With the leading yellow jersey following his victory in extremis on the prologue of Tour of the future, Paul Seixas The mission was to keep it on the first online stage of this 61st edition. Threatened by Lorenzo Finnwhich was in the same second as him in the general classification, the French prodigy had to finish in front of the Italian during the final sprint in the streets of Saint Galmier, place of the victory of Célia Géry A few minutes earlier on the women's race. As on the female race, despite the various attacks in the final it is indeed a sprint which was disputed and which ultimately crowned Noah Hobbs (United Kingdom). The Briton is thus ahead of the line Davide Donati (Italy) and Cesar Macias (Mexico). For its part, mission accomplished for Paul Seixas which keeps the leading yellow jersey.
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The peloton finally had the last word
After a lot of attempts to train the breakaway, only Stef Koning (Netherlands) managed to isolate himself at the top of the race, and therefore opened the race for many kilometers. In a final similar to that experienced by women a few minutes ago, the attacks followed one another to try to isolate themselves and go and seek the stage victory. Nevertheless, the Norway team to finally aborted any attempted counter. Alone Carl-Frederik Bévort (Denmark) threatened the chances of sprinters by leaving the red flame. Nevertheless, it is indeed a sprint that crowned Noah Hobbs.
