Tour de France: Strong effort of Evenepoel on Isola 2000
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Remco Evenepoel made another step towards what would be a well-deserved top-three finish at his maiden Tour de France appearance, on a day that featured Col de Vars, Cime de la Bonette and Isola 2000. Soudal Quick-Step’s leader showcased once again his remarkable consistency, finishing in the first ten on the stage for the eighth time since the race got underway from Florence, almost three weeks ago.
Isola 2000, a 16.1km climb averaging 7.1%, which had been used as a Tour de France stage finish only once before Friday, at the 1993 edition of the race, was where the main attacks came at the end of this savage day in the Alps, and when the action began, both Remco Evenepoel and Mikel Landa responded present. The Basque did a superb job pacing his teammate on the steep part of the ascent, before Evenepoel surged in pursuit of lone leader Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) with only Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) on his wheel.
The 24-year-old Belgian taped out a strong rhythm as he went into time trial mode and sparing no effort, concluded the stage in fifth place. He was followed some twenty seconds later by Mikel, whose rock-solid performance Friday afternoon helped him extend the buffer he has over the next rider on the general classification to a full two minutes and consolidate his position in the top five overall.
“The pace today was hard from the beginning. On the final ascent, I tried to follow Tadej, but his tempo was too strong, so I rode for my place on the podium and gave everything out there, trying to go as fast as I could. We’ll see how things go tomorrow and what we can do, but what’s certain is that it’s going to be a tough stage”, said Remco about the last summit finish of the Grande Boucle, the Col de la Couillole.
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Race details
1 |
Tadej Pogačar UAE Team Emirates |
4:04:03 |
2 |
Matteo Jorgenson Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
0:21 |
3 |
Simon Yates Team Jayco AlUla |
0:40 |
4 |
Richard Carapaz Montenegro EF Education - EasyPost |
1:11 |
5 |
Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step |
1:42 |
6 |
Jonas Vingegaard Hansen Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
1:42 |
7 |
João Almeida UAE Team Emirates |
2:00 |
8 |
Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step |
2:00 |
9 |
Wilco Kelderman Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
2:52 |
10 |
Derek Gee Israel - Premier Tech |
3:27 |
23 |
Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step |
14:31 |
35 |
Jan Hirt
Soudal Quick-Step |
22:24 |
87 |
Yves Lampaert
Soudal Quick-Step |
40:34 |
97 |
Gianni Moscon
Soudal Quick-Step |
40:34 |
1 |
Tadej Pogačar UAE Team Emirates |
78:49:20 |
2 |
Jonas Vingegaard Hansen Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
5:03 |
3 |
Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step |
7:01 |
4 |
João Almeida UAE Team Emirates |
15:07 |
5 |
Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step |
15:34 |
6 |
Carlos Rodríguez Cano INEOS Grenadiers |
17:36 |
7 |
Adam Yates UAE Team Emirates |
19:18 |
8 |
Derek Gee Israel - Premier Tech |
21:52 |
9 |
Matteo Jorgenson Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
22:43 |
10 |
Giulio Ciccone Lidl - Trek |
22:46 |
27 |
Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step |
1:31:25 |
68 |
Jan Hirt
Soudal Quick-Step |
3:27:06 |
85 |
Gianni Moscon
Soudal Quick-Step |
3:44:47 |
122 |
Yves Lampaert
Soudal Quick-Step |
4:40:54 |
1 |
Biniam Girmay Hailu Intermarché - Wanty |
387 pt |
2 |
Jasper Philipsen Alpecin - Deceuninck |
354 pt |
3 |
Bryan Coquard Cofidis |
208 pt |
4 |
Anthony Turgis TotalEnergies |
180 pt |
5 |
Arnaud De Lie Lotto Dstny |
161 pt |
6 |
Tadej Pogačar UAE Team Emirates |
156 pt |
7 |
Wout van Aert Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
152 pt |
8 |
Jonas Abrahamsen Uno-X Mobility |
149 pt |
9 |
Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step |
123 pt |
10 |
Pascal Ackermann Israel - Premier Tech |
118 pt |
31 |
Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step |
46 pt |
76 |
Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step |
15 pt |
1 |
Richard Carapaz Montenegro EF Education - EasyPost |
101 pt |
2 |
Tadej Pogačar UAE Team Emirates |
87 pt |
3 |
Jonas Vingegaard Hansen Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
59 pt |
4 |
Matteo Jorgenson Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
53 pt |
5 |
Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step |
44 pt |
6 |
Oier Lazkano López Movistar Team |
41 pt |
7 |
Jonas Abrahamsen Uno-X Mobility |
36 pt |
8 |
Wilco Kelderman Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
36 pt |
9 |
David Gaudu Groupama - FDJ |
30 pt |
10 |
Simon Yates Team Jayco AlUla |
30 pt |
21 |
Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step |
14 pt |
28 |
Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step |
10 pt |
1 |
Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step |
78:56:21 |
2 |
Carlos Rodríguez Cano INEOS Grenadiers |
10:35 |
3 |
Matteo Jorgenson Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
15:42 |
4 |
Santiago Buitrago Sánchez Bahrain - Victorious |
15:55 |
5 |
Ben Healy EF Education - EasyPost |
1:18:02 |
6 |
Javier Romo Movistar Team |
1:19:45 |
7 |
Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step |
1:24:24 |
8 |
Jordan Jegat TotalEnergies |
1:41:50 |
9 |
Tobias Halland Johannessen Uno-X Mobility |
2:04:54 |
10 |
Oscar Onley Team dsm-firmenich PostNL |
2:15:06 |
1 | UAE Team Emirates | 236:59:00 |
2 | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | 27:25 |
3 | Soudal Quick-Step | 1:12:07 |
4 | INEOS Grenadiers | 1:12:52 |
5 | Lidl - Trek | 2:01:25 |
6 | Movistar Team | 2:25:57 |
7 | Bahrain - Victorious | 3:04:13 |
8 | EF Education - EasyPost | 3:06:20 |
9 | Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe | 3:07:22 |
10 | Israel - Premier Tech | 3:36:25 |