FINAL KM: Tour de Romandie, prologue

Cowbells ahoy!!!! The Tour of Romandie kicked off with a technical, cobbley, punchy prologue where the biggest question of the day was road bike or TT bike?

Tour de Romandie Prologue: Fribourg to Fribourg, 4.02km

Michael Matthews (Sunweb) put his disappointing spring campaign firmly behind him by delivering his first victory of 2018. Bling zinged around the short, crazy prologue route just pipping long time leader and home favourite BMC’s Tom Bohli by a single second. Primoz Roglic (LottoNL-Jumbo) continued his great form from Itzulia Basque Country to round out the podium in third.

Video: I couldn’t find highlights of the prologue so here’s Mr Matthews with a happy post stage interview.

and an equally happy Mr Bohli receiving his best young rider jersey on the podium

#TDR2018 @Tom_Bohli is one very happy rider after today’s prologue! Here 👇 he is on the podium receiving the white jersey as Best Young Rider. pic.twitter.com/YajMZjwQA1

— BMC Racing Team (@BMCProTeam) April 24, 2018

Now THAT’S a prologue course

Today’s prologue in @TourDeRomandie, 4km, including cobbles, mad downhills, more cobbles, a cobbled climb, scary corners, scary cobbled corners, pleasant scenery.

— Alex Dowsett (@alexdowsett) April 24, 2018

We love Alex Dowsett‘s vlogs on his life as a WorldTour professional. Yesterday he gave us his thoughts on the Tour of Romandie. Here’s how he did…

Get well soon Matthias…

ICYMI@M_Braendle crashed during the warmup for the #TDR2018 prologue and broke his collarbone. He will also miss the #giro101

"I am very disappointed. Mostly because I cannot help the team here and in the Giro. The crash was a really stupid one." (1/3) pic.twitter.com/YwJCqTnjgO

— Trek-Segafredo (@TrekSegafredo) April 24, 2018

"I was really looking forward to racing the next weeks after a long training period where I put in everything. I believe I had it in my reach with this tricky parcours to go for the win with the training I did in the last weeks." (3/3)

We wish @M_Braendle a speedy recovery!

— Trek-Segafredo (@TrekSegafredo) April 24, 2018

Full race report at Cycling News

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