Britain’s Adam Yates claimed the opening stage of the Tour de France to take the first yellow jersey of this year’s edition at the end of a 182.5-km loop around Bilbao on Saturday.
Yates’s twin brother Simon finished second ahead of Slovenian Tadej Pogacar.
“It’s just amazing. I am super happy,” Adam said afterwards.
“My brother came across to me and then we started working together. At first I didn’t know if I should work with him – I asked on the radio and they said ‘yeah go for it’.
“I knew Simon was going good, I speak to him every day, we are really close and yeah just sharing this experience with him is really nice. I just wish he would have pulled up a bit easier because he almost dropped me at one moment.”