The Belgian put in another convincing ride on an incredible day of racing.

Remco Evenepoel showed grit, determination and a fantastic never-say-die attitude on what went down as the most explosive stage of the race so far, a 211km trek through the Massif Central which ended up having a bigger impact on the general classification that the mythical Col du Galibier, one week ago.

After five hours of breathless racing, gruelling gradients, more than 4000 vertical meters and insane speeds, Soudal Quick-Step’s leader demonstrated calmness, pulling off a massive performance. Evenepoel, who is racing his maiden Tour de France, was distanced on Pas de Peyrol – the hardest climb of the day, averaging 8.1% over 3.8 kilometers – but never gave up and recovered well on the descent and the remaining two climbs, where he joined Primoz Roglic (Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe).

Despite trailing by around 50 seconds going into the final 15 kilometers, Remco rode his own pace that allowed him not only to increase the gap over the first chasing group, but also to mount a remarkable recovery on the roads to Le Lioran. On the last climb, the 24-year-old custodian of the white jersey managed to claw back time on his way to an impressive third place, just 25 seconds down on Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), who took the stage win after outsprinting Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates).

“Everybody knows the first two guys are on another level, so I’m satisfied with today. It was very fast and explosive from the start, a relentless stage from kilometer zero all the way until the finish. Maybe I wasn’t quite at my best, because I struggled a bit when the attacks came with 30 kilometers to go, but I didn’t panic and just rode my own rhythm.”

“It was hard out there, but I continued pushing and believing, trying my best to make up ground. I didn’t lose too much time today, so I need to be content with how things turned out. I also took time on the other guys and increased my margin in the general classification while retaining second place, so I can say it was a good stage. We need to remain focused, continue to do our best and build on these very good results”, an upbeat Remco said after taking his 36th white jersey in a Grand Tour.

 

Photo credit: ©Tim De Waele / Getty Images

Race details

1 Jonas Vingegaard Hansen
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
4:58:00
2 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
0:00
3 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
0:25
4 Primož Roglič
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
0:25
5 Giulio Ciccone
Lidl - Trek
1:47
6 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
1:49
7 Adam Yates
UAE Team Emirates
1:49
8 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
1:49
9 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
1:55
10 Felix Gall
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
2:38
35 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
16:23
51 Jan Hirt
Soudal Quick-Step
22:54
56 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
25:17
100 Gianni Moscon
Soudal Quick-Step
29:43
108 Yves Lampaert
Soudal Quick-Step
29:57
1 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
45:00:34
2 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
1:06
3 Jonas Vingegaard Hansen
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
1:14
4 Primož Roglič
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
2:15
5 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
4:20
6 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
4:40
7 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
5:38
8 Adam Yates
UAE Team Emirates
6:59
9 Juan Ayuso Pesquera
UAE Team Emirates
7:09
10 Giulio Ciccone
Lidl - Trek
7:36
29 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
33:16
43 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
58:36
79 Gianni Moscon
Soudal Quick-Step
1:34:32
108 Jan Hirt
Soudal Quick-Step
1:49:40
133 Yves Lampaert
Soudal Quick-Step
2:03:46
1 Biniam Girmay Hailu
Intermarché - Wanty
267 pt
2 Jasper Philipsen
Alpecin - Deceuninck
193 pt
3 Anthony Turgis
TotalEnergies
121 pt
4 Jonas Abrahamsen
Uno-X Mobility
107 pt
5 Fernando Gaviria Rendon
Movistar Team
100 pt
6 Bryan Coquard
Cofidis
98 pt
7 Arnaud De Lie
Lotto Dstny
98 pt
8 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
88 pt
9 Arnaud Démare
83 pt
10 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
82 pt
47 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
20 pt
77 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step
8 pt
78 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
7 pt
1 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
36 pt
2 Jonas Abrahamsen
Uno-X Mobility
33 pt
3 Jonas Vingegaard Hansen
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
28 pt
4 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
18 pt
5 Valentin Madouas
Groupama - FDJ
16 pt
6 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
12 pt
7 Stephen Williams
Israel - Premier Tech
10 pt
8 Frank van den Broek
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
9 pt
9 Primož Roglič
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
9 pt
10 Juan Ayuso Pesquera
UAE Team Emirates
8 pt
16 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
4 pt
1 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
45:01:40
2 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
3:34
3 Juan Ayuso Pesquera
UAE Team Emirates
6:03
4 Matteo Jorgenson
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
7:50
5 Santiago Buitrago Sánchez
Bahrain - Victorious
8:35
6 Ben Healy
EF Education - EasyPost
11:02
7 Javier Romo
Movistar Team
14:35
8 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
32:10
9 Thomas Pidcock
INEOS Grenadiers
48:42
10 Oscar Onley
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
50:56
1 UAE Team Emirates 135:10:57
2 Soudal Quick-Step 21:03
3 INEOS Grenadiers 22:22
4 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 24:14
5 Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe 32:20
6 Bahrain - Victorious 43:55
7 Movistar Team 47:03
8 Lidl - Trek 54:39
9 EF Education - EasyPost 1:06:01
10 Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 1:22:29

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