Tour de France: Visma-Lease a Bike sweep to stage 1 team time trial victory in Barcelona

Visma-Lease a Bike may have been underdogs for the opening team time trial of the Tour de France after losing Wout van Aert from their roster due to illness, but Vingegaard stamped his authority on the race. With Matteo Jorgenson and Davide Piganzoli providing the final pulls, Vingegaard flew up the Côte de Montjuïc to unseat Netcompany Ineos from the hot seat by 7.33 seconds.

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Vingegaard only had to wait for Pogačar’s UAE Team Emirates XRG squad to complete the 19.6km route in Barcelona, but the defending champion’s team were already down 13 seconds at the third check.

Together with Isaac del Toro, Pogačar turned on the afterburners with 600 metres to go, but finished 11.28 seconds down on Vingegaard and Visma-Lease a Bike.

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Netcompany Ineos were forced to make a late change to their plan to launch Kévin Vauquelin when the Frenchman punctured with 7km to go, and instead sent Ganna in pursuit of the maillot jaune.

While Vingegaard was the one to take the yellow jersey, Ganna is second overall, 8 seconds down, with Pogačar third at 12 seconds.

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