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Winner of the massive sprint in Lille on Saturday, the Belgian becomes the first carrier of the yellow jersey of this 112nd edition of the Grande Boucle.
A sprinter in yellow and favorites already in the tough. Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) endorsed the first yellow jersey of the Tour de France 2025 by winning the sprint on Saturday July 5, a very eventful first step around Lille. It is the 10th victory on the Great Loop for the 27 -year -old Belgian. The latter was perfectly taken by his teammates Mathieu Van Der Poel and Kaden Groves before clearly winning in front of the Ethiopian Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty), in a peloton reduced to only forty runners including the big favorite Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) et son rival Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a bike)
Primoz Roglic (Redbull-Bora-Hansgrohe) et Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) have been trapped in a border initiated by the training of the Visma leader, 17 kilometers from the finish. The two podium candidates lost 39 seconds, which was not at all planned for this day in the plain.
The very nervous step has done big damage with many breaks, mechanical incidents and falls that have abandoned two specialists in the time trial, Switzerland Stefan Bisseger (Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale) And especially the Italian Filippo Ganna (ineos grenadiers).