Belgian Remco Evenepoel wins the 4th stage and seizes the yellow jersey after his demonstration on the time trial

The Olympic and world champion of the discipline dominated his subject on the time trial, 17.4 km long, on the roads of the Ardèche on Wednesday, which allowed him to take control of the general.

He has respected logic. Double reigning world champion and Olympic gold medalist in Paris of the time trial, Remco Evenepoel (Sudal-Quick Step) won the Battle of Leaders, Wednesday, June 11, during the time between Charmes-sur-Rhône and Saint-Péray, fourth stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné.

Remco Evenepoel, who offered himself a 19th victory in the discipline, achieved the double blow by recovering the yellow jersey from the shoulders of the Spanish Ivan Romeo. In the general classification, the German Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) and the former leader are responsible for four and nine seconds respectively.

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With a time at the arrival of 20'50 '', he preceded Jonas Vingegaard (Visma – Lease A Bike) of 21 seconds and the American Matteo Jorgenson (Visma Lease a Bike) of 38 seconds. “My goal was to get to the intermediary very quickly and keep the pace until arrival. (…) We had a perfect plan and I am very happy to have dug the gap (with Vingegaard and Pogacar)especially on such a short time trial “, A réagi Remco Evenepoel and Zone mixed.

The other big favorite of the event, Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates), took an astonishing fourth place, 49 seconds from the new yellow jersey. This relative underperformance questions about the state of form of the Slovenian day or its involvement, all the more on such a short and flat route. In general, and before the explosive weekend which was announced in the Alps, Remco Evenepoel therefore carried out an excellent operation, ahead of its two large rivals of 16 seconds (Vingegaard) and 38 seconds (Pogacar).

First French, Rémi Cavagna (Groupama-FDJ) signed the 7th time of the time, 1'07 “of the winner. Paul Seixas (Decathlon-Ag2R), U19 world champion of the time trial, showed that he was, at 18, all of a big one in finishing 10th, at 1'12 '' from Belgian.