Tour de France 2020: stage one, le Grand Départ – live!
- Live updates from the opening day of this year’s race
- William Fotheringham’s stage-by-stage guide
- Tour de France set for Grand Départ shrouded in fear and uncertainty
- Feel free to email Barry or tweet @BGlendenning
1.02pm BST
Their face masks off, the cyclists in the peloton roll out from Nice with decidedly socially undistanced crowds of the public lining the streets as they. They’ll have to ride another seven or so kilometres before given the signal to begin racing by Christian Prudhomme.
12.51pm BST