Stage 1
Kristoff takes the first yellow
- Saturday 29 August 2020
- 157 km
- 1,596 m climbed
- Won by Alexander Kristoff
The road
At the start
A Tour that nearly wasn't, from Nice
Nice, and the week has been spent being tested rather than training: two positives inside one team and the whole team goes home. The route is the one drawn last October, but nothing else is — it is late August, France's case numbers are rising, the roadsides will be policed. Ineos left Froome and Thomas at home to ride for Egan Bernal. Today the sprinters have the Promenade des Anglais.
How it was won
- 57 km to go
Carnage in the rain
Rain slicks the roads above Nice and the peloton crashes again and again, riders sliding across the tarmac on greasy bends as the bunch fractures in the chaos.
- At the line
Kristoff takes the first yellow
From the survivors of a crash-strewn opening day, Alexander Kristoff powers clear of Mads Pedersen and Cees Bol to win in Nice and pull on the first yellow jersey of the 2020 Tour.
The result
| Rank | Rider | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alexander Kristoff | UAE Team Emirates | 3:46:23 |
| 2 | Mads Pedersen | Trek - Segafredo | +0:00 |
| 3 | Cees Bol | Team Sunweb | +0:00 |
The route on real terrain, every moment pinned to the kilometre it happened on — and the GPX to ride it yourself.