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2005. Stavanger SK

2 e of the National Championships Norway MJ - ITT

10 e of the World Championships MJ - Road Race

21 e of the World Championships MJ - ITT

2006. Glud & Marstrand Horsens

8 e of the second stage of the Istarsko Proljeće - Istrian Spring Trophy (Porec>Porec)

16 e of the Tour du Loir et Cher

20 e of the second stage of the Ringerike GP (Fagernes>Hønefoss)

21 e of the National Championships Norway - Road Race

2007. Maxbo - Bianchi

1 er of the National Championships Norway - Road Race

4 e of the National Championships Norway U23 - Road Race

5 e of the Trofej Poreč - Poreč Trophy

10 e of the second stage of the Istarsko Proljeće - Istrian Spring Trophy (Porec>Zelena Laguna)

15 e of the sixth stage of the Tour de l'Avenir (Contres>Saint-Amand-Montrond)

20 e of the prologue of the Le Tour de Bretagne Cycliste (Jersey>Jersey), of the fourth stage of the Circuit des Ardennes (Charleville-Mézières>Charleville-Mézières)

23 e of the second stage of the Le Tour de Bretagne Cycliste (Saint-Suliac>Loudéac)

2008. Team Joker - Bianchi

1 er of the fourth stage of the Ringerike GP (Hønefoss>Hønefoss)

2 e of the Tour des Fjords, of the second stage of the Olympia's Tour (Wassenaar>Heerhugowaard), of the fifth stage of the Le Tour de Bretagne Cycliste (Lannion>Lannion), of the second stage of the Le Tour de Bretagne Cycliste (Sarzeau>La Chapelle-des-Marais), of the eighth stage of the Tour de Normandie (Bagnoles-de-l'Orne>Caen), of the fourth stage of the Tour de Normandie (Grand-Couronne>Elbeuf), of the third stage of the Tour de Normandie (Forges-les-Eaux>Grand-Couronne), of the Trofej Poreč - Poreč Trophy

3 e of the second stage of the Tour de Normandie (Mondeville>Forges-les-Eaux), of the third stage of the Istarsko Proljeće - Istrian Spring Trophy (Vrsar>Rovinj)

5 e of the National Championships Norway - Road Race, of the National Championships Norway U23 - Road Race, of the first stage of the Le Tour de Bretagne Cycliste (Arzon>Sarzeau)

6 e of the prologue of the Olympia's Tour (Wassenaar>Wassenaar)

7 e of the third stage of the Le Tour de Bretagne Cycliste (Le Cambout>Fréhel)

8 e of the prologue of the Tour de Normandie (Mondeville>Mondeville)

9 e of the fourth stage of the Olympia's Tour (Appelscha>Genemuiden)

10 e of the prologue of the Istarsko Proljeće - Istrian Spring Trophy (Pazin>Pazin)

15 e of the third stage of the Olympia's Tour (Heehugowaard>Appelscha), of the first stage of the Olympia's Tour (Wassenaar>Wassenaar)

17 e of the World Championships U23 - Road Race, of the ZLM tour

18 e of the fifth stage of the Tour de Normandie (Elbeuf>Flers)

23 e of the European Continental Championships U23 - ITT, of the fifth stage of the Ringerike GP (Hønefoss>Hønefoss), of the sixth stage of the Le Tour de Bretagne Cycliste (Dol-de-Bretagne>Dol-de-Bretagne [ITT])

2009. Team Joker - Bianchi

1 er of the National Championships Norway U23 - Road Race, of the third stage of the Ringerike GP (Beitostølen>Vik i Hole)

2 e of the second stage of the Tour of Britain (Darlington>Gateshead), of the National Championships Norway - Road Race, of the first stage of the Ringerike GP (Geilo>Geilo), of the fourth stage of the Olympia's Tour (Anholt>Gendringen), of the first stage of the Olympia's Tour (Hasselt>Genemuiden), of the fifth stage of the Le Tour de Bretagne Cycliste (Saint-Brieuc>Ploeren), of the third stage of the Le Tour de Bretagne Cycliste (Fougères>Saint-Cast Le Guildo), of the fourth stage of the Istarsko Proljeće - Istrian Spring Trophy (Vrsar>Umag)

3 e of the second stage of the Le Tour de Bretagne Cycliste (Treffieux>Fougères), of the first stage of the Le Tour de Bretagne Cycliste (Nantes>Vallet), of the sixth stage of the Tour de Normandie (Domfront>Valognes)

5 e of the Le Tour de Bretagne Cycliste

6 e of the fifth stage of the Ringerike GP (Hønefoss>Hønefoss)

7 e of the third stage of the Tour of Britain (Peebles>Gretna), of the Druivenkoers - Overijse, of the European Continental Championships U23 - Road Race

8 e of the National Championships Norway - ITT

9 e of the ZLM tour, of the eighth stage of the Tour de Normandie (Bagnoles de l'Orne>Caen), of the prologue of the Istarsko Proljeće - Istrian Spring Trophy (Pazin>Pazin), of the Trofej Poreč - Poreč Trophy

10 e of the Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften, of the fifth stage of the Tour de Normandie (Elbeuf>Flers)

11 e of the sixth stage of the Tour of Britain (Frome>Bideford)

12 e of the first stage of the Tour of Britain (Scunthorpe>York), of the second stage of the Ringerike GP (Geilo>Beitostølen), of the third stage of the Olympia's Tour (Roosendaal>Roosendaal)

14 e of the Tour des Fjords

16 e of the fifth stage of the Olympia's Tour (Vaals>Vaals)

18 e of the Olympia's Tour, of the fourth stage of the Le Tour de Bretagne Cycliste (Matignon>Perros Guirec)

21 e of the eighth stage of the Tour of Britain (London>London), of the seventh stage of the Le Tour de Bretagne Cycliste (Douarnenez>Quimperlé), of the second stage of the Istarsko Proljeće - Istrian Spring Trophy (Porec>Labin)

22 e of the Tour de Normandie

25 e of the first stage of the Tour de Normandie (Mondeville>Mondeville [ITT])

2010. BMC Racing Team

3 e of the first stage of the Amgen Tour of California (Nevada City>Sacramento)

4 e of the BEMER Cyclassics, of the third stage of the Ethias-Tour de Wallonie (Andenne>Hotton)

5 e of the GP de Fourmies / La Voix du Nord

6 e of the second stage of the Tour Poitou - Charentes en Nouvelle Aquitaine (Saint Georges de Didonne>Niort), of the seventh stage of the Tour de Pologne (Nowy Targ>Kraków), of the fourth stage of the Amgen Tour of California (San Jose>Modesto)

7 e of the Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen, of the third stage of the Tour Poitou - Charentes en Nouvelle Aquitaine (Quincay>Vouille), of the first stage of the Tour de Pologne (Sochaczew>Warschau)

8 e of the Tour of Leuven - Memorial Jef Scherens, of the second stage of the Tour de Pologne (Rawa Mazowiecka>Czestochowa)

