After blazing through the first three intermediate time checks with the fastest time on stage 7 of the Tour de France, for a few seconds, Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) thought that bad luck in the final kilometres would derail his maiden stage victory.
The World time trial Champion started off fast, following his plan of keeping something back for the climb up the Côte de Curtil-Vergy (1.6km at 6.1%), which came in the final half of the 25.3km stage.
