Tour de Romandie: Remco Evenepoel wins stage 5 time trial as João Almeida steals overall victory on final day

World and Olympic time trial champion Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) won the stage 5 time trial at the Tour de Romandie on Sunday, as João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) powered to second place to win the overall.

Almeida started the day three seconds down on stage 4 winner and race leader Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious), and successfully overhauled the Frenchman, beating him by 30 seconds to seize the GC victory. Martinez finished 13th on the stage, enough to finish second overall.

Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) finished fourth on the stage to move onto the podium and finish third as Lorenzo Fortunato (XDS Astana), previously second, shipped a lot of time in the TT and slipped down the rankings.

Third on the day went to Alberto Bettiol (XDS Astana), who set an impressive time early on and was only beaten by the GC riders.

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