The scene is not trivial, observed this Saturday on the first stage of the Tour de France: a collective part of a rare density.
It left for a Tour de France. This Saturday in Lille, the caravan and the peloton paraded. For a first step victoriously concluded in the sprint by the Belgian Jasper Philipsen. Yet Puts and other backpackers tried their luck at the start of the course. In vain…
Shortly after the real departure given by the director of the race Christian Prudhomme indeed, the Bruno Armirail, Benjamin Thomas, Mathis Le Berre, Matteo Vercher and Jonas Rutsch set fire to the powder, launching the first escape of this large buckle 2025. With Panache.
Tour de France, a concern for timing at the start
This promptitude had the merit of surprising many runners. And for good reason … Several dozen competitors had won the side of the road between fictitious and real departures to relieve themselves. Radio Peloton reporting the precipitation – not to say the delay – of a good part of the committed while the buses of the teams encountered great difficulties to reach the launch area.
On social networks, the former Belgian runner Thomas de Gendt had fun with the situation, filming the original scene of these cyclists aligned in onion row to observe the famous peak break that they could not make before the big departure. A timing that almost enjoyed the daring of the day.
