THONON-LES-BAINS, France \u2014 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 Poga\u010dar\u2019s commanding lead.<\/p>\n
Evenepoel completed the 26.1-kilometre 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 Poga\u010dar cross the line with the second-best effort of the day.<\/p>\n
It ensured back-to-back stage victories for Evenepoel after\u00a0winning the 15th stage\u00a0on Sunday. Monday was a rest day.<\/p>\n
His teammate Florian Lipowitz crashed out, however. The German rider slipped going around a sharp bend near the finish and slid across the road into the sidewalk kerb. He was unable to continue with what looked like a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a bittersweet pill with this victory. I wish him all the best,\u201d Evenepoel said of his Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe teammate. \u201cI will really miss him for the whole week.\u201d<\/p>\n
Poga\u010dar had a wobble going around the same corner but recovered to continue.<\/p>\n
Tuesday\u2019s stage was the only individual time trial of the Tour, starting in \u00c9vian-les-Bains beside Lake Geneva with a 16.4K climb up the category 2 C\u00f4te de Larringes, then a technical descent before a straight road into Thonon-les-Bains.<\/p>\n
The race ends July 26 in Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THONON-LES-BAINS, France \u2014 Time trial world champion Remco Evenepoel was fastest Tuesday as he won the 16th stage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-817030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}