Filippo Summerone of the big names of world cycling and main trick of Ineos Grenadiers For the chronos of this tour, he has said goodbye to the 112nd edition of the Gala Round. The counterreloj world champion twice went to the ground at kilometer 52, in a right -wing curve, during a first stage marked by tension and nerves.
The Italian, who should be one of the great rivals of Remco Evenepoel In the stages against the chrono – and a key man for Carlos Rodríguez within the British block – he was visibly touched after the accident. While Sean Flynnalso involved in the fall, managed to quickly reinstate, Ganna remained a few moments on the floor, disoriented and needing support from the equipment car before getting back into the bicycle. After trying for a few kilometers, he ended up abandoning.
The inaugural day, between Lille there lilleI was fulfilling the maxim that in the tour “is not won in the first stage, but it can be lost.” The platoon, still fresh but extremely tense, lived several more falls. Apart from Ganna, the Swiss Stefan Bissegger also ended up on the ground and had to sit in a chair offered by fans to recover. All this while a quintet of brave left ahead with minimal advantage: Rutsch, Le Berre, Armirail, Geraint Thomas and Vercher.
The decline of Summer It represents a hard blow for ineos, which loses an essential engine for both the plain, as for the chronos and even the mountain. Carlos Rodríguez, That he had him as one of his luxury squires, he will have to reconfigure his support core in key stages. The tour does not expect anyone. And Ganna, one of the names called to shine in this edition, is already his first great victim.
It was not the only one, another abandonment
The first day of the Tour de France was a real day of survival. The squad tension was felt from the initial flag and the falls soon appeared, some of them of remarkable hardness. If in the first hours the withdrawal of Filippo Ganna was confirmed after an accident in the first bars of the stage, another mail came in the afternoon: Stefan Bissegger also said goodbye to the gala round. The Swiss, key to the aspirations of Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale in Las Cronos, was involved in an early fall that forced doctors to perform tests for possible brain shock. Although at first he managed to return to the race, his body said enough before reaching the last 50 kilometers.
Bissegger's loss is a hard blow to his team, which had him as one of the great specialists against the squad's chrono. The 26 -year -old Helvetic cyclist had marked the tour of the 2025 tour, with two stages counterreloj where he could shine. His abandonment, next to Ganna's – another of the best rollers in the world – leaves the fight for the clock very touched and paves the way for names like Remco Evenepoel or Brandon McNulty. Two weight abandonments confirming the crudeness of a relentless tour of tour, where each meter has been a battle.
