Vingegaard Takes Tour De France Lead as Visma Win Opening Stage
- On Saturday, July 4, 2026, Jonas Vingegaard and his Visma-Lease a Bike team won the 19.6km opening team time trial in Barcelona, claiming the yellow jersey at the Tour de France.
- Cycling's elite Tour de France race kicked off in Spain on Saturday as reigning champion Tadej Pogacar of UAE Team Emirates began his quest for a record-equaling fifth title.
- Vingegaard finished eight seconds faster than Filippo Ganna for Netcompany Ineos, while Pogacar took third place, 12sec behind after the final 800-metre uphill drag to the finish.
- This victory marks Vingegaard's first yellow jersey since 2023, while teenage French prodigy Paul Seixas achieved an impressive sixth-place debut for his Decathlon CMA CGM team.
- Stages 19 and 20 culminate at the famed Alpe d'Huez climb in the Alps, just 24 hours before the 21st and final stage ending on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.
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Jonas Vingegaard Made It Out Alive, Then Made Barcelona Smile
BARCELONA — "Every swarm needs a face," declares the post announcing Visma-Lease a Bike's new bee mascot, "and every face needs a name." Confusing proclamations aside—the defining characteristic of a swarm is its facelessness—the opening stage of the 2026 Tour de France was one for the insects. As if to bless Visma for their honeycomb jerseys out of an oblique entomic solidarity, the swarm of cicadas nestled in the scrubby pines atop Montjuïc th…
The Danish in yellow jersey after the chrono-squads. In polka dots the Slovenian, third. And Ganna fights
The Danish took off during the last steep stretch and drew differences in the start of a three-week competition
What was the first stage of the 2026 Tour de France?
Visma Lease a Bike was the fastest in the opening team time trial of the Tour, with the Slovenian champion taking 3rd place with the UAE team.
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