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Hello and welco𒉰me to our live coverage of the opening stage💜 of the Giro d'Italia, the season's first Grand Tour!
Stage 1 is set to kick ಌoff at 13:10 local time, so 12:10 in the UK or 7:10 𝓀EST.
Here's a look at the profile of the opening stage &ndas𒀰h; three major ascents to tackle before the finish in Tirana t♓oday.
Today's stage is set to bring a battle between the puncheurs and the hardy sprinters, ไwith two ascents of the Surrel climb (7km at 4.5%) coming inside the final 40km.
Meanwhile, last-minute roadworks and traffic ar💫ound the capital this week have disrupted rider's preparatဣions for the Giro
Just over an hour to go before stage 1 💎gets underway𒁃...
Under an hou🥃r to go♔ to the start of stage 1 and teams are signing on in Durrës.
23 teams and 184 riders will be taking the start today. Read through our comprehensive Giro d'Italia team-by-team guide for the lowdown on all tౠhe competitors at the rac♒e.
Tom Pi𓆉dcock, a contender for the stage win today, passes the Trofeo Senza Fine on the way to signing on ahead of the start.
Pidcock recently said, "Now I've started enjoying cycling", following his move to Q36.5.
Wout van A🅘ert is another stage 1 favourit🔯e, even if he suffered from an illness just before heading to Albania.
We're not long away from the 2025 Gir💯o d'Italia Grande Partenza, b𝔍ut already there's talk of future foreign starts...
10 minutes to go!
Riders will tackle a 9.2km neutral roll-out before t🍷he start༺ proper.
The peloton is no😼w moving to start the 2025 Giro d'Italia. The neutral roll-out is under way.
The riders are nearing the halfway ma♉rk of t🐭he roll-out. 5km to go before the flag drops.
Riders roll🌟 through Durrës to start the Giro.
2km to go before the flag drops.
Riders are now bun🔯ched up behind the lead car and preparing to attack once the start is given.
Riders from Movistar, Lidl-Trek, Bardiani, Polti, Arkéa, In💧termarché-Wanty are all up front as the flag drops!
160km to go
One rider gives up and there's an immediate cou♓nter from a teammate.
Fo�ꦓ�ur men slightly off the front now as more riders follow in ones and twos.
Bardiani, Intermarch&✅eacute;, Arkéa, Alpecin, Movistar, Polti all 🌄on the move.
Speeds of🍌 60kph+ as they leave Durrës on a well-surfaced two-lane highway.
All back together for now, though a selection of riders from the same teams are leading𒆙 at the front.
156km to go
Two more riders c🐼oming across while the𒈔 peloton already looks calm.
Riders from Intermarch&eac🐻ute; and Bardiani bridging across.
Verre, Tonelli, and Moniquet haꦗve been joined in the break b൲y Taco van der Hoorn and Manuele Tarozzi.
The ga🧔p back to the peloton is up to 50 seconds already. It look⭕s like this quintet is our break of the day.
151km to go
Visma-Lease A Bike, Lidl-🏅Trek, and Ineos Grenadiers up front in the ꦫpeloton.
The first hill of three on the stages comes after 70km of racing, so we've got a lengthy wait for more majo🌞r action during today's stage.
The break's adva𝔍ntage is holding at around the 1:40 mark𝔍 for now.
The race heads south of Durr&euꦕml;s on a long, straig𓆉ht highway.
143km to go
🐲Jimmy Janssens, Jacopo Mosca, and Steven Kruijswijk are the trio heading up the peloton at the moment. Four more riders apiece from Alpecin and Visma are lined out behind them.
133km to go
The sprint squads at the head of the peloton.
126km to go
The breakaway races towards Italian flags, though a return 🤪to the Giro's home country is a couple of day🀅s away yet.
It's a short leash for ꦺthe break today. They've never h𓄧ad more than two minutes and now their advantage is down to 1:35.
Egan Bernal rides alongside Primož Roglič and the Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe squad.
Two inter꧂mediate sprint points coming up at Papër and Elbasan before the first hill of the race.
