Remco Evenepoel was forced to abandon this year’s Tour de France as Thymen Arensman claimed his maiden stage win.<\/b><\/p>\n
Tadej Pogacar marginally extended his commanding overall lead over Jonas Vingegaard as he finished second on a gruelling mountain stage, with Vingegaard third.<\/p>\n
But Evenepoel, who was third in the general classification coming into a third punishing day in the Pyrenees, is now out of the race.<\/p>\n
The double Olympic champion faltered on the first of four climbs on the 182.6km stage and had to withdraw, midway through the ascent of the mighty Col du Tourmalet.<\/p>\n
German debutant Florian Lipowitz, 24, finished fifth on the day and climbed into the final GC podium place, and although British rider Oscar Onley lost time to Lipowitz the 22-year-old Scot still moved up one place to fourth overall.<\/p>\n
It was a first stage win for Dutch debutant Arensman, 25, and a first on this year’s Tour for British team Ineos Grenadiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Remco Evenepoel was forced to abandon this year’s Tour de France as Thymen Arensman claimed his maiden stage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-275165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114880866157231418","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}