Evenepoel wins stage 15, Vingegaard crashes out
Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel beat race leader Tadej Pogacar in a sprint finish to take Sunday's 15th stage of the Tour de France, as former winner Jonas Vingegaard crashed out with a suspected broken collarbone. Evenepoel moved up to second overall.
Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick Step) won the 15th stage of the Tour de France on Sunday, outsprinting race leader Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) at the summit of a tough 11km climb. Mexican Isaac Del Toro (Astana) finished third, six seconds behind.
The stage was marred by a crash involving former champion Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), who started the day in second place overall. Vingegaard crashed out approximately 20km from the finish, suffering what appeared to be a broken collarbone. After his withdrawal, Pogacar extended his overall lead to five minutes.
Evenepoel, a past winner of the Vuelta a España, claimed his third Tour de France stage victory and moved up to second in the general classification. Del Toro climbed from seventh to third and also took the best young rider's white jersey from Paul Seixas (Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale). The teenage French prodigy finished fourth, nearly a minute behind the winner, with German Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) on his wheel.
It was a bad day for Spaniard Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates), who lost the white jersey to Seixas on Saturday and shed another minute to the Frenchman and almost two minutes to Del Toro, dropping to sixth overall. Evenepoel holds second place by almost a minute over Del Toro, with Seixas a further 25 seconds back.
