys.

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