2022 Tour de Suisse – Stage 1 Highlights | Cycling | Eurosport

Highlights from Stage 1 of the 2022 Tour de Suisse

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preparations for the tour de france continue to pace in switzerland with the tour de swiss beginning the first day of an eight-day stage race around the town of cusnacht starting on the shores of lake zurich heading over the hill through esken monchaldorf gossal up two categorized climbs and four laps of a circuit to make up almost 180 kilometers of racing a lumpy day one perhaps for the faster finishers who could climb we’d find out on a hot day as the starting numbers fired on the 85th edition of the tour de swiss a good break of seven riders got up the road really strong riders too including grand tour stage winner chad hager the gap was two minutes and 20 seconds with 65 kilometers to go roughly translating to a lap and a half of the circuit bike exchange behind we’re very interested in trying to pull things back they had michael matthews here and lewis askey was the first to be dropped out of the seven-man group british rider from not able to hack the pace on the climbs as the two most entertaining riders on the day kept battling it out for king of the mountains points quinn simmons winning this battle on this occasion simon mitchell though was equal to him on others with 35 kilometers remaining the gap was down to just over a minute peliton fairly sizable still and on the penultimate climb of the day jay vine was the second to be dropped peter sagan and alexander kristoff were gone from the peloton they would not be contesting any sort of finish today and the penitent getting smaller and smaller four riders remained at the front just 20 seconds heading up the final categorized climb before the final rise to the line and the last man to be caught from the breaker would be simul vitchell 27 year old from switzerland racing for the national team nelson palace jakub fullsang and nepal started the party as the approach to the finish line fulson and every nepal briefly going away together and looking mightily strong there were surprises behind with pinot dropped danny martinez as well going backwards but in the pool alongside the rest were certainly going forwards some speed too adam yates was in the front alexander vlassov looked good and gary thomas making sure he pulled his part of the group back on as well lassov and even the pull have been away and it be have nepal’s teammate elon von wilder who tried to lead things out in the sprint andres crom was straight on his wheel the dane coming through the center max shackman on the right but look here on the left red jersey a 26 year old rider from wales stephen williams winning for bahrain victorious taking his first ever world tour success william shachman and cron the podium on the day with here she the swiss favorite up in fourth place ahead of fifth place finisher alexey ludsenko a super win in a steam company for the 26 year old from aberystwyth stephen williams williams winning the stage and becoming therefore the first leader of the tour de swiss by four seconds from shachmann the two-time winner of bahrainis and german champion andres krohn in third who’s the best young rider as well with hiroshima senko up there igita had a good day as did porzo vivo in the top ten yellow jersey on the back of stephen williams highly talented hugely talked about as a young man going into stage two now in the lead stage two starts from kuznacht and heads west first couple of second category climbs will be taken on and a finishing loop finishing in ish after almost 200 kilometers of racing it’s 198 to be precise and you’ll be able to catch it here on gcn plus stage two of the tour of swiss with stevie williams as race leader [Music] you