Tour de France ’26 Stage 1: Barcelona Burns as Vingegaard Snatches Yellow

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The 2026 Tour de France kicked off with a novel and thoroughly gratifying team time trial through Barcelona, individual times recorded for each rider rather than the traditional fourth-man rule. Netcompany INEOS, powered by Filippo Ganna, set the early benchmark before Visma | Lease a Bike snatched the top time behind a perfectly executed lead-out for Jonas Vingegaard. Tadej Pogačar, riding the anchor leg with Isaac del Toro for UAE Emirates-XRG, came up just 12 seconds short, handing Vingegaard the first yellow jersey of the race. Egan Bernal claimed an early green jersey before cracking, while Remco Evenepoel dropped his own team on the run-in. The post Tour de France ’26 Stage 1: Barcelona Burns as Vingegaard Snatches Yellow appeared first on PezCycling News .