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Cloak of gold: speaking to first yellow jersey winners


Romain Bardet was all the time the romantics’ decide to win the primary yellow jersey of this yr’s Tour de France. The Frenchman had by no means worn yellow and had not received a stage of the Tour since 2017. Would he ever accomplish that once more?

“This could be his greatest likelihood,” Chris Marshall-Bell boldly declared in CW’s stage one preview final week. Solely the Frenchman’s most devoted followers had been prepared to gamble on a 33-year-old nearing retirement, regardless of the chances on the DSM-Firmenich rider in the beginning of the day standing at 100/1. On the finish of it, he stood alone on stage, beaming to the crowds gathered alongside the promenade in Rimini, carrying yellow for the primary time. “I’ve waited my entire profession for that second,” Bardet stated as he walked down the rostrum steps.



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