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Key events
Mads Pedersen, the antheral successful the greenish jersey, is retired connected the course. He’s presently connected the uphill has astir 22.5km to go. The Dane is not a TT specializer and already trails Tarling’s clip by 50secs. In fact, nary 1 retired connected the people is wrong 40secs of the existent signifier leader.
What's happened truthful far...
The archetypal rider rolled disconnected the commencement ramp astatine noon and Josh Tarling of Netcompany-Ineos has acceptable the quickest clip truthful far, clocking 34mins 21secs. The Welshman’s teammate Filippo Ganna has conscionable travel crossed the enactment and could not rather overhaul Tarling, finishing 4 seconds disconnected the pace. Huub Artz (Lotto-Intermarche) is presently the 3rd connected the podium.
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William Fotheringham
Stage 16, Tuesday 21 July: Évian-les-Bains to Thonon-les-Bains (individual clip trial), 26.1km
Time trials, retrieve those? Thirty years ago, with Miguel Induráin successful his prime, a Tour mightiness see 3 contre la montres totalling implicit 100km. Recently, they person been chopped to enactment up the race, truthful this 1 lasts conscionable implicit fractional an hour. With a second-category ascent positive descent, it favours the prime radical going for the overall, led by the aggregate satellite champion Evenepoel. It volition travel down to seconds, with the lone play if idiosyncratic has a atrocious time arsenic Vingegaard did past twelvemonth successful Rouen. Is this progress? Answers connected a carte postale please.
Read the afloat stage-by-stage usher to this year’s race:
Preamble
Two successful a enactment for Remco Evenepoel? The Belgian is favourite for the lone inidivudal clip proceedings of this year’s Tour connected a 26.1km people that is uphill from the gross successful Évian-les-Bains and features the categort 2 Côte de Larringes, a 9.7km ascent astatine 4.3%, earlier a tricky descent towards the Lake Geneva shoreline successful Thonon-les-Bains.
The bittersweet withdrawal of Jonas Vingegaard, tinged with contention aft the Dane crashed retired the time aft his slumber was interrupted astatine 2am by doping control, confirmed what we already knew astir this year’s Tour: Tadej Pogacar is unassailable. Evenepoel whitethorn shave a fewer seconds disconnected Pogacar’s five-minute pb present should helium container different expansive circuit clip proceedings triumph but it is not extracurricular of the scope of possibilities that Pogacar shows disconnected his all-around talents by powering distant to instrumentality this 1 either. The Netcompany-Ineos brace of Filippo Ganna and Josh Tarling are successful with a shout, portion Juan Ayuso (Lidl-Trek) is an extracurricular bet.
The existent involvement successful the remaining stages of the Tour volition beryllium connected the conflict for podium and the tug of warfare implicit the young rider’s jersey betwixt Isaac del Toro and Paul Seixas. Seixas is the stronger rider against clock, but aft 2 weeks successful the saddle who knows what interaction that volition have.
