In his debut Tour, the former Vuelta a España champion Evenepoel has so far shown himself to be the biggest obstacle to Pogacar taking a third yellow jersey in Nice, with the defending champion, Jonas Vingegaard still short of his best form.“I was on a good day,” Evenepoel said. “The climb was actually pretty tough. “I wanted to start fast and had to keep something for the climb, which wasn’t easy, but I enjoyed every metre of this time trial.
But the 24-year-old world time trial champion, now a winner of stages in all three Grand Tours, recovered from his scare to beat Pogacar by 12sec and the defending champion, the Visma Lease-a-bike leader, Vingegaard, by 37sec. In a discipline dominated by technology and aerodynamics, power remains the decisive factor and Evenepoel proved the most adept at that, speeding towards Gevrey-Chambertin at 87km an hour.
It was not a great afternoon either, for the Ineos Grenadiers, who, had it not been for the valiant effort of Carlos Rodríguez – seventh overall after the stage – would have slipped into the ranks of also-rans.
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