Frenchman Romain Bardet won the first stage of the Tour de France on Saturday after Ben Healy briefly rasied hopes he could become just the fourth Irishman to wear the Yellow Jersey after Shay Elliott, Stephen Roche and Sean Kelly.
With 40 kilometres of the hilly Grand Depart - a 206 km ride from Florence - to go Healy made his move, breaking from the peloton in an attempt to bridge the gap to the breakaway.
However he failed to reel in the Team dsm-firmenich PostNL duo of Bardet and Frank Van Den Broek and eventually returned to the peloton.
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Additional reporting: Reuters
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