Evenepoel, the reigning time trial Olympic and world champion, was expected to win the stage in the absence of time trial specialists — Filippo Ganna and Stefan Bissegger, who both crashed and exited the race on the first day of the Tour last week.

Olympic and world time trial champion Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) duly delivered on his stage favourite status on stage 5 of the Tour de France, powering to victory in the 33km time trial in Caen as Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) took yellow.

Race-against-the-clock specialist Remco Evenepoel won the first time trial of the Tour de France on Wednesday, while Tadej Pogacar's second place was enough for the defending champion to take hold

The Tour de France is underway, which means that Remco Evenepoel is once again the center of attention. He is the focus of the public, the press, and other teams because, after a few days of the Tour de France,

Remco Evenepoel stormed back into contention for a place on the final podium at the 2025 Tour de France, winning the 33km time trial around Caen and marking a huge turnaround after a difficult opening stage.

Remco Evenepoel lives up to his favourite's tag in the individual time trial by winning stage five of the Tour de France as defending champion Tadej Pogačar's tops the general classification.

After a difficult performance in the first stage of the 2025 Tour de France, Remco Evenepoel has been criticised for his exchange with a young fan.

Remco Evenepoel won the first time trial stage of Tour'25. Tadej Pogačar takes the yellow jersey. Jonas Vingegaard lost a minute and a half.

MUR-DE--BRETAGNE, France (AP) — Mattia Cattaneo, a key teammate of Tour de France contender Remco Evenepoel, has withdrawn from the race.

Here is a breakdown of the racers who have won the Tour de France the most times: Five: Eddy Merckx (Belgium), Bernard Hinault (France), Miguel Induráin (Spain), Jacques Anquetil (France) Three: Tadej Pogačar (Slovenia)*, Philippe Thys (Belgium), Louison Bobet (France), Greg LeMond (USA)

Remco Evenepoel is clearly the man to beat in stage five. The Olympic and world time trial champion was superb at the Dauphine where he took 20 seconds out of Jonas Vingegaard and was 48 seconds ahead of Tadej Pogacar. And with no Filippo Ganna or Stefan Bissegger after their stage one crashes it is hard to look beyond the big three.