Message sent! Rampant Remco Evenepoel storms to time trial win at the Dauphiné and gains big on Vingegaard & Pogacar
CyclingWednesday, 11 June 2025 at 23:37
There is a reason Remco Evenepoel is widely regarded as the best time trialist on the planet and on stage 4 of the 2025 Criterium du Dauphiné, the Olympic and World TT champ proved why yet again with an astonishing stage win, gaining big on both Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar in the process.
Among the early starters, by far the fastest time set was that of Uno-X Mobility's Soren Waerenskjold. The Norwegian clocked in at 23:00 for his efforts, enough to take firm control of the hotseat early on. Before too long however, Waerenskjold was unseated as former time trial world champion Tobias Foss powered into the stage lead with his time of 22:00.
Thibault Guernalec threatened Foss' time, but as the finish line came into sight, the Frenchman couldn't quite keep up the pace required and eventually finished 9 seconds slower the INEOS Grenadiers man. Shortly after though, Foss' time was bettered as the two-time French TT champion Remi Cavagna set a new benchmark of 21:57.
Once some of the big names started to hit the road though, Cavagna's time quickly started to look in trouble. The first to beat the Frenchman's time was Matteo Jorgenson and the Visma star beat it comfortably too, taking around half a minute on Cavagna, and setting the new fastest time at 21:28. There was a bit of disappointment for INEOS Grenadiers leader Carlos Rodriguez however, finishing a minute down on Jorgenson.
When Remco Evenepoel went flying through the intermediate time check already 30 seconds quicker than Jorgenson however, shockwaves were sent through the Dauphine. By the time he crossed the line, the Belgian had even managed to add a further 7 seconds to his gain on the American, finishing with an incredible time of 20:50.
A few moments later, Jonas Vingegaard crossed the line. The Dane was quicker than his teammate Jorgenson, but lost 21 seconds to the Soudal - Quick-Step leader in the end. Tadej Pogacar was the next big name to finish and the Slovenian was slower than both his rivals, reaching the line 48 seconds slower than Evenepoel and 27 seconds down on Vingegaard.
Mathieu van der Poel set the provisional 5th fastest time, 1:01 down on Evenepoel. Florian Lipowitz then slotted into 5th himself moments later, ceding 56 seconds to Evenepoel. The Maillot Jaune Ivan Romeo then finally ended the day, crossing the line 1:25 down.
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- He rode very well in the Giro last yr I think..so he can 'get up there... This yrs tour is a classic tour, lots of flat stages before the mountains
leedorney24-06-2025 - This year he is to Remco what Pedersen is to MVDPMistermaumau24-06-2025
- DittoMistermaumau24-06-2025
- I think Hincapie can be a good candidate for a new US setup - I hope it works out for the longer run. Lance isn't allowed an official role in cycling, but who knows, he might ride in the back seat of Hincapie's car, behind darkly-tinted windows, helping out. I'm not quite sure if I have my tongue in my cheek.Ride197424-06-2025
- He's on fire this year, but he's not Remco...awp24-06-2025
- i would just LOVE to see mathieu show up at the tour feeling aggressive and ambitious. he hasn’t been in that mode since his very first TDF appearance in 2021. the first ten-ish stages have a bunch of favorable profiles, so let’s GET AFTER IT, MATHIEU!!!OCexile24-06-2025
- Agreed, Although Almeida is fantastic rider who keeps getting better he has not earned a ranking above Remcomobk23-06-2025
- He shone really well in 1 tour and he's incredible as a super domestique. Goes better when not riding with MvdP in the packleedorney23-06-2025
- Some people are more precocious than others... And some riders have to work hard as domestique instead others are captains.
maria2024202423-06-2025 - Almeida is doing great this year but Ten Dam should go back to earth - Remco is way above him - just look at the palmaresChrisBe23-06-2025
The word is that Jonas is running 150mm cranks on his road bike, I can't tell on his TT bike but they look much shorter. I moved to 155mm cranks at the end of 2023 for both my road bikes and my TT bike, it's been a game changer for me and looks to agree with Jonas as well.
