Tour de France LIVE: Jonas Vingegaard blows away Tadej Pogacar to win stage 16 time trial
The yellow jersey holder extended his lead to 1’ 48” in the GC standings
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Your support makes all the difference.Jonas Vingegaard took a huge leap towards clinching a second Tour de France triumph in as many years with a barnstorming performance in the individual time trial on Stage 16. The 22km route from Passy to Combloux proved no trouble for the yellow jersey holder who flew out of the blocks and never let up.
Earlier in the day, France’s Remi Cavagna set the pace and led the way for most of the afternoon before being pipped by Jumbo-Visma’s Wout van Aert.
When the two general classification rivals, Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar, heading out for their runs it was clear they were miles ahead of the rest of the field. Pogacar decided to switch from a time trial bike to a road one with 56km and a steep climb to go which cost him vital seconds.
It made no difference in the end though due to Vingegaard’s display. He finished 1’ 38” ahead of Pogacar and is now almost two minutes ahead in the GC standings with five days of the Tour left to go.
Relive all the latest from today’s stage 16 below:
Tour de France stage 16
What a ride from Wout van Aert! He takes the lead. Remi Cavagna had the leader’s chair for near two hours but he’s finally been displaced.
The Belgian finishes 15 seconds faster that the Frenchman with a time of 35 minutes 27 seconds.
Carlos Rodriguez heads down the ramp to start his time trial. There’s only Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard left in the hut.
Tour de France stage 16
Wout van Aert has a lead of 20 seconds with just 1km to go. He should go on to beat Remi Cavagna’s time but the final stretch is more difficult than it looks.
This one should be close.
Tour de France stage 16
Sepp Kuss is the latest man out of the starter’s hut. There’ll be a few more riders coming out before Jonas Vingegaard goes last at 4pm.
That’s less than 10 minutes away now.
Tour de France stage 16
Julian Alaphilippe has a big smile on his face as he crosses the line and waves to the crowd. The Frenchman is 1min 43sec down on Remi Cavagna.
With 3.8km to go, Wout van Aert gets into the green and is going quicker that the current leader at this stage. Can he get over the line in first?
Tour de France stage 16
Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingagaard and the other general classification contenders could potentially take out Giulio Ciccone’s rapid time up the KOM climb.
Ciccone finishes almost three minutes behind Remi Cavagna who continues to lead the way.
Wout van Aert, who will want to at least finish in the top five, has reached the bottom of the category two rise with the fourth fastest time of the day. What can he muster up the climb?
Tour de France stage 16
Oh that is crazy quick from Giulio Ciccone! He sprints up the climb in 6mins 44 seconds to move in the lead for the KOM points.
That’s almost 40 seconds quicker than KOM rival Neilson Powless.
Tour de France stage 16
Giulio Ciccone switched out his bike before the bottom of the category two climb. He’s going to have to get back up to speed quickly if he wants those KOM points.
Wout van Aert is 4km or so into his run and is heading through the first uncategorised rise.
Tour de France stage 16
Wout van Aert is away! The Belgian is one of the contenders to potentially win today’s stage. He has not won on the Tour this year and will be keen to get one under his belt.
His Jumbo-Visma teammate, and yelllow jersey holder, Jonas Vingegaard will be setting off at 4pm.
Tour de France stage 16
Ion Izagirre hit the bottom of the climb 43 seconds behind Remi Cavagna and has just fallen further away. He’s still hovering around sixth place for the day so far with about 3km left to go.
Tour de France stage 16
Giulio Ciccone, who is level on points with Neilson Powless in the KOM battle, is just about getting his time trial started. Can he go quicker than his rival up the climb?
Elsewhere, the switch of bike for Stefan Kung has cost him a lot of time. With 317m to go, he falls into the red and will finish well behind Remi Cavagna.
As Kung crosses the line, he’s 52 seconds behind the leader.
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