Olympic champ Evenepoel wins Tour de France 15th stage
Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel beat race leader Tadej Pogacar in a sprint finish to take Sunday’s 15th stage of the Tour de France, as former winner Jonas Vingegaard crashed out. Evenepoel edged out the reigning champion at the end of the tough 11km-long climb to the finish. Pogacar’s UAE Emirates-XRG team-mate Isaac Del Toro was […] The post Olympic champ Evenepoel wins Tour de France 15th stage appeared first on The Namibian .
Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel beat race leader Tadej Pogacar in a sprint finish to take Sunday’s 15th stage of the Tour de France, as former winner Jonas Vingegaard crashed out.
Evenepoel edged out the reigning champion at the end of the tough 11km-long climb to the finish. Pogacar’s UAE Emirates-XRG team-mate Isaac Del Toro was third, six seconds back.
“It’s amazing. I’m literally trembling from emotion,” Evenepoel said at the finish of the 183.9km stage from Champagnole to Plateau de Solaison after his first Tour road-stage victory following two time-trial successes.
“It’s been a hell of a day. A pretty hard start, I was actually feeling really bad in the beginning, but I really got better and better during the day.
“You have to understand how I’m racing with the best rider ever (Pogacar), and he has been doing a hell of a climb to try to win the stage with Isaac (Del Toro).”
After Vingegaard, who started the day in second, crashed out 20km from the finish, suffering what looked like a broken collarbone, Pogacar increased his lead in the overall standings to five minutes.