There's another sprint later in the stage, sponsored by Red Bull. It will give 6, 4 and 2 bonus seconds to the first across the l🦩ine.
Read up on all the Giro d'Italia classifications, jerseys, rules, and defunct competitions here
103km to go
Tonelli leads Van der Hoorn, Tarozzi, Moniquet, and Verre across the line at Papër without any quar🎶rel.
🔜1:30 from break to peloton and 4km to ☂go before the next sprint in Elbasan.
Tarozzi leading the quintet as they approach the second traguardo volante of 𝐆the day.
Tarozzi leads M🎶oniquet, Verre, Tonelli, and Van der Hoorn acroܫss the line.
92km to go
They head uphill and start the second-category climb to Gra�ܫ�cen.
Juan Ayuso has been forced to stop for a new bike at the base of the climb. I🍒t l🌳ooked like he got tangled up with some crashing Picnic-PostNL riders.
Visma-Lease A Bike lead the peloton up the climb.
18, 8, 6, 4, 2, 1🦹 points on offer at the top here at Gracen.
The break is still togജether on the way up, though tꦺhe peloton has closed to within a minute.
89km to go
The gap to the pꦅeloton is holding at a minute on the way up.
Tarozzi (17 points) leads Tonelli (11) and Moniquet (9) in the points classification after two intermediate sprints. He'll 𝕴hold the overnight lead in the minor intermediate sprint classification, even if the stage winner will gain more points and so hold the points jersey.
82km to go
Some movement in the break now as Tonelli makes ♈a 𒉰move at the front at the end of the feed zone.
Van der Hoorn is dropped but ಞthe other four are back together out front.
80km to go
In the end,𒁏 it's Moniquet who leads the break over the top.
18 points for the Belgian 🍸at the top. Verre, Tonelli, and Tarozzi followed him for 8, 6, and 4 pಞoints.
The breakaway riders have fough𒁃t over two intermediate sprints and the first classified climb of the race. They💖're also racking up breakaway kilometres for the Fuga Pinarello and demonstrating their combativity towards the Fighting Spirit prize.
The peloton on t🎉he way up the first climb of today's stage.
69km to go
Verre leads at the front at the bottom of the fa🏅st descent.
Tonelli is next on the roꩵad while Tarozzi and Moniquet follow.
59km to go
🌃Verre has a few seconds on the group behind. Tonelli, Tarozzi, a🦄nd Moniquet are all together.
And now he's caught by 𒉰the chasers so it's four out front once again.
Mads Pedersen and Sam Bennett are chasing back to the peloton f📖ollowing the🅺 climb.
53km to go
💎35 seconds from break to peloton. Visma s🅰till massed on the front.
A look at the break of the day before Van der Hoorn was ꧒dropped.
Tonelli launches the sprint in Sauk.
It looks like Tarozzi came past before the line, however🃏.
46km to go
But first, the riders are he🍸a꧂ding through Tirana and past the finish line.
Just 15 seconds up to the break now.
Visma-Lease A Bike still up front in the pelﷺoton, as they have been all day.
40km to go
6.9km of climbing at an average of 4.6% com꧅ing up.
Riders dropping off the rear of the pe🔥loton now as Lidl-Trek join🌺 Visma up front.
Red Bull-Bora-Han🐈sgrohe and Egan Bernal is his new Colombian champion's kit also visible up front.
Daan Hoole leading it for Lidl-Trek on the way up with Mads♔ Pedersen on his wheel.
Sam Bennett and Olav Kooij among the riders dropped on the way up. It's not a stage for t♏h🧔e pure sprinters.
In🐎stead, we're looking out for the likes o൲f Pedersen, Van Aert and the puncheurs here.
36km to go
Paul Magnier, Andrea Vendrame drop.
1km to the top now.
Lorenzo Fortu༒nato (XDS-Astana) launches at the top to claim the points and signal his intentions ♋for the blue jersey.
30km to go
The riders are getting a look at the ♍descent back into Tirana now. They'll tackle this again later on the way to the fin🌌ish.