9 e of the Brussels Cycling Classic, of the fifth stage of the Ethias-Tour de Wallonie (Chaudfontaine>Welkenraedt)

10 e of the Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen / Kempen Classic, of the first stage of the Tour Poitou - Charentes en Nouvelle Aquitaine (Chalais>Royan), of the third stage of the Tour de Pologne (Sosnowiec>Katowice), of the Scheldeprijs

13 e of the Tour Poitou - Charentes en Nouvelle Aquitaine, of the Danilith Nokere Koerse

16 e of the fifth stage of the Tour Poitou - Charentes en Nouvelle Aquitaine (Niort>Poitiers)

17 e of the first stage of the Ethias-Tour de Wallonie (Mouscron>Lessines), of the second stage of the Tour of Oman (Nizwa>Samail)

18 e of the fifth stage of the Tour of Oman (Wattayat>Sultan Qaboos Stadium)

19 e of the third stage of the Classic Brugge-De Panne (De Panne>De Panne)

20 e of the first stage of the Tour of Oman (Muscat Corniche>Muscat Corniche)

22 e of the second stage of the Dwars door West-Vlaanderen / Johan Museeuw Classics (Torhout>Handzame)

2011. BMC Racing Team

2 e of the GP de Fourmies / La Voix du Nord, of the first stage of the Tour de Pologne (Pruszkow>Varsovie), of the fourth stage of the Ethias-Tour de Wallonie (Enghien>Mouscron)

3 e of the third stage of the Ethias-Tour de Wallonie (Sambreville>Perwez), of the eighth stage of the Giro d'Italia (Sapri>Tropea)

5 e of the Grand Prix d'Isbergues - Pas de Calais, of the third stage of the Classic Brugge-De Panne (De Panne>De Panne)

6 e of the third stage of the Tour de Pologne (Bedzin>Katowice)

7 e of the Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen, of the Brussels Cycling Classic, of the Prudential RideLondon-Surrey Classic, of the Scheldeprijs

9 e of the tenth stage of the Giro d'Italia (Termoli>Teramo)

11 e of the second stage of the Giro d'Italia (Alba>Parma)

14 e of the BEMER Cyclassics, of the sixth stage of the Tour of Oman (Qurayyat>Mattrah Seafront)

15 e of the Omloop van het Houtland

16 e of the seventh stage of the Tour de Pologne (Kraków>Kraków)

18 e of the first stage of the Tour of Oman (As Sawadi>Al Seeb)

24 e of the third stage of the Tour of Oman (Sur>Sur)

2012. Team Katusha

1 er of the fourth stage of the PostNord Danmark Rundt - Tour of Denmark (Ringe>Odense), of the stage 3a of the Classic Brugge-De Panne (De Panne>De Panne)

2 e of the GP de Fourmies / La Voix du Nord, of the first stage of the PostNord Danmark Rundt - Tour of Denmark (Randers>Randers), of the thirteenth stage of the Giro d'Italia (Savona>Cervere), of the second stage of the Classic Brugge-De Panne (Zottegem>Koksijde (Oostduinkerke))

3 e of the Olympic Games Road Race, of the National Championships Norway - Road Race

4 e of the PostNord Danmark Rundt - Tour of Denmark, of the second stage of the PostNord Danmark Rundt - Tour of Denmark (Løgstør>Aarhus), of the first stage of the Classic Brugge-De Panne (Middelkerke>Oudenaarde)

5 e of the sixth stage of the PostNord Danmark Rundt - Tour of Denmark (Slagelse>Frederiksberg), of the fourth stage of the Renewi Tour (Heers>Bergen op Zoom)

6 e of the fifth stage of the Renewi Tour (Hoogerheide>Aalter), of the ninth stage of the Giro d'Italia (San Giorgio nel Sannio>Frosinone), of the fifth stage of the Giro d'Italia (Modena>Fano), of the Eschborn-Frankfurt, of the sixth stage of the Paris-Nice (Suze-la-Rousse>Sisteron)

7 e of the eighteenth stage of the Giro d'Italia (San Vito Cadore>Vedelago), of the third stage of the Giro d'Italia (Horsens>Horsens), of the sixth stage of the Tour of Oman (Al Khawd>Matrah Corniche)

8 e of the fourth stage of the Tour de Pologne (Będzin>Katowice)

9 e of the third stage of the Renewi Tour (Riemst>Genk), of the Kuurne - Bruxelles - Kuurne

11 e of the BEMER Cyclassics, of the first stage of the Renewi Tour (Waalwijk>Middelburg), of the seventh stage of the Tour de Pologne (Kraków>Kraków)

12 e of the Classic Brugge-De Panne

13 e of the fifth stage of the PostNord Danmark Rundt - Tour of Denmark (Kerteminde>Kerteminde [ITT]), of the third stage of the PostNord Danmark Rundt - Tour of Denmark (Silkeborg>Vejle)

14 e of the Brussels Cycling Classic

15 e of the Ronde van Vlaanderen - Tour des Flandres

17 e of the Paris - Tours Elite, of the Scheldeprijs

19 e of the second stage of the Tour de Pologne (Wałbrzych>Opole)

20 e of the Renewi Tour

2013. Team Katusha

1 er of the second stage of the Tour des Fjords (Hjelmeland>Forsand), of the fifth stage of the Tour de Suisse (Buochs>Leuggern), of the fifth stage of the Tour of Norway (Gjøvik>Hønefoss), of the second stage of the Tour of Norway (Kongsberg>Skien), of the first stage of the Tour of Norway (Fredrikstad>Sarpsborg), of the stage 3a of the Classic Brugge-De Panne (De Panne>De Panne)

2 e of the first stage of the Tour de France (Porto-Vecchio>Bastia), of the National Championships Norway - Road Race, of the third stage of the Tour of Norway (Tønsberg>Drammen), of the Classic Brugge-De Panne

3 e of the BEMER Cyclassics, of the fourth stage of the Tour des Fjords (Egersund>Stavanger), of the first stage of the Classic Brugge-De Panne (Middelkerke>Zottegem)

4 e of the Brussels Cycling Classic, of the Tour des Fjords, of the twelfth stage of the Tour de France (Fougères>Tours), of the Ronde van Vlaanderen - Tour des Flandres, of the first stage of the Tour of Oman (Al Musannah>Sultan Qaboos University)

5 e of the fourth stage of the Tour de Suisse (Meiringen/Brienz>Buochs), of the Scheldeprijs, of the second stage of the Classic Brugge-De Panne (Oudenaarde>Koksijde)

6 e of the twenty-first stage of the Tour de France (Château de Versailles>Paris), of the tenth stage of the Tour de France (Saint-Gildas-des-Bois>Saint-Malo), of the sixth stage of the Tour de France (Aix-en-Provence>Montpellier), of the fifth stage of the Tour de France (Cagnes-sur-Mer>Marseille), of the stage 3b of the Classic Brugge-De Panne (De Panne>De Panne [ITT])

8 e of the Milano-Sanremo

9 e of the Paris-Roubaix

11 e of the sixth stage of the Tour de Suisse (Leuggern>Meilen)

