The first time trial on the Tour, and the 4 favourites clocked the 4 fastest times, with Evenepoel taking the hot seat!
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00:00I like the Parkour. It's really, really nice TT. It's quite fast, but also you need to
00:19be really powerful. It's not all about being aerodynamic.
00:24He's a longer disc partner.
00:27Who will be the favourite for tomorrow's stage?
00:30Remco for sure.
00:36He's a world champion and he's the one to look at.
00:40I will just give him the maximum tomorrow. Also in terms of GC, it's always a good thing
00:44to do in a hit time trial. I mean, you have to.
00:47Normally, Tadej is always doing quite good time trials, so for sure he will be good tomorrow
00:51as well as Remco. I guess Remco will be the big favourite for tomorrow.
00:57So, all in today and hopefully with the stage win, we will see.
01:07It's time for the first time trial of this tour. 25.3km between the vineyards, but who
01:13will be the toast of Givray-Chambartin?
01:15I don't know.
01:18Today is a day when you should just sit down and enjoy the race.
01:26The first rider in the time trial is underway. The record holder of stage wins, Mark Cavendish,
01:32riding for Astana Kazakhstan.
01:37Lenny Martinez set an impressive early time, but the 20-year-old debutant was soon dislodged
01:42by the TT specialists.
01:45Yves Lampard, who won the opening time trial in Copenhagen two years ago to take yellow,
01:49didn't go all in, but the four-time Australian champion Luke Durbridge soon found himself
01:54in the hot seat.
01:57Durbridge is going to go top of the leaderboard by 26 seconds and we say goodbye to Lenny Martinez.
02:08Durbridge wouldn't be on top for long though because Stefan Bissiger was on a flyer.
02:12The German champion Nils Pollitt was also going well and he would be able to provide
02:16precious tips for his team leader Pogacar.
02:20Will be a nice course for today?
02:22I think it suits him really well there. You have to push, you have invested already quite
02:27a lot until the top of the climb and then you can recover a little bit in the fast descent
02:32there and then the last six kilometres are just pushing to the finish line.
02:4323 seconds for a bit of ground. We are practically in the middle of the finish line now.
02:51Stage two winner Kevin Vaucoulin producing another superb performance to ask Bissiger.
02:56The Frenchman held off Stefan Kuhn who was hit by an early mechanical, but the former
03:00hour record holder Victor Campenaerts went quicker by just 7 tenths of a second.
03:06This is the moment where Roglic now needs to shine. He is fifth overall in this race
03:11at 1 minute 14 seconds. Can Roglic produce a sparkling time trial?
03:19Very good. Now try to touch with your visor, try to touch your arms, get in aero position.
03:25Get in aero position, it's all straight. Search for the good tarmac.
03:30And here's the bit of battle we were starting to want. Can Jonas Winnegaard come out on top
03:35of the time today? Remco Evenepoel in the white jersey as the best young rider and he comes
03:43out of the start with the most furious sprint. This rider needs to produce a very good time
03:51trial this afternoon because he's up against it. Remco Evenepoel.
03:59Evenepoel wants to win the start of the yellow jersey. The final rider is underway.
04:0548 seconds now is the beating to this point of Remco Evenepoel to Victor Campenaerts.
04:13It quickly became clear that the fantastic forward can test the stage win.
04:17Roglic, Winnegaard, Evenepoel and Pogacar separated by 20 seconds before the climb
04:22with the world champion Evenepoel looking supreme.
04:26Remco Evenepoel is going to absolutely smash the time of Winnegaard by 23 seconds,
04:3347.4 kilometers an hour. This is the yellow jersey of Tadej Pogacar.
04:40What's it going to be at this point? He's going to be slightly down on the time.
04:45He's going to have shipped a little bit more time, but he's still in yellow.
04:5010 seconds now the deficit.
04:55Pogacar leans it into that turn, goes to the right-hand side of the road,
05:00on the aero skis as far as he can down this descent.
05:03Roglic has looked good all the way through this time trial.
05:07Roglic, 17 seconds faster.
05:10Oh, a problem and a mechanical for Remco Evenepoel and I think he may well have righted it.
05:16He gets it back on and now he settles himself back in.
05:21Winnegaard with the second time, second time for Winnegaard, 29.29.
05:26Come on, come on!
05:28We're on the top of the Tour, come on!
05:31Top of the leaderboard, smashes Roglic out of sight.
05:36The yellow jersey closing in on the finish line, but it's not going to be enough this afternoon.
05:42Remco Evenepoel wins his first ever stage of the Tour de France,
05:46but Tadej Pogacar has sent out a message.
05:49Pogacar is supreme in the time trial.
05:52He might be second, but he holds on to the yellow jersey.
05:58Television, come on guys. The screen, the television.
06:16So it was a close one, but of course I just wanted to win today and that's accomplished, so I'm very proud.
06:25I enjoyed every metre of this TT and then coming out with a win is simply amazing, so I'm super happy.
06:39Evenepoel completes his first stage of the Tour de France,
06:43Evenepoel completing the Grand Tour hat-trick with a first stage win at his first Tour de France
06:48and showing he could well be Pogacar's biggest rival for yellow.
06:53It was still an excellent performance from the race leader who remains on top by 33 seconds.
06:58Winnegaard and Roglic are both over a minute back.
07:02Biniam Gamay was able to take it pretty easy today.
07:05The Eritrean remains 38 points clear in the green jersey competition.
07:09And so too was Jonas Abrahamsson who is set to take the polka dot jersey into the second week.
07:16Evenepoel's increased his lead in the youth classification from 25 seconds to a minute 43 over Juan Ayuso.
07:24And we finish by paying tribute to Raphael Gimignani, the French cycling legend who died today at the age of 99.
07:39You