Hello and welcome to our▨ live coverage of the opening stage of the 2024 Tour de Suisse!

Around 20 minutes before the Tour de Suisse gets underway with the first ꦆrider to start.

Jan Sommer of the Swiss National Tea꧋m is the first man to start today.

it's a very short🍬 and very fla🦄t stage to start the race. Just 4.8km in the Lichtenstein capital of Vaduz.

168 riders will start the Tour de Suisse, with ⭕Jacopo Mosca (Lidl-Trek) the last man out.

Home favourite and the top time trialist in the field Stefa💝n Küng (Groupama-FDJ) starts  his effort at 14:22 local time, so just under half an hour away.

Today's stage is the shortest of the race by some distance, though stage 6 has been massively re🎉duced due to snow in the high mountains.

2024 Tour de Suisse queen stage shortened to 42.5km due to snowpack

Under 10 minutes to the start of the stage now.

The final stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné is also ongoing. You can 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:follow stage 8 live here.

The 2024 Tour de Suis💙se is n𝐆ow underway as Jan Sommer rolls down the start ramp!

Sommer hits the day's only checkpo✨int in a time of 1:20.9💝2.

Riders head out with one-mജinute intervals all day today so it'll be a fast and furious one.

João Almeida and Cian Uijtdebroeks are already underway and the likes of Enric Mas, Egan Bernal, and Stefan Küng⭕ are following shortly.

Second rider to sta♉rt Yannis Voisard is the quickest at the finish so far wit🦋h a time of 5:19.44.

Almeida now the quickest 🐟at the finish after gonig third at the checkpoint. His time is 5:12.

Uijtdebroeks is fifth at the finish with a time of 🍸5:28.89.

Mas, Bernal and Küng out on course now.

Küng second at the checkpoint, 0.45 of a second off Cedric Beullenꦑs.

Bernal was seventh with a time of 1:22.43 there.

Alberto Bettiol has edged between Beullens and K&uum𒅌l;ng at the checkpoint, fractions of a second in it there.

Bernal fifth at the line with a time of 5:23.87.

Damiano Caruso also out on course.

Küng comes home in second p✤lace! His time of 5:1ꦇ6.07 is four seconds off Almeida.

Bettiol comes homeඣ shortly after with a time of𒀰 5:14.60 to move into second.

The top five separated by just over seven secon🐻ds at the finish.

Küng during his ride to provis༺ional third pl𝔍ace.

Bauke Mollema 🧜the latest big name to start. He's fifth at the checkpoint, just under a second off the lead.

A 5:16.90 for M🃏ollema at the finish sees him take fourth.

Adam Yates, Michael Matthews, Yves Lampaert, Ethan Hayter,🅠 Lenny Martine🎀z all start in the next 10 minutes.

A great start for Yates, who takes third🌌 at the checkpoint.

He's slower at the finish though,🎉 coming in with a time of 5:20.ꦓ62.

Lampaert has smashed 🀅Almeida's time to go quickest at the finish. 5:05.58 for him.

Ethan Hayter and♉ Stefan Bi💟ssegger now out on course.

Hayter slots into second place across the lin🐬e with a time of 5:09.47.

Bissegger is quicker, but not quick enough to take top spot. He moves into second at the finish✨ with a time of 5:ꦍ08.76.

Lenny Martinez crossed the line with a time♎ of 5:24.61.

Felix Ga▨ll, Ion Izagirre and Alexey Lutsenko 🃏currently out on course.

A young Swiss rider riding for the national team, Felix Stehli, has hit the 🧸checkpoint with the quickest time – 1:16.89.

5:16.74 for Mattias Skjelmose at the finish.

Stefan Bissegger out on course today.

Stehli crosses the line with a time of 5:32.88.🥃 The checkpoint time was either a timing error or he just went out very fast.

Isaac Del Toro now out on course. He set a time🉐 of 1:19.91 at the checkpoint.

E🐻ꦺiner Rubio, Tom Pidcock, Richard Carapaz coming soon.

Del Toro way down at the finish with a time of 5:54.77 so he must've had a maj🥀or problem out on 𝐆the course.

Not many other big cont🌼ende🔯rs out there at the moment...

5:22.73 at the finish for Pidcock.

Sergio▨ Higuita across the line with a time of 5:30.72.