12 e of the first stage of the Tour des Fjords (Valler>Stavanger), of the sixth stage of the Tour of Oman (Hawit Nagam Park>Muttrah Corniche)

14 e of the GP de Fourmies / La Voix du Nord, of the Grosser Preis des Kantons Aargau, of the Tour of Norway, of the Gent-Wevelgem in Flanders Fields ME

15 e of the fourth stage of the Tour of Norway (Brumunddal>Lillehammer)

18 e of the prologue of the Paris-Nice (Houilles>Houilles)

19 e of the second stage of the Paris-Nice (Vimory>Cérilly)

20 e of the Dwars door Vlaanderen - A travers la Flandre ME

23 e of the first stage of the Tour de Suisse (Quinto>Quinto [ITT])

2014. Team Katusha

1 er of the BEMER Cyclassics, of the fourth stage of the Arctic Race of Norway (Tromsø>Tromsø), of the second stage of the Arctic Race of Norway (Honningsvåg>Alta), of the fifteenth stage of the Tour de France (Tallard>Nîmes), of the twelfth stage of the Tour de France (Bourg-en-Bresse>Saint-Etienne), of the Tour des Fjords, of the fifth stage of the Tour des Fjords (Risavika>Stavanger), of the fourth stage of the Tour des Fjords (2020park>Stavanger), of the second stage of the Tour des Fjords (Eidfjord>Haugesund), of the fifth stage of the Tour of Norway (Gjøvik>Hønefoss (Eggemoen)), of the first stage of the Tour of Norway (Larvik>Larvik), of the Eschborn-Frankfurt, of the Milano-Sanremo, of the second stage of the Tour of Oman (Al Bustan>Quriyat)

2 e of the Arctic Race of Norway, of the twenty-first stage of the Tour de France (Evry>Paris), of the sixth stage of the Tour de France (Arras>Reims), of the fourth stage of the Tour de France (Le Touquet Paris-Plage>Lille)

3 e of the nineteenth stage of the Tour de France (Maubourguet val d'Adour>Bergerac), of the second stage of the Tour of Norway (Drøbak>Sarpsborg), of the second stage of the Classic Brugge-De Panne (Zottegem>Koksijde)

4 e of the third stage of the Arctic Race of Norway (Alta>Kvænangsfjellet), of the fifth stage of the Tour de Suisse (Ossingen>Buren a. Aare), of the second stage of the Paris-Nice (Rambouillet>Saint-Georges-sur-Baulche), of the sixth stage of the Tour of Oman (As Sifah>Matrah Corniche)

5 e of the third stage of the Tour de France (Cambridge>London), of the fourth stage of the Tour de Suisse (Heiden>Ossingen), of the first stage of the Tour des Fjords (Bergen>Ulvik), of the Ronde van Vlaanderen - Tour des Flandres

6 e of the third stage of the Paris-Nice (Toucy>Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours)

7 e of the first stage of the Tour de France (Leeds>Harrogate)

8 e of the World Championships ME - Road Race, of the Bretagne Classic - Ouest-France, of the third stage of the Tour of Norway (Årnes>Budor), of the Classic Brugge-De Panne, of the stage 3a of the Classic Brugge-De Panne (De Panne>De Panne)

9 e of the first stage of the Tour of Oman (As Suwayq Castle>Naseem Garden)

10 e of the first stage of the Arctic Race of Norway (Hammerfest>North Cape), of the third stage of the Tour des Fjords (Hjelmeland>Forsand)

11 e of the Gent-Wevelgem in Flanders Fields ME, of the fifth stage of the Paris-Nice (Crêches-sur-Saône>Rive-de-Gier), of the Kuurne - Bruxelles - Kuurne

13 e of the Dwars door Vlaanderen - A travers la Flandre ME

15 e of the Scheldeprijs, of the first stage of the Classic Brugge-De Panne (De Panne>Zottegem)

16 e of the National Championships Norway - Road Race, of the stage 3b of the Classic Brugge-De Panne (De Panne>De Panne [ITT])

19 e of the first stage of the Paris-Nice (Mantes-La-Jolie>Mantes-La-Jolie)

21 e of the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec

2015. Team Katusha

1 er of the Bretagne Classic - Ouest-France, of the first stage of the Arctic Race of Norway (Harstad>Harstad), of the seventh stage of the Tour de Suisse (Biel/Bienne>Düdingen), of the Grosser Preis des Kantons Aargau, of the third stage of the Tour des Fjords (Stord>Sauda), of the second stage of the Tour des Fjords (Jondal>Haugesund), of the first stage of the Tour des Fjords (Bergen>Norheimsund), of the second stage of the Tour of Norway (Drammen>Langesund), of the first stage of the Tour of Norway (Årnes>Sarpsborg), of the Scheldeprijs, of the Ronde van Vlaanderen - Tour des Flandres, of the Classic Brugge-De Panne, of the stage 3a of the Classic Brugge-De Panne (De Panne>De Panne), of the second stage of the Classic Brugge-De Panne (Zottegem>Koksijde), of the first stage of the Classic Brugge-De Panne (De Panne>Zottegem), of the first stage of the Paris-Nice (Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse>Contres), of the third stage of the Tour of Oman (Al Mussanah Sports City>Al Mussanah Sports City)

2 e of the BEMER Cyclassics, of the Milano-Sanremo, of the Kuurne - Bruxelles - Kuurne

3 e of the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec, of the second stage of the Arctic Race of Norway (Evenskjer>Setermoen), of the twenty-first stage of the Tour de France (Sèvres>Paris), of the fifteenth stage of the Tour de France (Mende>Valence), of the sixth stage of the Tour de Suisse (Wil>Biel/Bienne), of the fifth stage of the Tour of Norway (Flå>Hønefoss), of the stage 3b of the Classic Brugge-De Panne (De Panne>De Panne [ITT])

4 e of the World Championships ME - Road Race, of the fifth stage of the Tour de France (Arras>Amiens), of the E3 Saxo Classic, of the third stage of the Paris-Nice (Saint-Amand-Montrond>Saint-Pourcain-sur-Sioule)

5 e of the seventh stage of the Tour de France (Livarot>Fougères), of the first stage of the Tour of Oman (Bayt Al Naman Castle>Al Wutayyah)

6 e of the fifth stage of the Paris-Nice (Saint-Etienne>Rasteau)

8 e of the Tour of Norway, of the second stage of the Paris-Nice (Zoo Parc de Beauval>Saint-Amand-Montrond), of the sixth stage of the Tour of Oman (Oman Air>Muttrah Promenade)

9 e of the Tour des Fjords, of the Gent-Wevelgem in Flanders Fields ME

10 e of the National Championships Norway - Road Race, of the third stage of the Tour of Norway (Skien>Rjukan), of the Paris-Roubaix

11 e of the sixth stage of the Tour de France (Abbeville>Le Havre), of the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad ME

12 e of the fifth stage of the Tour des Fjords (Hinna Park>Stavanger)

18 e of the fourth stage of the Tour des Fjords (Stavanger>Sandnes)

