After his humiliation in the mountain time trial of the Tour de France, Remco Evenepoel was visibly eaten: “On such a day, I should end up in the first three, but it was just bad,” said the Belgian double Olympic champion to the next heavy setback. The competitor of the German vertical starter Florian Lipowitz in the fight for the podium is desperately looking for its shape before the third Pyrenees stage.
“I hope that there is no special explanation for this – that I only had a few bad days and no longer tomorrow (Saturday, editor),” said Evenepoel after his twelfth place in time trial on the 13th stage, in which he was even overhauled by the day of the day Jonas Vingegaard: “My start was really good, but after five minutes on the mountain I could no longer drive with the power that I needed. from me.”
Already on Thursday on the first heavy high mountain stage of the tour, Evenepoel, overall overall of the tour in the previous year, looked bad. On Saturday he could lose third place on the third out of three sections in the Pyrenees, both third place and his white jersey of the best young professional to Lipowitz. The 182.6 km from Pau to Luchon-Superbagnères on the 14th stage lead, among other things, over the legendary Col du Tourmalet.
Evenepoel Schnippisch responded to the top form of Lipowitz, which could be the first German since Andreas Klöden in 2006 in Paris in 2006. “It was just bad, I am not interested in everything else,” said the 25 -year -old exceptional driver.