Remco Evenepoel wins Tour de France individual time-trial
Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel stormed to victory in Tuesday's 26.1km individual time-trial at the Tour de France to shave off a few seconds from Tadej Pogacar's overall lead.
26-year-old Belgian Evenepoel, flies through the course 28 seconds quicker than the last champion Pogacar in second.
While the rest finished more than a minute back, with Dane Skjelmose taking third at 1min 4secs.
That performance by the world and Olympic time-trial champion, on Belgium's national holiday, cut four-time Tour winner Pogacar's overall lead to 4min 32secs.
It was Evenepoel's second successive stage victory after he triumphed on Sunday's mountainous 15th stage.
It was his fourth Tour stage victory overall, and his third in time-trials.
He also extended the gap to third-placed Isaac del Toro to more than two minutes.
But it was a miserable day for Evenepoel's Red Bull-Bora Hansgrohe team-mate Florian Lipowitz.
German Lipowitz was forced to withdraw from the race following a hard crash on a bend. He had been holding fifth place overall and the fourth-fastest time at the intermediate checks. Shortly after, medics escorted him to an ambulance holding his left arm, following a similar exit by two-time winner Jonas Vingegaard two days prior. Meanwhile, both Pogačar and Del Toro survived the same tricky corner with only a brief scare.
