Le Tour: Evenepoel racks up another white jersey

Le Tour: Evenepoel racks up another white jersey

Remco Evenepoel took to the podium at the end of stage 16 to receive his 15th consecutive white jersey, after safely concluding what was the last flat stage of this edition. Running from Gruissan to Nimes – the former Roman town which two thousand years ago had an important role on the Via Domitia that connected Italy with Hispania – this 188.6km trek saw a nervous peloton in the first hour of racing.

The reason for that was an echelon alert that kept the riders on their toes for around 50 kilometers, but as soon as they realised nothing was going to happen, the bunch relaxed and a one-man breakaway put two minutes into them. The chasers easily brought the day’s lone attacker back with more than 15 kilometers to go before preparing for the mass gallop, a hectic one, won by Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck).

The GC men should now return into the spotlight on Wednesday, where an uphill finish awaits at the end of the stage taking place between Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux and Superdévoluy. Third in the overall standings after a string of strong results in the high mountains, Evenepoel will start it with a solid gap in the youth classification.

“The peloton was a bit nervous today in the beginning, because of the crosswinds threat and a lot of road furniture, but I stayed out of trouble thanks to the great job of my teammates. Some big mountains will come in the next days, but I hope to keep my level and continue to give my best”, Remco said in Nimes.

 

Photo credit: ©Tim De Waele / Getty Images

Race details

1 Jasper Philipsen
Alpecin - Deceuninck
4:11:27
2 Phil Bauhaus
Bahrain - Victorious
0:00
3 Alexander Kristoff
Uno-X Mobility
0:00
4 Sam Bennett
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
0:00
5 Wout van Aert
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
0:00
6 Pascal Ackermann
Israel - Premier Tech
0:00
7 Bryan Coquard
Cofidis
0:00
8 Søren Wærenskjold
Uno-X Mobility
0:00
9 Ryan Gibbons
Lidl - Trek
0:00
10 Danny van Poppel
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
0:00
48 Yves Lampaert
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
68 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
70 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
79 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
85 Gianni Moscon
Soudal Quick-Step
0:00
138 Jan Hirt
Soudal Quick-Step
2:30
1 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
66:07:51
2 Jonas Vingegaard Hansen
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
3:09
3 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
5:19
4 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
10:54
5 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
11:21
6 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
11:27
7 Adam Yates
UAE Team Emirates
13:38
8 Giulio Ciccone
Lidl - Trek
15:48
9 Derek Gee
Israel - Premier Tech
16:12
10 Santiago Buitrago Sánchez
Bahrain - Victorious
16:32
26 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
1:14:41
67 Gianni Moscon
Soudal Quick-Step
2:45:54
88 Jan Hirt
Soudal Quick-Step
3:03:48
126 Yves Lampaert
Soudal Quick-Step
3:40:19
1 Biniam Girmay Hailu
Intermarché - Wanty
376 pt
2 Jasper Philipsen
Alpecin - Deceuninck
344 pt
3 Bryan Coquard
Cofidis
179 pt
4 Anthony Turgis
TotalEnergies
156 pt
5 Arnaud De Lie
Lotto Dstny
153 pt
6 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
136 pt
7 Jonas Abrahamsen
Uno-X Mobility
133 pt
8 Wout van Aert
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
130 pt
9 Pascal Ackermann
Israel - Premier Tech
118 pt
10 Fernando Gaviria Rendon
Movistar Team
118 pt
11 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
112 pt
33 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
38 pt
91 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
7 pt
1 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
77 pt
2 Jonas Vingegaard Hansen
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
58 pt
3 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
42 pt
4 Jonas Abrahamsen
Uno-X Mobility
36 pt
5 Oier Lazkano López
Movistar Team
35 pt
6 David Gaudu
Groupama - FDJ
30 pt
7 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
24 pt
8 Richard Carapaz Montenegro
EF Education - EasyPost
22 pt
9 Ben Healy
EF Education - EasyPost
21 pt
10 Javier Romo
Movistar Team
18 pt
14 Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step
14 pt
1 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step
66:13:10
2 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
6:08
3 Santiago Buitrago Sánchez
Bahrain - Victorious
11:13
4 Matteo Jorgenson
Team Visma | Lease a Bike
14:56
5 Ben Healy
EF Education - EasyPost
24:07
6 Javier Romo
Movistar Team
42:46
7 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step
1:09:22
8 Tobias Halland Johannessen
Uno-X Mobility
1:21:39
9 Jordan Jegat
TotalEnergies
1:43:04
10 Romain Grégoire
Groupama - FDJ
1:49:59
1 UAE Team Emirates 198:46:21
2 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 55:03
3 Soudal Quick-Step 58:59
4 INEOS Grenadiers 1:19:19
5 Lidl - Trek 2:04:45
6 EF Education - EasyPost 2:23:06
7 Movistar Team 2:23:41
8 Bahrain - Victorious 2:26:47
9 Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe 2:30:01
10 Israel - Premier Tech 3:11:11

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