Statement made! 🔥 | 2026 Men's Tour de l'Ain Stage 1 Final KM's

The catch still has to be made the peloton fanned wide across this road By the looks of things pippa the lead-out trains fairly sparse no big train to speak of And now it's group arm fdj united on the right hand side having Lost themselves a little bit on those narrow routes now starting to reassemble themselves with three kilometers to go Yeah, they've had a little rest from just controlling them That earlier break, so now they're back on the front It looks like we've got different people to do this last part. So Dale Things are over from the break a couple of handshakes there. So, uh, yep It's a good job. At least we've talked about them certainly have chapeau to victor jean of elite foundations and maximilian julia of the vc villafranche beaujolais Just over the border of the department Now we get to see Just who's got What left in the tank here? Soudal quick step now starting to push themselves towards the front we saw alberto dainese a handful of kilometers ago a little bit out of position just moving his way ahead of team visma lisa bike development We're inside that three kilometer mark now so all the gc favorites will be Breathing a slight of relief now certainly be wanted to keep themselves safe on this running because as a Von rizal roubaix start to make an acceleration towards the front it's going to get Incredibly hectic from here on in pippa. Yeah, i'm just trying to look there's who's the kind of most organized there probably If you look at the the visma lisa bike guys in yellow, they they've got kind of three riders together Everybody else is in kind of ones and twos at the moment So I think we're gonna have to kind of look slightly further back from this shot Into that kind of 20 15 20 position to see who's going to come from there. But at the moment these riders in the front, you know, they're kind of Exposed a little bit too early interesting to me. We've got a rider from the french national team in second and fourth position, so uh First time we've seen them today Yeah plenty of options for the young French under 23 national selection, but for now, it's stephane. Bissiga The swiss powerhouse is doing all the work here Now it's down to the team of the france Under 23 selection to kick off the wheel borgon brest And cyclisme coming up on the left hand side of the road this is number 116 that's antoine basset really putting in a sterling lead out Here comes the alberto dainese on the left hand side On his wheel comes noah hobbs of ef education. Easy post on his wheel is bohemian And it looks like mateo milan. It's noah hobbs who takes down the victory That was a difficult one to call from the helicopter couldn't quite see where the finish line was but it's noah hobbs The 22 year old of ef education easy post who takes victory on stage one of the tour de l'an Yeah, it's a bit hard to call that because you couldn't really see where they were We didn't really see the numbers. But uh, yeah maybe we'll get a better shot from the kind of static cameras in a little bit of moment, but uh hobbs hit the front Hard to say where he hit the front from maybe 150 meters Well, that was an unconventional camera angle we usually see it from the front certainly Wonderful to see the power of these sprinters from the air noah hobbs in the mix alberto dainese likewise bohemian barrio as well Some real interesting names in there The magnificent win for young noah hobbs his second professional victory And only solidifying Well, everybody is believing It's a real big sprint talent