Can you elaborate a bit on what difference you notice or feel or how it changes your perception of effort on various types of terrain/intensity? Any pain or stress relief for sensitive parts?
For me, I was able to open up the hip angle allowing me to get a good bit more aero, not so much on the road bike, but some. Mainly you'll see the aero benefits on the TT bike. It took some time to get used to them as well, feels like you are pedaling a kids bike at first, and then they just look odd. I'm 5'11" and ran 172.5 and then 165's until I bit the bullet and went to 155. It took me about 500 miles to really get used to them. Now I wouldn't trade them for anything.
For me shorter cranks (165) feel better on the knees. Maybe it's a placebo effect, but it feels real
Despite having torn a meniscus in September, not being able to ride before April and still feeling it slightly during rides a few weeks ago (plus immediately noticing I definitely shouldn’t try pedalling a bmx when someone came to buy my sons’) I did a pretty tough test ride yesterday 115k with 2200m and a 3km 15% section and felt/feel absolutely nothing anymore so hopefully as far as road cycling goes, knees are no longer a worry, now I have to start working on real condition again.
I only ride road and I have very unaero shoulders (high+wide) and an inefficient body shape (too long back too short legs) with a too injured back/basin to hope for sustained aero positions so not sure it will help me as much. ca bad at cadence, flat or downhill efforts, also hardly ever use up all gears even dead tired at 15-20% but I feel I lose too much energy moving legs/hips and was hoping the shorter cranks might reduce the amplitude and energy for pressing downwards. And with 500 to do before making observations it’s maybe something for a few years down the line if I finally get to a stage where I can take cycling seriously.
Good job!
Amazing race so far with too many surprise results to discuss, this will create great buzz for the Tour.
First time I saw Pogacar hyperventilate strongly at the start of a time trial... something wrong?
Maybe a new technique in breathing exercise to swell lungs ;-)
maybe allergy, it's spring.
WOW! I haven't watched the stage yet but this is a tremendous result for Remco and a great one for Jonas, both are in great form!
This is very surprising. Tadej lost by such a big margin on TT.
MvDP doesn't train much for TT, yet he's up there. Can't imagine what's it like if he really trains for TT. But I suspect that he's stretched too thin across multiple disciplines.
He was not happy with that deep rim on his front wheel. There was a section where the wind caught it and he went into a high speed wobble. He may have been having on off day and that along with the wrong choice of wheel didn't help. This was an unusual situation for him to be in and and an unusual one for us to watch! It was good to see a chink in his armour opening up the race though wasn't it?
Does anyone think this result could have been "planned" by Tadej? I mean, yes he lost a lot of time but you didn't see him really push after exiting corners getting up from the bike, he even used his water bidon (on a 17km TT?) to take a sip... he started at a steady controlled pace and maintained that pace throughout the stage, no pushing at the end to limit time loss... Could this be some kind of bluff by Tadej? "Oh no, I didn't manage my effort, look guys I'm so vulnerable..." and then in the Tour de France crush them once more? We'll have to wait and see!
Wasn’t it 10km? Always possible though he’s not much if a planner ;-)
No, no complots or sophisticated deceptions. Simply, things went bad for Tadej, while the others did very well (Remco) or well (Jonas). From the start, Tadej was breathing excessively (hyperventilating), strangely drinking water just minutes after starting out. I read that in a sector he couldn't control the bike properly... Maybe all of that, and maybe he's still not in shape. It happens.
Maybe I'm wrong because I don't read anything about it but in my perception he had some symptoms of allergy: hyperventilation, throat itchy (It's impossible that he drank water because he was thirsty after few minutes to start, his throat would itch)
Yeah, I guess.. Some guys are just so good, they win without thinking or planning. He didn't plan on winning TDF2020 on his debut either, or being the highest paid cyclist in the peloton at 22yo.. I think Tadej is just tired - tired of hearing pundits say races are more exciting when he's not around. He even sarcastically told a reporter, who queried if he is out to win again, that he treats the Dauphine as a validation race, and not to worry because he would retire as soon as his UAE contract expires.