Jonas Vingegaard can be happy, dropout Remco Evenepoel does not think bad days is normal

That told the Dane of Visma-Lease A Bike Eurosport.

“This was one of the toughest mountain stages I have ever driven. Then it is nice if you can still accelerate in the final phase,” said the double Tour winner, which attacked on the final climb in a group that rode about two minutes behind leader Arensman.

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“I expected that Tadej would attack and try to win the ride. When he didn’t, I decided to accelerate. Nice that I could still do that.” Vingegaard had two men in the early leading group with the American Sepp Kuss and the Brit Simon Yates, but denied that there was a plan in which they would wait for their leader. “They went for the stage victory and could not follow Arensman.”

The Belgian Remco Evenepoel left the Tour on Saturday. The number 3 of the rankings stepped early in the third Pyrenees ride in tears after he could not have followed the pace of his competitors.

Remco Evenepoel has no idea what the cause is

Evenepoel reported to the team bus after the ride. “You can have a lesser day, but three in a row, that’s not normal,” he said at TV channel, among other things Sporza. “I have no idea what the cause is, we have to investigate that now. Everyone knows that I have had a horribly bad winter, but who knows something is in the body? I can’t say it.”

Evenepoel was out for a long time after a training accident in December, where he sustained a number of fractures. “Is my body not good enough this year? It can be anything. Besides the bike I don’t feel bad, but it doesn’t go on the bike. I have won a ride and stood third for a long time. Until today everything looked pretty okay, but it really didn’t work anymore today.”