A Team Sky rider leads the Tour de France after Stage 1. Will another one wear the yellow jersey in Paris in three weeks?
Geraint Thomas became the first Welshman to lead the Tour after clocking the fastest individual time trial in Duesseldorf, Germany, on Saturday.
Thomas covered the flat, wet, nine-mile course in 16 minutes, 4 seconds. He was five seconds faster than Swiss Stefan Kung.
The Tour’s opening day was filled with crashes. The biggest was to Alejandro Valverde, the third-place finisher in 2015 who slammed into a metal barrier and abandoned the Tour.