The squad in action during the first stage of the Tour de France, a cycling race of 184.9 km in Lille Métropole, France, on July 5, 2025.
Foto: Efe – Christophe Petit Tesson
Summary and Fast Informame
Listen to this article
Audio generated with Google
On a day of nerves, falls and fansthe first yellow jerse of the 112 edition of the Tour de France landed on the shoulders of the Belgian Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin Diseuninck) after imposing himself on a chaotic opening day.
Philipsen took advantage of his team's great work to avoid fans disaster and launched by Mathieu van der Poela luxury, he raised his arms celebrating his victory in Tour number 10, investing a time of 3h: 53: 11 In the 184.9 that linked the exit and goal of Lille, at an average of 47.6 km/h.
The Belgian triumphed in the first duel among the sprinters, surpassing the erythrous Biniam Gyrmay (INTERMARCHÉ) and Norwegian Søren Wærenskjold (One x). Within this first group, the great favorites, the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar and the Danish Jonas Vingegaard.
The best located Colombian was Santiago Buitrago (Bahrain-Victororous), who crossed the goal at 39 seconds from Philipsen, in 71st position. Further back they arrived Harold Tejada (Astana), 129° a 5:18; A rubio (Movistar), 139 ° with the same time; and Sergio Higuita (Astana), 144 ° also at 5:18.
This will be the second stage of the Tour de France 2025
There are plenty of reasons to think that the yellow jersey could change the owner in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Scenario of the first explosive arrival of the Tour de France 2025. It will be a real showcase for the pucancyclists specializing in short, steep and high intensity increases, ideal to attack nerve endings like this.
The arthois and boulonnais hills will have tested the resistance of the squad before the runners face two demanding ascents next to the sea: first Saint-Étienne-au-Montwith ramps of up to 15 %, and then Outreaujust over five kilometers from the finish line.
Overcome these walls, there will still be one last challenge: a final repect of a kilometer that will undoubtedly be decisive to define the winner of the stage… and possibly the new Tour leader.
This stage can be seen by Caracol Sports, Caracol ChannelCaracol HD2 and Ditu from the 7:15 a. m.
🚴🏻⚽🏀 The latest in sports?: Everything you should know about world sport is in the spectator
