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07/21 12:15 CDT Evenepoel wins time trial for back-to-back Tour de France stage
victories, Pogacar still leads
Evenepoel wins time trial for back-to-back Tour de France stage victories,
Pogacar still leads
THONON-LES-BAINS, France (AP) --- Time trial world champion Remco Evenepoel was
fastest Tuesday as he won the 16th stage of the Tour de France to shave 28
seconds off Tadej Pogacar's commanding lead.
Evenepoel completed the 26.1-kilometer individual time trial in 32 minutes, 19
seconds, more than a minute faster than Mattias Skjelmose, the previous
quickest, before the Belgian rider waited to see Pogacar cross the line with
the second-best effort of the day.
It is the third year straight that Evenepoel has won a time trial at the Tour.
His parents and family members were present on Belgium's national holiday to
see him take back-to-back stage victories after winning the 15th stage on
Sunday. Monday was a rest day.
His teammate Florian Lipowitz crashed out, however. The German rider slipped
going around a sharp bend toward the finish and slid across the road into the
sidewalk kerb. He was unable to continue with what looked like a shoulder
injury.
"It's a bittersweet pill to swallow with this victory. I wish him all the best
and I hope he's not too bad," Evenepoel said of his Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe
teammate. "I will really miss him for the whole week."
Pogacar survives scare Pogacar had a wobble going around the same corner where Lipowitz crashed but recovered to continue. The four-time Tour champion leads second-place Evenepoel by 4 minutes, 32 seconds with five stages remaining. "Tadej is on his way to win a fifth Tour de France," Evenepoel said of a feat that would move the Slovenian rider level with Belgium's Eddy Merckx, Spain's Miguel Indurain and French riders Jacques Anquetil and Bernard Hinault. "I think it's just amazing that I can be a bit close to him," he said of Pogacar. "It's an honor to race with him ... so, for me, it's a big step forward that I can at least be a bit around him and I try to learn from him."
Doping controls become issue Pogacar's main rival Jonas Vingegaard crashed out on Sunday after the leading two riders had been woken for early-morning doping controls. Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe riders had doping controls on Monday, but their sleep was not interrupted.
Worries abo
ut Lipowitz Paxti Vila, director sportif of the Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe team, had mixed feelings after the stage. "One side you're happy because we won, but the other side you are kind of sad because Florian had that crash at kilometer 19.8 on that right turn," Vila said. "He's still on the way to the hospital. Let's see when the medical update arrives." Lipowitz, Germany's top rider, had been fifth in the general classification before Tuesday's stage. It was the only individual time trial of the Tour, starting in vian-les-Bains beside Lake Geneva with a 16.4K climb up the category 2 Cte de Larringes, then a technical descent before a straight road into Thonon-les-Bains. American rider Brandon McNulty had a run in with an angry motorist on his way to the start. The race ends Sunday in Paris. ___ AP sports: https://apnews.com/sports
Pogacar survives scare Pogacar had a wobble going around the same corner where Lipowitz crashed but recovered to continue. The four-time Tour champion leads second-place Evenepoel by 4 minutes, 32 seconds with five stages remaining. "Tadej is on his way to win a fifth Tour de France," Evenepoel said of a feat that would move the Slovenian rider level with Belgium's Eddy Merckx, Spain's Miguel Indurain and French riders Jacques Anquetil and Bernard Hinault. "I think it's just amazing that I can be a bit close to him," he said of Pogacar. "It's an honor to race with him ... so, for me, it's a big step forward that I can at least be a bit around him and I try to learn from him."
Doping controls become issue Pogacar's main rival Jonas Vingegaard crashed out on Sunday after the leading two riders had been woken for early-morning doping controls. Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe riders had doping controls on Monday, but their sleep was not interrupted.
Worries abo
ut Lipowitz Paxti Vila, director sportif of the Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe team, had mixed feelings after the stage. "One side you're happy because we won, but the other side you are kind of sad because Florian had that crash at kilometer 19.8 on that right turn," Vila said. "He's still on the way to the hospital. Let's see when the medical update arrives." Lipowitz, Germany's top rider, had been fifth in the general classification before Tuesday's stage. It was the only individual time trial of the Tour, starting in vian-les-Bains beside Lake Geneva with a 16.4K climb up the category 2 Cte de Larringes, then a technical descent before a straight road into Thonon-les-Bains. American rider Brandon McNulty had a run in with an angry motorist on his way to the start. The race ends Sunday in Paris. ___ AP sports: https://apnews.com/sports
