Overview

• At about 118 km to go, the race reached Mount Kigali with a three‑man move—Anders Foldager, Julien Bernard and Ivo Oliveira—up the road and the favourites’ group roughly two minutes behind.
• Slovenia and Belgium are controlling the chase for Tadej Pogacar and Remco Evenepoel, and Slovenia has already lost three domestiques.
• After Evenepoel’s dominant time‑trial win by 2'37", he rides to a pre‑set plan as defending champion Pogacar seeks a response, and both remain together in the main group after brief nature breaks.
• The course spans roughly 267.5 km with around 6,000 metres of climbing across repeated short, steep ascents before six finishing laps to the Kigali Convention Centre.
• Italy backs Giulio Ciccone following Giulio Pellizzari’s fever withdrawal, and several stars—including Jonas Vingegaard, Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert—are absent.