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Independent Singapore
12-06-2025
- Sport
- Independent Singapore
Remco Evenepoel takes yellow jersey after a 'perfect plan' at the stage 4 of the Critérium du Dauphiné
Remco Evenepoel, riding for Soudal Quick-Step, has recently won Stage 4 of the Critérium du Dauphiné as he finished the 17.4km course with a final time of 20 minutes and 50 seconds. This victory led him to lead the overall race standings and granted him the yellow jersey. 'I think the advantage I had was a lot of headwind in the valleys… I used that to really take the benefit of my position, and then the climb, I just went as fast as possible,' the rider said. He added, 'We had a perfect plan for the pacing strategy. I'm very happy to have put over one second a kilometre on everybody, and for some more than two… I'm super proud and happy with the feeling I have now. I'm feeling pretty good, and it's always nice to bring home a world tour victory.' Evenepoel: 'Much better than I was last year' Evenepoel was 21 seconds faster than Jonas Vingegaard, who is riding for Visma-Lease a Bike and placed second. Furthermore, he is also 49 seconds ahead of Tadej Pogacar, who is riding for the UAE Team Emirates XRG and finished fourth. The Soudal Quick-Step rider shared that he has been preparing really hard for the races. 'In terms of weight, I'm already pretty good… Much better than I was last year at this point, so I'm just happy that I've been working super hard behind the scenes. 'I'm feeling good on the climbs, on the flats and on the descents as well, so it's a good step forward to what we have to expect for the next days… We just have to keep building and take it day by day. For sure, there will be a lot of pressure in the weekend from other teams, but with the victor,y I'm confident I can do well,' he added. Evenepoel shared a social media post with a caption 'Flying to victory.🥇🌈🟡🔥… Special feeling to take win #1000 for @soudalquickstepteam, one for the entire team, one for Patrick, one for history.🏆🐺… We stay focused for the rest of the week.👊🏼' See also Speedway SEA Championship returns for OCBC Cycle 2024 Netizens celebrated Remco's stage win with enthusiastic messages of support, calling it both thrilling and well-earned. Praise also poured in for the Soudal team as they gear up for the upcoming mountain stages. One user wrote, 'Congratulations Remco – what an exciting and convincing stage victory 👌🏼,' while another said, 'Rooting for you & entire Soudal team, great job, keep up the good work. Best of luck in the Mountains, let's go🙏🙏🔥🔥.' Moreover, the Visma-Lease a Bike team still had a good race despite not winning the first spot. Jonas Vingegaard managed to clinch the second spot, and teammate Matteo Jorgenson in third. Despite losing against Evenepoel, Vingegaard remained calm. He shared, ' I can be pretty satisfied with how today went… Remco is the best time trialler in the world, so to only lose 20 seconds is pretty decent…I n the end, I think I can be pretty happy with my performance.'
BBC News
11-06-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Evenepoel wins Dauphine stage four time trial to take lead
Belgium's Remco Evenepoel has taken the overall lead of the Criterium du Dauphine after victory in the time trial on stage reigning Olympic and world time trial champion beat nearest rival Jonas Vingegaard of Visma-Lease a Bike by 21 seconds on the 17.4km Step's Evenepoel, considered to be the world's third best rider, will be competing against rivals Tadej Pogacar and Denmark's Vingegaard at the Tour de France next Tour champion Pogacar of UAE Team Emirates-XRG was a surprising 49 seconds down on the day to Evenepoel in a discipline in which the Slovenian is often trails Evenepoel by 38 seconds in the general classification, with Vingegaard 16 seconds down in fifth place. Germany's Florian Lipowitz of Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe is second in the GC, four seconds down."I'm very happy with this victory - the