Wout van Aert 𒁃am🔥ong the Lidl-Trek riders at the head of the peloton.
Fortunato took 9 points at the top of that last climb. Pello Bilbao, Carlo Verona, and 🤪Patrick Konrad were next on 4, 2 and 1 points.
Lidl-Trek continue on the 😼front as the peloton races through Tirana.
The group passes over the finish linꦛe and they'll soon head back up the climb oওf Surrel.
It doesn't look particularly packed out with spectators to greet the ra🌞ce down at the finish line in Tirana.
19km to go
Israel-Premier Tech to tꦓhe front to start the climb.
EF and Lidl-Trek also represented at the front.
Now Lidl-Trek take it up with five riders.
Bahrain and Jayco also with a couple of riders api꧙ece. Tom Pidcock is also moving🌺 up.
16km to go
Riders dropped on the first ascent made it back on but now💮 they're꧒ dropping again. Vendrame just let go at the back.
Kaden Groves just about hanging on right at the re﷽ar.
Groves lets go 4km from the top.
Lidl-Trek continue with four at the front.
Lidl-Trek at the front on the way up Surrel.
14km to go
Pedersen is in second wheel. Van Aert not fa𝄹r behind. Red Bull with three men behind.
Giulio Ciccone now pulling at the front.
The pace is very high as the riders head towards the top.🐎 Will any attacks come before the descent?
Wout van Aert drops back in the peloton.
12km to go
Only a few hundred metres to the top now.
No attacks at the top as Lidl-T🐠rek lead it with Ciccone.
11km to go
Derek Gee also reportedly dropped.
It looks like there's only around 30 m💛en🔯 in the lead group.
9km to go
His group is around 15 riders.
7km to go
Ciccone and Vacek continue to pull on the w𒁏ay💟 down for Lidl-Trek.
Crash for Jay Vine on the way down. An Israel rider goes d𝕴own trying to avoid him.
Landa has stayed onꦓ the groun♔d and doesn't look good.
ꦺVine and th🅠e other riders got up and dodged oncoming riders before they got going again.
🎃Geoffrey Bouchard also went down in one of those crashes on the same corner on 🦩the descent.
3km to go
Red Bull on the front for Roglič now.
Lidl-Trek and Visma also up there. The big꧅ favourites all in place.
2km to go
Red Bull are driving it with three riders.
L⛄idl with two behind an💛d then it's Van Aert. Pidcock is also near the front.
1km to go
A mix of several teams battle for control.
Lidl-Treꦆk back on the front around the final bend!
Pedersen in second wheel with Van Aert behind.
Movistar rider Orluis Aular is also there.
But it's a Pederse💦n vs Van Aert drag race to the 🐟line...
Pedersen is just in front and is holding on.
Finish
It looked like Aular took third place.
Gee's grou♕p comes in almost a minute down. Arensman is another 30 seconds or🦩 so back.
Pedersen celebrates stage 1 victory in Tirana!
Behind the podium trio, Francesco Busatto (Intermarché-Wanty) and Tom Pidco♏ck (Q36.5) 🌃rounded out the top 5.
Meanwhile, Rai just showed shots of Landa getting stretchered away from the scene of his crash. ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚIt's Giro over for the Spaniard.
Mads Pedersen celebrates his stage victory.
"To win the stage and go into the pink🔜 jersey is absolutely amazing, especially after teamwork like this," Pedersen said after the stage.
Pedersen in the first pink jersey of the 2025 race and, more importantly, with the first Wolfie oꦦf the race.
Pedersen is also in the first maglia ciclamino of the race𝓡 as points✅ leader.
The maglia azzurra is Cofidis rider Sylvain Moniquet, who led the race over the s🦂econd-💝category climb of Gracen for 18 points.
22-year-old Francesco Busatto is in the maglia bia🍨nca of be🤪st young rider after his fourth place on stage 1.
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale r♚ider Geoffrey Bouchard is also out of the 🍷race on stage 1.
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