Thibau Nys now out on course. He crosses the first checkpoint with a time of 1:23.0🎃2.

Nys ends up with a 5:28.87 a𒐪s Finn Fish๊er-Black gets underway.

5:12.58 for Fishe👍r-Black at the line, good for fifth place.

Reigning champion Skjelmose during his effort.

Sam Watson with a very good time🦂 at the finish – 5:14.22 – to go sixth so far.

Now Mark Cavendish starts his ride.

A ꦐquick start for Timo Kielich, who goes second at the checkpoint, almost level on time with Stehli's best time there.

A 5:🦄25.67 for Cavendish, who gets around the course💞 safely.

Kielich way down at the finish wit🥃h a time of 5:30.52.

ꦇIt's starting to rain out on course now. It's ꦕno surprise that most of the big names started early today.

Tom Pidcock out on course earlier on.

100 riders have now finished their efforts today.

There aren't many rideꦦrs con꧟tending for the stage or the GC left to start today.

The final stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné has finished. Read our 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:report of stage 8 here.

R♐oger Adria gets to♏ the start ramp late but still manages to start his effort on time.

Around 50 riders left to start.

Jan Christen is hav✃ing a great ride. He's seventh꧒ at the checkpoint.

It's the best ride we've seen for a while.

A 5:18.20 for Christen at the finish, ju༺st outsid𒈔e the top 10.

Around 30 riders left to start.

It doesn't look like anyone else will be challenging the ve❀ry top of the standings, to be honest.

Our report from the final stage of the Tour of Britain Women, which finished today.

Marc Hirschi, Robert Gesink, and Valentin Paret-Peintre among the biggest names left to🐟 run today.

A good start for Stan Van Tricht, who is quick at the check🀅point with a time of 1:17.04.

144th at the line for Van Tricht, however.

14 riders left to start. We're almost at the end of the ti✤me trial.

Nob🍎ody else troubling the top of the timesheets currently.

Names including Tobias Andresen, Kim Heiduk,🌺 Fabien Lienhard among those racing the course at the moment.

Heiduk with a good time at th♋e checkpoint – 1:19.66.

Six riders left to start.

Mari🎃jn van den Berg another with a good start with a time of 1:19.18.

A 5:20.17🐻 for Heiduk at the finish,ꦕ a good time for him.

Simone Velasco, Søren ꧅Kragh Andersen, and Jacopo Mosꦑca the last men to start.

5:22.09 for Van den Berg, another good late ride.

A good ride👍 for Johan Price-Pejtersen, too. He comes home with a time of 5:18.25.

Kragh Andersen not great at the 🐬checkpoint with a time of 1:22.33. He's the best time trialist left on course.

Lampaert has been in the hot 𝓰seat 🍎for just over two hours and he'll soon be able to get up and celebrate.

Kragh Andersen cros🌃ses the line with a time of 5:16.23, good enough for 10th overall.

Jacopo Mosca the last man left to finish now.

He finishes his run with a time of 5:30 and that's the end of the timไe 🍒trial!

Yves Lampaert has won stage 1 of the Tour de Suisse!

Only two riders in the second half of today's time trial made it into the top 10. It wasn't a thrilling finish to the stage🌜 by any means.

Here's what Lampae🎐rt had to say after ওhis win today...

"I didn&rsq🌄uo;t expect to beat the Swiss specialists like Bissegger and [Stefan] Kung. I’m really proud to do it, I know this distance suits me well.

"With his previous win now nearly two years distant, Lampaert said that he was delighted to be able to add a secon𓆏d stage victory in Suisse to the time trial triumph he captured back iℱn the 2019 edition of the race.

"Nnowadays the level is so high in cycling, a🔯t one moment I started to doubt myself. But I never gave up believing and kept training as well as possible. So it gives me a lot of satisfaction that I could take the victory today."

2024 Tour de Suisse: Yves Lampaert wins stage 1 time trial

Stefan Bissegger second, Ethan Hayter third

Lampaert takes the stage and race lead. He's up on Bissegger by🌠 three seconds and Hayter by four in the overall.

Stage 1 winner Yves Lampaert.

That's all from us🌠 today from stage 1 of the Tour de Suisse.♕ Be sure to check back tomorrow for live coverage of the opening road stage!