
If Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) and Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) showed their Tour de France intentions with a combined attack on the San Luca climb, Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) responded with a superb chase to finish.
The Belgian avoided losing time to his two biggest rivals, gained 21 seconds on many others and moved into the white best young rider jersey.