BARCELONA, 5 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Belgian cyclist Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) won this Wednesday the fourth stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné, a 34.4-kilometer individual time trial between Saint-Germain-Laval and Neulise, to regain his sensations after his long absence due to injury and reserve a Dauphiné that now leads with a good margin over Primoz Roglic (BORA-hansgrohe), who lost just over half a minute.
Remco Evenepoel only had one rival in this time trial, the young British specialist Joshua Tarling (INEOS Grenadiers), and he left him 17 seconds behind at the finish line. Third was Roglic, 39 seconds behind, and the rest of the cyclists already lost more than a minute to the Belgian.
The fight between Evenepoel and Tarling was, from the distance that separates them in the general classification, intense. There were three timed points, two intermediate points and the final finish, and the Belgian won by 2 seconds over the British in the first, Tarling was the best by just 89 tenths of a second in the second and, in a final with some slopes, the Belgian He finished the job and took, in that final stretch, the 17 seconds that gave him the victory.
The return of the best Remco Evenepoel is approaching, who emerges stronger from this time trial by looking strong and achieving the provisional leadership, in a Dauphiné which is the first test in which he participates after his ugly and hard fall in Itzulia, on the 4th of April. Two months of recoveries, training and absence from races that gave way, this Wednesday, to a new double victory; morale and on the road.
Evenepoel was the only one to ride in 41 minutes (41:49), with Tarling and Roglic being the only ones to be less than a minute apart (Tarling at 17 seconds and Roglic at 39″), with the American Matteo Jorgenson (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) fourth at 1:07 minutes and the Spanish Oier Lazkano (Movistar Team) fifth at 1:21, Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates) was ninth at 1:27 and Carlos Rodríguez (INEOS Grenadiers) eleventh, at 1:41. .
After this victory, the Belgian is the new leader of the Critérium du Dauphiné with 33 seconds of margin over Primoz Roglic, 1:04 over Matteo Jorgenson and 1:11 over Derek Gee, the Canadian who wore the leader’s jersey in this time trial in the which was sixth (at 1:24). For his part, Oier Lazkano rises to fifth place in that new general classification, 1:21 behind Evenepoel, with Ayuso eighth at 1:27 and Carlos Rodríguez tenth, also 1:41 behind Evenepoel.
2024-06-05 15:20:18
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