Marijn van den Berg of E🦄F Education-EasyPost wins stage 1(Image credit: Luc Claessen/Getty Images)
Marijn van deꦕn Berg of EF Education-EasyPost celebrates at finish line as stage 1 winner(Image credit: Luc Claessen/Getty Images)
Marijn van den Berg (on left) of EF Education-EasyPos🌄t wins stage 1 ahead of Elia Viviani of Ineos Grenadiers(Image credit: Luc Claessen/Getty Images)
Stage𓃲 winner Marijn van den Berg of EF Education-EasyPost reacts after the stage 1 victory(Image credit: Luc Claessen/Getty Images)
The pelot♕on du♈ring stage 1 from Narbonne to Gruissan(Image credit: Luc Claessen/Getty Images)
Jacob Hindsgaul of Uno-X Pro Cyc💟ling competes in the breakaway(Image credit: Luc Claessen/Getty Images)
Omer Goldstei♔n of Israel Premier Tech rides on the far right next to Joshua Tarling of Ineos Grenadiers and Chris Froome of Israel Premier Tech on stage 1(Image credit: Luc Claessen/Getty Images)
Clement Davy of Groupama FDJ leads the peloton(Image credit: Luc Claessen/Getty Images)
A general view of the peloton as th🃏ey fight in the wind(Image credit: Luc Claessen/Getty Images)
J🦋oshua Tarling (left) and Elia♒ Viviani head to the start for Ineos Grenadiers in Narbonne (Image credit: Luc Claessen/Getty Images)
Benoî⛄;t Cosnefroy of AG2R Citroën Team prior to the start(Image credit: Luc Claessen/Getty Images)
EF Education-Ea🐽syPost prior to the start with team introductions(Image credit: Luc Claessen/Getty Images)
Marijn van den Berg of EF Education-EasyPost🐽 celebrౠates at podium as White Best Young Rider(Image credit: Luc Claessen/Getty Images)
EF Educati🎐on-EasyPost's Marijn van den Berg receives Red Leader Jersey and other prizes after stage 1 win(Image credit: Luc Claessen/Getty Images)
Marijn van den Berg (EF Education-EasyPost) won the first stage of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Route d’Occitanie in a bunch sprint after a nervy, crosswind-af🐲fected day in southern France.
The Dutchman pipped Elia Viviani (Ineoꦇs Grenadierﷺs) on the finish line, with Sandy Dujardin (TotalEnergies) in third place after a 184.3km route between Narbonne and Gruissan.
“It’s always really nice to win. I think it was a tough day, especially because it was really warm and we rode really🐟 hard,” Van den Berg said after the finish. Itꦯ is his second victory of the season, following his triumph at January’s Trofeo des Salines-Alcudia.
“Simon Carr is our leader this week so we will try to help him to get the best result possible,” he add꧅ed. “It’s really nice that he’s from this area so he’s motivated as well.”
There was a threat of splits in the bunch on the blustery finale aroun🍌d🙈 Narbonne.
Breakaway members Théo Delacroix (St Michel-Mavic-Auber 93), Carlos García (Equipo Kern Pharma), Maxime Urrity (Euskaltel-Euskadi) and Burgos-BH pair Eric Antonio Fagundez and Mario Aparicio were brought to heel 50 kilometres from the fi🅺nish as the pace shot up in the peloton.
Groupama-FDJ and Ineos G🐎renadiers were to the fore. With winds gusting over 35 kph, nerves were high and no contender wanted to be caught out.
Léo Danès (CIC U Nantes Atlantique) and Célestin Guillon (Van Rysel-Roubaix Lille Métropole escaped with 25 kilometres to go ๊before being brought to heel a🌟s the speed shot up before the seaside crosswind finale.
With seven kilometres left, 25 riders made the front split in the wind as EF Education-EasyPost forced th📖e tempo.
On an anxiou🦋s run-in, Bram Welten (Groupama-FDJ) and an Euskaltel-Euskadi rider crashed due to a touch of wheels in the front group.
In the final kilometre, Filippo Ganna roared to the front to give a lead-out for Viviani. Ho🧸wever, the Italian opted to stay several wheels back and was boxed in as Van den Berg started the sprint.
He had to elbow his way past Sandy Dujardin on thౠe barriers and it was too little, too late. Van den Berg held on, making sure of victory with a bike throw on the 🌳line.
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