{"id":54847,"date":"2026-07-22T00:43:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T00:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/54847\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T00:43:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T00:43:21","slug":"tour-de-france-2026-evenepoel-wins-time-trial-for-back-to-back-stage-victories-pogacar-still-leads-butler-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/54847\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France 2026: Evenepoel wins time trial for back-to-back stage victories, Poga\u010dar still leads \u2013 Butler Eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Belgium’s Remco Evenepoel rides to the podium after the sixteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race, an indivdual time-trial with start in Evian-Les-Bains and finish in Thonon-les-Bains, France, Tuesday, July 21, 2026. Associated Press<\/p>\n

THONON-LES-BAINS, France \u2014 Time trial world champion Remco Evenepoel was fastest Tuesday as he won the 16th stage of the Tour de France to shave 28 seconds off Tadej Poga\u010dar\u2019s commanding lead.<\/p>\n

Evenepoel completed the 26.1-kilometer individual time trial in 32 minutes, 19 seconds, more than a minute faster than Mattias Skjelmose, the previous quickest, before the Belgian rider waited to see Poga\u010dar cross the line with the second-best effort of the day.<\/p>\n

It is the third year straight that Evenepoel has won a time trial at the Tour. His parents and family members were present on Belgium’s national holiday to see him take back-to-back stage victories after winning the 15th stage<\/a> Sunday. Monday was a rest day.<\/p>\n

His teammate Florian Lipowitz crashed out, however. The German rider slipped going around a sharp bend toward the finish and slid across the road into the sidewalk kerb. He was unable to continue with what looked like a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a bittersweet pill to swallow with this victory. I wish him all the best and I hope he\u2019s not too bad,\u201d Evenepoel said of his Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe teammate. \u201cI will really miss him for the whole week.\u201d<\/p>\n

Poga\u010dar had a wobble going around the same corner where Lipowitz crashed but recovered to continue.<\/p>\n

The four-time Tour champion leads second-place Evenepoel by 4:32 with five stages remaining.<\/p>\n

\u201cTadej is on his way to win a fifth Tour de France,\u201d Evenepoel said of a feat that would move the Slovenian rider level with Belgium\u2019s Eddy Merckx, Spain\u2019s Miguel Indurain and French riders Jacques Anquetil and Bernard Hinault.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s just amazing that I can be a bit close to him,\u201d he said of Poga\u010dar. \u201cIt\u2019s an honor to race with him … so, for me, it\u2019s a big step forward that I can at least be a bit around him and I try to learn from him.\u201d<\/p>\n

The race ends Sunday in Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Belgium’s Remco Evenepoel rides to the podium after the sixteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28141,28133,28131,28148,28154,28156,3481,28136,28134,121,28135,28140,9411,28153,28147,5,2323,28151,28139,28132,28142,1063,28155,28145,6,18868,27242,28146,1076,28137,28150,28149,28138,3212,28144,28143,28152],"class_list":["post-54847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-bruin","tag-butler","tag-butler-eagle","tag-cabot","tag-callery","tag-cherry-valley","tag-community-news","tag-connoquenessing","tag-cranberry","tag-crime","tag-east-butler","tag-eau-claire","tag-education-news","tag-evans-city","tag-fairview","tag-france","tag-government-news","tag-harmony","tag-harrisville","tag-high-school-sports-news","tag-karns-city","tag-local-news","tag-mars","tag-mount-chesnut","tag-news","tag-obituaries","tag-pennsylvania","tag-petrolia","tag-political-news","tag-portersville","tag-sarver","tag-saxonburg","tag-slippery-rock","tag-valencia","tag-west-liberty","tag-west-sunbury","tag-zelienople"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}