Tour de France: Tour: Evenepoel wins the first time trial – Pogacar in yellow

Defending champion Tadej Pogacar has regained his loving jersey. The three -time winner of the Tour de France slipped for the first time in Normandy on the 112nd edition of the tour into the yellow jersey – 353 days after his tour in Nice last year. The exceptional cycling driver secured the coveted dress one day after his 100th professional victory. In addition, the Slovenian also leads in the sprint and in the mountain ranking. His rival Jonas Vingegaard experienced an unfortunate day and received a difficult defeat.

In the overall ranking, Pogacar is now 1:13 minutes second ahead of Vingegaard, which is now only fourth instead of second. Double Olympic champion Evenepoel, who clearly won the time trial, is 42 seconds behind Pogacar, the Frenchman Kevin Vauquelin takes three rank of three with a distance of 59 seconds.

Lipowitz Stark – Roglic loses time

Pogacar finished the time trial on the fifth stage around the northern French city of Caen on a flat 33 kilometers with a distance of 16 seconds behind evenepoel. As expected, the gifted Belgian could not be exceeded in the race against the clock.

The best German professional in the time trial was hoped for Florian Lipowitz from the Red Bull racing team as the sixth. “I am completely satisfied with today. It is definitely positive to see that things are going up again,” Lipowitz told ZDF after he had sued for physical weaknesses in the past few days. His team -mate Primoz Roglic, who recently received some setbacks, also took a lot of time during time trial.

Schachmann about Evenepoel: Course “is very, very good”

The Slovenian cycling superstar Pogacar predicted a “real test” for the favorites. At the Dauphiné, the later winner Pogacar had shown significant weaknesses in the time trial in preparation for the tour and had driven 48 seconds to Evenepoel and 28 to Vingegaard via the finish line.

Evenepoel lived up to the expectations of him. He looked at the course exactly beforehand and started as a big favorite in Caen. The former football talent already won the world championship title twice as the best time driver, in 2024 he triumphed at the Olympics both in time trial and on the street. Above all, the Belgian wanted to make up for the two rushed favorites Pogacar and Vingegaard.

“It is a course that is very, very good,” said Evenepoel’s team-mate Maximilian Schachmann, who started in the German jersey of time, but had nothing to do with the front places.

Pogacar before time trial: “Right test”

In the race for the leadership jersey, even before the time trial, Evenepoel was 50 seconds behind the Danes and 58 behind Pogacar and Mathieu van der Poel. The Dutchman van der Poel remained in the leadership jersey during the stage, but he himself knew that the defense of the overall lead should be a difficult undertaking.

Spectacular mountain time trial in the second half of the tour

The second and recent time trial of this tour will be spectacular: Then the steep climb to the airfield in Peyragudes will be on the 13th stage on July 18. But initially on Thursday, outliers will receive the chance of a day’s victory at Bayeux in Normandy’s 2015 kilometers from Bayeux.