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Team DSM-Firmenich PostNL rider Romain Bardet crosses the finish line just ahead of his teammate Frank Van Den Broek to win the first stage.Team DSM-Firmenich PostNL rider Romain Bardet crosses the finish line just ahead of his teammate Frank Van Den Broek to win the first stage.With that, I’ll be wrapping up today’s live blog.he looks alright:He’s inside the cutoff, coming in 39mins 12 secs after Bardet. Assuming he’s fine to continue, he’ll be on the start line tomorrow.
Stage one is rated as third tier coefficient with, so with the average speed so of more than 44kph it looks like the cutoff will be 20% of the winner’s finishing time.A quick Cavendish update, his Astana group is more than 30 minutes back but that’s likely to be OK in terms of the cutoff. Fabio Jakobsen, another sprint favourite with DSM, is with him.Wout van Aert is still with the peloton, we’ll find out how good his legs are if this all comes together.
That’s how I’d view it too and I imagine most hardcore cycling fans would feel the same. Although track cycling of course is vastly different.The peloton has brought down the gap to the main group to 3mins 44secs. UAE, Pogačar’s team, have taken over at the front the chase group after a big shift from EF-Education Easypost to cut that time down to the front of the race.What is going on with the big names such as Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard.
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