Demare avenges barren season with stage 1 win
Four in the lead
A minute of silence was observed at the start in memory of French rider Romain Guyot, recently killed in a training accident. Light snow fell before the start, given at 11:54 to 175 riders and would keep falling intermittently all day. Almost on the gun, Thomas de Gendt (Lotto Soudal), Perrig Quemeneur (Cofidis), Steven Tronet (Fortuneo) and Thierry...
