Kevin Vauquelin (Arkéa- B&B Hotels) attacked the break on the second ascent of San Luca to take a career-first grand tour win at the 2024 Tour de France, but it was a preview of future GC battles that really animated the day.
Stage 1 of the 2024 Tour de France rolled out from Florence, Italy today. In what was said to be one of the hardest opening days in the history of the race, it was Romain Bardet and his DSM Firmenich PostNL teammate Frank van den Broek that made the opening salvo, crossing the line together just 100m ahead of a surging peloton.
Andrea Vendrame (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) attacked a nineteen man break with about 25km remaining to take a solo win in Stage 19 of the 2024 Giro d’Italia. It is his second win of the 2024 Giro.
Tim Merlier (Soudal Quick-Step) bested five or six of the best sprinters in the world to won Stage 18 of the 2024 Giro d’Italia, the 178 km long Fiera di Primiero-Padova.
A shortened Stage 16 of the 2024 Giro d’Italia still served up some excitement. Julian Alaphilippe led for most of the stage but no one was stopping Pogacar in his domination of the race. He took his fifth stage win with what looked like little effort.
Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) has won Stage 13 of the 2024 Giro d’Italia, the 179km long Riccione-Cento. Stanislaw Aniolkowski (Cofidis) and Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain Victorious) finished second and third respectively.
After a long time at the front with Mirco Maestri and then a solo breakaway with 12km to go, Julian Alaphilippe takes the win on Stage 12 of the 2024 Giro d’Italia.
Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) has won Stage 11 of the 2024 Giro d’Italia, the 207km long Foiano di Val Fortore-Francavilla al Mare. Tim Merlier (Soudal Quick-Step) and Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Deceuninck) finished second and third respectively.
Valentin Paret-Peintre (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team) has won Stage 10 of the 2024 Giro d’Italia, the 142km long Pompei-Cusano Mutri (Bocca della Selva). Romain Bardet (Team DSM-Firmenich PostNL) and Jan Tratnik (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) finished second and third respectively.
Tadej Pogacar notched his third stage win in the 2024 Giro d’italia, showing no mercy to breakaway riders and the other GC contenders as he sprinted to victory at Prati di Tivo ahead of a small group comprising runner up Dani Martinez.