Let's go for the Vuelta 2025 ! This Saturday was the 1st stage between Torino-Reggia di Venaria and Novara, from a relatively flat course and promised to the best sprinters of the peloton. Unsurprisingly, the stage victory actually played the sprint, and it is the Belgian Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-deceuninck) who won ahead of the Briton Ethan Vernon (Israel-Prime Tech) and the Venezuelan Orluis Aula (Movistar Team). The Danish Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek), poorly placed in the last hectometers, only finished 14th. The Belgian is a double blow and seizes the leading red jersey after this inaugural stage, a tunic which he will find it difficult to keep on Sunday, on the occasion of a 2nd stage which will already end with a climb of ten kilometers.
Video – Jasper Philipsen has already won the 1st stage of the 2025 Tour
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The summary This 1st step:
From the start of this first stage, six runners stand out to form the breakaway of the day: the Dutchman Koen Bouwman (Team Jayco AlUla) et Pepijn Reinderink (Sudal Quick-Step), the Spaniards Joel Nicolau (Rural-segurous box) et Hugo de la Calle (Burgos burpellet bh), le kazakh Nicolas Vinokurov (XDS Astana Team) and Italian Alessandro Verre (Arkea-B & B Hotels). More than 80 kilometers from the finish, seeing that the breakaway had no chance of going to the end, Hugo de la Calle decides to accelerate and isolate himself from his escape companions.
It is finally resumed after more than 40 kilometers alone, and the peloton is gradually organizing in the last thirty kilometers. Belgian training Alpecin-DECEUNINCK perfectly takes his sprinter and big favorite of the day Jasper Philipsenwhich is not the case with Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek), poorly placed in the last hectomers. 200 meters from the line, Jasper Philipsen Place his attack and no one will be able to compete. He wins in the end in front Ethan Vernon (Israel-Premier Tech) et Orluis Aula (Movistar Team), Tandis who are rival Mads Pedersen ends far, in 14th place.
