Etapa 1 - Datos del día
28 : YELLOW JERSEY THREE YEARS LATER !
There is a short step from pink to yellow. After winning the opening team time trial with his Visma-Lease a Bike squad, Jonas Vingegaard is back in the Yellow Jersey for the 28th time in his career. The Dane had not worn the overall leader's jersey since his final victory in 2023. In doing so, Vingegaard imitates Miguel Indurain, the last rider to claim the very first Yellow Jersey after winning the Giro in the same year, back in 1993.
2 : VINGEGAARD FOLLOWS IN MERCKX'S FOOTSTEPS
For only the second time only, a team time trial awarded the Tour's first Yellow Jersey. We have to go back to 1971 and the Grand Départ in Mulhouse, Alsace, to find a similar opening stage. That year, the Molteni team dominated the 11 km course laid out through the streets of Mulhouse. Eddy Merck, "The Cannibal", claimed the leader's jersey... just as Jonas Vingegaard did this Saturday.
2 : VISMA - LEASE A BIKE KEEPS HER CROWN
By claiming its 75th Tour de France victory near Barcelona's Olympic Stadium, Visma-Lease a Bike retains its team time trial crown. The Dutch team had previously dominated the discipline in 2019, the last time it featured on the roads of the Grande Boucle, though that was under the old format !
27 : A NEW KICK-OFF OUTSIDE FRANCE
By hosting the start of the Tour de France for the first time in its history this Saturday, Barcelona marks the 27th time the Grande Boucle has begun abroad, 72 years after the first one in Amsterdam (1954). It is also the third time the race has kicked off in Spain, following San Sebastian (1992) and Bilbao (2023).
3 : A GREEN SURPRISE
It is a jersey he maybe never thought he would wear in his career. After the yellow and the white, Egan Bernal, a pure climber, is now clad in green, having been the fastest rider to cross the line at the first intermediate check (at the 5.1 km mark). The 2019 Tour winner is the second Colombian to lead the points classification. Only Fernando Gaviria, winner of the opening stage in 2018, had previously led this ranking traditionally reserved for sprinters.
23 : FIRST FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
An ideal start for Juan Ayuso. The 23 year old Lidl-Trek climber has claimed the first white jersey of his career. The Barcelona native is only the second Spaniard, after Jesús Blanco Villar in 1986, to lead the young rider classification at the end of the opening day.
109 : MISTER TOP 3
Tadej Pogacar is subscribed to the podium. By finishing third in the team time trial with UAE Team Emirates - XRG, the Slovenian has secured a top-three spot in the Tour de France general classification for the 109th time, and all this in just 127 stages raced ! Having held the lead 54 times, being second 45 times, and placed third 10 times, the two-time world champion has not dropped out of the provisional top three since the opening day of the 2025 edition, when he finished 18th.
40.6 : PIDCOCK IS ALREADY SHOWING HIS PUNCH
Tom Pidcock wasted no time in demonstrating his qualities as a puncher. Riding out of the saddle the entire way, the Briton powered up the 800 m at 7% hill leading to the Olympic Stadium at an average speed of 40.6 km/h. However, the performance was not enough to claim the polka-dot jersey, as the times were calculated based on the combined duration of the day's final two climbs. And in that contest, it was the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar who outperformed his rivals.
