Hello and welcome to the VeloVoices Tour de France Moments of Joy, where some stages you might have one post and another you might have five … depending on who has been at VeloVoices Towers that day. Today was a day where French fans were at VV HQ, so here is Kathi’s Moment of Joy
Cooler than a cool thing from Cool Town
Or in French … oooh la la
🧊What's cooler than being cool? Being @ThibautPinot
🧊 La définition de l'élégance, par @ThibautPinot#TDF2023 pic.twitter.com/DMlwPKitS3
— Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 1, 2023
As we know, this is Thibaut Pinot‘s final year of professional cycling – and we also know that the Tour de France hasn’t always been good to him. But Pinot fans everywhere live in hope. And who happened to keep his cool when the peloton fractured and went on to finish in fourth today? You can just see him peaking out from under the upstretched arms of Tadej Pogacar, who, we are not certain, looks like he thought *he* had won the stage, not his teammate Adam Yates.
Thibaut Pinot prend la 4e place à Bilbao ! David Gaudu est 10e.
Cette première étape difficile obligeait à être d'entrée dans le match : c'est le cas ✅ pic.twitter.com/wNeu1wPYNd
— Équipe Cycliste Groupama-FDJ (@GroupamaFDJ) July 1, 2023
An optimistic tweet
THIBAUT PINOT VA GAGNER LE TOUR DE FRANCE
— Teslu (@Teslu_) July 1, 2023
Stage results
Top-10 on Stage 1 of the Tour de France pic.twitter.com/G3XuCrRXPf
— the Inner Ring (@inrng) July 1, 2023
🎽Jerseys after Stage 01 / Maillots distinctifs après l’étape 01
💛@AdamYates7
💚@AdamYates7
🔴@NPowless
👶@TamauPogi #TDF2023 @letour_euskadi pic.twitter.com/bjKLw51mGc— Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 1, 2023