Follow live text updates of stage one of the 2024 Tour de France as the race travels from Florence to Rimini
Stage one: Florence - Rimini, 206kmMatej Mohoric, who was dropped on the Cote de Barbotto utilises his impressive descending skills in order to rejoin the breakaway group at the front of the race.
Alberto Bettiol, who will know these roads well given he's from Tuscany will surely fancy hs chances today but could Ecuadorian rider Richard Carapaz, also be a second card the US team could play? Gazzoli is only the second rider to abandon on his Tour bow this century after Herve Duclos-Lassalle in 2008.Now there are still plenty of points up for grabs today but here is how the KOM competition is going thus far:On ITV4 commentary, Peter Kennaugh, who is a friend and former teammate of Mark Cavendish, says a section of the incoming category two climb up the Cote de Barbotto ramps up to around 15-16% in sections but that will feel like a 35% gradient to the 34-time stage winner.
"I did Tour de Suisse. I think I'm going good enough. But if I'm behind, there'll be a lot of other guys behind as well. So we'll see what happens. It's a race. We don't really think about the race, we think about what we can do now. It's two races within a race, today anyway.
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