The mood at the Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe team bus at the Tour de France on Tuesday evening was a very mixed one indeed, with some excellent news regarding one of their co-leaders jarring sharply against the regrets of losing the other.
For all Remco Evenepoel's triumph was widely predicted, that time-honoured cliché about nothing being certain until the finish line is crossed held as true as ever for the Belgian star. It was equally true for Florian Lipowitz, well inside the top five on all the provisional checkpoints, only to crash in the final part of the 26.1km ITT.
