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Visma-Lease a Bike wins team time trial on Tour de France stage one as Jonas Vingegaard roars into the yellow jersey
Jonas Vingegaard will wear the first yellow jersey of the 2026 Tour de France after a superlative team time trial performance by his Visma-Lease a Bike squad in Barcelona. Filippo Ganna led Netcompany-Ineos to the line as the British team finished second on the day ahead of Tadej Pogaar's UAE Team Emirates-XRG. Vingegaard goes into the maillot jaune, leading Ganna by eight seconds, with Pogaar a further four seconds down as the 2022 and 2023 Tour de France winner lands the first blow in the 2026 race.Netcompany-Ineos came into the stage as the main favourite, thanks to the team's phalanx of time-trialling stars. The British squad put in the time to beat, covering the course in 21:55 ahead of the start of the main General Classification teams. However, Visma-Lease a Bike roared through the middle section of the course to take the lead heading into the climbs. Davide Piganzoli and Matteo Jorgensen led Vingegaard into the final section before the Dane put his Dutch team into first placeMore to come...
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