20 e of the fourth stage of the Arctic Race of Norway (Narvik>Narvik)

21 e of the fourth stage of the Tour of Norway (Rjukan>Geilo)

25 e of the Arctic Race of Norway

2016. Team Katusha

1 er of the Tour des Fjords, of the fifth stage of the Tour des Fjords (Hinna Park>Stavanger), of the third stage of the Tour des Fjords (Ulvik>Suldalsosen), of the second stage of the Tour des Fjords (Stord>Odda), of the first stage of the Arctic Race of Norway (Fauske>Rognan), of the seventh stage of the Amgen Tour of California (Santa Rosa>Santa Rosa), of the Eschborn-Frankfurt, of the first stage of the Classic Brugge-De Panne (De Panne>Zottegem), of the sixth stage of the Tour of Oman (The Wave Muscat>Matrah Corniche), of the third stage of the Tour of Oman (Al Sawadi Beach>Naseem Park)

2 e of the fourth stage of the Arctic Race of Norway (Arctic Circle>Bodø), of the sixteenth stage of the Tour de France (Moirans-en-Montagne>Berne), of the fourteenth stage of the Tour de France (Montélimar>Villars-les-Dombes Parc des Oiseaux), of the National Championships Norway - Road Race, of the third stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné (Boën-sur-Lignon>Tournon), of the Classic Brugge-De Panne, of the fifth stage of the Paris-Nice (Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux>Salon-de-Provence), of the Kuurne - Bruxelles - Kuurne

3 e of the fourth stage of the Renewi Tour (Aalter>St-Pieters-Leeuw), of the Bretagne Classic - Ouest-France, of the twenty-first stage of the Tour de France (Chantilly>Paris), of the eighth stage of the Amgen Tour of California (Sacramento>Sacramento), of the second stage of the Amgen Tour of California (South Pasadena>Santa Clarita), of the stage 3a of the Classic Brugge-De Panne (De Panne>De Panne), of the second stage of the Classic Brugge-De Panne (Zottegem>Koksijde)

4 e of the fourth stage of the Tour des Fjords (Stavanger>Sandnes), of the eleventh stage of the Tour de France (Carcassonne>Montpellier), of the sixth stage of the Tour de France (Arpajon-sur-Cère>Montauban), of the Ronde van Vlaanderen - Tour des Flandres, of the fourth stage of the Paris-Nice (Juliénas>Romans-sur-Isère), of the second stage of the Paris-Nice (Contres>Commentry)

5 e of the first stage of the Renewi Tour (Bolsward>Bolsward), of the BEMER Cyclassics, of the fourth stage of the Tour de France (Saumur>Limoges)

6 e of the second stage of the Arctic Race of Norway (Mo I Rana>Sandnessjøen), of the Milano-Sanremo

7 e of the World Championships ME - Road Race

8 e of the first stage of the Tour de France (Mont-Saint-Michel>Utah Beach Sainte-Marie-du-Mont), of the stage 3b of the Classic Brugge-De Panne (De Panne>De Panne [ITT])

10 e of the third stage of the Renewi Tour (Blankenberge>Ardooie)

11 e of the third stage of the Tour de France (Granville>Angers), of the first stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné (Cluses>Saint-Vulbas)

14 e of the Arctic Race of Norway

15 e of the Scheldeprijs

16 e of the sixth stage of the Renewi Tour (Riemst>Lanaken), of the first stage of the Amgen Tour of California (San Diego>San Diego)

18 e of the fourth stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné (Tain l'Hermitage>Belley)

20 e of the first stage of the Tour des Fjords (Os>Bergen)

21 e of the seventh stage of the Renewi Tour (Bornem>Geraardsbergen), of the third stage of the Arctic Race of Norway (Nesna>Korgfjellet)

2017. Team Katusha Alpecin

1 er of the second stage of the Arctic Race of Norway (Sjøvegan>Bardufoss), of the European Continental Championships - Road Race, of the Prudential RideLondon-Surrey Classic, of the Eschborn-Frankfurt, of the second stage of the Classic Brugge-De Panne (Zottegem>Koksijde), of the sixth stage of the Tour of Oman (The Wave>Muttrah Corniche), of the fourth stage of the Tour of Oman (Yiti (Al Sifah)>Ministry of Tourism), of the first stage of the Tour of Oman (Al Sawadi Beach>Naseem Park), of the second stage of the Etoile de Bessèges - Tour du Gard (Nîmes>Rodilhan)

2 e of the World Championships ME - Road Race, of the Bretagne Classic - Ouest-France, of the fourth stage of the Tour de France (Mondorf-les-Bains>Vittel), of the second stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné (Saint-Chamond>Arlanc), of the stage 3a of the Classic Brugge-De Panne (De Panne>De Panne), of the third stage of the Paris-Nice (Chablis>Chalon-sur-Saône), of the fourth stage of the Etoile de Bessèges - Tour du Gard (Chusclan>Laudun), of the first stage of the Etoile de Bessèges - Tour du Gard (Bellegarde>Beaucaire)

3 e of the eighth stage of the Tour of Britain (Worcester>Cardiff), of the fourth stage of the Tour of Britain (Mansfield>Newark-on-Trent), of the third stage of the Tour of Britain (Normanby Hall country park>Scunthorpe), of the Classic Brugge-De Panne, of the stage 3b of the Classic Brugge-De Panne (De Panne>De Panne [ITT]), of the first stage of the Paris-Nice (Bois-d'Arcy>Bois-d'Arcy)

4 e of the seventh stage of the Tour of Britain (Hemel Hemstead>Cheltenham), of the sixth stage of the Tour of Britain (Newmarket>Aldeburgh), of the first stage of the Tour of Britain (Edinburgh>Kelso), of the BEMER Cyclassics, of the Arctic Race of Norway, of the seventh stage of the Tour de France (Troyes>Nuits-Saint-Georges), of the sixth stage of the Tour de France (Vesoul>Troyes), of the third stage of the Amgen Tour of California (Pismo Beach>Morro Bay), of the Milano-Sanremo

5 e of the second stage of the Tour of Britain (Kielder water and forest park>Blyth), of the twenty-first stage of the Tour de France (Montgeron>Paris), of the tenth stage of the Tour de France (Périgueux>Bergerac), of the Ronde van Vlaanderen - Tour des Flandres

6 e of the fifth stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné (La Tour-de-Salvagny>Mâcon)

7 e of the Sparkassen Münsterland Giro, of the fourth stage of the Arctic Race of Norway (Tromsø>Tromsø), of the first stage of the Arctic Race of Norway (Engenes (Andørja)>Narvik), of the first stage of the Classic Brugge-De Panne (De Panne>Zottegem)

9 e of the fourth stage of the Amgen Tour of California (Santa Barbara>Santa Clarita), of the second stage of the Paris-Nice (Rochefort-en-Yvelines>Amilly)

12 e of the eleventh stage of the Tour de France (Eymet>Pau), of the third stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné (Le Chambon-sur-Lignon>Tullins)