thousandth for the team," said Evenepoel after completing the course in his special Olympic gold helmet. "This one is for Patrick [Lefevere, former boss] - for everything he did for the team."I think in terms of [my] weight, it's already pretty good - much better than last year - I've been working super hard behind the scenes." The race, which takes place across the Dauphine region of south-east France, is the traditional warm-up for the four times in the last 10 editions has the overall winner gone on to be victorious in the Ivan Romeo of Movistar lost the yellow jersey after victory on stage three, finishing one min 25 secs down to eight-day stage race moves on to Saint Priest on Thursday for a hilly 183km test to Macon. Saturday's stage is likely to see the most explosive action with three hugely steep hors category climbs in the French Alps to Valmeinier. Stage four results1. Remco Evenepoel (Bel/Soudal-Quick Step) 20mins 51secs2. Jonas Vingegaard (Den/Visma-Lease a Bike) +21secs3. Matteo Jorgenson (USA/Visma-Lease a Bike) +38secs4. Tadej Pogacar (Slo/UAE Team Emirates-XRG) +49secs5. Florian Lipowitz (Ger/Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) +57secs6. Mathieu van der Poel (Ned/Alpecin-Deceuninck) +1mins 2secs7. Remi Cavagna (Fra/Groupama-FDJ) +1min 7secs8. Eddie Dunbar (Irl/Jayco-AlUla) +1min 10secs9. Tobias Foss (Nor/Ineos Grenadiers) +1min 10secs10. Paul Seixas (Fra/Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale) +1min 12secsGeneral classification after stage four1. Remco Evenepoel (Bel/Soudal-Quick Step) 14hrs 31mins 8secs2. Florian Lipowitz (Ger/Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe) +4secs3. Ivan Romeo (Spa/Movistar) +9secs4. Mathieu van der Poel (Ned/Alpecin-Deceuninck) +14secs5. Jonas Vingegaard (Den/Visma-Lease a Bike) +16secs6. Eddie Dunbar (Irl/Jayco-AlUla) +30secs7. Harold Tejada (Col/XDS Astana) Same time8. Tadej Pogacar (Slo/UAE Team Emirates-XRG) +38secs9. Matteo Jorgenson (USA/Visma-Lease a Bike) +39secs10. Louis Barre (Fra/Intermarche-Wanty) +1min 3secs
The Guardian
11-06-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
Evenepoel blows away field on stage four of Criterium du Dauphiné to take overall lead
Time-trial maestro Remco Evenepoel laid down a marker in the fourth stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné, winning the 17.4km race against the clock in style to move top of the overall classification. The 25-year-old Belgian tasted Olympic gold in the discipline last year and is also the double time-trial world champion, and showed his pedigree by blowing away a field containing Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar. Evenpoel raced home 21 seconds ahead of second-placed Dane Vingegaard, with USA's Matteo Jorgenson a further 17 seconds back in third. Pogacar just missed the podium at 49 seconds behind Evenepoel, with German Florian Lipowitz fifth and Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel sixth. 'I'm surprised with the gaps,' Evenepoel said. 'It's quite big on quite a short TT so I'm very happy to have put over a second per kilometre on everybody, and even two seconds per kilometre on some. I'm feeling good and it's always nice to bring home a World Tour victory.' Evenepoel now slips on the leader's yellow jersey for the 77th edition of the Dauphiné, which will be decided in the last three stages in the Alps from Friday. His win was the 1,000th victory in the history of his Soudal Quick-Step team, following its creation in 2003 by Patrick Lefevere under the name Quick Step-Davitamon. 'I'm very happy with this victory, it's the 1,000th of the team,' Evenepoel added. 'It's a special day, I'm very proud to have done it.' Of the three frontrunners for the overall win, Pogacar now finds himself the least well-placed. Although the overall classification is far from set, the Slovenian is now in eighth place, 38 seconds behind Evenepoel, while Vingegaard is 16 seconds back in fifth. Thursday's stage five is a hilly 183km run from Saint-Priest to Macon.
