{"id":485881,"date":"2026-02-17T14:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/485881\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:13:07","slug":"results-uae-tour-2026-remco-evenepoel-wins-key-time-trial-and-puts-massive-gap-on-isaac-del-toro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/485881\/","title":{"rendered":"Results UAE Tour 2026 | Remco Evenepoel wins key time trial and puts massive gap on Isaac del Toro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stage 2 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/uae-tour\" title=\"UAE Tour\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UAE Tour<\/a> has created bigger differences than expected. The 12-kilometer time trial through the desert in Al Hudayriyat proved to be more difficult than expected and the overall classification has suffered meaningful changes; with <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/remco-evenepoel\" title=\"Remco Evenepoel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Remco Evenepoel<\/a> taking the stage win and overall lead.The Belgian put in a very early time before the race&#8217;s live broadcast even began and took the hot seat when he finished his effort. His main rivals for the stage win were Ethan Hayter (fourth at 25 seconds) and <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/joshua-tarling\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Joshua Tarling<\/a>. The latter was the rider who got the closest to the Olympic, World and European champion, however he was 6 seconds slower in the 13-minute effort.Evenepoel averaged over 56Km\/h to take the stage win ahead of Tarling and R\u00e9mi Cavagna. Luke Plapp, 26 seconds behind, was the only other GC rider finishing in the Top10, whilst behind a few other riders also lost meaningful time. <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/isaac-del-toro\" title=\"Isaac del Toro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isaac del Toro<\/a> has lost 42 seconds at the line and will begin the next stage with 32 seconds of disadvantage over the Belgian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stage 2 of the UAE Tour has created bigger differences than expected. The 12-kilometer time trial through the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,93896,8396,6654,85,180426],"class_list":["post-485881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-isaac-del-toro","tag-remco-evenepoel","tag-results","tag-sports","tag-uae-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}