13 e of the first stage of the Amgen Tour of California (Sacramento>Sacramento)

15 e of the Tour of Britain, of the second stage of the Tour de France (Düsseldorf>Liège)

17 e of the third stage of the Arctic Race of Norway (Lyngseidet>Finnvikdalen (Tromsø)), of the fifth stage of the Paris-Nice (Quincié-en-Beaujolais>Bourg-de-Péage)

21 e of the Kuurne - Bruxelles - Kuurne

2018. UAE Team Emirates

1 er of the twenty-first stage of the Tour de France (Houilles>Paris), of the Grosser Preis des Kantons Aargau, of the Eschborn-Frankfurt, of the first stage of the Abu Dhabi Tour (Madinat Zaya>Adnoc School), of the sixth stage of the Tour of Oman (Al Mouj Muscat>Matrah Corniche)

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5 e of the second stage of the Tour de France (Mouilleron-Saint-Germain>La Roche-sur-Yon), of the first stage of the Amgen Tour of California (Long Beach>Long Beach), of the fifth stage of the Paris-Nice (Salon-de-Provence>Sisteron)

6 e of the GP de Fourmies / La Voix du Nord, of the seventh stage of the Amgen Tour of California (Sacramento>Sacramento)

7 e of the fourth stage of the Tour de France (La Baule>Sarzeau), of the second stage of the Paris-Nice (Orsonville>Vierzon), of the second stage of the Abu Dhabi Tour (Yas Mall>Yas Beach), of the first stage of the Tour of Oman (Nizwa>Sultan Qaboos University), of the third stage of the Dubai Tour (Skydive Dubai>Fujairah), of the second stage of the Dubai Tour (Skydive Dubai>Ras al Khaimah)

8 e of the third stage of the Abu Dhabi Tour (Nation Towers>Big Flag)

9 e of the fifth stage of the Amgen Tour of California (Stockton>Elk Grove), of the Dubai Tour

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12 e of the third stage of the Tour of Oman (German University of Technology>Wadi Dayqah Dam)

13 e of the seventh stage of the Tour de France (Fougères>Chartres)

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17 e of the second stage of the Tour of Oman (Sultan Qaboos University>Al Bustan)

25 e of the Gent-Wevelgem in Flanders Fields ME

2019. UAE Team Emirates

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2 e of the first stage of the Deutschland Tour (Hannover>Halberstadt), of the fourth stage of the Tour de France (Reims>Nancy), of the second stage of the Tour of Oman (Royal Cavalry Oman>Al Bustan), of the fifth stage of the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (Paterna>Valencia)

3 e of the fourth stage of the Okolo Slovenska / Tour de Slovaquie (Hlohovec>Senica), of the third stage of the Okolo Slovenska / Tour de Slovaquie (Ružomberok>Hlohovec), of the fourth stage of the Deutschland Tour (Eisenach>Erfurt), of the sixth stage of the Tour of Norway (Gran>Hønefoss), of the third stage of the Tour of Norway (Lyngdal>Kristiansand), of the first stage of the Tour of Norway (Stavanger>Egersund), of the Eschborn-Frankfurt, of the Ronde van Vlaanderen - Tour des Flandres

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20 e of the second stage of the UAE Tour (Yas Island>Abu Dhabi Big Flag)

21 e of the third stage of the Deutschland Tour (Göttingen>Eisenach), of the E3 Saxo Classic

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6 e of the National Championships Norway - Road Race

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12 e of the eleventh stage of the Tour de France (Châtelaillon-Plage>Poitiers)

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5 e of the Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana (Lloseta - Lloseta)

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7 e of the fifth stage of the Ethias-Tour de Wallonie (Dinant>Quaregnon)

8 e of the third stage of the Deutschland Tour (Ilmenau>Erlangen)

10 e of the fourth stage of the Tour de la Provence (Avignon>Salon-de-Provence), of the first stage of the Tour de la Provence (Aubagne>Six-Fours-les-Plages)

14 e of the Paris-Roubaix

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18 e of the second stage of the Ethias-Tour de Wallonie (Zolder>Zolder), of the Vuelta Ciclista a la Región de Murcia Costa Cálida, of the Ronde van Vlaanderen - Tour des Flandres

21 e of the World Championships ME - Road Race

23 e of the Arctic Race of Norway

2022. Intermarché - Wanty - Gobert Matériaux

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2 e of the Grand Prix du Morbihan, of the National Championships Norway - Road Race

3 e of the first stage of the Volta ao Algarve em Bicicleta (Portimão>Lagos), of the fifth stage of the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (Paterna>Valencia), of the fourth stage of the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (Orihuela>Torrevieja), of the Milano - Torino, of the fourth stage of the Tour of Norway (Hovden>Kristiansand), of the Eschborn-Frankfurt, of the third stage of the Tour de Suisse (Aesch>Grenchen), of the Tour of Leuven - Memorial Jef Scherens, of the twenty-first stage of the Tour de France (Paris La Défense>Paris (Champs-Élysées))

4 e of the third stage of the Volta ao Algarve em Bicicleta (Almodôvar>Faro), of the fourth stage of the Tour de France (Dunkerque>Calais), of the Paris - Bourges

5 e of the second stage of the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (Bétera>Torrent)

6 e of the seventh stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico (San Benedetto del Tronto>San Benedetto del Tronto), of the World Championships ME - Road Race, of the first stage of the Deutschland Tour (Weimar>Meiningen)

7 e of the Gooikse Pijl

8 e of the European Continental Championships - Road Race

9 e of the Brussels Cycling Classic

10 e of the Ronde van Vlaanderen - Tour des Flandres, of the BEMER Cyclassics

11 e of the Kuurne - Bruxelles - Kuurne, of the Gent-Wevelgem in Flanders Fields ME, of the third stage of the Tour de France (Vejle>Sønderborg), of the second stage of the Tour de France (Roskilde>Nyborg)

12 e of the Paris-Roubaix

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Tour de France 2020: Alexander Kristoff wins Grand Départ stage – as it happened

The Norwegian veteran took the opening stage and the yellow jersey on a day of spills, thrills and bellyaching over Astana’s wet-weather tactics

• Kristoff takes Tour de France opener on a day of crashes
• 29 Aug 2020 Stage 1 top 10 finishers
• 29 Aug 2020 Alexander Kristoff wins!
• 29 Aug 2020 William Fotheringham's team-by-team guide
• 29 Aug 2020 Stage One: Nice Moyen Pays to Nice (156km)

Here’s the report from the opening stage.

An eventful first stage was won by 🇳🇴 Kristoff as he sprinted ahead to claim Yellow! 🎬 Relive the final kilometre! Une première étape mouvementée remportée par 🇳🇴 Kristoff, qui décroche le premier Maillot Jaune au sprint ! 🎬 Revivez le dernier kilomètre #TDF2020 pic.twitter.com/spt3g058tu — Tour de France™ (@LeTour) August 29, 2020

Kristoff in yellow: Alexander Kristoff takes the yellow jersey for the first time in his long career. “There’s going to be some sore bodies on the start line tomorrow,” says Peter Kennaugh on ITV. Team Ineos riders Pavel Sivakov and Andrey Amador are those who hurt themselves today, while George Bennett from Jumbo-Visma also took a spill.

