Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin – Deceuninck) takes the opening stage of the 2025 Tour de France, his 10th stage win in the Tour and his first maillot jaune.
The 2025 Tour de France got its official start today, rolling out of Lille Metropole at 1:40 in the afternoon under overcast skies.
Attacks started immediately with Jonas Rutsch (Intermarché-Wanty), Matis Le Berre (Arkéa-B&B Hotels), Bruno Armirail (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale), Benjamin Thomas (Cofidis) and Mattéo Vercher (Total Energies) rapidly opening a gap of 25”.
Silvan Dillier (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Quinn Simmons (Lidl-Trek) were tasked with controlling this early gap of around 2’15”.
As the leaders approached the Cat. 4 Côte de Notre-Dame-de-Lorette climb, the gap was holding steady.
Armirail made the early go for the KOM points, but it was Thomas that prevailed.
After that first climb, the peloton upped the pace and quickly reduced the gap to 1’20” at the 50km mark and soon down to just 1 minute.
After a crash earlier in the stage, Bissegger, Ganna and Flynn return to the bunch after some 20 kilometres of chasing. Meanwhile, Mauro Schmid, Luke Plapp (Jayco AlUla), Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious), Louis Barré (Intermarché-Wanty) and Frank Van den Broek (Picnic PostNL), Florian Lipowitz (Red Bul-Bora-Hansgrohe), Thibau Nys (Lidl-Trek) and Stefan Bissegger (Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale) are all of the back and chasing to reconnect.
After 80km off the front, the break is caught.
Benjamin Thomas (Cofidis) and Mattéo Vercher (Total Energies) decided to give it another go, and went off the with 93km to go, opening a 30″ gap.
The gap was up to 1′ just before the cat.-4 ascent of Mont Cassel.
Thomas and Vercher somehow crash at the summit. They get back on their bikes, but they lose their gap.
On the descent, the peloton awakens and the pace increased to 77 km/h. Adam and Simon Yates were among those who could not hold on.
Into the last 50km, it was Pavel Sivakov (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and Victor Campenaerts (Visma-Lease a Bike) driving the bunch.
As the peloton makes their way up the Mont Noir (1.3km at 6.4%), it’s Jonas Vingegaard making a move and taking the KOM point.
Only 41 riders were left in the lead group in the final kilometers.
Visma – Lease a Bike is doing their best to split the peloton. Primoz Roglic, Florian Lipowitz, Joao Almeida, Carlos Rodriguez, Merlier and Santiago Buitrago are all in the second group with Remco Evenepoel.
Into the final kilometers it was shoulder to shoulder, and it was Jasper Phillipsen who takes it.
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