Sport | France's Bardet wins Tour de France opener as Cavendish suffers
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French climber Romain Bardet of the DSM team claimed the overall leader's yellow jersey when he won the opening stage of the Tour de France on Saturday with a late escape on a 206km run from Florence to Rimini.