🇫🇷 @ThibautPinot crosses the line surrounded by his teammates and with a ripped jersey. 🇫🇷 Entouré de ses équipiers, Thibaut Pinot franchit la ligne avec l'épaule droite touchée. #TDF2020 pic.twitter.com/sZVG5TQ2b8 — Tour de France™ (@LeTour) August 29, 2020

Parish notice: The race organisers have decided that all of the timings for today’s stage will be taken at the three kilometre from the finish mark.

Stage 1 top 10 finishers

• 1. Alexander Kristoff (UAE Team Emirates) 3hr 46min 23sec
• 2. Mads Pedersen (Trek-Segafredo
• 3. Cees Bol (Team Sunweb)
• 4. Sam Bennett (Deceuninck-Quick-Step)
• 5. Peter Sagan (SVK) Bira-Hansgrohe
• 6. Elia Viviani (Cofidis)
• 7. Giacomo Nizzolo (NTT)
• 8. Bryan Coquard (B&B Hotels-Vital Concept)
• 9. Anthony Turgis (Total Direct Energie)
• 10. Jasper Stuyven (Trek-Segafredo)

🏆 🇳🇴 @Kristoff87 wins the first stage! 🏆 🏆 🇳🇴 @Kristoff87 remporte cette première étape ! 🏆 #TDF2020 #TDFunited pic.twitter.com/yP7w9xtwxi — Tour de France™ (@LeTour) August 29, 2020

That finish: Kristoff came from behind to win by more than a bike-length, with Peter Sagan unable to mount any sort of challenge despite being in a great position to do so.

“I felt really strong in the final kilometres, I found a good wheel and I knew I was going to win. I was sitting on Sagan for a long time. At the end I was too strong and that was wonderful for me. My run-in to this Tour has not been great and I had no results to show. I was also banged up but it didn’t affect me to do.”

Kristoff wins: A frenetic day’s racing ends in victory for Alexander Kristoff. Sam Bennett appeared to get boxed in in the closing stages. We’re still waiting for a replay of the final dash for the line. It’s been a miserable day for many of the riders - all those caught up in the most recent crash are limping over the line in dribs and drabs.

Alexander Kristoff wins!

The veteran UAE Team Emirates sprinter rides the wheels to pull off something of a shock and win the opening stage of the 2020 Tour de France .

The finish: Sam Bennett is boxed in and has to check.

1km to go: The leaders go under the one kilometre to go kite.

3km to go: There’s a big crash in the back half of the peloton, with up to 20 or more riders going down at speed. Thibaut Pinot is one of them – the crash happened inside the final three kilometres so the riders will all get the same time as the main bunch.

5km to go: The road is wide, four lanes wide, as the riders jockey for position ahead of the finish. Sam Bennett, Peter Sagan, Alexander Kristoff and Giacomo Nizzolo are all well placed.

6km to go: Deceuninck- Quick-Step have Irish sprinter Sam Bennett in a good position ahead of the lead-out.

7km to go: Having led the peloton along for kilometres, Tony Martin starts going backwards. Robert Gesink takes over for Jumbo Visma.

10km to go: The peloton is nicely bunched with all the major sprinters nicely positioned in their respective trains as we enter the final 10 kilometres of the first stage. NTT sprinter Giacomo Nizzolo is the exception to the rule, Edvald Boasson Hagen being the only teammate he has with him. Peter Sagan’s Bora-Hansgrohe are lined up nicely, preparing to ride a finish to put Peter Sagan at the front near the finish line.

15km to go: Cosnefroy’s lead is reduced to six seconds. At the back of the field, George Bennett is weaving his way through the race cars and is about to latch on to the back of the bunch.

18km to go: Deceuninck-Quick-Step are controlling the front of the peloton, hoping to reel in Cosnefroy and set up a sprint finish for Sam Bennett. Cosnefroy has a 17 second lead over the bunch.

20km to go: AG2R La Mondiale rider Benoit Cosnefroy attacks off the front of the bunch and quickly opens a gap of 14 seconds. He’s a good time trial rider and the teams of the main sprinters will need to keep an eye on him.

25km to go: “Having a crash on the first day of a Grand Tour is horrible, because the first week is stressful enough already,” says David Millar on ITV. There are no end of riders who have got off to a bad start today, the worst affected being George Bennett (Jumbo-Visma) and Pavel Sivakov (Ineos), who have come a cropper three times between them this afternoon and will be finishing today’s stage on their own.

29km to go: The peloton remains fairly tightly bunched as the riders prepare to get their ducks in a row for what seems an inevitable sprint finish.

33km to go: The peloton is meandering along at a leisurely 38km per hour, taking no risks. “This is effectively a riders’ strike,” says race commentator Ned Boulting on ITV.

34km to go: Ineos rider Pavel Sivakov is still riding off the back of the bunch following his two crashes this afternoon.

39km to go: After a very eventful, stressful afternoon’s racing for the peloton, there are less than 40 kilometres to go as the riders enjoy the relative calm before what promises to be a serious storm of a sprint finish on Nice’s Promenade Des Anglais.

40km to go: Nairo Quintana was one of many fallers today. Here’s footage of his spill ...

C'est Nairo Quintana qui est tombé pour Arkéa avec Lukas Postberger (Bora). #TDF2020 pic.twitter.com/yire2tPGdZ — Louis Ltg (@LtgCycling) August 29, 2020

41km to go: Caleb Ewan has rejoined the peloton, having been led back by Jasper De Buyst and another of his Lotto Soudal team-mates.

That Lopez crash: The Astana rider was quite lucky as he was going at a fair pelt and narrowly avoided hitting a low wall with a potentially long drop on the other side.

It’s absolute carnage in the rain at the Tour De France. More crashes on stage one than in most years of the entire race. Crazy. #TDF2020 pic.twitter.com/lw6mGNuN3b — Simon Clancy (@SiClancy) August 29, 2020

🌧️ @SupermanlopezN slips in a turn at the head of the peloton. He changes bike and he sets off again. 🌧️ Miguel Angel Lopez a perdu l'adhérence dans un virage alors qu'il était en tête du peloton. Il a changé de vélo et est reparti. #TDF2020 pic.twitter.com/qOaMrddMFE — Tour de France™ (@LeTour) August 29, 2020

Looking at the issues today I wonder if riders started with higher pressures in tyres not expecting rain — William Fotheringham (@willfoth) August 29, 2020

46km to go: It’s game on again as three Astan riders sprint off the front of the bunch. One of them, Miguel Anguel Lopez, loses his back wheel out from under him and control of his bike, skids off the wet road and into a sign post. He’s OK, but needs a new bike. Tour favourite Primoz Roglic gives Lopez’s team-mate Omar Fraile a bollocking and tells him to slow down. The road is so wet ... covered in surface water.

