Remco Evenepoel criticises "inhuman" middle-of-the night doping tests at the Tour de France after winning stage 15, while two-time champion Jonas Vingegaard crashes out.

Jonas Vingegaard was recovering from serious injuries sustained in a crash in 2024 Remco Evenepoel criticised "inhuman" middle-of-the night doping tests at the Tour de France after winning stage 15. The Belgian's comments came as Jonas Vingegaard was woken at 02:00 and race leader Tadej Pogacar at 05:00 local time for tests before Sunday's stage - in which the Dane crashed and broke his collarbone. Evenepoel said the timing of the tests was "disrespectful" and added: "It's something that actually we should not accept as riders. Vingegaard, 29, will have surgery on his injury and is out of the remainder of the Tour. Yellow jersey wearer Pogacar was awoken after the Dane at 05:00 to undergo doping controls and suggested the effects of Vingegaard's disrupted sleep could have been a factor in his crash. "The Tour will not be the same without him," said Pogacar. "It got me thinking, we had doping control they did [at] two in the morning [and] maybe this is also a reason. "One night [and] your sleep is ruined and you can be a little less concentrated on the descent.