Remco Evenepoel is producing a most remarkable Tour de France debut, even if his light has inevitably been obscured by the fourth instalment of the unquenchable duel between Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard.
Despite winning the Vuelta a España two years ago, one of a dozen stage race victories in his career to date, Evenepoel began this Tour de France accompanied by familiar noise flickering in the background, namely the quiet hum of those curiously persistent doubts over whether he was really a Grand Tour rider at all.