48km to go: Costa Rican rider Andrey Amador, who rides for Ineos, is having a very unhappy 34th birthday. Having suffered a crash earlier, he’s now adrift of the peloton again after suffering a mechanical.

50km to go: Sam Bennett is about to regain contact with the bunch, who have slowed down on the descent to let various fallers catch up with them. Caleb Ewan and John Degenkolb remain adrift.

54km to go: The breakaway has been caught and the peloton are taking a bit of a breather. I’m going to take one too and will be back in five minutes.

King of the Mountains: Michael Schär takes the second of two sets of two KOM points available on the Côte de Rimiez today.

Whoever of he and Fabien Grellier crosses the finish line first today will take the King of the Mountains jersey.

58km to go: Team Jumbo-Visma move their riders to the front of the bunch that is about to swallow up the breakaway. At the back of the field, NTT rider Giacomo Nizzolo is visibly struggling and being pushed along by a team-mate. He doesn’t appear to have crashed, but is really struggling.

Intermediate sprint result

• 1. Michael Schär
• 2. Cyril Gautier
• 3. Fabien Grellier
• 4. Peter Sagan
• 5. Matteo Trentin
• 6. Sam Bennett
• 7. Alexander Kristoff
• 8. Bryan Coquard
• 9. Luka Mezgec
• 10. Chris Juul Jensen
• 11. Daniel Oss
• 12. Nicolas Edet
• 13. Edward Theuns
• 14. Gregor Mühlberger
• 15. Michal Kwiatkowski

63km to go: Stage favourite Caleb Ewan is also out the back of the field after crashing. Our leading trio drop Fabien Grellier. Michael Schar (CCC) and Cyril Gautier (B&B) lead the stage as they tackle the second and final climb of the day. There’s an awful lot going on.

64km to go: The gap between pour three-man breakaway and the bunch is down to 30 seconds. Pavel Sivakov from Team Ineos is pedalling along four minutes behind the bunch and looks throughly disillusioned after his two crashes. Is he going to quit?

67km to go: David De La Cruz, Luisleon Sanchez, Mikel NIeve and Andrey Amador are among to those to have gone down in that most recent crash.

69km to go: There’s another crash in the peloton on the Preminade Des Anglais, where today’s stage will finish, with a lot of riders hitting the deck hard. More on that when they’ve sorted themselves out. This is a seriously attritional start to this year’s Tour.

70km to go: The riders are back on the Promenade Des Anglais in Nice. Team Ineos rider Pavel Sivakov has fallen for the second time. Having received medical treatment to the right side of his body following his first fall, Egan Bernal’s mountain domestique is now receiving treatment to the left side of his body. He looks seriously fed up with life.

87km to go: Julian Alaphilippe misjudges a bend as he tries to bridge the long gap between himself and the bunch and almost goes off the road. He sticks out a leg to help keep his balance.

90km to go: Deceuninck-Quick-Step rider Julian Alaphilippe suffers a mechanical when his front wheel seizes up and needs a bike change. He has to wait pateitnly at the side of the road for his team car to get to him. As the rain continues to hammer down, the three stage leaders have a lead of 1min 39sec.

Lizzie Deignan pips Marianne Vos to win La Course in Nice sprint drama. @jeremycwhittle 's full report https://t.co/5qIZWyFLoZ #LaCourse — Guardian sport (@guardian_sport) August 29, 2020

94km to go: Team Ineos rider Pavel Sivakov is at the back of the field, making his way through the team cars with blood visible on his arm after hitting the deck in these treacherous conditions.

Mitchelton–Scott rider Daryl Impey has also come a cropper. The peloton are 1min 10sec behind the breakaway group and moving at snail’s pace as they tackle a series of hairpins on a road covered in surface water.

Jeremy Whittle is reporting on this year’s Tour for the Guardian. Here he wonders if Groupama-FDJ rider Thiubaut Pinot can end France’s 30-year wait for a winner.

102km to go: It’s raining heavily and the road is very slippery as the breakaway trio of Michael Schar (CCC), Fabien Grellier (Team Total Direct Energie) and Cyril Gautier (B&B Hotels–Vital Concept) make their way back out the country. They have a lead of 1min 25sec over the peloton, which is being led by the riders of race favourite Primoz Roglic’s Jumbo-Visma team.

107km: Fabien Grellier takes the first two King of the Mountains points up for grabs on the Category 3 Cote de Rimiez. It’s a climb the riders will tackle again with 59 kilometres of today’s race left to go.

107km to go: The trio in the breakaway tackle a stiff climb, the gap between them and the bunch down to 1min 43sec.

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Alexander Kristoff wins first stage of Tour de France

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NICE, France -- Delayed but alive again and out on French roads, the strangest Tour de France ever set off Saturday in a bubble of anti-COVID protocols to try to keep the 176 riders virus-free for three weeks of racing through the country's worsening epidemic.

Only after riders peeled off their face masks and raced off from the start in the Mediterranean city of Nice, serenaded by a uniformed band playing "La Marseillaise," did the Tour begin to look like its old, pre-COVID self, immediately delivering thrills and spills as storms made the roads as slippery as ice.

But with fans kept firmly at arm's length, told by the government that it was best to stay home and watch the racing on television, the Tour lost much of its festive atmosphere. There was very little of the usual up-close communing between athletes and their adoring public that made the venerable 117-year-old rolling roadshow so unique among sports events in more carefree times.

Powering past thin crowds on the finishing straight in Nice that would usually have been crammed with spectators rows deep, Norwegian rider Alexander Kristoff won the first stage with a fearsome final sprint. He celebrated by giving a COVID-sensible fist-bump to a teammate.

Winning Stage 1 earned Kristoff the first yellow jersey of the 2020 Tour, which he will wear as the race leader on Sunday's Stage 2 that loops into the mountains behind Nice. Usually, a race official or a VIP would have helped him slip into the iconic jersey, one of the most coveted and recognizable in sports. But not this year, with social distancing the priority.

Kristoff stood alone on the winner's podium, flanked by a host and a hostess a safe distance away. He then disappeared backstage to wriggle into the jersey himself, before coming back out to pose for photos. Still, the thrill of wearing the jersey for the first time in his eight Tours more than outweighed the weirdness.

"An amazing feeling," he told reporters at the finish. "It means a lot for my career and a stage win shows I can still be up there even at 33 years old and with four kids."

With infections rising steadily across France, the Tour has no guarantees of reaching the finish in Paris on Sept. 20. Riders will have daily health checks and coronavirus tests during the race, and can be tossed out if they fail them. Entire teams could be sent home if two or more riders or staff test positive for COVID-19 within a week. Fans have been told not to approach riders for selfies or autographs and to always wear masks.

Jean-Michel Blanquer, the French minister in charge of sports, was upbeat at the start Saturday, saying the Tour has only a "very slim" chance of being canceled before Paris but also cautioning that "everything is possible."

"That type of thing could happen but of course I hope that it won't and I think that it won't because the Tour organizers have done an extraordinary job," he said.

