The 24-year-old continues to be joined in the GC top ten by Soudal Quick-Step teammate Mikel Landa.

Remco Evenepoel became the first Belgian rider to lead the Tour de France youth classification seven days in a row, after concluding the tricky and nervous stage 7 in the top ten. Comprising four classified climbs, plenty of undulating roads and an elevation gain of more than 2000 meters, the trek between Semur-en-Auxois and Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises was far from being a sprinters’ straightforward day, but despite this, it came down to a mass gallop.

The cold temperatures and nagging rain favoured a large breakaway, but that was only on paper, because only one rider decided to attack and go up the road, putting more than six minutes into the field with around 100 kilometers to go. Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno X-Mobility) remained off the front until inside the last 20 kilometers, when we got reeled in. On the 7% drag to the line, Biniam Girmay (Intermarche-Wanty) took the victory, while Remco – who remained well positioned the entire time as things became hectic – finished tenth.

Victorious in the race’s first individual time trial and second overall, Evenepoel will enter the first week’s final stage with the white jersey firmly on his shoulders. Stage 9, starting and concluding in Troyes, comes with a total of fourteen gravel roads sectors which could wreak havoc in the peloton and bring some significant changes to the general classification.

 

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Race details

1 Biniam Girmay Hailu
Intermarché - Wanty
4:04:50
2 Jasper Philipsen
Alpecin - Deceuninck
0:00
3 Arnaud De Lie
Lotto Dstny
0:00
4 Pascal Ackermann
Israel - Premier Tech
0:00
5 Marijn van den Berg
EF Education - EasyPost
0:00
6 Ryan Gibbons
Lidl - Trek
0:00
7 Anthony Turgis
TotalEnergies
0:00
8 Fred Wright
Bahrain - Victorious
0:00
9 Alex Aranburu Deba
Movistar Team
0:00
10 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
23 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
30 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
34 Gianni Moscon
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
82 Yves Lampaert
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
92 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
170 Jan Hirt
Soudal Quick-Step
8:46
1 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
31:21:13
2 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
0:33
3 Jonas Vingegaard Hansen
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
1:15
4 Primož Roglič
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
1:36
5 Juan Ayuso Pesquera
UAE Team Emirates
2:16
6 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
2:17
7 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
2:31
8 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
3:35
9 Matteo Jorgenson
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
4:03
10 Aleksandr Vlasov
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
4:36
21 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
6:43
48 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
32:01
76 Gianni Moscon
Soudal Quick-Step
54:20
112 Jan Hirt
Soudal Quick-Step
1:14:29
140 Yves Lampaert
Soudal Quick-Step
1:23:39
1 Biniam Girmay Hailu
Intermarché - Wanty
216 pt
2 Jasper Philipsen
Alpecin - Deceuninck
128 pt
3 Jonas Abrahamsen
Uno-X Mobility
107 pt
4 Arnaud De Lie
Lotto Dstny
92 pt
5 Bryan Coquard
Cofidis
86 pt
6 Arnaud Démare
73 pt
7 Fernando Gaviria Rendon
Movistar Team
73 pt
8 Dylan Groenewegen
Team Jayco AlUla
71 pt
9 Kévin Vauquelin
70 pt
10 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
63 pt
11 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
60 pt
53 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
9 pt
58 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
8 pt
59 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
7 pt
1 Jonas Abrahamsen
Uno-X Mobility
33 pt
2 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
20 pt
3 Valentin Madouas
Groupama - FDJ
16 pt
4 Jonas Vingegaard Hansen
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
15 pt
5 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
12 pt
6 Stephen Williams
Israel - Premier Tech
10 pt
7 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
10 pt
8 Frank van den Broek
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
9 pt
9 Ion Izagirre Insausti
Cofidis
8 pt
10 Juan Ayuso Pesquera
UAE Team Emirates
8 pt
13 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
4 pt
1 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
31:21:46
2 Juan Ayuso Pesquera
UAE Team Emirates
1:43
3 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
1:58
4 Matteo Jorgenson
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
3:30
5 Santiago Buitrago Sánchez
Bahrain - Victorious
5:20
6 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
6:10
7 Ben Healy
EF Education - EasyPost
8:26
8 Javier Romo
Movistar Team
12:40
9 Thomas Pidcock
INEOS Grenadiers
18:00
10 Maxim Van Gils
Lotto Dstny
20:54
1 UAE Team Emirates 94:08:34
2 Soudal Quick-Step 6:04
3 Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe 7:41
4 INEOS Grenadiers 8:31
5 Bahrain - Victorious 14:33
6 Movistar Team 16:01
7 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 18:34
8 EF Education - EasyPost 25:53
9 Lidl - Trek 34:32
10 Team dsm-firmenich PostNL 43:44

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