Tour de France 2024: Romain Bardet in yellow in Romagna

The first man in yellow arrives in Romagna.

Romain Bardet è the first Yellow Jersey of the Tour de France 2024. The leader of the classification of the Grande Boucle è in fact, the bearer of the Dsm-Firmenich PostNL, helped by teammate Frank van den Broek and able to impose himself in a historic stage also for Italy: it is in fact the Florence-Rimini, the first in history to open the kermesse disputed on the roads of the Boot.

Bravo Bardet to recover on the group of the very first fugitives, composed just by Van den Broek and Izagirre, Champoussin, Mohoric, Madouas, Dujardin and Vercher. In the middle stages of the stage è it was then the UAE Emirates that tried to take control of operations, but the gradient of the route soon claimed its first victims (starting with Mark Cavendish).

Bardet è s decisive breakaway came with 50 km to go, with the decisive help of teammate Van den Broek. Then in the last 15 km è it was Ben Healy who tried to contend for the success, which then came without any problems for the two of Dsm-Firmenich PostNL. For the moment chasing the big guys are Wout van Aert and Tadej Pogacar, first Italian Alberto Bettiol tenth.

Tour de France 2024 rankings, first stage:

1 BARDET Romain Team dsm-firmenich PostNL 25 5:07:12
2 VAN DEN BROEK Frank Team dsm-firmenich PostNL 0:04
3 VAN AERT Wout Team Visma | Lease a Bike 0:11
4 POGAČAR Tadej UAE Team Emirates 0:15
5 VAN GILS Maxim Lotto Dstny ''
6 ARANBURU Alex Movistar Team ''
7 PEDERSEN Mads Lidl – Trek ''
8 EVENEPOEL Remco Soudal Quick-Step ''
9 BILBAO Pello Bahrain – Victorious ''
10 BETTIOL Alberto EF Education – EasyPost ''