112. Tour France: Philipsen-Sprint in the yellow jersey-moderate Red Bull start

The Red Bull bike professionals around Primoz Roglic and the German tour debutants Florian Lipowitz quickly disappeared into the team bus. After the slight damper at the start of the 112nd Tour de France in Lille, the drivers of the racing team wanted to quickly forget the first stage. Right from the start, the Slovenian podium candidate Roglic received 39 seconds on the top stars Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard.

“It’s not the end of the world now, but could have run better,” said team boss Ralph Denk. “Wipe your mouth, continue,” said the operated 53-year-old. Sports director Rolf Aldag said that the team wanted to “deliberately less risk” because of the turbulent stage. The Red Bull drivers should stay together up to ten kilometers before the finish. “They made that consistently. But then they were consistently at the back,” said Aldag. The distance will “not decide” at the end of the tour in Paris on July 27.

Thanks to the restless wind conditions, the overall victory favorites Pogacar and Vingegaard had left themselves behind the later day winner Jasper Philipsen from Belgium a few kilometers before the finish in Lille-and Roglic and the Belgian podium candidate Remco Evenepoel left behind.

Philipsen celebrates tenth tour daily victory

Philipsen celebrated its tenth stage victory near the imposing fortress fortress in the North French city. But not only that: the 27-year-old stripped the yellow jersey and created a special success, because the fast men rarely have the prospect of the most prestigious dress in the cycling world.

“You dream of it,” said the Belgian at Eurosport about wearing the yellow jersey. “The tenth victory is one that I will not forget,” he added. After the mostly flat 184.9 kilometers with start and finish in Lille, Philipsen prevailed in front of the Eritian professional Biniam Girmay and Norwegian Sören Wänenskjold. The German Sprinter around Pascal Ackermann and Phil Bauhaus went away empty -handed, but the debutant Marius Mayrhofer became ninth.

Three German debutants in Lille

Right at his debut stage, the German Cycling Holding Lipowitz experienced a slight moment of shock. The 24-year-old was annoyed in the course of the race over a flat tire. The breakdown was quickly remedied, but the total third of the Dauphiné tour had to catch up for almost 40 seconds without the help of his colleagues before he pushed back to the main field.

The world’s largest major cycling event started in France for the first time in four years. At around 1.40 p.m. the sharp start for the 184 professionals, including the German debutants Lipowitz, Mayrhofer, and Niklas Märkl. A total of ten German drivers went to the tour adventure, the German road bike master Georg Zimmermann drives in the black-red-gold dress.

Curious fall at the point of view

The professionals did not protect themselves at high speeds. A strange fall makes it clear. The two French professionals Benjamin Thomas and Mattéo Vercher sprinted around a single mountain rating point. Shortly after Thomas crossed the line about 79 kilometers before the finish, the 29-year-old crashed and tore down shortly afterwards. But both could continue.

Longest stage is imminent

The two-time time trial world champion Filippo Ganna from Italy had to leave the tour early on due to the sequences of falls. The Swiss Stefan Bissegger also had to end the tour.

On the second day, the professionals are about to take the longest stage on Sunday. On the 209.1 kilometers between Lauwin-Planque and Boulogne-sur-Mer in northern France, the outliers and classic experts have high hopes for the day’s victory. Among them is the Dutch top star Mathieu van der Poel, who won the classics Milan-Sanremo and Paris-Roubaix in spring.