Evenepoel wins time-trial as Pogacar stays in yellow

Belgium's Remco Evenepoel won nan time-trial connected shape 7 of nan Tour de France, but Tadej Pogacar remains successful nan leader's wide yellowish jersey.

Slovenian Pogacar, of UAE-Team Emirates, vanished 2nd connected nan stage, 12 seconds down Evenepoel of Soudal-Quick Step.

Evenepoel, 24, is now 33 seconds down Pogacar successful nan wide classification.

Defending champion Jonas Vingegaard was fourth, and now trails by 1 infinitesimal 15 seconds successful nan GC aft losing clip connected shape four.

Primoz Roglic of Slovenia vanished nan shape 3rd and is now 1:36 down successful nan GC for his Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe team.

Simon Yates of Jayco-Alula was nan top-placed Briton successful nan time-trial, finishing 1:33 down Evenepoel.

Stage 7 results 1. Remco Evenepoel (Bel/Soudal-Quick Step) 28mins 52secs

2. Tadej Pogacar (Slo/UAE Team Emirates) +12secs

3. Primoz Roglic (Slo/Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) +34secs

4. Jonas Vingegaard (Den/Visma-Lease a Bike) +37secs

5. Victor Campenaerts (Bel/Lotto-dstny) +52secs

6. Kevin Vauquelin (Fra/Arkea-B&B Hotels) Same time

7. Matteo Jorgenson (US/Visma-Lease a Bike) +54secs

8. Joao Almeida (Por/UAE Team Emirates) +57secs

9. Ben Healy (Ire/EF Education-EasyPost) +59secs

10. Stefan Kung (Swi/Groupama - FDJ) +1min

GC: 1. Tadej Pogacar (Slo/UAE Team Emirates) 27hrs 16mins 23secs

2. Remco Evenepoel (Bel/Soudal-Quick Step) +33secs

3. Jonas Vingegaard (Den/Visma-Lease a Bike) +1min 15secs

4. Primoz Roglic (Slo/Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) +1mins 36secs

5. Juan Ayuso (Spa/UAE Team Emirates) +2mins 16secs

6. Joao Almeida (Por/UAE Team Emirates) +2mins 17secs

7. Carlos Rodriguez (Spa/Ineos Grenadiers) +2mins 31secs

8. Mikel Landa (Spa/Soudal-Quick Step) +3mins 35secs

9. Matteo Jorgenson (US/Visma-Lease a Bike) 4mins 03secs

10. Aleksandr Vlasov (Rus/Red Bull Bora-Hansgrohe) +4mins 46secs