UAE Team Emirates manager Mauro Gianetti rushed off the team bus to celebrate with staff and friends after Adam Yates won stage 1 of the Tour de France in Bilbao and took the first yellow jersey, while Tadej Pogačar finished third and picked up four bonus seconds on main rival Jonas Vingegaard.
Gianetti had been ridiculed after he suggested that Yates was his joint team leader alongside Pogačar, with some dismissing the idea as simple mind games to try to unsettle Vingegaard and Jumbo-Visma.