ABC News
15-05-2025
- Sport
- ABC News
Kaden Groves wins Giro d'Italia stage six as Jai Hindley bows out after peloton crash
Australian sprinter Kaden Groves has triumphed on the sixth stage of the Giro d'Italia, on a dramatic day when the race was neutralised following a huge crash in wet conditions on the 227 kilometre ride from Potenza to Naples. The longest stage of this year's Giro had only a winner to celebrate as the crash that occurred with about 70km to go forced organisers to make the decision not to award points, time gaps or bonuses. Groves (Alpecin–Deceuninck) crossed the finish line a few seconds shy of 5 hours on the road, ahead of Cofidis rider Milan Fretin. Paul Magnier of Soudal Quick-Step, who had also crashed earlier in the stage, finished third. "It's a big relief. The team always believed in me," Groves said. "It's not been a great start of the season, but then with the injury I missed a lot of racing. I arrived here without a win, so getting the first one for the year is a big relief. "These wet roads are quite slippery. Knowing the cobbles [were] starting around the 2km mark, [it] was super important to be in front. "But in the end, we also needed to use some guys early to chase, close the breakaway. They did a super ride. "Once it started raining, I felt quite a bit better actually. I'm quite good in the colder, wetter conditions." The peloton was 47 seconds behind the lead duo of Enzo Paleni and Taco van der Hoorn when several riders in the bunch, including former Giro winners Jai Hindley and Richard Carapaz, crashed on the slippery road. The race was neutralised and the peloton slowed down by the race director before it resumed with nothing on offer apart from a stage win. Australian Hindley, the 2022 Giro winner, sat by the side of the road, and the 29-year-old, clearly in pain, was forced to abandon as he eventually got into an ambulance for treatment. Carapaz, whose jersey had been torn in the fall, rejoined the peloton, while Soudal Quick-Step's Josef Cerny had to abandon the race as well. Bahrain Victorious' Rainer Kepplinger was taken to hospital with an injured finger, cuts and bruises, while his teammate Max van der Meulen underwent medical tests. With teams opting not to take any risks until the finale, they eventually caught up with the lead duo with less than 3 kilometres to go while Mads Pedersen, who has won three stages, eased up and did not sprint to the finish. However, he retained the race lead, with the Danish rider holding a 17-second advantage over Primoz Roglic. Reuters
ABC News
15-05-2025
- Sport
- ABC News
Kade Groves wins Giro d'Italia stage six as Jai Hindley bows out after peloton crash
Australian sprinter Kaden Groves has triumphed on the sixth stage of the Giro d'Italia, on a dramatic day when the race was neutralised following a huge crash in wet conditions on the 227 kilometre ride from Potenza to Naples. The longest stage of this year's Giro had only a winner to celebrate as the crash that occurred with about 70km to go forced organisers to make the decision not to award points, time gaps or bonuses. Groves (Alpecin–Deceuninck) crossed the finish line a few seconds shy of 5 hours on the road, ahead of Cofidis rider Milan Fretin. Paul Magnier of Soudal Quick-Step, who had also crashed earlier in the stage, finished third. "It's a big relief. The team always believed in me," Groves said. "It's not been a great start of the season, but then with the injury I missed a lot of racing. I arrived here without a win, so getting the first one for the year is a big relief. "These wet roads are quite slippery. Knowing the cobbles [were] starting around the 2km mark, [it] was super important to be in front. "But in the end, we also needed to use some guys early to chase, close the breakaway. They did a super ride. "Once it started raining, I felt quite a bit better actually. I'm quite good in the colder, wetter conditions." The peloton was 47 seconds behind the lead duo of Enzo Paleni and Taco van der Hoorn when several riders in the bunch, including former Giro winners Jai Hindley and Richard Carapaz, crashed on the slippery road. The race was neutralised and the peloton slowed down by the race director before it resumed with nothing on offer apart from a stage win. Australian Hindley, the 2022 Giro winner, sat by the side of the road, and the 29-year-old, clearly in pain, was forced to abandon as he eventually got into an ambulance for treatment. Carapaz, whose jersey had been torn in the fall, rejoined the peloton, while Soudal Quick-Step's Josef Cerny had to abandon the race as well. Bahrain Victorious' Rainer Kepplinger was taken to hospital with an injured finger, cuts and bruises, while his teammate Max van der Meulen underwent medical tests. With teams opting not to take any risks until the finale, they eventually caught up with the lead duo with less than 3 kilometres to go while Mads Pedersen, who has won three stages, eased up and did not sprint to the finish. However, he retained the race lead, with the Danish rider holding a 17-second advantage over Primoz Roglic. Reuters
