Cyclisme - Tour des Alpes 2025 - Giulio Ciccone la 1ère étape... Paul Seixas et Romain Bardet en forme !

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21/04/2025

Marquant l'entrée dans la dernière ligne droite avant le Tour d'Italie (9 mai - 1er juin), le Tour des Alpes s'est élancé ce lundi 21 avril de San Lorenzo Dorsino pour une 1ère étape courte (148,5 km) mais déjà corsée. Après un départ marqué par l'hommage rendu par le peloton au Pape François suite à son décès dans la matinée, les coureurs devaient en effet affronter le Campo Carlo Magno (14.4km à 6.2%) puis le Passo Durone (6.3km à 7.8%), dont le sommet était situé à seulement 20 bornes. Et malgré quelques offensives dans ce dernier, c'est un peloton d'environ 25 unités qui s'est finalement joué la gagne à San Lorenzo Dorsino dans ce final en montée jusqu'à la ligne d'arrivée. Un sprint en bosse typé puncheur-grimpeur qui a souri à l'Italien Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek), trop rapide dans cet exercice pour Felix Gall (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) et les deux Français Paul Seixas et Romain Bardet (Team Picnic PostNL).

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00:00the opening day of the tour of the Alps out from San Lorenzo out into the hills and back

00:30well none too small matter of over 3 000 meters of altitude gain crammed into just 148.5 kilometers

00:38and indeed these brave souls went off up the road Finlay Pickering Andrew August and David Bais

00:45well duking it out on the big climb of the day so mountains jersey up for grabs to tempt our

00:51breakaway and as for those who are chasing on from the peloton well for the day with mountains there

00:56is also days of descending as you well know 33 kilometers the longest descent on the day and

01:04really that was going to be the killing of our breakaways advantage they had had a margin of

01:10just over four minutes and that was coming down slowly but surely to the last peaks that were up

01:16ahead of us well just the run for the line at the end of the day was something of a challenge as well

01:21the last 1400 meters at 6.6 percent it essentially brought out the ambition of teams who had punchers

01:28on board the likes of Felix Gao the likes of course of JP Lopez Ciccone most certainly Jai Hindley

01:36you name it you had a chance today our breakaway though was functioning at its absolute highest the

01:41arms were flicking out they just wanted to share the burden and indeed Finlay Pickering it was that just

01:46asked Ineos Grenadier's Andrew August to come through at that point and Baez's both Davide and

01:53Mathieu were to be part of today's story our breakaway finally wound in and then it was a question of who

02:00would take out a big reach for the horizon well this final test of the day that was categorized

02:075.7 kilometers in length and the nasty gradients of 8 9 10 even 11 percent only a category two but

02:16once you got up and over the top of it it was a 10k run down to the series of steps that characterized

02:22our finale so nervous times for everybody punches and counter punches last man standing from the break

02:29Finlay Pickering just decided he didn't want quite frankly just for the time being to back into

02:36the pack he is of course working for Antonio Tiberi ultimately deeper into this race but he is our

02:43mountains man others were tempted to go and forge into the gap Eddie Dunbar the Irishman two stage wins

02:50on La Vuelta last year have not diminished him at all despite a crash in Toreno Adriatico he spied me

02:57and was showing that he has plenty of ambition for this race as well the Irishman one of the short-handed

03:03teams here Jaco Alula just five on board same deal for EF Education easy post but it doesn't stop them

03:10rolling the dice and having a dig Eddie Dunbar just bouncing off up front and then who else would

03:17indeed sail into the gap it was a big question with 20 kilometers to go and Jefferson Cepeda was

03:22indeed the man who picked up that card and he played it absolutely beautifully there was a while that

03:28it started to worry those indeed who were still within the pack who would be motivated to go and

03:34cross over to this man he was looking very handy indeed getting the gels where they needed to be

03:39and the sun just kept coming and going high cloud today as well uh caused somewhat worriment

03:45Paul Seychas and Paul double were well on the double you might say trying to get back at

03:50Jefferson Cepeda ultimately though a peloton that was starting to thin down with Felix Gahl testing his

03:56back wheel suspicions of a slow puncture for the Austrian who starts this race as amongst the absolute

04:02favorites but this was a very thinned down peloton that would take on the final run for home possibly 35

04:09riders in total and another base this time it was Mattia that set off at the speeds absolutely the

04:16highest considering that we were um indeed with some percentages here to deal with and eight and a

04:20half kilometers to go ultimately though it was all about punch and the knockout blow when it came

04:26was Giulio Ciccone he'd started off as favorite for the day and he lived up to the billing absolutely

04:32brilliantly Ciccone throwing his spectacles away in his characteristic signature celebration Felix Gahl in

04:40second place with Paul Seychas the Braves so two on the podium for Decathlon AG Tour La Mondiale

04:47but Lidltrek who of course won this race in the last two editions with JP Lopez and Theo Gergenhardt

04:54they're now in the lead again with Ciccone

05:02Ciccone

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