Fans who have waited for Tour action to resume, after the race was pushed back from July, were rewarded with high drama on the 156-kilometer (97-mile) first stage that did three loops around Nice and hilly backcountry to the city's north. Rain storms turned the tarmac so slick that riders eventually made a pact between themselves out on the road to dial back the pace after multiple crashes.

Among the most dramatic was Colombian rider Miguel Angel Lopez skidding headfirst into a road sign. He labored on to the finish. Another crash took out a heap of riders in the dash to the line on Nice's splendid seafront.

"People were crashing almost on every corner," said Kristoff. "It was really slippy out there."

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Alexander kristoff wins first stage of tour de france full of crashes.

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Norwegian Alexander Kristoff sprinted into the Tour de France yellow jersey, winning the opening stage in Nice of the Grand Tour that started two months later than usual due to the coronavirus pandemic.

“I always dreamed about wearing the yellow jersey,” he said. “I crashed also in the European Championships a few days ago, straight on my head, so I was a bit banged up. But that didn’t affect me today.”

Kristoff, 33, earned his fourth career Tour stage win, edging world road race champion Mads Pedersen of Denmark in a bunched sprint.

It came on a rainy day filled with crashes involving French favorites Thibaut Pinot and Julian Alaphilippe , who finished in the same time as the other overall favorites.

The Tour continues with a mountainous stage two on Sunday, also in Nice. Coverage begins at 7 a.m. ET on NBCSN and NBC Sports Gold.

TOUR DE FRANCE: Standings | TV, Stream Schedule | Stage By Stage

The Tour started amid the coronavirus “gaining ground” in France, France’s prime minister said Thursday.

The government announced 21 of its 101 administrative regions, including Nice, were now in the “red zone” where the virus is actively circulating and authorities can impose stricter rules on gatherings. Masks were required for everyone in Paris starting Friday, ahead of schools reopening next week.

Tour riders and staff are in a moving bubble, which required two negative tests to start the three-week Grand Tour. An entire team will be sent home if two riders or staff test positive within a seven-day span. Teams must be tested on Tour rest days Sept. 7 and Sept. 14.

There are 22 squads of eight riders competing at the Tour, but a total of 30 members per team when staff are included.

Tour organizers set up a mobile coronavirus lab that can produce results in two hours and handle 50 tests a day on race days.

“It’s a first miracle that we are able to start this race, but we want a second miracle to happen, which is the Tour de France to arrive in Paris,” UCI president David Lappartient said. “The goal is really to reach Paris.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Kristoff overcomes personal doubts to win on the champs, alexander kristoff's had to fight to keep faith in his ability before his breakthrough win on stage 21 of the tour de france..

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PARIS, France (VN) — You can’t blame Alexander Kristoff f or having doubts.

In recent years the big Norwegian has become the almost man of WorldTour sprints. Check Kristoff’s results page on Procyclingstats.com, and count up all of the second- and third-place finishes from the past three seasons. There’s a lot.

Kristoff has seen those results too. In recent years, he began to wonder whether he would ever win a Tour de France stage again. He had his doubts.

So when Kristoff won Sunday’s stage on the Champs Elysees , the doubts seemed to melt, at least for a moment. Known for his stern, serious demeanor, Kristoff beamed as he greeted fans at his UAE-Team Emirates team bus.

“I won two [Tour de France] times in the same year [2014] and then I had second and third place finishes, but I never won,” Kristoff told VeloNews . “To finally get a victory is huge, and a relief, because I was fearing I would only get the two victories.”

Prior to Sunday Kristoff racked up multiple close calls at this year’s Tour de France. Even after the race’s top sprinters left the race —Mark Cavendish and Marcel Kittel were time cut, and Fernando Gaviria, Andrei Greipel, and Dylan Groenewegen dropped out—Kristoff could not win. Peter Sagan and Arnaud Demare seemed to have the fastest kick and relegated Kristoff to second and third.

The successive losses wore on the Norweigian. He was visibly upset after losing a close sprint to Sagan during the 13th stage into Valence .

So how did Kristoff keep the faith that he might win?

“When you’re top three, you know that if you’re a bit lucky, you can win,” he said. “It’s just to wait for somebody to make a mistake. Now, some guys did make a mistake in the mountains and didn’t manage to finish. I knew I was among the fastest, I just had to do the right things.”

Indeed, Kristoff’s most right thing was likely avoiding crashes in the Pyrenees. A crash on stage 17 sapped Sagan of his traditional fast kick for the final two sprints. The three-time world champion lost stage 18 into Pau after failing to truly contest the kick. On Sunday Sagan had his Bora-Hansgrohe team ride the front in the waning kilometers to set him up for the win. In the kick to the line, Sagan was well off the pace.

That opened the door for Kristoff.

“To come here and finally succeed is special, especially when it’s on the Champs,” he said.

Kristoff said he won’t let the victory inflate his ego. He knows that his victory has roots in the historic attrition of sprinters during this year’s race.

Making it to the finish line, however, is an important skill required to win on cycling’s most famous road.

“I still think Groenewegen, Greipel, Gaviria, there are a few faster guys than me,” he said. “I know that when the race is hard, or guys are tired, I still usually have a good sprint. I can beat them at the end of a three-week race. I am still fast.”

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Kristoff celebrates first Tour de France stage victory

"I've finally done it!" declares Katusha rider

Norway's Alexander Kristoff finally took the win he's been waiting for on Thursday: a stage of the Tour de France .

The Katusha sprinter arrived at the finish of stage 12 in Saint-Étienne as part of a reduced bunch of 60 riders, whittled down over a hilly 185.5 kilometres between Bourg-en-Bresse and the capital of the Loire département.

Kristoff's biggest win to date had come at the 2014 Milan San-Remo in March, where he beat Trek's Fabian Cancellara and Team Sky's Ben Swift to take the Italian one-day Classic.

In Saint Etienne on Thursday, it was Peter Sagan and Arnaud Démare who were left disappointed thanks to Kristoff's fast finish, while his many fans back home in Norway were left elated.

"I hope they have a big party," Kristoff grinned, "and that the whole country celebrates. I know how big the Tour is for people in Norway. This is the race that everyone knows, and I've always dreamed about winning a Tour stage, so it feels great to have finally won here."

Kristoff revealed that he'd specifically targeted the Saint Etienne stage, and used an old Tour trick to ensure that he came to the start in Bourg-en-Bresse feeling as refreshed as possible in the hope of achieving his goal.

"Yesterday [Wednesday's 11th stage] I took it easy with a view to being good today, so maybe that was the key to my success. I'd tried to save my legs on the hills, which meant that I felt pretty good on the climbs today, and was never really on the limit," Kristoff explained. "But coming towards the finish, anything can happen – you can easily get boxed in – so I was a little bit nervous.

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"A lot of teams wanted to be at the front, so we were a little squeezed, and I lost Luca [Paolini] and then [Alexander] Porsev, too, so I just had to find my way to the front by myself," said Kristoff. "Quick Step were giving [Matteo] Trentin a good lead-out, so I got on his wheel. I felt then like I could start my sprint whenever I wanted to, and I think I got it just about right..."

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