Overview
- The International Testing Agency conducted unannounced controls that woke Jonas Vingegaard at about 2:00 a.m. and Tadej Pogacar at about 5:00 a.m. on Sunday, riders and team spokespeople said.
- Hours later in Stage 15, Vingegaard crashed roughly 20 kilometres from the finish, suffered a fractured collarbone and will undergo surgery, forcing him to withdraw from the Tour.
- Remco Evenepoel won the mountain finish to Plateau de Solaison, Tadej Pogacar finished second and extended his overall lead to about five minutes as Evenepoel moved into second and Isaac Del Toro rose to third.
- Riders, team officials and several news reports criticised the timing of the night controls as disruptive to sleep and recovery, and Pogacar suggested the wake-ups could have reduced concentration; reporting also noted testing has been permitted overnight since 2016 and that this year’s procedures expanded timing and post-race blood windows.
- Race organisers and the ITA had not issued a public response in the cited reports and the combination of Vingegaard’s withdrawal and the night‑testing controversy has intensified calls for a review of testing practice during Grand Tours.